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Off-Topic => All of all! => Topic started by: plightofthepureblood on November 05, 2006, 10:56:39 PM

Title: Your Favorite Book
Post by: plightofthepureblood on November 05, 2006, 10:56:39 PM: Im lookin to read something, but have nothing in mind.

I figured making a thread for this could be usefull. A topic of conversation, and a means for us all to get a little bit smrter.
Or at least, drop the names of the books at sophistimatcated parties, and make it look like you read alot.

Whats your favorite book? Why is it your favorite? Who Wrote it?
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Post by: Anubis_Soldier on November 05, 2006, 11:09:52 PM: Reading is for those with weak minds.
Now Genocide of a complete race will make you smarter and look more sophisticated :frag: ... atleast to the ones i will rule over

Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
first book with more then 5 pages that i read
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Post by: Cosmos on November 05, 2006, 11:15:21 PM: Um I've got a few.. Memoirs of a geisha for one, it was easy to read and the details given were good. You could actually see what the writer was trying to say. Narnia was good, I've only read the first book tho <.< Teen angst was an amusing book about some boy who was a loser and eventaully found who he was in life. Um whatelse..

In the time of the butterflies was an amazing book. It was about a family who lived in the dominican republic. The daughters, four of them, were rebels who were trying to over throw the dictator, Trujillo. It also talks about the personal struggles they dealt with in their lives and faith. Treasure in the heart of the tanglewood you prolly wouldn't like, it's some fantasy type thing. Um... Trojan war is awsome, so is Ulysses.

Flowers for algernon was good, but it's annoying in the beginnin since he writes so retardedly. Manchild in the promise land was a good book, about a black man who deals with racism, drugs, and some other stuff. I read it in the 9th grade, so dun really remember much. But I do know it was good. And the hobbit and harry potter, damn I'm so girly <.<;;
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Post by: plightofthepureblood on November 05, 2006, 11:25:57 PM: I guess I should post my current favorites.

Life of Pi, by yann Martel was the last book I read. Really good though it drags out alot in the middle. Its about a kid whos family owns a zoo in pakistan. They basically, decide to move to Canada, and while on the boat, the wreck, and the Kid, Pi, is stuck on a life raft with a live Orangutan, Injured Zebra, a Hyena, And A Lion.And then End of that one is amazing....it just takes so long to get there.

My favorite is a tie....I really like catcher in the rye. I know its clichee, but bite me. Its an awesome book. And "A wrinkle in time" by Madeline L'engeles (Kids book, but awesomly uses fantastic metaphores and representations to explain some really intense science and theology to Kids)
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Post by: MrMister on November 05, 2006, 11:44:15 PM: Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik. Somewhat of an obvious choice.. but it's one of the few books I can read more than once.
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Post by: PyroAlchemist on November 05, 2006, 11:44:47 PM: I liked Flowers For Algernon too. It was a good book. I also liked Stargirl, The Outsiders, and a few more but not many. I just finished The Scarlet Letter and it sucked >_< If anyone wants to pic it up anyways, it's by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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Post by: plightofthepureblood on November 05, 2006, 11:46:20 PM: Perfum Sotry of a Murderer was good too
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Post by: Hell Angel on November 05, 2006, 11:48:33 PM: Aztec by Gary Jennings.

I also have to agree with MrMister that Fight Club is one good book.
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Post by: Cosmos on November 05, 2006, 11:54:43 PM: Quote
Originally posted by PyroAlchemist
I just finished The Scarlet Letter and it sucked >_< If anyone wants to pic it up anyways, it's by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Is that based on those witch trials back in the days? Cause I remember the movie... kind've.. I read a book on it, but I forgot what it was called.. damnit.
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Post by: Anubis_Soldier on November 05, 2006, 11:56:13 PM: I think you are talking about the Crucible.
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Post by: FFL2and3rocks on November 06, 2006, 12:10:54 AM: Quote
Originally posted by MrMister
Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik. Somewhat of an obvious choice.. but it's one of the few books I can read more than once.

You do not talk about that book. *ba-doom PSHH*

I'm reading Dracula by Bram Stoker, it's pretty good. The way it's written is, each part is a character's diary entry or a newspaper clipping, or telegram, etc. so the perspective keeps changing. It keeps it interesting.
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Post by: charaman on November 06, 2006, 12:19:27 AM: Quote
Originally posted by MrMister
Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik. Somewhat of an obvious choice.. but it's one of the few books I can read more than once.

I liked Choke better.
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Post by: Cosmos on November 06, 2006, 12:20:38 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Anubis_Soldier
I think you are talking about the Crucible.

