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[Darksage]

What is (are) your favorite piece(s) of literature?

Mine:
The Lord of the Rings :D
Eragon
The Inferno
and. . .
:ninja::ninja:Twilight:ninja::ninja:

[Blackjack87]

I like this one

Xanth series by Piers Anthony- if you like fantasy, here's the limit. Earth is Mundania here, a land of no magic. Cenataurs, Griffons, Dragons, and all those good things, and maybe a couple half breeds tossed in as well. Xanth also deals in puns. Everything in Xanth is literal: Night mares exist as well as Day mares, Soda pop comes in lakes insteasd of bottles and doesn't like being confined and shaken. You get my drift. It's funny.

Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey- Dragons rule in this world of men.

I'll list more, but I don't think I need to.

[myami]

The Count of Montecristo, Alexandre Dumas ;
Sense & Sensibility, Jane Austen ;
The Cirque du Freak series, Darren Shan ;
The Harry Potter series, JK Rowling ;

etc etc ...

[tropicana]

i enjoyed the great gatsby and of mice and men...da vinci code was great cant wait for the movie to come out

[l33tpocky]

Uh for me id say

Any thing by Dan Brown-Da Vinci Code,Angels and Demons
and the dragon lance series,lost years of merlin series-T.A Baron
The Historian-Elizibeth Kostova excellent thriller adventer centered around vampire lore.

[Sarana]

The Count of Montecristo, Alexandre Dumas ;
Sense & Sensibility, Jane Austen ;
The Cirque du Freak series, Darren Shan ;
The Harry Potter series, JK Rowling ;

etc etc ...

@myami: You become more and more scary to me, we like the same things again and that in the same order O.o
Which movie do you like more of "the count of montecristo", the version from 1974 with Richard Chamberlain or the version with Gerald Derpardieu?

[Alister]

Otherland - Tad Williams.. Best books I've ever read.

War of the Flowers - Tad Williams. Currently reading, very good.

Definitely Otherland was my favourite.

[SoC Kemaro]

What Happened to Lani Garver - Carol Plum-ucci
The Catcher in the Rye
Aimee - (don't remember author)
Light Before Day - (forgot author as well) I liked this book because of the sarcasm used, and it was a different kind of detective story that I hadn't read before.

[DesTiNy]

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (Awsome)
A Separate Peace - John Knowles i think :p
Lord Of The Rings

those are my favorites :D

[bakafish007]

hmmm...i'm pretty 19th century. anything by A.C. Doyle, Poe, Tolkein, Lovecraft. modern stuff is more Margret Weis and Tracy Hickman, but i love memoirs of a geisha

[SoC Kemaro]

Margret Weis sounds famliar. What did she write?

[enolex]

the silver wing trio
yes harry potter
thats pretty much it everything else is manga lol

[l33tpocky]

Margret Weis sounds famliar. What did she write?

As far as i know she did dragonlance
chronicles
war of souls
the twins saga
dragons of summer flame

all in the dragon lance world.

[Blackjack87]

... memoirs of a geisha

just watched the dvd last night. I loved it.
House of Flying Daggers, Loved that too. If you haven't seen it, you need to.

As for books:
Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment- it's about these kids: Max(a girl), Fang, Iggy, Gazzy (The Gasman), Nudge, and Angel who are 95% human and 5% bird. They have to flee their mountain home when they are attacked by Erasers, their human-wolf counterparts and one of their own is captured for experimentation. Max, Fang and Nudge set out to find and rescue her while the other two are left behind at an abondoned cabin until they return. Max helps a girl and gets shot at. When her injuries are healing, she finds she has a microchip implanted in her arm. What's with that? Well, I won't ruin the rest for you. Join Max and the flock as they go to New York to rescue the smallest of them and Max's reaction when she finds out she has to save the world.

[pmaster4]

To Kill a Mockingbird we had to read it so many times for exams that it kind of stuck with me good book good principals

[bakafish007]

Margret Weis sounds famliar. What did she write?


she wrote the dragon lance chronicles, the darksword trilogy, and the death gate cycle with tracy hickman. she also is the author of the star of the guardians books

[conan_xp]

she wrote the dragon lance chronicles, the darksword trilogy, and the death gate cycle with tracy hickman. she also is the author of the star of the guardians books

oh so that is who she is..dont remember till seeing some of her other work..lol

[bakafish007]

i personally think death gate and star of the guardians were her best works

[Yusayoh]

Anything by Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl etc)
Area 51 series by Robert Doherty
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (one of the best books)
Fight Club

[SoC Kemaro]

Anything by Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl etc)
Area 51 series by Robert Doherty
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (one of the best books)
Fight Club


Mm.. didn't care much for A Clockwork Orange. I think my opinion is slightly affected by the movie. >_< I don't care for that movie.

