Your favourite Book?

tr1n1ty

I was just thinking as I was reading The Famous Five posting and thinking to myself what was my favourite book when i was a kid and whats my fav book now?

I guess its got to be Dahls Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - I learned all the poems in the book off by heart...

Now I guess my favourite writer is Patricia Cornwell in her guise as a forensic pathologist - a bit goulish for some but great murder mystery books

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To Infinity and Beyond!

whitetrash

it was The Witches by Dahl

and now it would be Ticktock by Koontz

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havok*

A.A.Attanasio's "Centuries" gotta be my fav, read it 6 times now.

Shiminay

As a kid, I didn't read much - I do remember reading the 2001 series by the boy Aurther C C and really enjoying it. I also read the "Earthsea Trilogy" by Ursla K LeGuin - really good. I must go look for it again.

In recent years, well, I only read the Lord of the Rings for the first time 8 months ago, so it's still very much in my head. I also love any of Prachett's stuff - he r0><><0rz

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All the best,

Dav
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Gamblor

Well it was and still is Caves of steel by asimov .... umm galtic warlord douglas hill .
and one book .. i lost the thing can't remember who wrote it or the name of it ( helpful ain't i !!! ) it was about a colonyand there where mutan freaks living in the upper leves . our hero finds them becomes friends and all sorts of stuff happen .. any one any ideas about this .. one of the mutant friends had 2 heads ...

Later skaters

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FreaK_BrutheR

Alice in Wonderland - kid
Alice in Wonderland - now

twas thrillig nad the slothy toads did...

Paladin

The Hobbit
I remember feeling so grown up reading it

Illkillya

hehe, i read the lord of the rings when i was about 8. i didn't understand half of it, but there was a cool cartoon-film that explained it, with songs and stuff

metalchicken

I was the same when I was wee with the Hobbit, thought I was the most intelligent 8 year old ever

I read too many books to ever pick a favourite. When I was a kid I read hundreds, but I really couldn't pick my favourite from them. I could maybe pick by genre, and possibly alphabetically.
It'd be the same now.

[This message has been edited by metalchicken (edited 21-04-2000).]

Paladin

8 when u read The Lord of the Rings???
FFS
U must have been big enuff to hold it at that age!
I remember having to drag the book off the shelf and read it while it was on the ground. I had plenty of tim back in those days to read before I started school

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One ring to rule them all, one ring to bind them all, one ring to guide them, and in the darkness bind them - That quote right? Off the top of me head.

Manach

My favourite Books
F - The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMasters Bujold
NF - Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton
Fav trilogy LOTRs. Still waiting for the 2nd
part of cartoon version.

Toulouse

Watership Down...I bawled ...i was only 11

Slosh

Lion of Macedon - David Gemmell. Excellent read.

logic1

my favourite book was one i read when i was just beginning puberty.. it was entitled "West Coast Wildcatting" extremly educational i must admit... pity i can't remember the author

Xavius

I have read every book in my collection at least twice. At least. Most of 'em three/four times, or even more! People think that I read really fast. I don't, I just read ALOT.

When I was I child (I'm 15 now) I liked Enid Blighton (That spelled right?). I also liked Rold Dahl. I can't really pick out what was my favourite but that one with the magic chair and toyland (anyone remember that?) seems to be one I read alot. An awful lot.

Nowadays I can't get enough Discworld books. Terry Pratchett is undoubtedly the best comic author the world has seen. In my opinion. I can't possibly pick out which one is best, but I do like Reaper Man, Witches Abroad, Jingo, Sourcery (wow!), Guards!Guards!, Carpe Jugulum, Interesting Times, Lords And Ladies, Feet of Clay... etc. Nope, I can't pick one, but if I absolutely had to save only one from my burning house, then it'd be Reaper Man, or Carpe Jugulum. Maybe Sourcery would get a look in. And of course Witches Abroad.... Remind me to keep lots of smoke alarms all over the hosue (Some of you might get that one).

I have just read The Hobbit (only once, 'cause I have to return it).
I was a bit underwhelmed, to be honest. Not the epic story I was expecting. Tolkien IS a great storyteller... but it seemed very.. childish? I'll expect better from The Lord of the Rings (which I'm currently trying to raise funds for. I accept visa and mastercard).


Oh, and I nearly forgot Small Gods - that's great too..

Pretence

I think the Hobbit was wriiten as a childrens book by JRRT. You'll find Lord of the Rings a lot more involved

LoLth

as far as I know:

The Hobbit was originally a bedtime story for his son. It was only later that he decided to write it down.

When that was recognised, he started on LoTR and used the fact that he was a linguist and historian to give it 'depth'. Afterwards, he decided to explain a bit more and wrote Tales of the Unicorn , and Lost Tales.

Personally, I'd recommend reading:

Lost Tales
Tales of the Unicorn
the Hobbit
LotR

in that order.

Favourite book ever?
Count Belisarius, a 1/2 fict. 1/2 historical novel about a kickass roman general (much more realistic than Lion of Macedon - which I also like).

Pretence

I'd say JRRT indulged in the auld wacky tobaccy every now and then. He always has the pipe in most photos of him

plastic membrane

Again, id have to go for The Hobbit, simply because it was so bewitching whe i was younger. I can remember reading it vividly. These days, my fave would be The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy, or Startide Rising by David Brin..

BossArky

You have to read this trilogy :

The Nights Dawn Trilogy, by Peter F.Hamilton.

1)The Reality Dysfunction

2)The Neutronium Alchemist

3)THe Naked God


Changes the way you think, or just opens it all up...also a good read

Trojan

Changes the way you think???

Nah, it's just a very good space opera!

That said I still have to find #3 then start it over so maybe 2nd time round it'll change my life...

Boss, where are you in .de?

Al.

BossArky

Trojan, do you not think that your impressions of what the future could be like were not influenced by those books, mine where, in the general sense...I mean of course I'm going to have a son called Joshua who is going to save the Universe(yes his father was Marcus if you followed closely enough!).

I'm in Munich at the moment & having some laugh.

****, have to go move the Lady McBeth, it's blocking the trucks from Dell.

Manach

Re: Reality Dysfunction
Vols 2 & 3 going cheap (no canary jokes pls),
at Vibes and Scribes(Cork).

BossArky

ads!...noooooo.

Cake Fiend

Kid: Sly fox and red hen (OK, very young kid!)
Now: Good Omens by Terry P. Fukin hilarious and an excellent story. Actually, I haven't read that in months, think I'll go read it

Shiminay

Yes! Good Omens is an amazingly cool and funny book. 2 pages into the book and I was already laughing big time

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All the best,

Dav
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My page of stuff

Talliesin

Fav trilogy LOTRs. Still waiting for the 2nd
part of cartoon version

LOTR isn't a trilogy, it's a single novel in 6 books available split into 3 volumes. There is no closure at the end of each volume, and they aren't self-contained to any degree.

The 2nd part of the cartoon version will never be made, it was supposed to be a one-part cartoon but they ran out of money.

A live action version will be made (in three films), first is due for release december (or is it december after next).

Manach

Re Ads comment by BossArky,
No I do not work for Vibes and Scribes nor have any relationship with them other than buying the odd book off of them. Posted the info about Night's Dawn because I enjoyed the series and that the book in question was not yet out in paperback. Ads are for personal gain, and all I was doing was spreading info, which I thought was one of the purposes this board.

BTW Re: LOTR, 3 books usually means a trilogy.

Yours pedantically.

Mark_The_Whale

Usually. But a certain guide we are all aware of defies this rule.

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Mark the Whale. AKA Xavius the Whale.