Question

whitetrash

Which book would YOU like to have written and (if you want) why?

No "bible"'s please, we dont want to start that discussion all over again

my choice btw would have to be "The Lord of the Flies" -- classic stuff

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WhiteWashMan

holywood wives or anything like that co the sell bloody millions and id be very very rich...or anything by stephen king that has sold millions and millions.
basically any book that sold millions and millions and made me loads of cash

Excelsior

Jurassic Park of course. What a book, what a marketing excercise. Truly the stuff of kings. Really though I would have liked to have written Microserfs or Generation X by Doug Coupland. They would have made me rich but they were great defining books at the same time too.

TwoShedsJackson

Stinger, by Robert R. McCammon, the classic action/horror book. It's unputdownable!! (/end cliche mode)

Someone please make a good film out of this and I would be v happy indeed.

the celtic tiger

For me...it has to be that one "To Kill a Mocking Bird". That's a book that noone is ever going to forget. We've all read it and we all enjoyed it. WHAT A STORY !!!!

tct

Blitzkrieger

To Kill a Mocking Bird? Lord of The Flies? Two utter pieces of fecal matter that were probably made more enjoyabale by being rammed down our throats in a futile effort to make us devoid of independent thought. (****e books for the slower people out there).


Lord Of The Rings -J.R.R. Tolkien. Might be sort of a kids book but rates highly on everyones fav list.

Excelsior

Blitz- you are for the ages!!! what a constructive post. wow, you really grasp that whole discussion board idea, and you probably studied, i don't know, human rights and the qualities of a democratic society to have posted so wisely. Can i subscribe to your newsletter?

Paladin

Im the only subscriber.

pat kenny

Those Ann and Barry Books we used to read at primary school.
All those $exual undertones.

Blitzkrieger

I know one book everyone in my school read. I read rats(not quite sure of the title) by James Herbert. The next week we were sitting in the library with nothing to do so I pointed out some choice scenes to the lads.

If you've read anything by James Herbert you know he always includes 4-5 elaborate sex scenes. Over the next 2 years that book was checked out every week! Somebody even convinced the school to get in more books by James Herbert!

People are so sensitive about top shelf material, and every teenager in the school must have gotten that out of the school library!

pat kenny

School library, ha we dont even have a library.Thats how much of a scum hole my school is.The computers we have are tulips that i have the feeling some of are 286 although most are 3-486.O and the toilets,have you seen trainspotting.

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WhiteWashMan

lord of the flies was a classic, but i agree that books like those on the leaving cert are rammed down our throats and dissected in a way that makes them most unenjoyable.
howver, i was pretty lucky to have a mother who bought most of the books on the leaving cert and other choice material for me to read when i was about 11 or 12. so i guess i had a good few years ahead of everyone else to enjoy them
lord of the flies scared me stupid when i first read it, all the barabaric actions of the kids when they finally loose the plot and start murdering each other
tremendous stuff

Shinji

Same as yerself, I read Lord of the Flies when I was about 11 or 12, so by the time I got around to doing it for the leaving cert, I'd read it loads of times anyway; and the over-analysis thing didn't get to me tbh. What always gets to me about analysing books and plays is not having to do it in the first place; its having someone elses opinions on them forced down your throat.

Funny how your perception of LotF changes each time you read it.

Ja,
Rob

Blitzkrieger

I've never read it - it's too damn boring! Normally even if a book is really boring I keep reading it just to see if it improves, but that was just too boring!

pat kenny

Never read it but saw the movie which is allways better,its good when the fat kid gets killed.does that bit happen in the book or was it added by hollywood.
I liked the discworld books MORT was the best out of the 3 I read.

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_CreeD_

"The Kama Sutra"

Field research would have been a ball....

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"The Riverboat Series" by Philipe Jose Farmer (Sorry, can't remember the individual book titles).
Absolutely incredible, yet simple, idea.

Blitzkrieger

lol

El_Presidente

1984, I have never read anything that made me think the way this book did.

SantaHoe

"The Famous Five" - oh man those books offer the answers to all lifes questions.

MiCr0

twould have to be the yellow pages....
lol

Paladin

Lord of the Rings

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One ring to rule them all, One ring to to find them,
One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

Wyverne

Lords and Ladies

simple as that!!!!!!

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Wyverne

WELL,
maybe.... erm..... hmmm.......

it relly is a tough q's, i've been reading books all my life, we all have.
some, as we know are rammed down our throats, but that does not neccessarily mean that we resent those books or authors (or even the rammers), i count myself all the better for having read such books as lord of the flies or animal farm
forget any insightful 'life is a peach on top but underneath we are all still animals' undertones - they are good books to read and enjoy, nuff said

i also enjoyed many other books i was forced to read for curricular requirements, and many of them i didn't like, but still counted myself better off for having read them. why? u ask

well u dont know if u like or hate something until u try it, and hating something is as much a step towards greater knowledge as is liking something

in answer to the q's posed.
there are too many books that i would like to have written than i have time to list. all for different reasons.

gimme a week to think an' i'll get back to u on it.

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DaBounca

i was reading down through the list.
i was shocked(to put it mildly)
not one of you put Douglas Adams' "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" .
the book has sold millions and millions and so have the sequels,it has been made into a movie,it was even broadcasted ob bbc radio as a radio series.
apart from that,the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy and the follow-on books to it are the funniest books i have ever read(and i read a lot).not only are they funny though,they are really intelligent also and make you think ,and that just makes the book even funnier.
If you havent read this book,leg it to your local library right now and get it,if the library is locked just knock the door down,its that good!

