BEST MOTHA EFFIN BOOKS EVER!

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I recommend you read Lair of the White Wyrm by the man who gave us 'Dracula' .

Last edited by D1nk0 on 24 May 2008, 1:21 pm, edited 1 time in total.

You, miss, have excellent taste.



Hahah, I'll look it up. I was hoping you'd meant from the guy who wrote a parody of "Dracula" called "Dracular" though. XD

In not particular order:

Fiction:
The Foundation Series by Issac Asimov
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Uplift Series by David Brin
2001: a Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
The Dune Series by Frank Herbert
The Red/Green/Blue Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
Contact by Carl Sagan



Non-Fiction
The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality by Andre Comte-Sponville
The Open Society and it's Enemies by Karl Popper
The Forth Turning: What Cycles of History tell us about America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny by William Strauss
What Evolution Is by Ernst Mayr
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the Word Order by Samuel P. Huntington
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David S. Landes
Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life by Daniel C. Dennett
Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins

My list, lets see...
1. The Stranger - Camus
2. The Castle - Kafka
3. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
4. The Iliad - Homer

Four books everyone should read.

a child called it -david pelzer
all the books from him are good.

I like the Book of Lists, too. I also liked the older versions of the Guinness Book of World Records edited by Ross and Norris McWhirter, who now are both dead. (Ross was killed by terrorists in 1975; Norris died of a heart attack in 2004.) Ross and Norris McWhirter were friends of Roger Bannister.

I like books of trivia and lists. I find them fascinating.

I like books about cats, real and fictional. I love the Lillian Jackson Braun Cat Who... books.
I also love Cleveland Amory's cat books and his "Ranch of Dreams."

Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder
The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton
Awareness - Anthony De'Mello
The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer-Bradley
1984 - George Orwell
Fahrenheit 457 - Ray Bradbury
Brave new World - Aldous Huxley

(so far)

If I could go beyond the confines of just 5 books....

I would choose:

*The Discworld series

*Lungbarrow, by Marc Platt (a Doctor Who New Adventures novel)

*Alien Bodies and Interference, by Lawrence Miles (Three Doctor Who novels, with Interference being a two-part book)

*The first three Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy novels by Douglas Adams

*A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess

*Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

*Popcorn by Ben Elton

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

*The Hannibal Lecter tetraology by Thomas Harris

*The Running Man, the Dark Tower series, and The Green Mile by Stephen King

*At the Mountains of Madness by HP Lovecraft

*The Ship Who Sang and The Ship Who Searched, by Anne McCafferey (the latter also by Mercedes Lackey)

*Death Note: Another Note, The Los Angeles BB Murders, by Nisioisin

*The Godfather by Mario Puzo

*The first few Harry Potter books, by JK Rowling

*Crossover by Joel Shepherd

*Ring and Spiral by Koji Suzuki

*Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien

we were playing by the honour system... that seems to be going out the window

Everyone else was posting their favourite books, regardless of number....