Eoin Colfer is pretty cool, but I haven't read much work by dat author.

[myami]

@myami: You become more and more scary to me, we like the same things again and that in the same order O.o
Which movie do you like more of "the count of montecristo", the version from 1974 with Richard Chamberlain or the version with Gerald Derpardieu?

haha, well they are pretty good books ^^
I haven't seen the Richard Chamberlain version (only snippets of it when it was shown in V for Vendetta I would imagine), but the one with Gerald Derpardieu (this is the modern one, right?) wasn't bad at all ;) Mercedes was what I imagined she would be hehe

[myami]

Anything by Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl etc)
Area 51 series by Robert Doherty
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (one of the best books)
Fight Club

ah i'm a big fan of eoin colfer! his sort of fantasy is a refreshing change from the usual magic, vampire, .. well, and other various other predictable plotlines pretty much. artemis fowl is such an adorable little genius anyway, and don't you just wish you were like him when you were 12? i also liked The Wish List, The Supernaturalist, and I'm looking forward to reading his book that just came out (The Halfmoon Investigations).

also, anything by Chuck Palahniuk deserves some merit... I've heard a lot of his goriness (if that's a word), and his books sell realllyyyy well (I know this because I work at a bookstore). Fight Club the movie wasn't that bad either. But then again, Brad Pitt was there so I might be just a bit partial.

[Yusayoh]

Maus (Graphic Novel)
It's a good book about the holocaust and nazis and funny at parts. It was hard to put it down.

[KaitenV]

I like the Bearnstein Bear's Bad Day.

[azimat]

I love the Dune original series

[hangemhigh]

I love a lot of books. I mean a lot.

[pk.master]

In terms of Heroic Fantasy, My favorite is the Belgariade and the Malloree ( I dunno if these are the english titles since I read them in French ) of David Eddings.

What I enjoyed most was the humour of the author, who made really charismatics characters and a really captivating plot.

I also enjoyed The Wheel of Time of Robert Jordan which I can't wait for the parution in France and I go buy in England :D.

[battlerenji]

Only of course battle royale

[pk.master]

Battle Royale ... is this the manga or is there a book alongside with the film ?

[paisita]

mmmmmmmmm let see
da vinci code, angels and demons, digital fortress ad deceptions point by Dan Brown.
el zaihr, eleven minutes, the alchemist and by the river piedra i sat dow and wept by Paulo Coelho.
Memoirs of a geisha by Arthur Golden.
La conspiracion de los alquimistas by Hania Czajkowski.

[myami]

i update my list, adding five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom; hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by douglas adams; eleven minutes & the alchemist by paulo coelho.

something about easy reads that makes the read so worthwhile ;)

[murasaki]

I like Genji monogatari, shanghai baby, Pride & prejudice, Dona Flor e seus dois maridos,lady chatterly's lover

[conan_xp]

harry potter series and just about any adventure novels.

[SapphireStar]

Riddles of Epsilon
Inkheart
Eragon (Not too much on Eragon because he jacked ideas off of his favorite books, and 2 of them were my favorites too)

[haruka_t]

In terms of Heroic Fantasy, My favorite is the Belgariade and the Malloree ( I dunno if these are the english titles since I read them in French ) of David Eddings.

What I enjoyed most was the humour of the author, who made really charismatics characters and a really captivating plot.

I also enjoyed The Wheel of Time of Robert Jordan which I can't wait for the parution in France and I go buy in England :D.

Hi, I like books by David Ebdings too :smile:
I´m reading now the second Book Of the Ellenium named The Ruby Knight and I really enjoy it.
This is the second book by Eddings I have read.

But I love the most books by Andrzej Sapkowski, The Witcher...itś a collection of tales
It´s very funny and exciting too...but I don´t think, that somebody know Sapkowski, because he´s from Poland a not very known, I think....

[Awesomo]

Let's see here,
Alphabet of Manliness, by Maddox ranks up there with the best in my opinion, i.e.
The Sea of Trolls and I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

I also liked the Lord of the Rings book, getting me the entire, three-books-in-one, it's a nice thousand pages of reading to get me through the day.