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Draco

Er...when was there a Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy film? I know one was proposed, but as far as I know, it never got off the ground.

Draco

DaBounca

the film did get off the ground sometime in the 80's.mind you,it barely got off the ground and wasnt nearly as good as the book,most films based on books never are though.

Blitzkrieger

I hate douglas adams. He's a no-talent bum. The whole series reads like early Terry Pratchet and the plot has so many twists in it, not only can you make no sense of it, THERE IS NO SENSE IN IT! You think that character is dead\ that bag is lost? Just wait a few sequels and some cross dimensional/time travel incident and they'll be back again!

Paladin

Ah dougie was funny in his own way. I liked it

Illkillya

ok - everybody here has read the exact same books i have. Can't leave the comment "Might be sort of a kids book but rates highly on everyones fav list" rest bout lotr. mebbe it is a bit of a kids book, but where my bro went to college, they were teaching classes in Elvish - that book is the REAL bible, and its way deeper than just a bit of a kids book (like the hobbit, probably). but you already knew that....

book i wouldve liked to've written = if someone asked me in real life, lotr, probably. another good series that nobody liked except me was the Memory, Sorrow, Thorn series by Tad Williams, i thought it was vgood - some crap elements but anyway, don't want to write a book.... (hehehe)

Wyverne

Why illkillya,
do u lack a certain creative instinct

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Illkillya

no, that was actually a joke because the post was getting so long

Paladin

This is the Chief Commander Chef of the SAS in XS in Essex, jerking off.

WhiteWashMan

actually, for some reason ive read all of duglous adams' books and i didnt really enjoy ay of them.
some excellent lines and jokes, but overall, not up there with the best by any stretch of the imagination

Paladin

That was the thing woth doug.
He wasnt funny the whole way through a book by any means. but in every book there were about 5 lines that had me in stitches, with at least 5 others that were laughable.
The rest of the story wasnt that entertaining tho imho.

Edge

sorry if im a bit late posting to this as i dont normally go here
i have to say Magician
that was a class book

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Tom

Illkillya

EDGE! you're the man. i was going to say something about that book - it has been very strongly recommended to me, and i wanted to buy it all week, but i didn't know who wrote it, and i couldn't find it in any book shop. Who wrote it?

FreaK_BrutheR

The Táin-Thomas Kinsella

Edge

seriously Raymond E Feist wrote it
and do buy it you wont be disappointed

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Skud

Lo lads
i'm nearly finished magician and it is brilliant
everyone should go out and buy it (well if ya want)
because it is a really good book

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Wyverne

Skud, magician is the first book in a series of three, and it only gets better.

i really wish i was in your position so that i could read them all over again for the first time.

and illkillya u should read them too there brill

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Illkillya

i just posted the same thing a minute ago, but i bought magician today, and illreadit.
I have to read stupid school books with stupid symbolism and stuff about babylon before monday, so i won't get far in Magician. The way i've heard people talk about it, Is it the best fantasy book ever? apart from lotr of course...

Manach

For Illkillya's post, Magician is VG, do you mean best novel or a series? If the latter I believe Hambly's "Armies of Night" or else Donaldson's "Thomas Covenant Chronicles" w'd be better.

For Original Q:
A: The Persian Expediation by Xenophon.
True story of people coming together for a common purpose, that and the author got rich at the end by robbing a merchant.
Is mise.

Illkillya

I read the Thomas Covenant books. they were very good allright, they had a very distinct feeling to them. There were aspects that i didn't like though, the psychological, inner conflicts and stuff that i don't really care about that are in a lot of books were very important in the Covenant series - like how he raped lena. The second 3 books then, there was the white gold stuff - more psychological stuff, and it was just too miserable how the giants were gone and stuff.
Never heard of the other one though

Manach

Sorry: Barbara Hambly - Darwath Trilogy is it's proper title.

Edge

anyone read any Star Wars books?
i have roughly 52 of them
they are fairly good but the x wing ones are the best
still nothing to the riftwar trilogy though

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Manach

Re: Darwath. I find it's worth re-reading and is a personal favourite, though others my have diff. opinions.
Basic story, the standard 2 people plucked from this world to one where there is magic
and an End of the World situation. It has a nice blend of medieval politics and a good story line.

Wyverne

Manach,
is that trilogy a fantasy/adventure/myth series, i.e. the hambly "armies of darkness" one,
and r u serious about it being one of the best triologies, if so i reckon i have to read it.
whats it about??

WhiteWashMan

the gap series is far superior to the tomas covenant series.
all based on norse mythology and the 'ring' series made famous by wagner in das ring die neiblung (i think) anyway, its where the ride of the valkyries comes from. yes you all know that song.
heathens and barbarians the lot of you!
er, anyway, its excellent and bloody complex and really really gets into the technology and history of it all.
bah..just read past the first book and youll understand!

Illkillya

i had one of the gap books actually, the mirror of her vision or something, but i didn't have the 1st one, so i didn't bother reading it, and now i've lost it....

Gamblor

Hmmmmmmmm Books ..... I'd Have to go for my Fav book .. Caves of steel By a MR Asimov !!!
Absolutly top class best book ever written and will be ever written ....
Read it or feel hollow !!!!
There i don't think i hyped it too much !!!!

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