yes another fav. list

Normaly I hate it when these type of questions appear as they cause me hours of mental anguish as I try to sort out my fav. 'whatevers' only to spend the next weeks reading the posts thinking 'oh my god how could I have forgotten that song/album etc'.
So now its time to find out if we bluelighters are a literate bunch?
What are your fav. books?
Im going to list 10 to hopefully save myself from the mental anguish I mentioned before.
1.Skinny Legs and all-Tom Robbins
2.Wonderland Avenue-Danny Sugerman
3.Jitterbug perfume-Tom Robbins
4.Foncaults Pendulumn-Umberto Eco
5.Perfume-Patrick Suskin
6.Even cowgirls get the blues-Tom
Robbins
7.Another Roadside attraction-Tom
Robbins
8.The Stand-Stephen King
9.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas-
Hunter s. Thompson
10.The Great and secret show-Clive
Barker
Wow that was hard! and that was just fiction.
I was very tempted just to list all of Tom Robbins books, the man is a genius, if you've never read one of his books I suggest you do it straight away, his views and philosphies on 'life the universe and everything' are astounding.
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Whoa man
I aint never read that many bookes
unless I can include Grug and Mr Men?
I like 'Grug and the Big Apple' best of the Grugs
I think 'Mr Strong' is my fave Mr Men book

The Herald Sun & The Dr.Seuss series for me!
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The dictionary. I've seriously read it.

1. the collected short stories of Roald Dahl
2. 1984 GEORGE ORWELL
3. catcher in the rhye J D SALINGER
4. ham on rye CHARLES BUKOWSKI
5. women CHARLES BUKOWSKI
6. the hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy DOUGLAS ADAMS
7. perfume PATRICK SUSKIND
8. brave new world HUXLEY
9. lord of the rings J R TOLKIEN
10.symposium PLATO
11. complete chronicles of Narnia C S LEWIS
12. gridlock BEN ELTON
13. fear & loathing in las vegas H S THOMPSON
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I cant remember all, but bear with me.
1- Pappillion - Henri Chariere.
2- The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S Lewis
(my first dog was called Aslan)
3- Complete works of Shakespeare
4- One flew over the cukoos nest - ?
5- Midnight Express
6- Battlefield Earth - L. Ron Hubbard
7- Catch 22
8- Catcher in the rye
9- Robinson Crusoe
10-The wind in the willows
This is way to hard, I haven't even thought about it.

Windowlicker, you got catcher in the rye on your bookshelf? I'll have to borrow it. Been meaning to read that one for ages. Oh, & 1984 is by George Orwell man
I can't be fucked ordering my faves, so here they are as I think of them.
Magician - Raymond E. Feist
Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
Brave New World - Huxley
Red/Green/Blue Mars trilogy - Kim Stanley Robinson
This Other Eden (I think that's what it's called)- Ben Elton
Stark - Ben Elton
I know I'm missing one or two, but that'll do for now.

1>>>This Side of Paradise - F.Scott Fitzgerald
2>>>For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest M. Hemingway
3>>>Mila 18 - Leon Uris
4>>>Demian - Hermann Hesse
5>>>The Garden of Eden - Ernest M. Hemingway
6>>>Love In The Time of Cholera - Gabriel G. Marquez
7>>>Flappers and Philosophers - F.Scott Fitzgerald
8>>>Call of The Wild - Jack London
9>>>All Quiet on the Western Front - E. Maria Remarque
10>>>Collected Poems - Rupert Brooke
+ All of Hemingway, Hesse, Fitzgerald...these guys ROCK!!!
princehamlet

Here are my favourites for you (in no particular order of course, I'm far too noncommittal for that).
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
The Seventh Scroll - Wilbur Smith
IT - Stephen King
Superstrings - F. David Peat
Dragonlance Adventures - Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
PiHKAL - Alexander Shulgin (naturally )
HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
First Blood - David Morrell
Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela
least favourite ... my PhD thesis - but that's only because I have to write it by the end of the year *sigh*
BigTrancer

Firstly, to everyone that mentioned Brave New World... you guys rock. Hard. No seriously you do. Love you guys. I owe you all candy.
This will be hard, I will include series's of books in here too
1. Magician series (incl daughter of the empire etc) - Feist
2. Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
3. Where the Red Fern Grows (dunno who wrote)
4. Everything to do with Dahl ever (his autobiographies are seriously kick arse)
5. The Wheel of Time series - Robert Jordan
6. Anything Piers Anthony has touched
7. The Deeds of Pakseranon - Elizabeth Moon
8. Dragonlance cronicals/legends - Wies and Hickman
9. Dreni tales, Jerusalam man etc - David Gemmel
10. The Asterix and Oblix comics

