Do you agree with the big Read??

Whats your favourite book???

Nope I don't agree with the big read...

To kill a mockingbird has been my fave as of yet.

Funnily enough, having voted for Catcher in the Rye earlier in the series, I did in fact vote for Hitchhikers Guide in the last five.

My final reason for choosing it was that, like Nomme, I have been known to quote it from time to time in my normal life.

Not so the others

I love the Dune books by Frank Herbert.

I don't read that often I haven't the patience for it most of the time - but every now and again something will make me move on past the first page

Moon

ive only just got to chapter 12 in the first set of the hitch hickers and thats my fave book already

Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy is good... as is Lord of the Rings, and whilst 90% of my book collection is either Science-Fiction or Fantasy, I don't think either of them are the 'best ever' - they're all good stories, but not the best books.

You need something more real, deep and purposeful... I always enjoyed Tolstoy myself, but they're often too long for most, and I don't rate the "great american" Steinbeck so he's out of the running...

Possibly I need to read more widely, but I'd say that someone like Ian Banks is better, or Catch 22 (which should be read by everyone!)

Realising that I'm a complete philistine on the book classics I have to vote with "Good Omens" by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaimen...

Just wonderful :)

Toss up between "All families are psychotic", "Running with Scissors" or "A Heartbreaking work of Staggering Genius" ... oh and anything by Michael Marshall Smith (except Straw Men) or Prey series by John Sandford (think that's it!)

Originally posted by Moon Maiden
I love the Dune books by Frank Herbert.

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Moon

Totally agree with you - they're amazing. I finally managed to finish the 6th - Chapter house Dune - a few months ago. I just need to read all the Prelude to Dune books now!

Lord of the Rings has always been my favourite though (plus the Hobbit, the Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, History of Middle Earth etc.)

I don't have a single favourite book. However, the following are all lined up for re-reads:

Narnia series
Foundation series
Catch 22
QB7

others

My Fav Book (http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/1903402700.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg).


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Originally posted by Martin_s
Realising that I'm a complete philistine on the book classics I have to vote with "Good Omens" by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaimen...

Just wonderful :)

You are not the only one i think this is a great book, possibly one of my favs so far.

Also really enjoyed a Bernard Cornwell book about stonhenge being built but i have lent it to someone and can't remember the title, think it was something like 2000 A.D. but know this is the name of one of Nomme big boy comics

Originally posted by fuzzy purple

Also really enjoyed a Bernard Cornwell book about stonhenge being built but i have lent it to someone and can't remember the title,


That would be Stonehenge: A novel of 2000BC (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0006513867/qid=1071839354/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_18_1/202-7935708-3807815)

Nomme

Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson - no contest

It's short, non-fiction, and has the worst cover of all time.

But it did change the way I look at everything, including the book itself (which is a neat trick)

Don't read this book if you don't like having your basic life assumptions challenged.

"Celestine Prophecy" by James Redfield

Huxley's "Brave New World" is a brilliant book if you want some of your perceptions turned upside down. It's about a world where everyone is conditioned to like their lot in life, and where anything meaningful such as culture or family relationships have been removed from society. It's quite ambiguous too, as Huxley had mixed feelings about some of the subjects he touches upon.

If you like Bernard Cornwell's Stonehenge, then I thoroughly recommend his King Arthur trilogy. Very bloodthirsty, but very atmospheric too.

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whats the scores??

I admit to being a Harry Potter fan and altho book 4 is pretty damn good PoA is my absolute fave!

very much into to the wholw witchcraft and wizardy and fantasy type books.

Good Omens rocks! but all time fave book is probably Mort by Terry Pratchett

altho I am partial to a bit of John Grisham every now and then!

Yeah, it's got to be the Dune series, I'm reading the Butlerian Jihad at the moment, it's astonishingly good. :thumbsup:

"To Kill A Mockingbird" totally, completely has been my favourite book for ten years now. I read it a couple of times in my teens then again whilst I was pregnant so as to have influence from Atticus on child rearing.
Books are as personal in taste as music and people. But the "Big Read" as with all other polls sucked because people suffer from terrible memory problems; I mean who would have put "Lord of the Rings " first ten years ago? It was barely thought of then, but still existed. If you run a poll right now of the best ten songs ever done, I bet "Mad World" will be there even though its a new version of a long forgotten song.
Have lost my thread now, but you know where I am coming from.