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    #32
    mentalimplosion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 849 ✭✭✭mentalimplosion


    crash_000 wrote:
    MentalImplosion: though making Invisble monsters into a movie would be....well....odd. very very odd. :p

    yes, it would be extremely difficult, i mean, it was difficult enough for me to follow as a book, let alone as a film.


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    #33
    emptyspoon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 96 ✭✭emptyspoon


    Oh so many good books. Jus read gigglingrat's post above... :)


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    #34
    Caoimhe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 466 ✭✭Caoimhe


    Everyone should read "The Past is Myself" by Christabel Bielenberg. SUCH a good autobiography and also on the Leaving Cert booklist so its easy to find and may come in useful at some point for ye...


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    #35
    La Guitarra
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭La Guitarra


    1. East of Eden
    2. 1984
    3. His Dark Materials
    4. The Catcher in the Rye
    The curious incident of the dog in the nightime is great too
    The Lovely Bones is good, so is cat's Eye and I am David, Wuthering Heights and The Lord of the Rings


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    #36
    Caoimhe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 466 ✭✭Caoimhe


    Excellent choices. John Steinbeck rocks, as does George Orwell.


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    #37
    Peterfing
    Closed Accounts Posts: 168 ✭✭Peterfing


    East of Eden's the book that brought Oprah's book club back.

    Bet y'all wanted to know that :D


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    #38
    Chowburger
    Registered Users Posts: 333 ✭✭Chowburger


    Stephen Forde wrote:
    Yup i second that....terry Pratchett just plain kicks so much ass.

    I third it. That man has an unfair amount of intelligence and wit and... everything I'm generally lacking.
    And through Terry Pratchett I discovered Neil Gaiman (who wrote Good Omens with Pterry,) and what is quite possibly my favourite novel ever - Neverwhere.

    It's about this guy who leads a normal nine-to-five life until he meets a girl who comes from this whole other London which exists underground.
    I'm not very good at summarising stuff without givingthe whole plot away, but one review I read about it said it was as though "Alice in Wonderland had a love-child with Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which grew up into a punk teenager and ran away to live on the streets of London." And I think that should be enough to satisy any CTYIer :P It's just... wow.


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    #39
    Plunky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 975 ✭✭✭Plunky


    Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey is great, as is the entire Banned and Banished series by James Clemens


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    #40
    lordsippa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,590 ✭✭✭lordsippa


    I'd LOVE to reread my Lovecraft but SOMEONE <points a giant accusing finger at neil> has them. (Incidentally Neil, I also demand your omnibus).

    This year I'll be mostly reading philosophy books. So expect many ... odd... conversations. Oh and for more pirate talk. Nyarr!

    Incidentally on Pratchett, he's great and all UNTIL you realise that he only has one style of writing and ... well... I dunno. You just gotta start taking big breaks between his books or you just don't like them.

    Robert Jordan is a brilliant fantasy writer btw.

    Oh and The Godwhale was just fantastic if you like odd yet stereotypical sci-fi.

    <thinks>... and rock biographies. Most are brilliant. :) Though tbh you can get most of the great stories from CLASSIC ROCK. Yeah I love that magazine so much I really just had to pimp it (though it be not a book). Probably the best written magazine in the world. With the exception of ye olde Amiga Power (RIP).


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    #41
    Crash
    Registered Users Posts: 11,195 ✭✭✭✭Crash


    You never asked for them back you Tit :p also i have some of your other crap here. drop around on....not tomorrow, wednesday and pick things up maybe?

    the omnibus i got is...ok. Haunter in the Dark contains the best ones IMO.


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    #42
    article6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 610 ✭✭✭article6


    I recently got a box full of SF books from an auction, so plenty of good times ahead. I am currently reading

    Pegasus in Flight - Anne McCaffrey
    The Times History Of The World (particularly Europe, pre-Age of Discovery to Napoleonic Era)
    Four Past Midnight - Stephen King
    Text and Tests 5 (mathematics textbook - as I'm going into college without having attended a Maths class for 16 months)
    Chess - Graham Burgess

    Recent reads:
    Waging Modern War - Gen. Wesley Clark (Ret.)
    The Wars of French Decolonisation - Author forgotten
    A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
    At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O'Brien


    And Sven is correct about Terry Pratchett.


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    #43
    pinkpimp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭pinkpimp


    All of the Ross O' Carroll Kelly books rock (but only if you are in/know some people in a private school.)
    They are(as far as I can remember):
    The miseducation years,
    The teenage dirtbag years,
    Orange mocha-chip frappuchino (possibly years)
    There may be others, but I cant remember. Also, I think theres a new one called 'ps. I slept with the bridesmade' this year, but dont quote me.

    Also, Harry Potter, all of them. If you havent read those, you havent lived.


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    #44
    Judas04
    Closed Accounts Posts: 67 ✭✭Judas04


    LiamD wrote:
    Junk - Melvin Burgess.

    Quality book, yet slightly depressing about some introverted little boy being brought out of his shell, gettin hooked on drugs, attempting to get off drugs and other stuff which I won't spoil for ya

    that is a seriously kick ass book! terry pratchett is good to a certain extent and then you just get bored.

    Something Rotten, Lost in a good book, The Eyre affair, The well of lost plots - Jasper Fforde (the man is a genius!)
    Knots and crosses is just amazing!
    The hollow chocolate bunnies of the apocolypse, Nostradamus ate my hamster - Robert Rankin (twisted but funny)
    The Lord of the Rings (enough said.)
    The DVC is good and so is Angels and Demons but Digital Fortress is a load of pish!
    Lovely Bones really creeped me out but it was very VERY good.
    I used to love the Redwall series but they are really for younger kids.
    The dark is rising series - Susan Cooper
    HATED the Dark materials books
    Barry Trotter and the philosophers scone released in america as Barry Trotter and the Magic Biscuit (good piss take of BRILLIANT books)
    Runaway jury - John Grisham
    All the harry potter books
    can't be bothered to write the rest of them.


