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amietron
09-28-2002, 08:05 PM
among my favorites, off the top of my head:
- the catcher in the rye, j.d. salinger
- silence of the lambs, thomas harris
- 1984, george orwell
SunWuKong
09-28-2002, 08:11 PM
Originally posted by amietron@Sep 28 2002, 11:05 PM
among my favorites, off the top of my head:
- the catcher in the rye, j.d. salinger
- silence of the lambs, thomas harris
- 1984, george orwell
hey 1984 used to be my favorite book too. but it's been such a long time since i read that and for the past several years all or most that i've read are non-fiction (history, sociology, that kind of stuff), so i don't know what my favorites are anymore.
Saiko
09-28-2002, 09:10 PM
I don't have a favourite, and I don't read that often, but right now I'm reading Here On Earth by Alice Hoffman. The last book I read was Les Miserables (last year).
The DUNE Series by Frank Herbert.
Some if the best sci-fi you can read.
Salem's Lot by Steven King
The Vampire chronicles and Ramses the Damned by Anne Rice
the Samurai Detective books by Laura Joh Rowland
Shuriken
09-29-2002, 12:15 AM
Although she never wrote a novel, has anyone read the short stories of California writer Hisaye Yamamoto, who was most active in the 1950s? Her best-known stories are "Seventeen Syllables" and "Yoneko's Earthquake."
angel nympho
09-29-2002, 10:35 PM
The Great Gatsby
The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks) -- okok, I'm a girl... what do you expect?? Nicholas Sparks is the best.
I don't know. I read like at least a book a week. I have too many favorites.
kimpossible
09-30-2002, 02:41 PM
Another Orwell book, Animal Farm. Runner up would be The Chronicles of Narnia.
ChinaLama
10-04-2002, 08:44 AM
Yeah, Animal Farm is the hardest-rocking short novel.
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Craig
10-04-2002, 11:45 AM
None of Orwell's 1984 fans mentioned Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury, or another one of my favorites by Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles. Also, can one not mention Huxley's Brave New World. :HH:
thaite
10-04-2002, 11:52 AM
non-fiction, Soul On Ice (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/038533379X/) by Eldridge Cleaver
The Ugly American (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393318672/) by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer
fiction, The Grapes of Wrath (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0142000663/) by John Steinbeck
Cannery Row (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/014200068X/) also Steinbeck
The Catcher in the Rye (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0316769487/) by J.D. Salinger
Starship Troopers (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/078611231X/) by Robert Heinlein
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/159007257X/) series by Douglas Adams
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kasia
10-05-2002, 01:08 AM
all of salinger's works. catcher in the rye. nine stories. franny and zooey. raise the roof beams high, carpenters. seymore: an introduction. all of his stuff is really intense. i remember rereading the nine stories last year. after each story, i had to put the book down for an hour to take in what i read. it's like--you read it...and then you don't know what to do with yourself. maybe i'm crazy.
tapestrybabe
10-06-2002, 01:50 AM
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston.. now that was like the best book cuz it was kinda like a true to life horror story about the ebola virus taking over... and its efforts to contain the virus....
Also, Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo.. great anti war novel... the movie, it sucks.. it doesnt do the book justice... so read the book instead...
controversy
10-14-2002, 02:18 AM
Dune is awesome. I've been meaning to finish Dune Messiah but haven't gotten around to it.
a high school favorite was Catcher In The Rye
another was One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
currently just finished Snow Falling On Cedars, I enjoyed it although I was disturbed at some of the mental images I was getting. :blink:
.:kanji:.
10-14-2002, 04:33 PM
Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer...rilly interesting book about science and religion...
wylin
10-15-2002, 10:52 AM
frank herberts Dune and subsequent sequels an all time favorite same w/
Astro City - comic book
and
Hayao Miyazaki's - Naussica manga.
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amietron
10-15-2002, 04:18 PM
Originally posted by controversy@Oct 14 2002, 02:18 AM
Dune is awesome. I've been meaning to finish Dune Messiah but haven't gotten around to it.
a high school favorite was Catcher In The Rye
another was One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
currently just finished Snow Falling On Cedars, I enjoyed it although I was disturbed at some of the mental images I was getting. :blink:
I haven't read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest but I saw the movie and I liked it a lot. =)
Craig, are you a big fan of Guy Montag? or Clarisse (I think that was her name)? I read that in Fahrenheit 451 in 7th grade. One weird book.
Nobody mentioned Catch 22!
OMG, Angel! I LOVED GATSBY! and The Notebook! I cried. Did you? =)
ChinaLama
10-15-2002, 04:23 PM
no one's mentioned Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. :)
kasia
10-20-2002, 11:18 AM
okay, this one's dumb...
but has anyone read about socrate's death? it's written by plato. i actually cried when i read that.
you hafta admit, socrate's was a damn annoying guy though.
