Favorite books

Laughing Buddha · September 6th, 2006, 11:32 pm

As for me Tolstoj is too long... it's better to watch a movie.
The Lamb by Cristopher Moore is my favourite book.

Ondrej.Cibulka · Post by **Ondrej.Cibulka** » September 7th, 2006, 11:44 am

You are from Ukraine, so what film exactly are you talking about?

Laughing Buddha · Post by **Laughing Buddha** » September 7th, 2006, 5:57 pm

I'm talking about USSR's times film (1967 year).
Also not bad thing is "Dog heart" movie

Ondrej.Cibulka · Post by **Ondrej.Cibulka** » September 11th, 2006, 8:57 am

I believe, that so old film should be very good adaptation of Tolstoj's novel.
I think that Dog heart is very sad. I do not like it. But not by art side, you know.

Laughing Buddha · September 11th, 2006, 5:07 pm

heh, but some moments of the book & movie are woth watching and reading.
some time ago I've realizaed russian classic is not the thing teachers made us to read in school. In that times I hated everything exept Chehov

Ondrej.Cibulka · Post by **Ondrej.Cibulka** » September 13th, 2006, 6:43 am

I understand to this...

I red Anna Karenina a long time after school, surely after 25 year, when I heard song "Anna Karenina" of Alla Pugacova. And now I am reading it again.

Cupcake · Post by **Cupcake** » September 13th, 2006, 7:08 pm

My favorite book is Brilliant Origami by David Brill!

I can't remember my favorite book that's non-origami-related...

Morgan · Post by **Morgan** » September 15th, 2006, 10:01 am

sirens of titan by kurt vonnegut was a pretty good book, although it probably will not go down in the annals of time as the best written, it deffinately sparked my imagination many times throughout it.

diemjay · Post by **diemjay** » September 22nd, 2006, 5:16 pm

I am a big fan of The Sirens of Titan as well. It is my favorite Vonnegut book.

"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."
- Sirens of Titan

"The big trouble with dumb b@stards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart."
- Sirens of Titan

"Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic."
- Sirens of Titan

himanshu · Post by **himanshu** » February 5th, 2007, 4:04 pm

Like Franz and Daydreamer, I too dig the Hitchhikers' series. My favorite character is Arthur Dent, though (isn't he uncannily similar to Chandler from Friends?). I love the laidback comedy of Douglas Adams which is reminiscent of Jerome K Jerome's style.

I am waiting eagerly for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. BTW I support the Snape-kills-Voldemort-and-Harry Potter-vs-Snape-face-off theory.

The other perennial favorites are:

1. One by Richard Bach
2. The Faraway Tree and The Wishing Chair by Enid Blyton
3. All the Asterix and TinTin comics
4. Byomkesh Bakshi series by Saradindu Bandyopadhyay
5. Feluda series by Satyajit Ray
6. Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster
7. Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter
8. The Lost World by Sir A C Doyle

Himanshu.

Fanatic · Post by **Fanatic** » February 5th, 2007, 11:28 pm

No one here likes Eragon? Strange. I think it's one of the best books written. I impatiently await the third and last book. I also like Ripley's Belive it or Not books.

Cupcake · Post by **Cupcake** » February 6th, 2007, 11:13 pm

I never read Eragon, so I don't know... I don't think I'd really like it all that much... I currently read anything that is slightly interesting because there nothing I can find to read anymore!

Wow, I just remembered my favorite book, I don't have a clue why. The title is Stonehenge Gate

That's quite the interesting book. There was also one called Subterranian and another one about Antartica be Atlantis... I personally go for big thick books.

Moderator Comment: Never heard of the edit function, eh Cupcake?

Cupcake Comment: Huh? I was sure I didn't double post...

Lux Aeterna · Post by **Lux Aeterna** » February 8th, 2007, 9:26 pm

In no particular order:
- Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (series)
- Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time (series) (ongoing)
- Franz Kafka, anything he ever wrote
- Peter Engel, The Neverending Story (NOT the movies. Those were god-awful.)
- William S Burroughs, Naked Lunch
- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland / Through the Looking-glass
- Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
- Arthur C Clarke, 2001 A Space Odyssey (even better than Kubrick's film version)
- Frank Herbert, Dune (just the first one, not the whole series)
- George Orwell, 1984
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
- Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
- Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone (short stories)
- Albert Camus, The Stranger

himanshu · Post by **himanshu** » February 9th, 2007, 5:07 am

Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

Oh yes...that's a good one! I remember struggling with the lines for a street performance of this play.

Himanshu

orikai · Post by **orikai** » February 9th, 2007, 5:29 am

Fanatic wrote:No one here likes Eragon? Strange. I think it's one of the best books written. I impatiently await the third and last book. I also like Ripley's Belive it or Not books.

i love eragon. i too think its one of the best books ever! i wanna see what happens next. i wonder how thick the next book will be.