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27 Feb 2007, 5:42 pm

PopeJaimie wrote:

The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson.

In fact, that's my longest-lasting obsession so far. Usually it's around a week or two, a couple months TOPS. This has been going on for at least a year and a half!

F*ck, I love that f*cking book.

You listen to the KLF/Justified Ancients of Mu Mu?

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28 Feb 2007, 2:34 am

Yupa wrote:

PopeJaimie wrote:

You listen to the KLF/Justified Ancients of Mu Mu?

I have them on my iPod, but I don't really listen to them much (not cuz I don't like them, I just have a tendency to look to Infected Mushroom if I'm in the mood for electronic music. I should probably stop before I wear them out).

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01 Mar 2007, 8:08 pm

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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

You have a great collection here (I have not read all of these). I am a Tolkien fan as well. I have also read Frank Herbert's Dune, and Children of Dune though I suspect Dune Messiah should have been read in between; Cervantes' Don Quixote, Dante Alighieri's Inferno, the Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (four books of the "trilogy") I share your obsession with Doctor Who, though not as yet through the novels; at one time I read a great deal of information online bringing together information from the series, books and other sources. What book am I obsessed with? As with Quartermass it would be difficult to specify. Other than those already mentioned, I have thoroughly enjoyed reading Rosemary Sutcliffe's historical novels; a number of the works of Stephen Lawhead (the Pendragon Cycle - Taliesin, Merlin, Arthur, Pendragon and Grail - Byzantium; the Celtic Crusades - The Iron Lance, the Black Rood and the Mystic Rose; the second and third volumes (bad habit reading out of sequence) of the Song of Albion - the Silver Hand and The Endless Knot, as well as Avallon (stand alone with little direct continuity with the Pendragon Cycle). I have also enjoyed the work of Isobelle Carmody, who writes some very interesting novels, including two in her Obernewtyn Series (Obernewtyn and The Farseekers) as well as Scatterlings and a brilliant book called Darkfall. I have also enjoyed the works of Caiseal Mór - The Song of the Earth of the Wanderers Trilogy (out of sequence) all of the Watcher's Trilogy, The Tilecutter's Penny, Well of Many Blessings - and this post is too long!

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01 Mar 2007, 8:20 pm

I also enjoy Raymond E. Feist novels - I have read all of the Riftwar Saga, all of the Serpentwar Saga, the Empire Trilogy, Legacy of the Riftwar (Krondor books) three of the Legends of the Riftwar - Honoured Enemy, Murder at La Mut, and Jimmy the Hand, all of the Conclave of Shadows Trilogy and the first of the Dark Empire series following on from the latter - Flight of the Night Hawks.

I have also enjoyed the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. I have read as far as Chainfire.

Dianna Wynn Jones is a brilliant author. I have read Hexwood, and all of the Dalemark series (Spellcoats, Cart and Cwidder, etc).

Juliette Marillier is brilliant as well. I have read the Sevenwaters trilogy (Daughter of the Forest, Son of the Shadows and Child of Prophecy) both Wolfskin and Foxmask, and two of the Bridei chronicles (the Dark Mirror and Blade of Fortriu).

There are other books, but these two posts should be a useful opening for further discussion.

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01 Mar 2007, 8:26 pm

The only things that I have read of Stephen King's are Insomnia (not to be confused with totally unrelated namesake film) and a short story in a fantasy anthology about the protagonist of the Dark Tower series, Roland. I have only seen the Green Mile, Shoreshank [sic] Redemption, Hearts in Atlantis and part of Apt Pupil.

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01 Mar 2007, 8:29 pm

And I have not even included C. S. Lewis the master. I have read all seven of the Chronicles of Narnia, the Cosmic Trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength) and extracts from The Screwtape Letters. Other writings of his I have seen quoted in Paul F. Ford's Companion to Narnia and a biography of C. S. Lewis.