The Odyssey was pretty good, a nice follow up to The Iliad.

and who can forget, my favorite piece of literature ever (rivaling The Sea of Trolls) is The Bible. I believe it to be the first, non-baby oriented book I ever read.


Oh, I forgot one other series: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. I saved me the trouble or getting multiple books as well and got all the books in one, this special all included book features an extra short story about Zaphod.

[digi ace 229]

Eragon, eldest, Another fine Myth, the rest of the Myth series, the Harry potter series, etc, etc.

[myami]

Aw man, my old post got eaten by the outage. Anyway, I was just saying how it was a shame I forgot to put Jane Austen in my list. Mr. Darcy all the way :)

[supersoju]

Ender's Game and its companion novels- Orson Scott Card
1984 - George Orwell
And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie

[namipandora]

My list :

The Witching Hour & Lasher by Anne Rice,
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murukami
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murukami

Always like to read anything that is dark and sinister and depressing.

[ieatgluexxx]

Pride and Prejudice
Persuasion
Manfield Park (theres is a theme here)
The Hobbit
Harry Potter and the goblet of Fire
The Catcher in the Rye
She's Come Undone
Twilight
New Moon

[L]

Eragon
The Silmarillion

[ieatgluexxx]

Eragon
The Silmarillion

lol. those are all good books. Fantasy lit. rox

[L]

Yup. LOTR trilogy is fairly awesome.

[Darksage]

LOITERING with a vacant eye
Along the Grecian gallery,
And brooding on my heavy ill,
I met a statue standing still.
Still in marble stone stood he,
And stedfastly he looked at me.
‘Well met,’ I thought the look would say,
‘We both were fashioned far away;
We neither knew, when we were young,
These Londoners we live among.’

Still he stood and eyed me hard,
An earnest and a grave regard:
‘What, lad, drooping with your lot?
I too would be where I am not.
I too survey that endless line
Of men whose thoughts are not as mine.
Years, ere you stood up from rest,
On my neck the collar prest;
Years, when you lay down your ill,
I shall stand and bear it still.
Courage, lad, ’tis not for long:
Stand, quit you like stone, be strong.’
So I thought his look would say;
And light on me my trouble lay,
And I stept out in flesh and bone
Manful like the man of stone.

- A. E. Housman

[L]

That... Sounded... Awesome...

[Rock Solid]

could comics be literature?....perhaps Garfield, some marvel comics and such. maybe my most favorite book I ever read is either Childhood's End...something like that, and Rendezvous with Rama. I like stuff to do with space and aliens and stuff. scifi.

[L]

The Calvin and Hobbes series was nice.

[Exodi]

1. The Prince of Ayodhya (the 1st of a trilogy I still have not finished)
2. Wind of Honor
3. The last book title I can't remember, but I know it was heavily based on Norse mythology, and the main character's name was "Colbey".
4. The Chocolate War
5. Beyond the Chocolate War
6. After the First Death

The first three are all fantasy books I just happened to find in my local public library one day. The last three are all books by Robert Cormier.

[Darksage]

That... Sounded... Awesome...
Yeah thats one of my favorite pieces of poetry.

[Rock Solid]

X-COM, Ufo defense

[Ereos]

Lord of the Rings - Trilogy
along with the Lost tales and The Simarilion [i know i spelt it wrong]

[myami]

i have to add this to my list:
out by natsuo kirino - perfect for gore-lovers ;)

[Darksage]

The Crossing
Othello

[Haibara]

I love fantasy books, they are my favorites. My favorite author is Mercedes Lackey. Some of my favorites are......

"Brightly Burning" by Mercedes Lackey
"Green Rider" by Kristen Britain
"Mother Ocean, Daughter Sea" by Diana Marcellas
The Seven Circles Trilogy by Douglas Niles
"The Heart of Myrial" and its sequel "Spirit of the Stone" by Maggie Furey (I'm still waiting for the third book)
"Daughters of Bast: Shrine of Light" by Sarah Isidore
"The Call of the Wild" by Jack London

[byakugan]

alice in wonderland: lewis caroll

[Zephyram]

The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind
The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan
LoTR trilogy J.R.R. Tolkien
The entire body of Shannara <sp> books by Terry Brooks
The list goes ever on and on...

