CTYIers favourite book

Jeezie Creezie

Inspired by Ludramans CTYIers favourite comedy, I decided to post this. As a prediction I'd say there will be alot of Hitchhiker's Guide but as a fact there probably won't.

Piste

I'm not a huge fan of any of the above, but my favourite out of them has to be HHGTTG

elephamt king

I'm of the same stance as Liz.
This is also stupid as the books listed are the ones you've read in the last few months.
I personally would give most CTYIers the benefit of the doubt and say that they have far better literary taste...

Piste

Lolita plzthks ¬.¬

LiamD

This is a post that serves no purpose other than to increase my post count and impose my presence on others who view this board.

I really hope I'm the only one that had this great idea...

JenLorigan

Liam: My cat's name is Mittens.

I'm not crazy about any of those books bar maybe LotR and HHGTTG. Everything's better when it's letters.

EDIT: Acronyms, those letters are called acronyms. >.<

Jeezie Creezie

elephamt king wrote:

I'm of the same stance as Liz.
This is also stupid as the books listed are the ones you've read in the last few months.

In all fairness HGG (not HHGTTG! get your acronyms right people!) was the only book I'd read in the last few months. And your probably right they would have better literary taste, I just wanted to see if anyone liked these books.:) Probably a stupid idea though. I'll stop posting now *goes and hides in a corner for the next 10 years*

Piste

HGG= Hitchhikers Guide Galaxy?

I prefer HHGTTG

Feral Mutant

My favourite book isn't on the list. My favourite out of these would be the Guide.

Wow, it's been so long since I posted anyting on this forum. I blame the low number of threads.

slasher_65

out of the list, HHG.
i picked "other" 'cause i lik anything by Terry Pratchet more.
if i was shouted at to choose, i would say "the Last Hero". its a graphic novel AND a Terry Pratchet book! heaven!

TalkISCheap

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Now. Acronomize THAT!

Yeah, boards has died slightly lately... Well, this wee portion of it anyway.

Awayindahils

LiamD wrote:

This is a post that serves no purpose other than to increase my post count and impose my presence on others who view this board.

I really hope I'm the only one that had this great idea...

its highly orginal alright:rolleyes:

freakydeadgirl

Atlas Shurgged - Ayn Rand
and
Battle Royale - Koushun Takami

Undergod

I was in Xtravision today, and I walked down the aisle deriding all the movies at the very front, even the good ones. I was gonna do it to the books, but maybe later.

Favourite authors:
Neal Stephenson (The Baroque Cycle is the most wonderfully self-indulgent piece of writing ever)
China Mievelle
William Gibson
Steven Eriksson

All of the above belong at least partly to the 'speculative fiction' genre, as we're to call it if we're being PC nowadays.

Favourite other books- The Invisibles (Grant Morrison), Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk), Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)

Furthermore to this end, I am choosing 'Other' on yon poll.

elephamt king

You do realise that, even on a CTY board, saying that you read books by Salman Rushdie sounds pretentious. Well it seems so to me anyway...

Undergod

I read two books by him. They were weird and difficult.

It wasn't me!

Heh, Guy, any amount of pretence goes in these parts. I've got war and Peace on my to-read list, currently reading Hunchback of Notre Dame. Now, quoting and referencing Tolstoy is going to eb pretentious!

JenLorigan

Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Everyone read it, now, so good.

Spraypaint

How come nobody has mentioned Hunter S. Thompson yet?
I thought his brand of debauched drug-addled craziness would sit well around here. I quite like him as an author but at the moment I'm in the middle of Fear and Loathing On the Campaign Trail '72 and I must admit its nothing compared to Vegas. But still, HST rocks.

Undergod

While we're waxing pretentious, I ordered my new clarinet mouthpiece today (a Van Doren b40)

Piste

Undergod wrote:

I read two books by him. They were weird and difficult.

Always a winning combination.

The Hours by Michael Cunningham is a great book. It'd possib;y help to have read Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway before hand to get the references and understand where the book's coming from, but I didn't. Should have though.

Go read it.

oq4v3ht0u76kf2

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky

An amazing book. Amazing enough to make me post here for the first time in God knows how long. Read it. Now.

Crash

I'd disagree there actually - i remember a girlfriend of mine bought me the satanic verses a few years back for Christmas (i'd expressed an interest at one point) and happened to come across Midnight's Children in a friends bookcase - both are excellent books, though Satanic Verses is slightly difficult.

as for good books - read "The Time Travellers Wife" if anyone comes across it. very weird an wonderful fiction. moving too.

