Reading Books

1 J.R.R. Tolkien - Lord of the rings
2 William Gibson - The Neuromancer trilogy
3 Ken Follet - The pillars of earth
4 Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
5 Jostein Gardner - Sofies world
6 Philip Jose Farmer - Maker of universes
7 Hans Bemmann - Stone and flute
8 Athur C. Clarke - Rendevouz with Rama
9 Robert A. Heinlein - The day after tomorrow
10 Brian Greene - The elegant universe

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This post was edited by Martin on Dec 27, 2001.

1 J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the rings
2 Nick Hornby - High Fidelity
3 Douglas Adams - The Hitch Hikers Guide to the galaxy
4 Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
5 George Orwell - 1985
6 J.W. Goethe - Die Leiden des jungen Werther
7 Kafka - Der Prozess
8 Charles Bukowski - Einer zahlt immer
9 ? - Die Geisha
10 Benjamin v.Stuckrad-Barre: Soloalbum

"Sie wollen nichts anderes. Sie wollen kämpfen! Sie sind Soldaten! Fucking Wahnsinnige!" - Noel G.

It's 1984.

I love that book too. And I loved Brave New World too. Try The Chrysalids by John Wyndham if you liked those too. It's about a dystopia and deals with genetics in quite a different way from Brave New World. It's more genetic mutations than genetic superiority.

Which world is Plato in?

This post was edited by Jeanette on Feb 12, 2003.

If you loved dystopia classics like the ones from Orwell and Huxley, you should definitely look into Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.

'Yeah, That's what Jesus would do. Jesus would bomb Afghanistan. Yeah.' - snowlion

YES, i loved that book....it was the first book i read that sortve challenged me!!

i could read before i went school, but i still had go through spot, and wheres wally? and the iddy biddy novels all the way through primary school because they didnt believe i was"ready" for anything else...dum de dum

so to rock up in seniour school and discover i could was excellent...i had a bit've catching up to do though...lol

seriously, its the sort of book anyone and everyone can read because there is a level of depth or shallownesss, whatever, for everyone

Look at me! I'm a prostitute robot from the future!

I don't know how you guys have managed to fight your way through Lord of the Rings or all three Neuromancer parts, but anyway:

1. Orson Scott Card - Speaker for the Dead
2. A. A. Attanasio - Last Legend of Earth
3. Ben Bova - Orion among the Stars
4. Douglas Adams - Mostly Harmless
5. Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game
6. Nick Hornby - High Fidelity
7. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust I + II
8. George Orwell - 1984
9. Arthur C. Clarke - Expedition to Earth
10. Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451

'Yeah, That's what Jesus would do. Jesus would bomb Afghanistan. Yeah.' - snowlion

1. Douglas Adams - The Hitchicker's Guide to the Galaxy
2. Scott Adams - The Dilbert Principle
3. Terry Pratchett - Reaper Man
4. Stephen King - The Stand
5. George Orwell - 1984
6. Stephen King - The Dark Tower Series (The Gunslinger, Drawing Of The Three, The Waste Lands, Wizards And Glass)
7. J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord Of The Rings
8. Michael Ende - The Neverending Story
9. Stephen Hawking - The Universe In A Nutshell
10. Everything of Walter Moers! =)

That makes me a sa-a-a-a-a-ad Panda...

1. J.R.R Tolkien, "The lord of the rings"
2. K. Follett, "Jackdaws"
3. J. Grisham, "A painted house"
4. J. Osborne, "Look back in anger"
5. J. Austen, "Pride and prejudice"
6. I. McEwan, "Atonement"
7. M. Crichton, "Disclosure"
8. J. Grisham, "The testament"
9. T. Harris, "The silence of the lambs"
10. G. Orwell, "1984"

It is so hard to decide which are my favorite books. I love them all! And I love so many others too.

Italy no longer accepts illegal immigrants. Mr. B sink their boats!!!!!!!

This post was edited by andromacha on Jul 15, 2002.

I think I'm torn between Orchid's list and andromacha's list here. Very nice selections.

For the record..

5 George Orwell - 1985

I think the year was 1984. :P

1) Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
2) Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by D. Adams
3) 1984 by George Orwell
4) Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
5) Lord of the Flies by William Golding
6) Congo by Michael Crichton
7) Terminal Man by Michael Crichton
8) Restaurant at the End of the Universe by D. Adams
9) It by Stephen King
10) Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

11) War and Peace... NOT!

I'm generally fascinated with books that discuss the human nature of people. That sums up most of the books except Brief History of Time and Jurassic Park. :)

If the world should blow itself up,the last audible voice would be an expert saying it can't be done

This post was edited by Hawkeye on Jul 12, 2002.

7) Terminal Man by Michael Crichton

What's the book like? I'm currently halfway into "Timeline" and love it. I love all of Crichton's books I read so far (Sphere, Disclosure, and now Timeline), even though the film adaptions, while often good, just don't get anywhere near the book experience. I think Congo was the worst novel adaption I've ever seen.

'Yeah, That's what Jesus would do. Jesus would bomb Afghanistan. Yeah.' - snowlion