05-19-2004, 09:06 PM
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#1 | | Senior Member
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| Books books books.....
What are your favorite books/authors..?
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05-19-2004, 09:24 PM
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#2 | | The Judge
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| i'm actually going to reccomend <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345440668/104-4015638-3039924?v=glance" target="_blank">this book</a> by a fencer i know from savannah, georgia.
i enjoyed it, can't wait till the next one (of 4) comes out. buy it and support a fencer  | |
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05-19-2004, 09:30 PM
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#3 | | Scavenger
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| Greg's a good writer and prolific, too, bless him!
Absolute favorite re-reads:
Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer
Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Seven Sins of Memory by Daniel L. Schacter
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (anything by Bill Bryson)
Complications by Atul Gawande
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins
Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
And I agree, it's a weird bunch.
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05-19-2004, 09:32 PM
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| I personally like-
Ayn Rand,
Voltaire,
Umberto Eco,
Dumas,
Walt Whitman,
Neil Gaiman
and Douglas Adams
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05-19-2004, 09:33 PM
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#5 | | The Judge
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Originally Posted by Peach Greg's a good writer and prolific, too, bless him! | he sure is, and he's a hell of a nice guy too.
told me he had to miss a local tournament because he was in london for his book opening party. what an excuse, eh?
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Reason: 300th post!! :D
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05-19-2004, 09:50 PM
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| Lord of the Rings, of course
Anything at all by Ursula Leguin
Gravity's Rainbow (Pynchon)
Cryptonomicon and other books by Stephenson
Peach, nice to see the reference to Sayers - I like all the Peter Wimsey novels
So many books, so little time... I'll post more faves later...
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05-20-2004, 05:41 AM
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05-20-2004, 07:00 AM
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#8 | | Member
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| Oscar Wilde - Portrait of Dorian Gray
Bram Stoker - Dracula
James Joyce - A portrait of the artisrt as a young man
Anne Rice
to name a few that spring to mind
I am trying to write one | |
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05-20-2004, 07:38 AM
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| Short List
Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove All time favorite ever!
John Steinbeck's East of Eden
Tom Clancy's Hunt for Red October
Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain
John Irving's The World According to Garp
Leon Uris' Trinity | |
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05-20-2004, 08:55 AM
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HI all,
So recently I've veen going through
Lush life buy David Hajadu (a bio of billy strayhorn)
Casals and the art iof interprtation buy David Blum
the entire myron bolitar series buy Harlan Coben
and I am currently going throught the Neal Stepheson Catalog (jeff- he's great!!).
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05-20-2004, 09:08 AM
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| ooooo favourite books... How do you decide?
Here's a few suggestions of mine: - The Lord of the Rings
- Anything by Robin Hobb
- Anything by Iain M Banks (Iain Banks SF books)
- Anything by Ken Macleod (but try and start with the Start Faction)
- The Fencer's Trilogy by KJ Parker (it was the name that attracted me and they are a cracking read).
- Anything by Neal Stephenson (he is an ace writer)
- Anything by Umberto Eco (I really like The Name of the Rose and The Island of the Day Before)
- Everyone should read 1984
- Anything by HG Wells (but I think War of the Worlds would be my top recommendation. he wrote so much quality stuff that you really can't go wrong).
- Virtually anything by Isaac Asimov but I would heartily reccomend The Foundation books and his Robot stories.
- Mort by Terry Pratchett
- Anything by Jeff Noon. He might be a little obscure but check him out. Especially Pollen and Automated Alice.
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05-20-2004, 11:23 AM
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| I agree with Gav. It's hard to decide.
Stephen King; anything he's written, usually.
Bram Stoker; Dracula
Larry McMurtry; Lonesome Dove series.
Neil Gaiman; American Gods. I intend to read more he's written.
David Eddings; the Belgariad, those books with Sparhawk, and two indepent novels I can't recall the titles for.
James Clavell; Shogun, Gaijin, and King Rat. Really couldn't get into any of the other Asian trilogy books though.
Brian Jaques; cute little animals with swords and stuff.  | |
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05-20-2004, 11:36 AM
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| Hmmm, in terms of general literature, at the moment i'm liking:
Tolkien
Orwell
Palahniuk
Blake
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05-20-2004, 12:54 PM
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Originally Posted by fencerontheline I personally like-
Ayn Rand,
Voltaire,
Umberto Eco,
Dumas,
Walt Whitman,
Neil Gaiman
and Douglas Adams | I really liked Rand's Anthem, and Candide by Volaire
Some other faves from recent years
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
A Scientist in the City by James Trefil
The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand (read it before the movie came out and thought "wouldn't this make a great film")
The White Deer by James Thurber (all time favorite)
Recently I've started rereading a series of books by an obscure author named J.K. Rowling
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05-20-2004, 12:55 PM
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| My favorite bedtime story is Fencing equipment: How it works, What goes wrong and how to fix it by Rudy volkmann whats yours?
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05-20-2004, 01:00 PM
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| Too many books, listing authors:
Tolkien
Vonnegut (sp?)
Voltaire
Machiavelli
Dante
Eliot, T.S.
David Eddings
Miller
Mann
T. Zahn
Twain
Shakespeare
'At's about it. | |
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05-20-2004, 01:51 PM
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| Alexandre Dumas, Arthur Conan Doyle, Machiavelli, Vonnegut, and Jim Butcher are my favorites. I like Cicero's oratory too.
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05-20-2004, 04:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Gav ooooo favourite books... How do you decide?
Here's a few suggestions of mine:
Virtually anything by Isaac Asimov but I would heartily reccomend The Foundation books and his Robot stories. | That is opening up a can of worms. I once read somewhere an interview of Asimov and he was asked about his proliferation over so many different fields and he answered something like, they were are wondering who his Bacon was (Shakespere). I mostly read Science Fiction, but because I liked Asimov, I started reading his non-Science Fiction and I started reading other authors of the various genre. I also like Heinlen and Asprin who were both involved with fencing.
I'll have to try the Fencing Trilogy.
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05-20-2004, 04:34 PM
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| The Last Jihad -Carl Rosenberg
Anything by Tom Clancy, but especially Rainbow Six
Anything by John Grisham, but especially Runaway Jury
Dan Brown, Angels and Demons The Da Vinci Code Deception Point; but Angels and Demons was the best. | |
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05-20-2004, 04:55 PM
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| KShan5 reminded me of one that I didn't include on the list, but was a great read, especially with these times of Arab and other Middle Eastern activity.
Leon Uris' The Haj
Great with a wonderful historical perspective on the middle east. | |
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