What are the best books u ever read?

[Sauron]

Here it would be :

Sword of the Truth series by Terry Goodkind
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Malloreon and Belgariad Sagas by David Eddings

[Dick Steel]

i haven't ever read any books. Books are for nerds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mr Clean]

i haven't ever read any books. Books are for nerds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Apparently so is capitalizing the first word in a sentence.....

All the Tom Clancy novels are great, such as Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Rainbow Six, etc....

[TheUltimateWarrior]

I never read books either
i did read a few books for school, but they all sucked
now i have the internet for my bookreports :)

[Snip3r]

Enders Game,Harry Potter Series,Holes,Dinotopia,The Hitchikers guide to the Galaxy (Haven't finished that) :)

[Sauron]

Hitchhikers guide is one of the best books and very funny

[Saretta]

LOTR, Dragonriders of Pern, Terry Pratchett

[Grimmy]

I read or used to read the Hardy Boys adventure series. I liked books like that, very mysterious!

[Dain]

LOTR
Ender's Game
Soldier of the Mist
Samurai's Garden


:: DAIN ::

[Dark Energy]

Lord of the rings Trilogy
Robert Holdstock BOOKS http://www.mythago.tuatha.org/
D&D books .....TSR
Dune
Terry Pratchett Books ,Discworld... etc





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[death maker]

the hobbit :D

[Mr Clean]

Encyclopedia Brown

[Hobbes]

Originally posted by some dude@Nov 12 2002, 04:12 PM
i haven't ever read any books. Books are for nerds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow. Books are for nerds. Just like playing computer games and posting on internet forums! Amazing!

Anyway

Catch-22
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
Clavell's Tai Pan and Shogun
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet (makes me wish I knew French so I could read the original)
and because I truly am a nerd I really liked the Fitzgerald translation of The Odyssey

[Dark Reign]

1. Into Thin Air
2. The Shining
3. The Lord of the Flies

And my all-time childhood classic:
"There's a Boy in the Girls bathroom"

When I read that book back in 4th grade, I felt just like the main charachter whose only friends were porlciean(sp) animals. Not anymore, though. B)

[Sauron]

seems like there are not many book reading ppl here

[Justncredible]

The bible, full of wars and sex, lots of "begetting" if ya know what that means..... :lol: ... it is not an easy read, but is very good if you just read it and try not to belive, once you make it past names it picks up some, the story of a chosen family, and how they deal with god........ :blink:

[TNT Tonic]

Anything by Patricia Cornwell!

[FUS1ON]

Anything from Zig Ziglar or Norman Vincent Peale.

[Slash]

Anything by James Patterson, Michael Crichton, John Grisham.

[Slice]

The complete unabridged guide on how to pick up women then dump them for a man. :lol:

[Mr Clean]

The complete unabridged guide on how to pick up women then dump them for a man

Ahh, yes, that is Hammer's book I believe.... :D

[Mr Clean]

Anything by James Patterson, Michael Crichton, John Grisham

Is Patterson that doctor or pathologist or something that writes medical thrillers?

[Static]

LOTR
Dragonlance Chronicles
Magician
Blood Crazy
And Then There Were None

[OUTLAWS high ping camper]

My brain is failing me........as usual. But, I remember reading a series of books entitled "Tarzan of Greystoke" or something like that. They were the original stories, you know......tarzan raised by apes...........kills with his bare hands.....eats the flesh raw and drinks the blood.........ok, all of the stories weren't that gruesome. :blink: I enjoyed each book.
I've read a few of Stephen King's books: Carrie, Cujo, Tommy Knockers, The Shining, and Fire-Starter.
The last book I read was "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe. Actually the complete title is: The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of ROBINSON CRUSOE OF YORK, MARINER (I can understand why they shortened the title :P )

[OUTLAWS high ping camper]

Originally posted by Hobbes+Nov 12 2002, 02:22 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Hobbes @ Nov 12 2002, 02:22 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin--some dude@Nov 12 2002, 04:12 PM
i haven&#39;t ever read any books. Books are for nerds&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;
Wow. Books are for nerds. Just like playing computer games and posting on internet forums&#33; Amazing&#33;

Anyway

Catch-22
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
Clavell&#39;s Tai Pan and Shogun
The Things They Carried by Tim O&#39;Brien
The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet (makes me wish I knew French so I could read the original)
and because I truly am a nerd I really liked the Fitzgerald translation of The Odyssey[/b][/quote]
Hobbes, are you my father? :blink:

[TNT Tonic]

Patricia Cornwell is a Forensics Scientist

[Slice]

How to piss people off. Well I am not done reading it yet, because I am still writing it. :P

[OUTLAWS high ping camper]

Originally posted by Slice@Nov 15 2002, 11:59 AM
How to piss people off. Well I am not done reading it yet, because I am still writing it. :P
You&#39;ll never finish it......you&#39;re too nice. :)

[Hobbes]

Originally posted by OUTLAWS high ping camper@Nov 15 2002, 02:21 PM
Hobbes, are you my father? :blink:
..

