| inu-liger 31.03.2005 00:24 |
Mine is "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" What are yours? |
| Gunpowder Gelatine 31.03.2005 00:51 |
I love all the Harry Potter books, The Da Vinci Code, Angels And Demons, Of Mice And Men and Catcher In The Rye. |
| inu-liger 31.03.2005 00:59 |
I've read a little bit of Catcher In The Rye last summer. Never finished it though |
| Gunpowder Gelatine 31.03.2005 01:27 |
It's one of the only classic books I like. I don't know why, I've never been able to get into books like Gone With The Wind but I loved Catcher In The Rye. |
| My Melancholy Blues 31.03.2005 02:07 |
My fav. books are the ones for kids such as "Lion Boy", "Howl's Moving Castle", "A Series of Unfortunate Events" books by Lemony Snicket, some Louis Sachar's books including "Holes". And right now, I'm getting into "The Curious Incident of The Dog In The Night-Time". p.s. I bought "Gone With The Wind" a couple of years ago but never finished it... :P |
| Gunpowder Gelatine 31.03.2005 03:15 |
I only made it about seventeen pages in and gave up. But that was a couple years ago, so maybe I'll give it another try. :) |
| Brimon 31.03.2005 04:28 |
My favourite books are, To Kill A Mockingbird and Congo Jake. |
| freddie4ever92 31.03.2005 04:41 |
Sooo many. Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot Planet Janet - Dyan Sheldon they're my current favourites. |
| Sonia Doris 31.03.2005 06:19 |
For Whom The Bell Tolls, Master and Margarita, Norwegian Wood, - and all Haruki Murakami novels, Erich von Daniken's works, etc... |
| INXS 31.03.2005 06:33 |
Well actually I don't have the patience to read books but I've managed to read a few over my life, most of them biographies....so it would probally be one of Freddie's biographies "An intimate memoir" by Peter Freestone or "The difinitive biography" by Lesley-Ann Jones. |
| KillerQueen840 31.03.2005 07:00 |
I got plenty but here's some (starting with the best). Fiction books: The Green Mile-Stephen King 'Salem's Lot-Stephen King Misery-Stephen King And then the entire Harry Potter collection |
| Yogurt 31.03.2005 07:27 |
Catcher In The Rhye The Things They Carried The Bible At the moment, I'm reading The Purpose Driven Life |
| deleted user 31.03.2005 08:11 |
The Bible To Kill a Mockingbird (my all-time favorite novel) Various selections from George Orwell Various selections from Agatha Christie A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding Great Expectations by Dickens LOTR trilogy and others... At the moment I am reading "The War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells and "Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen. |
| deleted user 31.03.2005 08:43 |
i love Timothy Leary's "Intelligence Agents" and "Master and Margarita" and "Altered Carbon" (a fairly new and obscure Sci-Fi book, I can't remember the author) |
| XcessQueen 31.03.2005 09:17 |
Freddie Mercury - The solo collection book Winnie-the-Pooh :) |
| LiveAidQueen 31.03.2005 10:36 |
Man, I can't even begin to name all my favorite books. I love to read history books, and things like that. |
| Sonia Doris 31.03.2005 12:53 |
Sonia^Doris^ (hm... mh! ah! oops - :S) wrote: For Whom The Bell Tolls, Master and Margarita, Norwegian Wood, - and all Haruki Murakami novels, Erich von Daniken's works, Cat on the Hot Tin Roof, Pygmalion...etc... |
| *3*Playful as a pussycat 31.03.2005 14:10 |
hmmm...all Harry Potter, all LotR...Blood or Chocolate...Prophecy of the Stones (read that in two sittings ^.^)...and The Two Princesses of Bamarre (sounds corny but it isnt) |
| deleted user 31.03.2005 14:35 |
The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy!!! All 5 books. |
| Lester Burnham 31.03.2005 14:46 |
<font color=orange>Mr Brittas</bold> wrote: The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy!!! All 5 books.Ahh, same here. Douglas Adams is my favorite author. Also, Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, and Death Rat! by Mike Nelson. |
| Banquo 31.03.2005 14:54 |
Anything really. The last one I really enjoyed was that Ben Elton book Dead Famous. I like books you can read again and again like Adrian Mole books and perhaps Harry Potter but not on public transport. With regards to the 'zoners putting the Bible apart from force reading at school and browsing the Gideon ones in hotel rooms I have never read it all the way through and I don't intend until I'm old. Gotta have some insurance if there is something after. |
