My top 5 Books!!!

Originally posted by Merry Lover
1- Every Harry Potter book by J.K. Rowling
2- The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
3- Tintenherz (german) by Cornelia Funke
4- Ella Enchanted by can't be bothered checking 🙂
5- LotR by J.R.R. Tolkien

Sry, have to add more... 😄

6. Im Labyrinth der alten Könige (German again) by Nina Blazon
7. Secret Sacrament by Sherryl Jordan
8. The two princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carlson Levine(She also wrote Ella Enchanted)
9. Elsha by Sherryl Jordan
10. The Raging Quiet by (guess who... 😄) Sherryl Jordan.

1. Boy's Life by Robert McCammon (I suggest this book to anyone who has not read it, no matter what your tastes are)
2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (It's nothing but brilliant)
3. 1984 by George Orwell (THE definitive of dystopic fiction)
4. The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (War fiction/nonfiction at it's finest, with no blatant agenda behind it)
5. A Separate Peace by John Knowles (One of the best books on friendship and rivalry among teenaged boys)

Dracula
Frankensteain
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Portrait of Dorian Gray
Invisible Man
Dr. Jekyl & Mr. Hyde

and basically any other classic horror stories

Stephen King - The Dark Tower series
David Gemmell - especially the Waylande and Druss books
Terry Pratchett - Discworld series especially, but his others as well
Niel Gaiman - especially Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett) But also his Sandman series and his sister Death series (graphic novels)
Terry Goodkind - Sword of Truth series, but only the first three books, the rest sucked.

I know I cheated, but it is flippin impossible to select just five books! I managed to keep it down to just five authors, though.

But then I haven't even mentioned Gerald Durrell, AJ Quinnell, Louis L'Amour, Jack Schaeffer, James Thurber, Mark Twain...

Wow, you guys have done a lot of heavy reading. I guess I'll list my five favorite modern books and five classics

Modern
Saint Jack and Toad by Philip Carraher (great read, great book)
Christine by Stephen King (the danger of old cars)
Weaveworld by Clive Barker (great fantasy)
Midnight by Philip Carraher (the danger of strangers and dogs from hell)
Mr. Murder by Dean Koontz (one of his good ones, they vary in quality)

Classic
Crime and Punishment (a murder story with a regretful killer)
All Sherlock Holmes stories by Doyle (Isn't Sherlock the first super hero?)
Short stories by Poe (easy to forget him but his stories in grade school got me interested in reading and he invented the murder mystery)
Alice in Wonderland (the first fantasy)
Dracula (the first part of the book is great, the rest lags a bit, still a classic)

My top books would probably vary from week to week, but here goes:

1) The Bad Place - Dean R. Koontz
2) From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line, Whistle (trilogy of three books) - James Jones
3) The Loser - William Hoffman, Jr.
4) Midnight Express - Billy Hayes with William Hoffer
5) The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
6) It - Stephen King
7) Into the Mountains Dark - Franklin L. Gurley
8) A Rumor of War - Philip J. Caputo
9) The Med - David Poyer
10) The New Centurions - Joseph Wambaugh
11) The Firm - John Grisham
12) On the Beach - Nevil Shute
13) Fail-Safe - Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler
14) Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
15) Murder in Little Egypt - Darcy O'Brien

Okay, that's 15, but I could go on...

Here are a few more:

16) The Young Lions - Irwin Shaw
17) Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
18) Goodbye Darkness - William Manchester
19) Islands in the Stream - Ernest Hemingway
20) Christine - Stephen King
21) In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
22) A Jounrey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne
23) The Last Convertible - Anton Myrer
24) Grass Roots - Stuart Woods
25) Raise the Titanic! - Clive Cussler

Okay, now I can go to sleep...

1. Charlie Bone-Jenny Nimmo
2.Percy Jackson And The Olympians-Rick Riordan
3.The Alchemists Son-Martin Booth
4.Inkheart Series-Cornelia Funke
5.Series Of Unfortunate Events-Lemony Snicket(aka Daniel Handler)

Note: LIST NOT IN ORDER!

