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1st May, 2004 at 04:08:20 -

Here are my favorites:

Lord of the Flies
Malcolm X
Enders Game Series
Hitchhikers Guide Series
Ringworld
Destiny's Road
Catcher in the Rye
Da Vinci Code
Angels and Demons
Digital Fortress
Deception Point
Prey
Tomorrow, When the War Began

Basically I like books that follow the principals of Lord of the Flies, where a group of people are stranded somewhere with no form of authority governing themselves. The theme is seen throughout most of my favorite books, like Ender's Game, Ringworld, and Destiny's Road, except those are set in the future.

Tomorrow, When the War Began, is an Australian book documenting the lives of some Australian teens who were out camping when a country invaded Australia. They have to fend for themselves, and combat the military that has either captured of killed their families and the rest of the people in their town. It is a really good read, and evokes the question "what would I do in that situation".

Please post your favorite books, because I am in need of a good one.

 
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1st May, 2004 at 04:19:08 -

Dude, you go down a notch in my books for not mentioning His Dark Materials trilogy: Northern Lights etc.

 
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1st May, 2004 at 04:24:15 -

Yeah, well I saw the lord of the flies movie, and my favourite character was the fat kid! He told the best stories and it was funny when he got squashed.

 

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1st May, 2004 at 04:24:18 -

Hey, that's what this is all about, I'll go get it from the library!

 
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1st May, 2004 at 06:21:29 -

I couldn't get into the His Dark Materials books, but I like the Hitchhikers Guide series, Of Mice and Men, Tomorrow When the War Began (that would make SUCH a good game!), anything by Ray Bradbury, anything by Avi, and Dreamcatcher.

 
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1st May, 2004 at 06:58:06 -

Copy all of the above and add Roald Dahl (his adult books ). Very entertaining.

 
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1st May, 2004 at 10:45:31 -

Top 15 In No Particular Order
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Ender's Game -- Orson Scott Card
Ender's Shadow -- Orson Scott Card
Shadow of the Hegemon -- Orson Scott Card
Shadow Puppets -- Orson Scott Card
1984 -- George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldux Huxley
Halo: The Fall of Reach -- Eric Nylund
Stranger In A Strange Land -- Bob Heinlein
Night - Elle Wiezel
Of Mice And Men -- John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Waiting For Godot -- Samuel Beckett
Hamlet -- William Shakespeare
One Knee Equals Two Feet -- John Madden
All The President's Men -- Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein


 
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1st May, 2004 at 11:10:53 -

Anything by Douglas Adams, Micheal Stackpole's Battletech books, and Orson Scott Card's earlier works.

 
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1st May, 2004 at 14:59:04 -

Oh yeah, I totally forgot about Stranger In A Strange Land, by ROBERT Heinlein.

I read all of the Enders series, but in the latter books I think he sorta lost it, you know, when Peter and that chinese girl go and visit the planet of Samoa. WTF was that about?!?!

 
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1st May, 2004 at 15:33:22 -

hitchhiker's guide to galaxy

 
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Master M ever read Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency?

 
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1st May, 2004 at 15:37:15 -

The Dragon Lance series are cool

 

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Also, all you Douglas Adams fans, remember that may 25th is towel day.

 
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1st May, 2004 at 18:46:16 -

A Song of ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin is a very good read to any of you Fantasy fans out there. It's very Realistic (No one man armies), With Politics, A little bit of magic, Swaering, Sex, War, Treachery, Everything. I recommend you pick this novel up at a library or even buy it. You will not be dissapointed.

 
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1st May, 2004 at 18:55:47 -

Halo: The fall of reach
Cockroach War
Hipless Hapless Hopeless
Plotless Pointless Pathetic
The secret Island

 
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1st May, 2004 at 19:04:04 -

Some of my fav books (in no particular order)

Hitchhikers Guide Series ("The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't." -Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy")

Lord of The Rings (I will read it again some day... honest)

Discworld (I pretty much own all of the books that Terry Pratchett has made... that are published, anyway)

His Dark Materials (although I've not read it for a while)

Schott's Original Miscellany (non-fiction count... ah well)


There are also some books that I hold close to my heart because I liked them as a child, like Rohl Darl (sp?) and the Narnia books and such. I'm sure I've missed some great books here, might post again when its not around midnight and my brain is in the "awake" mode.