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01 Mar 2007, 11:03 pm

Sirens of Titan (Vonnegut). I've read it a zillion times since the late 60's - I think it's a sort of 'companion book' to my life.

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01 Mar 2007, 11:25 pm

Thinking of "The Sirens of Titan" reminded me to mention "The Man in the High Castle".

Then I remembered John T. Sladek's "The Muller-Fokker Effect". That and its sequel(?). The son of the owner of the talking doll factory, with his hand trapped in the jar (of what? some sort of sweet) by the grip exerciser (because he'd forgotten he was using it, and wanted a sweet), under the boardroom table. An image I can't forget.

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02 Mar 2007, 4:01 am

Well back in the Mid 90's

I was hooked to

R.L steins goosebumps series

(could not get enough)

Now days I seldom pick up a book

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03 Mar 2007, 7:35 am

peebo wrote:

for the past year or so i've been obsessed with flann o'brien's at swim-two-birds. i've read it four or
five times in the past year. i have yet to meet a single other person who's even read it. also, several
books by j.g. ballard, specifically the unlimited dream company and the atrocity exhibition, both of
which i would strongly recommend.

I'm obsessed with "The 3rd Policeman" by Flann O'Brien. Although I haven't read "At Swim.." yet, I hope to do so very soon. The 3rd Policeman is the funniest, weirdest most disturbing book I've ever read. Flann O'Brien writes brilliantly, his words are like music.

I also like J.G.Ballard, I have Atrocity Exhibition but haven't read it for many years. Low Flying Aircraft and Drowned World are good.

I'm also obsessed with "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" and "Lila" by Pirsig, also pretty much anything by Thomas Pynchon. I have "Against The Day" (over 1000 pages) sitting on the shelf waiting to be read when I'm ready for it.

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16 Dec 2012, 2:01 pm

Harry Potter, until it became a crap. Which means I read only the first five books. I have read the last two, but the sixth was much worse than the previous ones and the seventh was an utter BS. And the ending!! ! You know, that one after 30 years or so. It was bloody atrocious.

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16 Dec 2012, 3:59 pm

Current addiction: Infinite Jest. It owns me. Why do people talk about the author instead of the book? It's the 1000-page-book, y'know? But as a bookaholic I'll read 1,000 pages sooner or later so I got it for $9.99 on Kindle. It's $37.50 in the stores. This book owns me. I've finished it once, but that's just the beginning. Some of it is so beautiful I can't turn the page - just stay there and get blissed out. Betcha can't read just ten pages.

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05 Jan 2013, 4:17 pm

The Time Traveler, by H.G. Wells. I have read it over 500 times.

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05 Jan 2013, 4:37 pm

Stoker's Dracula, and the five original Sherlock Holmes books by Doyle. I own multiple annotated editions of them, as well as plenty of books collecting miscellaneous writings about them (essays, biographical information, etc), and books about the film adaptations made from them. I own about half a dozen books alone devoted to Dracula films, and the same number of books about Holmes films.

Also, several novels by Philip K. Dick and Patricia Highsmith, my two favorite authors, I've read numerous times; specifically, Dick's Ubik, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and A Scanner Darkly, and Highsmith's five-book Tom Ripley series. As with Stoker and Doyle, I also obsessively collect books about these authors, including biographies, essay books, and books about the films made from their work.

There are plenty of other books I really love, but these are at the top of the obsession pile by far.

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05 Jan 2013, 5:15 pm

Pierre Franckh: Power of resonance.

It´s about how you can draw the things you want in your life - just with the elp of your "magnetic personal resonance" & positive thinking et cetera.

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07 Jan 2013, 6:27 am

Linda Goodman's Sun Signs. My copy is looking a bit worn, I've read it that many times. I re-read a lot of stuff, which my mum thinks is weird, but I don't see the point of having books lying around my house if I can't pick them up again and again. I don't care if I know what happens. Plus I always notice things I didn't notice the last time I read the book.

And when I was a teen I was OBSESSED with Franny & Zooey. My copy's got pages falling out!

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