[Ephemerion]

My favorite all-time series is the Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams. I&#39;m even willing to wage its better than LOTR. Williams is better story-teller/storyweaver.

Patricia Cornwell is good as well, I studied her stuff in University.

[OUTLAWS CHICO]

I have read some books mostly A/c heat , Automotive repair, Home improvements, Trade books mostly but I also have dabled in steven kings novels. Where the red fern grows,Black beauty,Moby dick,a couple of swash bucklers that I can&#39;t remember the names of. The human mind,some pshycological insights.Alot of murder mysteries,alot of martial arts techniques,Alot of paintball books, then I got this dad gum computer and all I read is forums jibberish.Sorry so long.

[THUMBS]

All the book i have read all seem to start with the same thing...it is ummmmmm Playbo?

[666vicious666]

1. George Carlin&#39;s Napalm and Silly Putty
2. The Bernstien Bears
3. The Grapes of Warth

[Mr Clean]

Green Eggs and Ham
Dirty Jokes and Beer

I like King, too, HPC....

[OUTLAWS Iris]

Anything by Dr Suess--classics, all&#33;
Then not in any order, James Patterson (Kiss The Girls-it was a movie), The Bone Collector (It was a movie), then Patricia Cornwell, Kay Hooper, Nora Roberts, Jude Devereaux, The Harry Potter Series--- I could go on and on. There is nothing like a good book&#33; Jonathan Kellerman, Sandra Brown,,.....

[WillyTrombone]

Geez, I haven&#39;t sat down and read a book in years. Last one I can think of was Chrichton&#39;s Timelines, which I found somewhat disappointing seeing as how it was essentially Jurassic park with Knights and historians instead of dinosaurs and paleontologists. Same theme, very similar plot, and while it was a fun story with a timely sci-fi bent, it just didn&#39;t have enough to shake the overwhelming sense of deja vu. (IMO, his best books were Sphere and Andromeda Strain.)

As for the Best books I&#39;ve ever read, well, that&#39;s a tough decision

Catcher in the Rye has to be on that list.

1984 should also be.

Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin (it&#39;s not a novel and it&#39;s not even fiction. In some sense, it might be considered a self-help book or maybe even a piece on animal rights. Temple Grandin is a high-functioning autistic woman and she shares her observations of the world and her understanding of herself in such a way that questions the basis of modern psychology and philosophy: the separation between man and animal)

The Prince by Machiavelli

the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu and the Art of War by Sun Tzu

annotated translations the Nag Hummadi

There are a few more that should be on that list but it&#39;s late and I&#39;m tired. :wacko:

[Mr Clean]

Catcher in the Rye is one of my all time favorites....good choice Will T.

I forgot to mention another of my favs....Agatha Christy

[OUTLAWS CHICO]

I also like time travels.

[OUTLAWS Ada]

James Patterson - all of them
Martina Cole - all of them
Val Mcdermid - most of them


All full of violent death and pyschological thrillerness&#33;

[Mr Clean]

Is thrillerness a word? Cool, I&#39;m gonna start using it, then. Thrillerness is a cool-sounding word.....

[Yellow[GummiBear]]

Enders Game
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide

a trilogy written by Orson Scott Card... wonderful series

[666vicious666]

Originally posted by Mr Clean@Nov 17 2002, 10:25 PM
Catcher in the Rye is one of my all time favorites....good choice Will T.

I forgot to mention another of my favs....Agatha Christy
You have to be kidding me Clean...Catch in the Rye is a sure cure for sleep insomnia. Why do you like it?...just wondring.

[Mr Clean]

In all seriousness, I think it is a great book. We always had to read all these books in high school full of symbology and crap, and most of them I thought were a bunch of crud, but Catcher In The Rye is SO well written, and it&#39;s a great story. What can I say, I think it&#39;s great....

[Sirc]

I liked Lord of the Flies. We had to read that in high school.