| My Melancholy Blues 31.03.2005 19:57 |
Well....I forgot to mention the book I usually read to know the set list of each concert and various Freddie's talk etc.... "Queen, A Concert Documentary" by Greg Brooks |
| doremi 31.03.2005 20:08 |
"The Once And Future King" and "The Book Of Merlyn" both by T.H. White "The Death Of Arthur" or I Know I'm spelling this wrong but this is the English translation for "Le Morte De Arthur" By Thomas Mallory "East Of Eden" by John Steinbeck "A Christmas Carol" By Charles Dickens "Queen The Early Years" By Mark Hodkinson "Movie Stars, Real People, & Me" By Joshua Logan |
| inu-liger 31.03.2005 20:17 |
My Melancholy Blues wrote: My fav. books are the ones for kids such as "Lion Boy", "Howl's Moving Castle", "A Series of Unfortunate Events" books by Lemony Snicket, some Louis Sachar's books including "Holes". And right now, I'm getting into "The Curious Incident of The Dog In The Night-Time". p.s. I bought "Gone With The Wind" a couple of years ago but never finished it... :P"Howl's Moving Castle" - Ah yeah, I forgot that book is that one Miyazaki made the movie that it was based on. I'll have to see if I can borrow it from my library... "The Curious Incident of The Dog In The Night-Time" - excellent book, from what I've read so far. Also started reading it last summer, and never finished it either (except this time, I actually OWN the book). This book really shows how an Autistic kid's mind functions, so if you understand the character well, you'll understand how I am, since I am Aspergic (lower form of being Autistic) "A Series of Unfortunate Events" - I want to get the books (and see the movie) from this series, as they seem to be really good... "Holes" - Excellent book; not-very-exciting but pretty good movie adaptation. Glad that they made the movie, even though about 2 minor parts were cut out from what I remember |
| inu-liger 31.03.2005 20:21 |
I should say, regarding Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, that I've must've read it at least 5 (if not 7-8?) times(!!) (The quickest I've read it was the first time that I did read it, starting almost right from the moment I bought it, was 3-1/2 days(!), which started on the Saturday morning after it came out (which was also my ex-girlfriend's birthday that day), and finished on the Tuesday afternoon the following week) Partly cos I bought both the Canadian and American first editions of the books (the latter just for the cover; with Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, I plan on doing the same thing) Really excellent book! Shame that that one character had to snuff it (I won't spoil it for those who haven't read it), and another one's going to snuff it as well in the new book ED: I also forgot to mention that the first time I read book 2 (which was the FIRST book I've read out of all the HP books, and which was what got me into the books, after the 1st movie which itself got me to read the 2nd book when I found my cousin's copy lying around at my Grandmother's place, in summer 2002 I think it was), I read it in less than 24 hours from when I started reading it! |
| Brasa 31.03.2005 23:47 |
I like several authors... specially brazilian writers... In english I like all from AGATHA CHRISTIE and CHARLES DICKENS |
| Teo_torriate04 01.04.2005 02:19 |
Animal Farm - George Orwell It's a short book, can be read in a day, but it gives you food for thought which will stay with you for years. Worst book was The Grapes Of Wrath. Had it assigned for O Level English and hated it, couldn't get past the first fifty pages. Same goes for Winston Churchill - My Early Years. (Needless to say that I failed my English Lit O Level miserably) |
| inu-liger 01.04.2005 02:25 |
Teo_torriate04 wrote: Animal Farm - George Orwell It's a short book, can be read in a day, but it gives you food for thought which will stay with you for years. Worst book was The Grapes Of Wrath. Had it assigned for O Level English and hated it, couldn't get past the first fifty pages. Same goes for Winston Churchill - My Early Years. (Needless to say that I failed my English Lit O Level miserably)I can understand that. Although this example isn't a book, I couldn't watch past the first 10 minutes of the anime movie "The End Of Evangelion", just cos I could not understand it (though I'm told I should've watched Death And Rebirth first!) |