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    #45
    Piste
    Registered Users Posts: 11,440 ✭✭✭✭Piste


    Another really good Dan Brown book is Deception Point. I thought it was really good. I couldn't put it down.

    Inkheart is really good book about, well, books, its by Cornelia Funke and Its really good (Notice I like saying 'really good'?)


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    #46
    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    All of his books are excellent tbh: Angels and Demons, DaVinci Code, Digital Fortress, Deception point. (In that order of kickassness)


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    #47
    article6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 610 ✭✭✭article6


    The rise of Dan Brown (heck, even my younger brother who was at CTYI this year had heard of him) is quite meteoric. It leads me to wonder whether a book about Jewish religious leaders involved in a conspiracy would have become such a bestseller.


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    #48
    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    No. The christianity was the worm, the writing was the hook. No point trying to catch fish without bait.


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    #49
    pinkpimp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭pinkpimp


    i thought junk was crap.


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    #50
    mentalimplosion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 849 ✭✭✭mentalimplosion


    me too. trainspotting is way better, once you get over the language barrier (its written in like phonetic scottish)


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    #51
    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    Hehe...phoenetic scottish....


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    #52
    Chowburger
    Registered Users Posts: 333 ✭✭Chowburger


    Gummybearz!!! wrote:
    Inkheart is really good book about, well, books, its by Cornelia Funke and Its really good (Notice I like saying 'really good'?)

    Oh yes, that's a great book. It starts off a little slow, but it's amazing once you get into it. There's a movie coming out soon, too - and the book should most definitely be read beforehand!


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    #53
    gigglingrat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 315 ✭✭gigglingrat


    Phonetic. Scottish. Oh dear god. Hold me back.

    hmm...I'm reading Coastliners at the mo. By the same woman who wrote Chocolat...which was made into a movie with far too little Johnnny Depp. Its set on a titchy island of the coast of France...and its preeetty darn boring.

    So sllooooow....
    But I've got all the Steinbeck books lined up for after, so its not all bad.


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    #54
    Caoimhe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 466 ✭✭Caoimhe


    Make sure you've got The Grapes of Wrath in there, and The Pearl, both classics. Don't miss his short stories either, they're mostly very good.


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    #55
    gigglingrat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 315 ✭✭gigglingrat


    I've got the collected works type thing. Takes up a whole feckin' shelf on me book case. Better be worth it...

    Although I did read ''of Mice and Men'', which was brilliant, and I would recommend it to anyone.


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    #56
    Caoimhe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 466 ✭✭Caoimhe


    SUCH a sad book *wipes tear from eye*


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    #57
    Shiney
    Registered Users Posts: 367 ✭✭Shiney


    Gummybearz!!! wrote:

    Inkheart is really good book about, well, books, its by Cornelia Funke and Its really good (Notice I like saying 'really good'?)
    Chowburger wrote:
    Oh yes, that's a great book. It starts off a little slow, but it's amazing once you get into it. There's a movie coming out soon, too - and the book should most definitely be read beforehand!

    i agree,its really good but its kinda annoying that everyone in the book is absolutely OBSESSED with books
    its made being ito a film by Newline isn't it who are responsible for LOTR


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    #58
    PurpleFistMixer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭PurpleFistMixer


    Shiney wrote:
    i agree,its really good but its kinda annoying that everyone in the book is absolutely OBSESSED with books
    its made being ito a film by Newline isn't it who are responsible for LOTR
    Okay, that took a bit of concentration and understand on my part...
    I think I've read that book (is it about characters from a book who become real or something?), and yes, the book obsession I found rather irritating. To me, it made the characters seem a bit one dimensional.


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    #59
    doonothing
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭doonothing


    the diceman just rocks too much...
    clockwork orange i really loved the book....
    lord of the flies was great...
    THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES oh wow are they just TOO good...
    of mice and men, and yes, *tear*....
    catcher in the rye....
    DVC was good. angels and demons was kinda TOO SIMILAR it was infuriating, argh...
    the rule of four is good...
    one of those Poe story collection book yokes...i love em.
    umm......
    HDM were good...
    the odyssey is cool...
    1984 is great....
    im still reading on the road and grapes of wrath, but they're going swimmingly...
    animal farm is so damn good... aw wow...
    anyway, yeah, so this thread has kinda just become another of those list-your-fave-books threads...werent we supposed to talk bout our favourite etc? not that im gonna go back and do that though......


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    #60
    JenLorigan
    Registered Users Posts: 588 ✭✭✭JenLorigan


    Liquorice wrote:
    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

    Anyone seen that film? So ridiculous it's brilliant.

    "They're the most beautiful shirts I've ever seen! *sob*"
    "My, my. That is the most immoral young creaure I've ever seen." (She cheated at golf! Egad!)

    Sorry, I know this is meant to be about books. But everyone needs to see that film.

    Anyone read Apocalypse Wow? Lord of the Flies, The Lord of the Rings, Dracula, Bored of the Rings (best parody I've come across so far), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney screwed it up so much!) Frankenstein, Les Miserables... And I have a whole list of books I have to read.


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    #61
    lemon_sherbert
    Registered Users Posts: 716 ✭✭✭lemon_sherbert


    Lord of the Rings
    First three Vampire chronicles, after that they just turn into soft porn
    Harry Potter naturally, i've read them way too many times, but they're comfort literature
    The Catcher in the Rye
    A heartwarming work of staggering genius
    The perks of being a wallflower
    hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

    I think that pretty much encompasses my favourite books ever. i'd reccomend them to anyone


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