What Book are You Obsessed with???

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Interesting.. I'll have to google that someday!

The Beatles Anthology book.

Asking me which book I am obseesed with is virtually futile, as I love reading all sorts of books. However, the one that I am reading more than usual now is Dune by Frank Herbert. I have read and read over and over again... (with the bare minimum of novels adapted from movies or TV series)

Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Dr No and You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming.

The first three Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy books by Douglas Adams.

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (I saw part of the movie, and I think Kubrick really ramped up some of the sex and violence. The milkbar in the novel didn't have naked-lady-decor, for one...)

The Godfather, by Mario Puzo

Inferno, by Dante Aligheri

Don Quixote, by Cervantes.

Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, by Eric "George Orwell" Blair

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Red Dragon and Hannibal by Thomas Harris

Stark, This Other Eden, Popcorn and Dead Famous by Ben Elton.

The Dark Tower series, The Green Mile, The Shining, The Stand and The Bachman Books (particularly Rage and The Running Man) by Stephen King

Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B Jenkins (if you can cope with the Christianity crap and proselytising, it's actually quite good)

The Colour of Magic, Reaper Man and Soul Music by Terry Pratchett (I also love the "Science of Discworld" books, but they're classified as nonfiction, even though they have a Discworld story running alongside the science)

Ring and Spiral, by Koji Suzuki

The Lord of the Rings, by JRR Tolkien

and finally, some Doctor Who novels. These aren't actually based on any serial, but use the Doctor and his companions in original novels. My favourites include:

Goth Opera, by Paul Cornell

All-Consuming Fire, by Andy Lane (cmon, it's the Doctor meets Sherlock Holmes. I'm not kidding!)

Alien Bodies by Lawrence Miles (Excellent one, which has the Eighth Doctor being confronted with a possible future not just for himself, but for the Time Lords)

Lungbarrow by Marc Platt (Reveals info about not just the Doctor's past, but his family. It is available as an e-book on the BBC website at this address: http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/ ... ndex.shtml)

The Romance of Crime, by Gareth Roberts

and

Divided Loyalties, by Gary Russell

catch-22

I am somehow related to the Wilkes family. His father, Junius was pretty fascinating as well.

I rarely read fiction, but I find Catch-22 to be a fascinating read as well. I've read it 3-4 times now, and will probably read it again within the next couple of years. I find new things every time I read it.

I have read these old books my the Medved brothers (ie: the film critic Michael Medved) about bad movies written in the 1970s I don't know how many times (a lot). Although I haven't read them in a little while...There are some others that I don't remember...I don't read books multiple times as much as I used to.

Right now the Dragonriders Of Pern! I'm doing everything in my power to get all the books and sheesh its not very easy.

Right now I have to wait to get my pay check from my kitchen work thing at school before I can hunt down any more and my teacher is helping me find them too.

Les Miserables...which I've forced a couple people to start reading over the past couple of years...and I've been trying to do the same as of late with "World War Z" which is an oral history that covers a zombie pandemic. It might sound shallow to many people...the words "zombie" and "B-movie" kind of go hand in hand...but the author clearly put a lot of thought into the story and he manages to look at the world through so many different viewpoints. No two stories in the book are the same...one minute you could be reading about a downed USAF pilot, the next a military K-9 unit, followed by an ordinary urban family and finish off your lunch break following the exploits of a neighborhood watch.

This was by the same guy who wrote the zombie survival guide by the way.

Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams

Seconded. I read the first book for English in grade 12 and got absolutely hooked on the entire series.

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind by Chuck Barris
All the Jason Bourne books by Robert Ludlum
A Scanner Darkly & Minority Report by Phillip K. D**k
Deception Point by Dan Brown
I, Robot by Issac Asimov

"Dune" by Frank Herbert.
Arrakis the desert planet is the Middle East of the future.
Spice is Petroleum, precious water is Food, C.H.O.A.M. is OPEC,
and the Guild is organized labor, The Imperium and The Great Houses
are the super powers. Economic extortion can cut both ways.
Heed the advice of your Mentat: "Don't Sit With Your Back To the Door."

i loved the movie. i wonder if that books at barnes and noble...

i can't seem to find the time to become obsessed with a book. i do read books though just not enough to become obsessed with one.

Love those books as well as all of the books related to the Dark Tower series...namely Black House and The Talisman.

I have way too many books (certainly not enough bookshelves) and I tend to reread the majority of them. At the moment I'm working my way through China Miéville's book again, as I'm bored of all the recycled tolkien/rowling clones that clutter up too much of the fantasy market at the moment.

Perdido Street Station, The Scar and Iron Council are all well worth tracking down.

Alfred Bester is also a good read - easily as good as Philip K. Dick and arguably better - Tiger, Tiger! and The Demolished Man are both fantastic.

I plan on reading "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess again,
and I might take another crack at "Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon
(Strange & Deep stuff here kids).