Undergod

Oh, I adored them both. But you surely agree Midnight's Children is a bit odd?

Piste

crash_000 wrote:

I'd disagree there actually - i remember a girlfriend of mine bought me the satanic verses a few years back for Christmas (i'd expressed an interest at one point) and happened to come across Midnight's Children in a friends bookcase - both are excellent books, though Satanic Verses is slightly difficult.

as for good books - read "The Time Travellers Wife" if anyone comes across it. very weird an wonderful fiction. moving too.

The Time Traveller's Wife is very strange but I really liked it even though the concept of time-travel hurts my brain.

Crash

And satanic verses isnt? its Rushdie - you simply gotta go with the flow.

At the moment i'm reading a book called "first they killed my father" - this woman writing an account of her childhood during the khmer rouge era in Cambodia. pretty disturbing stuff...

Jeezie Creezie

Sounds wierd and kinkeh!

Plunky

This guy's good at being weird, isn't he!?

My favourite book of all time EVER would be Until I Find You by John Irving. I'm also partial to the Banned and the Banished series by James Clemens, and the Kushiel's Legacy trilogy by Jaqueline Carey

JenLorigan

Never read Until I Find You, but A Prayer For Owen Meany, also by John Irving, is an excellent book. Lovelovelove. I think we used have more books of his, but they've disappeared somewhere in my house.

Per Liefsonson

Haven't read either of those two Irving books but I've read The World According to Garp which was excellent.

edibility

Bob wrote:

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky

An amazing book. Amazing enough to make me post here for the first time in God knows how long. Read it. Now.

Amazing enough to make me post also. Crash, borrow it from Gill, it's one of the single best books I've ever read.

Also - Alice in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass. The child in me can't stop obsessing over those books. Some of his other stuff is great too though. And CS Lewis wrote some amazing philisophical fiction aswell as Narnia - The Screwtape Letters being a particular favourite. It's a series of letters between a young demon and his uncle, detailing the young demons struggle to get the man he's been assigned to sin enough to be sent to hell. It spans the mans whole life and is absolutely fascinating in terms of human nature, and evils view of humans.

Crash

Already have Sarah - Gill forced it on me a few months back and i stayed up reading until i finished it that same night - fantastic read.

edibility

Yeah, same as with me I really want my own copy aswell.

carlowboy

"Why not me"- Al Franken..
Funniest book everrrrr!

Feral Mutant

Never read that one but I did read "Lies and the Lying Liars who tell them". Hilarious.

Raphael

Just finished Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein for the second time, great book.

Piste

The Crow Road by Ian banks is good. If only for the exploding corpses and morse code messages sent using genitals.

It wasn't me!

As is Wasp Factory. Creepy, creepy book... Dead Air is funny as hell too. Moby Dick is an amazing novel. I think everyone should read it. It's just mad. Makes me want to go stab endangered species...

im_invisible

anything by irvine welsh (filth, trainspotting, porno..) chuck palahnuik; choke, (the only one of his ive read yet), david mitchell; cloud atlas, (very good, 6 interconnected stories ...from the 19th century to a post-apocayptic future...) michael crichton; timeline, (a bit of time-travel) just read casino royale by ian flemming, reading fear and loathing in las vegas at the moment, i refuse to read lotr, or watch the films, just because...

carlowboy

Feral Mutant wrote:

Never read that one but I did read "Lies and the Lying Liars who tell them". Hilarious.

It's a lot funnier. He's supposedly running for President and he has a "diary" about it. Farking class.

Raphael

Piste wrote:

The Crow Road by Ian banks is good. If only for the exploding corpses and morse code messages sent using genitals.

As is the Algebraist, but that's Iain M. Banks. ie sci-fi.

Crash

Havent managed to get more than a few pages into the algebraist, whis is personally worrying seeing as that makes 3 Iain (M.) Banks books i havent read - espedair st., algebraist and player of games - *is a huge fan* - though i do think the later stuff isnt as good.

Raphael

Algebraist is very hard to start all right. Took me at least 3 tries ^^;

It wasn't me!

I can lend you Espedair Street if you like. Great book.

Crash

Actually - another two fantastic books that i've just finished (most stop reading 3 books concurrently - it gets...er...odd.)

First they killed my father, which i mentioned already.
Perfume, by Patrick Goksund(?)
and The Historian - interesting read.

Undergod

The Algebraist = the dog's genitals.

Great book. Great author.

edibility

I do like Iain M. Banks alright, although I prefer his Iain Banks stuff.

Raphael

Haven't read any of his stuff sans M, but then again I tend to prefer speculative fiction