Yes, that's it! Thank you. They were giving the movie all last month on HBO.

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Originally posted by FFL2and3rocks
I'm reading Dracula by Bram Stoker, it's pretty good. The way it's written is, each part is a character's diary entry or a newspaper clipping, or telegram, etc. so the perspective keeps changing. It keeps it interesting.

I tried reading it, but there were so many words on one page my eyes decided to cross. It was ok. <<
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Post by: Anubis_Soldier on November 06, 2006, 12:32:00 AM: Np

Count of Monte Cristo by dumas is very VERY good
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Post by: Cosmos on November 06, 2006, 12:34:39 AM: The movie was awsome too <.<
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Post by: MrMister on November 06, 2006, 12:43:09 AM: Chuck Palahnuik has written some great stuff.
The first thing by him I read was a short story 'Guts' about a kid who gets his intestines sucked out of his *** by the suction thingy at the bottom of a pool. Yeah.. pretty awesome ¬___¬
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Post by: I Have a Sandwich on November 06, 2006, 01:05:11 AM: Dune and pretty much any of it's offspring. I love em all.
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Post by: Drace on November 06, 2006, 01:14:34 AM: De Aanslag by Harry Mulisch. A Dutch book about the impact of WWII on a young boy who lost his family to the nazis at the end of the war in an accident, and the whole book is about him accidently finding out piece by piece who killed the nazi his parents got he blame for.
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Post by: Kinslayer on November 06, 2006, 01:37:07 AM: Dante Allighieri's Divione Comedy, an allegoric trip through Hell, purgatory and Heaven. Just awesome!
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Post by: charaman on November 06, 2006, 01:43:36 AM: Quote
Originally posted by MrMister
Chuck Palahnuik has written some great stuff.
The first thing by him I read was a short story 'Guts' about a kid who gets his intestines sucked out of his *** by the suction thingy at the bottom of a pool. Yeah.. pretty awesome ¬___¬

Guts is very entertaining. not for the squeamish, but funny/disturbing as hell.

The Divine Comedy is really a great work, as much as disagree with Christianity. It's very well written and a good concept.
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Post by: coreystranick on November 06, 2006, 01:56:59 AM: The fantasy writer Pier Anthony is basically my favorite authoer. Piers Anthony's Xanth novels are quite good. Lots of puns.
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Post by: Archem on November 06, 2006, 03:05:40 AM: The Legend of Luke - Brian Jacques
LOVE that book, and that author.
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Post by: Hell Angel on November 06, 2006, 03:13:32 AM: Is he the writer of the series with little rodents as warriors?
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Post by: Black Massacre on November 06, 2006, 03:36:04 AM: Yes, he is..... I hate his books though. Sorry, Archem2!

My favorite book, erm.. uhh, i'd have to say The Annotated Chronicles is the best. And it's long, 1312 pages to be exact. The author is Tracy Hickman.
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Post by: plightofthepureblood on November 06, 2006, 03:39:06 AM: Imagica by Clive Barker was super awesome. I always thought that would make a great RPG.

Ive Wanted to Read Dantes Divine Comedy for quite some time too.

Theres alot of thing on this list I want to read actually.
I can hardly wait to hit the Library tomorrow.
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Post by: Tomi on November 06, 2006, 03:43:56 AM: Fiction: The Golden Compass - Phillip Pullman
Non-Fiction: The Golden Ratio - *forgets*

XD, wow, I just noticed both of then are golden..
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Post by: Archem on November 06, 2006, 03:55:00 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Black Massacre
Yes, he is..... I hate his books though. Sorry, Archem2!

Hey, that's cool. We all have our preferences and opinions, that's what makes the world cool. It'd suck if everyone thought the same, right?
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Post by: Hell Angel on November 06, 2006, 03:59:10 AM: No... It actually would rule...
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Post by: Drace on November 06, 2006, 02:08:40 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Hell Angel
No... It actually would rule...

Let's look at that.

At first, everyone is the same. Same opinions, preference, taste etc., though still an individu. At some point, there will be 1 who think life is boring and try something. He'll get followers, they'll get followers and in the end, it would end up with everyone being different. Which is better.
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Post by: RuneBlade on November 06, 2006, 02:26:13 PM: Kerosene by Chris Wooding, its about a young pyromaniac
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Post by: charaman on November 06, 2006, 10:20:20 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Tomi
Fiction: The Golden Compass - Phillip Pullman/B]

The amber spyglass is the perfect way to close out that trilogy. I love that book.