| Teo_torriate04 01.04.2005 02:41 |
Teo_torriate04 wrote: Animal Farm - George Orwell It's a short book, can be read in a day, but it gives you food for thought which will stay with you for years. Worst book was The Grapes Of Wrath. Had it assigned for O Level English and hated it, couldn't get past the first fifty pages. Same goes for Winston Churchill - My Early Years. (Needless to say that I failed my English Lit O Level miserably)Should have also mentioned the book that I'm reading at the moment:- The Adventure Of English - Melvyn Bragg. Absolutely fascinating story of the development of the English language from the earliest Friesland influences, through Greek, Sandskrit, Latin and French, upto to the influences imported by the slave trade and the development of American English. For example it explains why Americans say Fall and we say Autumn, why colour became color, why you say toma(y)to and we say toma(r)to. Like I say, fascinating read, and highly recommended. |
| Taylor-Mayed 01.04.2005 10:05 |
" Various selections from George Orwell" ...Alli's only saying that to cunningly cover the fact that she's never read any of Eric's books and doesn't want to tie herself down to answering specific questions about them... :-) |
| *3*Playful as a pussycat 01.04.2005 17:38 |
<font color=orange>Mr Brittas</bold> wrote: The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy!!! All 5 books.heh...im reading the first one...it's pretty damn funny ^.^ |
| Megamike The GREAT 01.04.2005 19:30 |
Playboy, Penthouse.. Hustler.. the list goes on.. |
| Megamike The GREAT 01.04.2005 19:37 |
Seriously Anything by Dean Koontz, John Grisholm and Stephen King.. those are my favorite authors |
| MetzgerR 02.04.2005 03:03 |
Ooh, goodness, I have so many favourite books! It'd be much easier for me to list things by author than book...so here goes: (1) C.S. Lewis - I especially love his nonfiction and adult fiction (The Abolition of Man, The Problem of Pain, Mere Christianity, A Grief Observed, Reflections on the Psalms, Surprised By Joy, The Four Loves, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, The Business of Heaven), as well as The Chronicles of Narnia. (2) Jane Austen - Everything by her, though Emma, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey are probably my favourites. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Mansfield Park are wonderful too! (3) Nathaniel Hawthorne - I think I was the only person in my lit class to actually enjoy reading The Scarlett Letter, which I adored. I also really like The Minister's Black Veil, and The Blithedale Romance. The House of Seven Gables was great, too. (4) Oscare Wilde - A Woman of No Importance, Lady Windermere's Fan, The Importance of Being Earnest, and of course, The Picture of Dorian Gray. (5) Moliere and Shakespeare probably tie here. I just really enjoy reading their works. The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, Tartuffe, and The Misanthrope are just awesome. (6) J.R.R. Tolkien - Duh. I love Smith of Wootton Major and Roverandom. That's not to say that I don't adore all of his other works, because I do. I just think those are brilliant, for him. (7) J.K. Rowling - The whole series was genius. She may not be the best grammatically, but her storytelling is definitely top-notch. And she's better than anyone else I've read at including layer after layer of detail that never gets picked up in her writing. I've learned more about alchemy from her.... (8) H. Rider Haggard, L.M. Montgomery, Lemony Snickets, Gaston Leroux, Cervantes, Ray Bradbury, Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Orson Scott Card, and Alexandre Dumas all get honorary mention. Because they're awesome, but I think my list is too long already. Oh yeah, Patrick O'Brian and Ted Dekker are great too, and Frank Perretti. And Francis Schaeffer. Yeah. Ja ne! |
| inu-liger 02.04.2005 09:21 |
MetzgerR wrote: (7) J.K. Rowling - The whole series was genius. She may not be the best grammatically, but her storytelling is definitely top-notch. And she's better than anyone else I've read at including layer after layer of detail that never gets picked up in her writing. I've learned more about alchemy from her....I think the grammatical part is what makes the conversations very interesting, in how she makes them sound. After all, the characters ARE British! Ki o tsukete. |