[Ichigo_Abari]

*gaspos* a chance to show i read things other then manga HORAY!!! *opens my boxes upon boxes of books and pics out some of my favs*

Spell Fire ~ Ed GreenWoods (Amazing simply amazing *applauds* in my top five)

Hand of Fire ~ Ed GreenWoods (amazing simply amazing *applauds* in my top five)

Crown of Fire ~ Ed GreenWoods (amazing simlpy amazing *applauds* in my top five)

Cast aways of the flying Dutchman ~ Brian Jacques

Calvin and Hobbs ~ Bill Waterson

Giants, Monsters & Dragons (An Encyclopedia of Folklore, legend, and myth) ~ Carol rose

Listening Woman ~ Tony Hillerman

A Thief of Time ~ Tony Hillerman

One Dark Night (collection of 13 masterpieces of macabre) collected by Kathleen Blease

Hip Hop Dictionary ~ Alonzo Westbrook

Gravitation ~ Maki Murakami (i consider it a book leave me alone)

100 Gastly little stories ~ (collected by) Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert H. Weinberg & Martin H. Greenburg

Silver Wing ~ Kennith Oppel

The Tarantula in my Purse (172 pet stories) ~ Jean Craighead George

Worst Case Senario "Work" ~ Joshua Piven & David Borgenicht

Dress your family in corduroy and denim ~ David Sedaris

Ecstasy Club ~ Douglas Rushkoff

Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs ~ Scott Cunningham

The Seventh tower Series ~Garth Nix (amazing simply amazing *applauds* in my top ten)

(Foundation Novels) ~ Isaac Asimov

The Wizards dilemma ~ Diane Duane

Mossflower ~ Brian Jacques

The RagWitch ~ Garth Nix

Red Wall ~ Brian Jaqcues

(Shannara Series) ~ Terry Brooks

A Game of Thrones ~ George R. R. Martin

The Poinson Tree ~ Terry strong

Otherland ~ Tad Williams

Enders Shadow ~ Orson Scott Card

The Locker ~ Richie Tankersly Cusick

Heartlight ~ T. A. Barron

The Lost Years of merlin ~ T. A. Barron

Fire Bringer ~ David Clement - Davies

Enchanted Forest Chronicles ~ Patricia C. Wrede (omg these are so funny)

Dragonlance Chronicles ~ Margaret Wies, Tracy Hickman

Catch 22 ~ Joseph Heller

Wizards First Rule ~ Terry Godkind

The Black Arts ~ Richard Cavendish

Sabriel, Abhorsen, [theirs a third book i cant find it T-T] ~ Garth Nix (amazing simply amazing *applauds* in my top 4 favorit)


So you want to be a wizard ~ Diane Duane (very good)

Deep Wizardry ~ Diane Duan (scared me if i remember correctly what its about prolly cus it had sharks and my mom read it to me in the dark)

Charlie Bone series ~ Jenny Nimmo

Politically Correct Bedtime stories ~ James Finn Garner

Sidways stories from Wayside school ~ Louis Sachar

Holes ~ Louis Sachar

Tricksters choice ~ Tamora Pierce (just finished reading it its good)

Ship of magic ~ Robin Hobb

You can trust the communists ~ Dr.Fred Schwarz (rofl...just rofl)

The chronicles of Chrestomanci ~ Diana Wynne Jones (amazing simply amazing *applauds* series is in my top ten favorit just simply amazing)

Dark lord of derkholm, Year of the griffin ~ Diana wynne jones (TOTALY 1337)

The Belgariad Series ~ David Eddings (awsome)

Dragon Flight ~ Anne McCaffrey

Martyn Pig ~ Kevin Brooks

Hatchet ~ Gary paulsen (amazing simply amazing *applauds* in my top ten)

The seven songs of merlin ~ T. A. Barron (Autographed bish hells YEAH!!)

The Fires of Merlin ~ T. A. Barron

The Mirror of merlin ~ T. A. Barron (autogrpahed bish hells YEAH!!)

theirs more but this was only the first box i havent gots a bookshelf so i didnt unpack my books...untill now....now im swimming in books *swims* just keep swimming just keep swimming

[Ichigo_Abari]

lol thats nothing compaired to what iv read lol i have so many books *hugs them* i ruv books ^.^

[Ereos]

so your a bookworm????

[Ichigo_Abari]

hells yeah boE

BOOKWORMS FTW!

