Posted: 2007-04-08, 21:33 What Title/Which Author is your favourite?
Yay, i realised that offtopic is empty oO. How can it be? The best part of forum... EMPTY! Aww...
So? What books you read and why do you like them so much?
I'll start:
Always the first place:
Terry Pratchett and his series "Discworld". It's great! That humor, that characters, that places... It's insane! In good meaning of that word of course ;]
The second one:
Agatha Christie and her criminals, BUT only with Herkules Poirot (I can't stand Ms Marple :-| ). Just because ;] I like Poirot's thinking way, his logic xD.
The third one:
Um... There's a problem ;] Due to no book, that I can favour.
Sorry for my crappy english, I'm still learning ;-)
I'm too lazy to read any books No favourite, the last book I read was something about IQ... Well, to be honest, I read only the first 50 pages. Reading's not for me
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I always enjoy reading Jeff Noon novels. I don't read or watch much science fiction, but this I like. I also enjoy reading out loud to my grandmother. She loves the Ladies' Number One Detective Agency series, and I think it's nice, too. I didn't think I'd like it as much as I do.
Aside from fiction, I love "how-to" books. I love reading about improving in the crafts I'm interested in.
Nearly forgot: Two of my favourite authors are Amy Tan and Nikki Giovanni.
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Posted: 2007-10-24, 00:24
I am an avid reader of all things fiction. Some of my recent favorites:
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being", Kundera
"Life of Pi", Martel
"Fourth Realm Trilogy", Twelve Hawks
"No Country for Old Men", McCarthy
I like selecting an author and reading everything by him/her. Some of my favorite authors are PD James, Robert Parker, Robert McCammon, Stephen King, George R. R. Martin, and of course, JK Rowling.
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Posted: 2007-10-26, 03:54
Pratchett is great...cross between Adams and Robert Jordan or Ursula Leguin. My favorite Pratchett is Hat Full of Sky. Too bad about Jordan passing away...Wheel of Time series was excellent, but alas, unfinished forever.
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Posted: 2007-10-26, 12:59
Da Worm
Did you mean Douglas Adams? So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish. lol
And Robert Asprin isn't so bad either.
But I don'n know Robert Jordan. Does he write funnily?
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Posted: 2007-10-27, 04:09
Yes, I did mean Douglas Adams, RIP. Love his books. I have not heard of Robert Asprin. Robert Jordan definitely is NOT funny...all fantasy and sci-fi. The Wheel of Time series is epic though.
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Posted: 2007-10-27, 13:01
Da Worm
Have a look. We have the same posture. lol
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Oh, now I know a good signature.
I could bet that you like H. R. Giger also.
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Beezqp wrote:
I'm too lazy to read any books No favourite, the last book I read was something about IQ... Well, to be honest, I read only the first 50 pages. Reading's not for me
Sounds somehow like:
"the last book I read was something about IQ..." but I dont understand it.
I like Stephen King, especially his Dark Tower series. Wonderful stuff. I don't have a favorite author, I like to jump around between different authors, but I love horror and thrillers. I like Caleb Carr (The Alienist), Dean Koontz, Kathy Reichs. I'm contemplating reading The Reincarnationist by M. J. Rose.. sounds interesting, vaguely similar to Da Vinci Code but entertaining nonetheless.
My absolute favorite story, though, is a children's book. Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince. Silly, I'm sure, but I love the points the story makes about being open-minded, how good can come out of sad events, and how we're all responsible for the relationships we've created.
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Posted: 2007-10-30, 19:55
Some of the best books are "children's" books, because they can be read on many different levels. Watership Down, Book of the Dun Cow, etc. Of course, recently, children's or "tween" books are all rage...His Dark Materials by Pullman, Dark is Rising by Cooper. I think Rowling really changed the landscape for books in general, crossing so many age boundaries. It opened up the world to go back and look at Tolkien and Lewis who are immensely popular now.
I love the Dark Tower series..."Death, but not for you, Gunslinger". "Mister, we deal in lead" "Go then, there are other worlds than these..." I have read those books at least a dozen times each...many people have missed this magnum opus work by Stephen King. And most don't realize that just about every book he has written has some relation to the Dark Tower series.
Kathy Reichs is an author I have just recently gotten into (I also watch the TV series "Bones"). Temperance is a great leading character and it is great to watch her struggle to reconcile the emotional side of herself with the analytical side of herself.
Anyway, I could talk books forever.
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Posted: 2007-10-30, 21:13
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Yesyesyesyes !!!! The Little Prince !!!!!
I think I have this book read approximately 500 times. The first time as me was around 10 years old.
".. sees only with the heart well ..."
Mostly when disappointed of somebody. It always gives me new power.
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Posted: 2008-06-24, 09:24 Re: What Title/Which Author is your favourite?
paFci0 wrote:
The second one:
Agatha Christie and her criminals, BUT only with Herkules Poirot (I can't stand Ms Marple :-| ). Just because ;] I like Poirot's thinking way, his logic xD.
Totally agree with you!!
Poirot is the man...
There is a more contemporaneous writer named Fred Vargas.
She wrote a book about a man which paints blue circles with enigmatic inscriptions around it on the city streets, circling dumped objects like bottles, cigarettes and dirty vases. But one night, a body appears inside of one of them... the book is called "The Man of the Blue Circles" and I loved it.
Reminds me of the "ABC Crimes" from Christie - a true classic.
Another writer I read a lot is Charles Bukowsky... he is so unpolite and ironic that makes me laugh every time I read something from him... yet it makes me think about life at the same time.
BTW, I love Douglas Adams books too... they are magnificents.
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I read a lot of different things from classic British and American literature (that's party because of my studies), through biographies and novels of manners to science fiction - especially older sf, like Philip K. Dick or Isaac Asimov.
something for Polish riddlers: I really, really recommend Marek Huberath's 'Gniazdo Światów.' The book is incredible (and I address this recommendation to riddlers not without a reason. feel free to be intrigued or something).
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