Whats Your Favourite Book

Dune, by Frank Herbert.

thanks for the link limpwrist

No problem kalel, enjoy buddy!

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. A classic that changed the way I looked at everything. Here's a quote from Wikipedia about it:

Billy has come "unstuck in time." He meets, and is kidnapped by, extraterrestrial aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, who exhibit him in a zoo, with movie star Montana Wildhack as his mate. The Tralfamadorians, who can see in four dimensions, have already seen every instant of their lives. They believe they cannot choose to change anything about their fates, but can choose to concentrate upon any moment in their lives, and Billy becomes convinced of the correctness of their theories.

Billy travels forward and back in time, reliving occasions of his life, real and fantastic. He spends time on Tralfamadore; in Dresden; in the War, walking in deep snow before his German capture; in his post-war married life in the U.S.A. of the 1950s; and in the moment of his murder.



Absolutely brilliant - it was banned from the school curriculum in the US for 30-odd years. Reason alone to love it!

And then there's Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas....

skateguy Wrote:Well, I wish I could be all intelligent and say Tolstoy's War & Peace or a Dickens book or something.

But, Tolkien's Lord of the Rings did it for me - perfect absorbing book and completely took me to another world.

I agree skateguy lord of the rings is a brilliant book I prefered the book to the film.

I wouldn't say I have a favourite book so I'm not even gonna go there so I'll just let you know what I'm reading now, Death's Jest-Book by Reginald Hill, who created the Dalziel and Pascoe characters, and who feature in this one also, since this is the first book of his I have read I don't know if its a continuation of a previous story but I'm guessing it is as one of the main characters is an ex-convict who they put away in the past and up to now seems to be waging psychological war on one of them through his letters in a non threatening way, pretty interesting read and constantly makes you want to pick up the book again to see just how things are going to pan out.

Just about anything by Stephen King.

But reading Needful Things, The Shining and Christine (and others i can't think of right now) after watching the movies makes reading or watching either more thrilling.

But then agian i'm not much of a reader. Stephen King is about all i've really read.

Bosse23 Wrote:I wouldn't say I have a favourite book so I'm not even gonna go there so I'll just let you know what I'm reading now, Death's Jest-Book by Reginald Hill, who created the Dalziel and Pascoe characters...

Hey Bosse, do you read many crime novels or was this a first? Ninety percent of what I read tends to be Spy or Crime fiction - Simenon, Chandler, Graham Greene, Fleming, Colin Dexter...

morphmonk Wrote:Just about anything by Stephen King.

But reading Needful Things, The Shining and Christine (and others i can't think of right now) after watching the movies makes reading or watching either more thrilling.

But then agian i'm not much of a reader. Stephen King is about all i've really read.

You can't go too far wrong with Mr King though, if thats all you read then thats good enough, although after reading some of Kings books I'm surprised it didn't motivate you to read more books since one of the first book's that I actually settled down to read out of my own free will was a book by the good man and after that it really made me want to read more books and I'm not a particularly big book reading kind of guy, but one good thing about books is that unlike tv there is a certain freedom given to writers in how they choose to express themselves in books.

skateguy Wrote:Hey Bosse, do you read many crime novels or was this a first? Ninety percent of what I read tends to be Spy or Crime fiction - Simenon, Chandler, Graham Greene, Fleming, Colin Dexter...

No, my bro is the reader and after he moved he left me with a huge amount of books, Fleming, Dickens, Shakespeare, Kootz, Patterson and usually when he is done with a book he just sends it to me, must be trying to educate me or something.

morphmonk Wrote:Just about anything by Stephen King.

But reading Needful Things, The Shining and Christine (and others i can't think of right now) after watching the movies makes reading or watching either more thrilling.

That's the right way to do it - watch the TV/film adaptation first as you can translate the imagery to your reading of the book. Its when you read the book first that the film rarely lives up to expectation, partly because you've already created your own images of certain characters in your mind, which of course the visual adaptation can't match.