[Ereos]

*cough cough* nerd geek *cough cough*
i bet you kill for a job as a librarian

[Ichigo_Abari]

lol i would rather die then work in a library im not a geek either i just like to sit down every now and then and enjoy a good book ^.^

[Ichigo_Abari]

and depending on who you are

[Ereos]

im not the type who like to read books if i do i lose interest pretty good despite how much i like the book
and start yawning
so im more of an active person

[Ichigo_Abari]

currently im reading cook books cus i want to keep my self alive with good food since im on my own now. *refuses to gain the freshmen 15*

[Ereos]

yeh i need to get some books on cookin need to learn how to cook for when i actually move out dont wanna be livin on junk

[byakugan]

reading is fundamental :)...you should spend more time reading and less on OW. if you can't generate a book list like that....then something is wrong

[byakugan]

ha...lol...it does. glad to hear it

[Ereos]

I'm pretty sure that reading includes reading posts too. xD

which you're not talented at doing

[Ichigo_Abari]

pwnt

i just finished a book calld "black foot" its amazing it was about the time when the white man came and destroyd the native amarican coulture and their people. but it was amazing because it was from the native amarican point of view. the scene that got to me whas when an elder of the tribe had lost both his hands to a hunt that went bad. he had finaly gotten to the point were other people had to take care of him so he left the tribe (this was in winter so it was snowing) he wnet to this hut that was never taken down. (the tribe migrate every summer to a new place where they erect a pole and perform the ceremony called "the sundance" wether or not they have a good year is based on if the pole falls or not when they set it into the ground. Any way at the same time the old man was traveling to the hut their was a raid on a house where rouge indians who basicly hate the white man no matter what raided a hous sadomized the mother whom was their and thankfully never noticed the little girl hiding under the table where her mother put her to keep her safe. the indians set fire to the farm and killed all their animels then forced the mother to make them a feast with all the meat they brought her the rest they took or left their to rot. after she fed them they sodomized her and then fled. after this a group of men came having noticed the smoke (the farm was a ways away from a town) and amung them was the husband. he took his son and whent out to the halfway point becuase it was the closest refuge from the snow storm that was coming. in the end of the scene the son is freezing and want to go home ut he father still full of rage and it literaly said at this point "it didnt matter who he shot as long as it was one of them" he then noticed the hut and forced his son to come in with him. the old man was warming hilself over a fire hed made (probably took him forever too since he has no hands) and thus his back was to the door. he was holding his arms over the fire and then the father shot the man in his head. the son threw up then on the floor realizing his father had just shot a indian with no hands and thus wasnt capable of any act that had taken place at the farm.

[Ichigo_Abari]

its a really good book you should read it *currently reading tomyknockers by steven king*

[byakugan]

check out the stand if you like stephen king it is my favorite of his.

[Oblivious]

Geh, this is just a recognization, but has anyone ever read the books Eragon/Eldest?

[Ereos]

nah but it apparently a good book alot of friends have read it....but cos im a lazy sod who hates reading i dont go near it

[Oblivious]

You should read once in awhile. The logo at my school is 'If you read more, you be more'.

[Ichigo_Abari]

i just finished a story "The judges house" by bram strocker
...dude...i will never look at mice the same way again

[Oblivious]

What happens in the story?

[Unwell]

You should read once in awhile. The logo at my school is 'If you read more, you be more'.

Thats freaking retarded, as apparently is your school.
Its not even a decent sentence, let alone school MOTTO.
Practice what you attempt to preach, please.

[byakugan]

LOL she is right...
i just finished a book called "a dirty job" about the occupation of the grim reaper...kinda told with a buddism slant. it was good and really funny.

[Unwell]

oops. so busy reprimanding oblivious that I forgot to post my favorites.

Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen
Laurell K Hamilton's works
Twilight and New Moon: Stephenie Meyer
Tamora Pierce's works

I could read them over and over and over and etc..

[Ereos]

i remember reading pride and prejudice didnt like it but somehow i didnt mind the movie

man anyone ever read the BLIZZARD GAME BOOKS??
like novels on Warcraft/Starcraft....etc

[Unwell]

I'm somehow not surprised that you didnt enjoy pride and prejudice the book but didnt mind the movie.
It fits with my picture of oreo rather well, I think.

[Oblivious]

Thats freaking retarded, as apparently is your school.
Its not even a decent sentence, let alone school MOTTO.
Practice what you attempt to preach, please.

I wasn't trying to have anyone learn it. o_o Just stating it.