... and now that we have all completed our public display of gratuitous intellectual ego stroking...
Can we retire from our little sojourn into the literary world and begin talking about DRUGS again???
Psh. don't mind me... I HAVE NO PLUR!
Bastardvirustrojanfuckingbackorificefuckingcuntbastardprickwhofuckedupmycomputercanfuckingshoveany
plurievermayjhavehaduphisfuckingskinnywhitecomputernerdass!!!!
if you're reading this you fucker ... POOEY ON YOU!!!!!
*blows raspberry*
mona.
PS. Sorry, that this thread had to be my outlet
PPS. My Favourite book of all time (i can still read it now and get as much joy out of it as I did when I was 6) is The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blighton. I think I dsereve the award for the person who likes a book the most. I risked expulsion from 2nd Grade because I stole the book from the school library 'cause I wanted it so much Unfortunately I only have a nu skool copy, 'cause Karma came and bit me on my ass and made me lose the old skool stolen version along time ago...
PPS. The Twits!!! - Roald Dahl
PPPS. Mr Messy always appealed to me.
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Intellectual ego stroking?
No, just damn good books I like and an interest in other books fellow bluelighters
might like that I haven't read.
As far as drug discussion goes 6 out of the 10 books I listed could certainly be classified as 'drug books'.
Go read Wonderland Avenue for instance
A more debauched tale of drug excessiveness would be hard to find.
There are other ways of opening and expanding your mind than just taking drugs, and sometimes even as enjoyable(God I sound like a librarian!).
AAArgh and as expected I'm already kicking myself how could I leave out Catch 22 and Brave New World!!
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Drugs, drugs, drugs. It's always drugs with you, isn't it mona? heh heh
Here's something that has interested me for a while - in two of the books I've listed there are drugs which are remarkably similar to ecstasy in their effects. Brave New World has Soma. R/G/B Mars has a drug called Omegendorph. What I want to know is, can anybody tell me of any other books out there that have a "fictional" drug which has the same sort of effects as e?
Oh one other thing I think is pretty funny - nitrous is a socially acceptable drug on Mars! Everybody goes down to the local cafe & passes round the bulb machine! hehehe. I wanna go live on Mars...
Ben.
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yeah 1984 is by george orwell and it's a fuken good book, along with all his other books-animal farm, keep the aspidistra flying, homage to catalonia, love this dood
brave new world-aldous huxly, a fuken masterpiece give me soma!!!!
i'll pretty much anything on martin luther king, civil rights movements in both america and sth africa,
personally i didn't like catcher in the rye

boikah, I don't understand? It's all innocent child's play!
(and society blames the drugs...)

I'm not a huge book reader, but I did like:
1984 - George Orwell
Animal Farm - George Orwell
American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis
The Hobbit - J R R Tolkien
Where The Wild Things Grow

OH MAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!
I was KIDDING about the drug thing faaaaaaaaaaaaark.
No need to worry about me getting my daily installation of culture flip..i read plenty.
As for Enid Blighton - convicted paedophile. I kid you not.

well I think the follwoing need some mention
1. Nueromancer - William Gibson
2. Count Zero - William Gibson
3a. not Mona Lisa Overdrive cos that wasn't as good as the other two
3b. Quite Ugly One Morning - Christopher Brookmyre
4. Dead meat - Q (cool little book)
5. Dip The Puppy - Spike Milligan (I think fluffy-bum the cat rocks)
6. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson (a must have for all the people on this bulletin board !!!)
7. Bravo Two Zero - Andy McNabb (yeah I know I will cop some for this... but hey it's an exciting book and I like blowing up stuff!)
8. Mr Tickle - Anon. (they should make a Mr Massage one... just for us... more like Mr PillPopper hehehe)
9. Toilet Doors All over the World - I dunno... but some of them are really creative... none of this call 97728818828810009291 for hot live sex
10. Bumper Stickers - come on you can't say that "honk if ya horny" isn't a literary masterpiece!
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I luv bookies,
Lord of the Flies-William Golding
The Shawshank Redemption-Stephen King
the langoliers-stephen king
gorky park-martin cruz smith
animal farm-george orwell
more to come......

anyone for
"a scanner darkly" by philip k. dick????
as a matter of fact anything by him and T.C. boyle!!!!!