Alexander Dumas "Count of Monte Cristo" -- the movie destroyed the book!
Hitchhikers:Guide to the Galaxy
Most of Michael Crichton
Martian Chronicles
Most of Piers Anthony (Xanth series, Mode Trilogy, GeoEarth series, Steppe) not deep thinking but very fun and comforting.
Wild Swans (nonfiction) -- very sad
Shuriken
10-26-2002, 10:35 AM
Originally posted by luv@Oct 26 2002, 03:48 PM
Most of Michael Crichton
Does that include Rising Sun?
Grass Monkey
10-26-2002, 10:42 AM
Mice and Men -John Steinback
All Quiet on the Western Front-Erich Maria Remarque
himura-dono
10-26-2002, 02:08 PM
in varying favoriteness:
1. orson scott card's ender series. the first one is an interesting novel, but the three that follow are philosophically amazing.
2. orwell's 1984
3. rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead (short play)
babysakura
10-31-2002, 04:22 AM
Originally posted by luv@Oct 26 2002, 06:48 AM
Wild Swans (nonfiction) -- very sad
that was written by Adeline Mah, really good book. i love Roots, Memories of a Geisha, Shanghai Baby, Kane and Able is another good one, and i read other writers like Grisham, and Amy Tan
if you're chinese why call yourself 'babysakura'?
SunWuKong
11-01-2002, 07:31 AM
Originally posted by babysakura@Oct 31 2002, 07:22 AM
Originally posted by luv@Oct 26 2002, 06:48 AM
Wild Swans (nonfiction) -- very sad
that was written by Adeline Mah, really good book. i love Roots, Memories of a Geisha, Shanghai Baby, Kane and Able is another good one, and i read other writers like Grisham, and Amy Tan
Arthur Golden was actually sued by the geisha that he interviewed for Memoirs of a Geisha.
"Memoirs of a Geisha" Lawsuit
A former geisha, who provided author Arthur Golden with background information for his best-selling 1997 novel, "Memoirs of a Geisha," has sued Golden and his publisher, the Alfred A. Knopf division of Random House.
According to the New York Times (April 25, 2001) she is demanding "the appropriate percentage" of $10 million, the amount she says the book made, for defamation, breach of contract and copyright violations. Her lawyer, Dorothy M. Weber, alleged in documents filed in federal court in Manhattan that the author, Arthur Golden, promised anonymity and confidentiality when he interviewed her in 1992.
"Memoirs of a Geisha" has sold 4 million copies in English and been translated into 21 languages, with film rights purchased by Columbia Pictures. Weber told the Los Angels Times that “in Japan, the former geisha withdrew an official complaint when the publisher there agreed to remove her name from the book's acknowledgments." (April 26, 2001). The Boston Globe (April 26, 2001) pointed out that "(a)mong the unusual aspects of the lawsuit are its involving a work of fiction rather than fact and its focusing as much on the promotion of the work as on the work itself."
more... (http://www.ezipangu.org/english/contents/news/naname/geisha/geisha2.html)
amietron
11-01-2002, 11:28 PM
must be sayuri, the grey-eyed one..
yes/no?
Hanuman
11-02-2002, 01:46 PM
I think one of my favorite books has to be The Power of One, by Bryce Courteney. Sets place in South Africa around the time of WWII. A good read about a young boy who is alone and isolated and deals with issues ranging from religious intolerance, racial discrimation, a war torn country, and poverty all trying while trying to grow. They tried to make a movie out of this, but it stunk.
At the moment,
"Yellow" by Don Lee and "American Knees" by Shawn Wong. I can read either over again and still laugh. And anything by John Welter (Night of the Avenging Blowfish, I want to buy a vowel, and Begin to exit here).
But I also like "Blackhawk Down" (read 2x) and own the DVD.
I like non-fiction military stories and fictional adventure/espionage. :)
artsfartsyjanet
11-04-2002, 06:41 PM
Doctors by Eric Segal
Originally posted by tapestrybabe@Oct 6 2002, 08:50 AM
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston.. now that was like the best book cuz it was kinda like a true to life horror story about the ebola virus taking over... and its efforts to contain the virus....
Also, Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo.. great anti war novel... the movie, it sucks.. it doesnt do the book justice... so read the book instead...
I read "The Cobra Event" by Richard Preston. He killed off the only two asians :( but it was still a good book, just not my favorite. :lol:
angel nympho
11-04-2002, 07:01 PM
Originally posted by amietron@Oct 15 2002, 11:18 PM
OMG, Angel! I LOVED GATSBY! and The Notebook! I cried. Did you? =)
HELL YEAH I cried. I cried in EVERY book he wrote.
I don't read novels but there is one book that I did enjoy reading: 'A Philosophical Investigation into Sexual Desire' by the acclaimed philosopher/writer Roger Scruton.
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