Posted: 4/11/2005 4:14:18 PM EDT
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What is your all time favorite book? After much thinking I have come to the conclusion that my favorite book is "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand. Although I do not agree with Miss Rand on everything she says the book opened my eyes and changed the way I lived my life. I know many of you think the book is too long and needs major editing, but I think it is almost perfect the way it is. I couldn't imagine a single page edited out. |
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my god--that's almost an impossible question! i'll rule out non-fiction, and go with: les miserables, by hugo the english patient, by ontdaaje beautiful losers, by leonard cohen flint, by louis l'amour the chronicles of narnia, by lewis that's about as much as i can narrow it down, and that's cutting it to the bone. let me give you an idea of how much i love reading. when i moved to dallas, it took 2 trips to move all of my clothes, furniture, and other stuff, and 2 more trips to move my books. |
| I read The moon is a harsh mistress and it was one of my least favorite books. I had to force myself to finish it just so Icould say I read it. I dont really get into fiction. My favorite book is 101 things to do till the revolution....I havent read many books though........Ohhh change my mind.....Blackhawk down is my favorite followed by 101 things.. |
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Oh man...tough question. Might be "The Stand" by Stephen King....Don't get all uppity and Ivy League before I 2nd guess myself.... "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare" Nope... "The Art of War" by SunTzu "1984" George Orwell Nope..I got it.. "The Lord of the Flies" by Willam Golding... the book tells you everything youever need to know about life |
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Of course I will say the bible and all 66 books in it. The books I love contain multiple stories. Egdar Allen Poe, his works are collections of stories rarther than a single epic or novel. The Screwtape Letters CS Lewis Sovereignty of God by AW Pink Attributes of God same author I also used to be a big fan of HP Lovecraft and all his works. Scary stuff. |
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The King James Version of the Holy Bible The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - D Adams Predatory Dinosaurs of the World - G Paul The Time Machine - HG Wells 20K Leagues Beneath the Sea - J Verne Mysterious Island - J Verne Journey to the Center of the Earth - J Verne First Men in the Moon - HG Wells War of the Worlds - HG Wells 1984 - G Orwell Down and out in Paris and London - G Orwell Animal Farm - G Orwell The Forgotten Soldier - G Sajer The Right Stuff - T Wolff Little Big Man - T Berger Moby Dick -H Melville Father than Any Man, The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook - M Dugard In the Heart of the Sea, The Sinking of the whale-ship Essex - N Philbrick Inherit the Wind - J Lawrence |
Man, How can I forget J. Wambaugh? The Choirboys, The New Centurions....a great author... real stuff too.... Bumper ...what a character! |
I thought that many of Goldings other books put "Lord of the Flies" to shame. After reading some others, I actually decided that "Lord of the Flies" was his worst book. "Pincher Martin" (sp?) is a phenomenal book, and "The Spire" is amazing. |
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Top five in fiction and non fiction Fiction: Starship Troopers by R. Heinlein Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by H.S. Thompson American Tabloid by J. Ellroy Games of the Hangman by V. O'Riley The Eagle Has Landed by J. Higgins Non Fiction: Blackhawk Down The Art of War The Living Sword, a biography of Aldo Nadi The Works of Jeff Cooper Collected poems of W.B Yeats S/F flyingrhino |
William Butler Yeats rocks !!!  One of my all-time favorite poems:Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all convictions, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? |
Thank you DK-Prof, I have always liked your posts as well. That is one of my favorites. It is kind of geeky, but in a episode of Babylon 5, one of the aliens uses that poem to sum up the fate of mankind. I always thought was kind of cool. Regards, flyingrhino |
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Everyone has listed my favorites already. Favorite, out and out? Catch-22 I also love Keats' work. Morbid little fucker, he is. I'm partial to a lot of British poetry, actually. And Swift. He's my kind of guy: an asshole. As far as recreational reading, I tend to stick to non-fiction, but the fiction I like: Watership Down Shogun Stuff by Leon Uris I read Team Yankee until the binding fell apart when I was younger. I love Robert Heinlein's vision of the future; that's classic science fiction (with the exception of the free love shit). My nickname is from one of Heinlein's books. Heinlein, while not the best story teller, was one of the most brilliant authors in technique that I have ever read. All Quiet on the Western Front I consider Orwell's stuff to be good, but not great and it doesn't count as my favorites. Clancy's stuff is usually a fun read, but I don't consider him an author. He tells a good story, but it's a shallow one and he has no technique. There are some others, but at 3:20 am I am not going to go look at my bookshelf to spark my memory. |