| deleted user 02.04.2005 09:46 |
" Various selections from George Orwell" ...Alli's only saying that to cunningly cover the fact that she's never read any of Eric's books and doesn't want to tie herself down to answering specific questions about them... :-)" - As ever, you are too clever to be tricked, Paul! ;^) "1) C.S. Lewis - I especially love his nonfiction and adult fiction (The Abolition of Man, The Problem of Pain, Mere Christianity, A Grief Observed, Reflections on the Psalms, Surprised By Joy, The Four Loves, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, The Business of Heaven), as well as The Chronicles of Narnia." - I agree with you there, MetzgerR. He is an awesome writer. "(2) Jane Austen - Everything by her, though Emma, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey are probably my favourites. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Mansfield Park are wonderful too!" - I also enjoy Jane Austen's work. Right now I am reading Sense and Sensibility for my British Lit class (we had a choice between a couple of female authors and I chose to read this book). I was a bit disappointed I couldn't choose "Pride and Prejudice" because that is my favorite of her work. :^) "(3) Nathaniel Hawthorne - I think I was the only person in my lit class to actually enjoy reading The Scarlett Letter, which I adored. I also really like The Minister's Black Veil, and The Blithedale Romance. The House of Seven Gables was great, too." - Have you ever read "The Birthmark" by Hawthorne? It is an interesting little short story and tragic in Hawthorne's own way. Agreed about Frank Peretti, too. :^) lol I have to add Roald Dahl to my list. Loved his work since I was little and I enjoy both his adult and children's books even now. Also I think Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" should be added to my list. I had to read it for American Lit (although I had wanted to read it before then, but never got around to it) and it is the first book that I can recall making me cry. It's a very effective and powerful book. |
| nibznik 03.04.2005 01:56 |
Barry © wrote: A child called it - Dave Pelzer The lord of the rings - Tolkien No Irish, Blacks or Dogs - John Lydon 2001 Space Odyssey Trilogy - Arthur C Clark. The Bible. I have loads more just can't think of them all.whoa Johnny Rotten did a book? |
| Victoria 03.04.2005 04:36 |
I know that my absolute favorite book in the world is Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo. So exciting! I love that book and highly reccomend it! :D Other than that though, I like ... The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi, The Hitchhiker's Guide, The Canterbury Tales, A Spaniard in the Works, Dracula, Bridget Jones (both) and, let's say ... C'est Qui? The Picture of Dorian Gray was good, but the end was too predicible and very lame in my opinion. It's a good novel, just not the end. Oscar had a good thing going with Dorian. I don't think he fulfilled it to it's potential. Shame. Oh well. Well, that seems to be what I can come up with. Oh Wait! How could I forget America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction. Hilarious :D Okay, NOW I'm done. :) |
| DoctorNine 03.04.2005 21:08 |
MetzgerR wrote: (8)...Gaston LerouxThank you! Someone else who likes his works! By mentioning him, have you by any chance read "The Phantom of the Opera"? OH YEAH! My favourite books... Well, I have a TON of favourite books, so I'll just name a few. 1- "The Phantom of the Opera" by Gaston Leroux (hehe bet you never expected that one) 2- "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ" by General Lew Wallace 3- "Elwood's Blues" by Dan Aykroyd and... uh... momentary blank. Can't remember the other guy's name... when I do I'll edit this. 4- the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling 5- "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare (it counts because we read it in a book) 6- "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens 7- "Superstitious" by R.L. Stine I can't think of others right now. If I do, I'll post them. |