1. The Dark Elf, The Icewind Dale, & basically every other Drizzt Do'Urden/Artemis Entreri series this guy has written- R. A. Salvatore
2. Silmarillion, The Hobbit, & The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
3. A Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
4. The Iliad - Homer
5. The Aeneid - Virgil

1.The Catcher in the Rye--JD Salinger
2. Harry Potter series----Jk Rowling
3. Revenge of the Sith---Matthew Stover
4. The Great Gatsby---Francis Scott Fitzgerald
5. Les Miserables---Victor Hugo
6. Shatterpoint--Matthew Stover
7. Night--Elie Wiesel
8. Romeo and Juilet---William Shakespeare
9. Journey to the Center of the Earth-----Jules Verne
10. Lord of the Rings series----JRR Tolkien

Originally posted by Blue_Hefner
1.The Catcher in the Rye--JD Salinger
2. Harry Potter series----Jk Rowling
3. Revenge of the Sith---Matthew Stover
4. The Great Gatsby---Francis Scott Fitzgerald
5. Les Miserables---Victor Hugo
6. Shatterpoint--Matthew Stover
7. Night--Elie Wiesel
8. Romeo and Juilet---William Shakespeare
9. Journey to the Center of the Earth-----Jules Verne
10. Lord of the Rings series----JRR Tolkien

Wow

Not in any order:-

1. His Dark Materials Trilogy - Philip Pullman
2. Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
3. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
4. Wind Singer Trilogy - William Nicholsen
5. The BFG - Roald Dahl
6. Goodnight Mister Tom - Michelle Magorian
7. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
8. Lord Of The Flies - William Golding
9. Lord Of The Rings - JRR Tolkien
10. Boy - Roald Dahl

as of now

high-rise: JG Ballard
Lunar park: Bret easton Ellis
*** out teenage terror totty: steven wells
filth: irvine welsh
the drowned world: JG Ballard

Originally posted by Bardock42
Wow

Originally posted by Blue_Hefner
What, you dont like them?

Nah, it's just some of the greatest books ever written next to ...well...the others.

Seriously, if you need to read some good books, dig - get it, Bardock? - these ones:

Catcher In The Rye
A Heart-breaking Work Of Staggering Genius
You Shall Know Our Velocity
A Confederacy Of Dunces
Caught Inside
The Great Gatsby
Great Expectations
Ulysses
Ghostwritten
Cloud Atlas
Black Swan Green
Heart Of Darkness
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Papillon

I have one further recommendation: Read them with your eyes, but if you are blind get them in Braille.

Oh yeah, if you tell people that you are blind, but you just read that, then it means you're not blind, so stop kidding people.

Cool.

Originally posted by Bardock42
Nah, it's just some of the greatest books ever written next to ...well...the others.

Discern and explain please.

1.The Catcher in the Rye--JD Salinger
4. The Great Gatsby---Francis Scott Fitzgerald
5. Les Miserables---Victor Hugo
8. Romeo and Juilet---William Shakespeare
9. Journey to the Center of the Earth-----Jules Verne
10. Lord of the Rings series----JRR Tolkien

Books that are generally (by people that are not idiots) considered as amazing.

2. Harry Potter series----Jk Rowling
3. Revenge of the Sith---Matthew Stover

Books that are not.

6. Shatterpoint--Matthew Stover
7. Night--Elie Wiesel

Books that I do not know anything about.

Originally posted by Bardock42
1.The Catcher in the Rye--JD Salinger
4. The Great Gatsby---Francis Scott Fitzgerald
5. Les Miserables---Victor Hugo
8. Romeo and Juilet---William Shakespeare
9. Journey to the Center of the Earth-----Jules Verne
10. Lord of the Rings series----JRR Tolkien

Books that are generally (by people that are not idiots) considered as amazing.

2. Harry Potter series----Jk Rowling
3. Revenge of the Sith---Matthew Stover

Books that are not.

6. Shatterpoint--Matthew Stover
7. Night--Elie Wiesel

Books that I do not know anything about.

What does what other people think have to do with what I like? And please find someone who doesn't like Harry Potter because I haven't.

Originally posted by Blue_Hefner
What does what other people think have to do with what I like? And please find someone who doesn't like Harry Potter because I haven't.

Nothing. What does what you like have to do with what I said though? And I tried to read Harry Potter 1 as well as 2...I can't...they are horrible.