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1st May, 2004 at 19:05:51 -

i havnt read a full book since i was a fetus but if i do read something it will probably be the Land of Nania series

 
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1st May, 2004 at 19:45:51 -

Hitchhiker's guide is GREAT.

Also some of the Doctor Who books, mainly the missing adventures (Scales of Injustice).

Also of course there is Dr. Seuss. And ANYTHING by Rohl Dahl.

 
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1st May, 2004 at 19:47:03 -

Oh and then there is Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. A great adaption of the brilliant TV mini-series.

 
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2nd May, 2004 at 08:24:24 -

My favorites:

-Eragon series
-Harry Potter series
-Gmax Bible
-Flash Bible
-other techie books

 
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2nd May, 2004 at 08:28:48 -

...I forgot Good Omens (most Terry Pratchett-related books are good IMHO, but Terry's middle Discworld books are better than his early ones) - a few other Buffy and StarTrek books are good, and I suppose I like Harry Potter, but I'm not a fanatic

 
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4th May, 2004 at 10:23:27 -

I like

Anything By Tim Burton
Harry Potter (its okay)
Lord Of The Rings series
Lord of The Flies
To Kill A Mockingbird
Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
Roald Dahl
Eragon Series
Chronicles of Narnia (my Aunt's down in New Zeland Working on the movie coming in 2005 )
Enders Game

Reading is Power!


 
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4th May, 2004 at 18:13:53 -

Heh heh, readings for LOOOOOOOOOOOOOSERS!
Lol, jk.

 
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4th May, 2004 at 18:27:53 -

Lazarus, reading may be power, (actually reading is knowledge and knowledge is power,) but power leads to corruption, and corruption is bad. So stop reading before you kill us all.

 
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4th May, 2004 at 22:29:55 -

I was kidding.

Power=Doom (just look at enron.)

 
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12th May, 2004 at 15:11:45 -

I can't read :/

 
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12th May, 2004 at 16:49:57 -

I don't see why people liked "To Kill a Mocking Bird" I was thoroughly dissapointed, although Black like Me was rather enjoyable and made me think.

 
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15th May, 2004 at 14:46:16 -

Greenleaf said" The Dragon Lance series are cool "
Ditto to that!!
As well as other Margaret Weis/Tracy Hickman books (The Death Gate Cycle)
I also like the works of R.A. Salvatore (besides Spine of the World)
He is the creator of Drizzt Do'Urden

Also:
The Fey:The Sacrifice
The Fey:The Changeling
The Fey:The Rival
The Fey:The Resistance
The Fey:The Victory
The Black Queen
The Black King

Harry Potter Books are good.

I'm within 20 pages of finishing The Fellowsip of the Ring, but I'll probably never finish it. The characters are unrealistic, it stretches chance (Paraphrase of a Lord of the Rings Quotation:"Thanks for saving us. Now, did you just say that you only come this way twice a year?"), and I just don't like it.

If you're looking for a good laugh, try the Xanth series by Anthony Piers. I'm currently reading Xone of Contention, the 23rd book in the series.

I read a lot of books.

 
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15th May, 2004 at 14:53:20 -

YOU HAVE TO FINISH IT!! Because in the last 2 pages, Sam reveals that he's gay and wants to marry Frodo. OK, well maybe he doesn't really say it, but you know what he's thinking.

I hate those damn songs in LOTR, good thing they left em out of the movie. But I am sad they left out Tom Bombadil (or whatever) He was the best!

 
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16th May, 2004 at 05:52:11 -

I like the Animorph bookserie. It's very exciting and is described very detailed.
I also like The Hitch Hicker's Guidde to the Galaxy serie. It is really fun and goes very deep into some questions about life etc.
And last but not least: The Bible, which is the ground of christian belief.

 
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16th May, 2004 at 06:55:04 -

Animorphs is average. There's nothing in the writing style to set it apart from the rest.

 
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