Favorite Books

In no particular order:

Flowers for Algernon Death Be Not Proud The Most Dangerous Game The Metamorphosis (Kafka) The Donnie Darko Book I Am the Cheese

harry potter

no, not really.

the time traveler's wife the secret history the end of the affair the handmaid's tale the remains of the day writing home

edit: can i just add a disclaimer - i don't think these are necessarily The Best Books In The Whole World Ever. they are simply my own personal favourites, for various reasons.

as you were.

The Stranger (Camus) The Trial (Kafka) Th Steppenwolf (Hesse) The Last Temptation (Kazantzakis) Sherlock Holmes (Conan Doyle) Modern Physics ....

to kill a mockingbird (my favourite since i was 10) one hundred years of solitude love in the time of cholera madame bovary germinal the great gatsby anything by kurt vonnegut life of pi lord of the rings a confederacy of dunces

There's way too many for me to list, but:

This Side of Paradise/F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby/F. Scott Fitzgerald Babylon Revisited/F. Scott Fitzgerald Tales of the Jazz Age/F. Scott Fitzgerald Flappers and Philosophers/F. Scott Fitzgerald The entire Sherlock Holmes series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Outsider (or published as The Stranger in other countries)/Albert Camus The Myth of Sisyphus/Albert Camus The Fall/Albert Camus Waiting for Godot/Samuel Beckett The Picture of Dorian Gray/Oscar Wilde Juliette or Vice Amply Rewarded/Marquis de Sade Eroticism/Georges Bataille The Remains of the Day/Kazuo Ishiguro Death in Venice/Thomas Mann Lolita/Vladimir Nabokov On the Road/Jack Kerouac Confessions of a Mask/Yukio Mishima Trainspotting/Irvine Welsh The Importance of Being Earnest/Oscar Wilde Right Ho Jeeves/PG Wodehouse The Book of Snobs/William Makepeace Thackeray Other voices other rooms/Truman Capote 120 Days of Sodom/Marquis de Sade Story of the Eye/Georges Bataille Confessions of an English Opium-Eater/Thomas de Quincey The Ministry of Fear/Graham Greene Brideshead Revisited/Evelyn Waugh

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: books are for losers who don't have friends...or televisions...or spotty students...or spotty teachers!!!

:p

that's my dictionary definition.

i've changed my mind anyway. i want 'two frogs' by anthony gormley and 'little wolf's diary of daring deeds' by ian whybrow. and rumpole. and the yes minister/prime minister diaries.

oooh i might want the crow road too, but i've not looked at it in years and i don't know how it would stand up now. when i first read it i was going to send copies to all my friends and cull them if they didn't like it.

bloodynora wrote:

anthony gormley

The sculptor?

ha! i wasn't paying attention. i was distracted by the arrival of new shoes.

christopher wormell. you can see how i got confused. they both have an 'orm' sound in the middle.

The Lord of the Rings The Hobbit The Catcher in the rye To kill a mocking bird Henry IV part 1 Atomised Wasp Factory Hi Fidelity Moby Dick Walking on Glass I, Robot Trainspotting

Green Eggs and Ham The Illiad (translated by Fagles)

Other than that (modern) Fiction is crap... I usually go for a good non-fiction book.

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bloodynora wrote: 'orm'

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leather_girl wrote: There's way too many for me to list, but:

This Side of Paradise/F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby/F. Scott Fitzgerald Babylon Revisited/F. Scott Fitzgerald Tales of the Jazz Age/F. Scott Fitzgerald Flappers and Philosophers/F. Scott Fitzgerald The entire Sherlock Holmes series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Outsider (or published as The Stranger in other countries)/Albert Camus The Myth of Sisyphus/Albert Camus The Fall/Albert Camus Waiting for Godot/Samuel Beckett The Picture of Dorian Gray/Oscar Wilde Juliette or Vice Amply Rewarded/Marquis de Sade Eroticism/Georges Bataille The Remains of the Day/Kazuo Ishiguro Death in Venice/Thomas Mann Lolita/Vladimir Nabokov On the Road/Jack Kerouac Confessions of a Mask/Yukio Mishima Trainspotting/Irvine Welsh The Importance of Being Earnest/Oscar Wilde Right Ho Jeeves/PG Wodehouse The Book of Snobs/William Makepeace Thackeray Other voices other rooms/Truman Capote 120 Days of Sodom/Marquis de Sade Story of the Eye/Georges Bataille Confessions of an English Opium-Eater/Thomas de Quincey The Ministry of Fear/Graham Greene Brideshead Revisited/Evelyn Waugh

Quite interesting for me

Mine:

1. The Crash - J.G. Ballard
2. The Portrait of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
3. The Petty Demon - Fedor Sologub
4. The Moon and A Sixpence - William Somerset Maugham
5. American Dream - Norman Mailer
6. Crime And Punishment - Fedor Dostoyevsky
7. Super Cannes - J.G. Ballard
8. Candide - Voltaire
9. Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
10. Of Human Bondage - William Somerset Maugham
11. The Brothers Karamazov - Fedor Dostoyevsky
12. Chevengur, ANYTHING by Andrei Platonov
13. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
14. Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
15. The 14-Carat Roadster - Jenő Rejtő
16. Madam Bovaris - Gustav Flaubert
17. The Portait - Nikolai Gogol
18. Count de Monte Christo - Alexander Dumas
19. The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne

Poetry by Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Richard Aldington (although can't get thru his novels), Alexander Blok, Georg Heym, all that decandent & expressionist stuff.

Most dissapointing books:

Der Untertan - Heinrich Mann Homo Faber - Max Frisch The Castle - Franz Kafka The Plague - Albert Camus Unlimited Dream Factory - J.G. Ballard

My father wanted me to read The Great Gatsby and I never did!

|| | ||| 6217|| 8 || 3 wrote: Mine:

1. The Crash - J.G. Ballard
2. The Portrait of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
3. The Petty Demon - Fedor Sologub
4. The Moon and A Sixpence - William Somerset Maugham
5. American Dream - Norman Mailer
6. Crime And Punishment - Fedor Dostoyevsky
7. Super Cannes - J.G. Ballard
8. Candide - Voltaire
9. Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
10. Of Human Bondage - William Somerset Maugham
11. The Brothers Karamazov - Fedor Dostoyevsky
12. Chevengur, ANYTHING by Andrei Platonov
13. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
14. Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
15. The 14-Carat Roadster - Jenő Rejtő
16. Madam Bovaris - Gustav Flaubert
17. The Portait - Nikolai Gogol
18. Count de Monte Christo - Alexander Dumas
19. The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne

Poetry by Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Richard Aldington (although can't get thru his novels), Alexander Blok, Georg Heym, all that decandent & expressionist stuff.

Most dissapointing books:

Der Untertan - Heinrich Mann Homo Faber - Max Frisch The Castle - Franz Kafka The Plague - Albert Camus Unlimited Dream Factory - J.G. Ballard

My father wanted me to read The Great Gatsby and I never did!

:) Lots of good books on that list, too.

|| | ||| 6217|| 8 || 3 wrote: Mine:

1. The Crash - J.G. Ballard
2. The Portrait of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
3. The Petty Demon - Fedor Sologub
4. The Moon and A Sixpence - William Somerset Maugham
5. American Dream - Norman Mailer
6. Crime And Punishment - Fedor Dostoyevsky
7. Super Cannes - J.G. Ballard
8. Candide - Voltaire
9. Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
10. Of Human Bondage - William Somerset Maugham
11. The Brothers Karamazov - Fedor Dostoyevsky
12. Chevengur, ANYTHING by Andrei Platonov
13. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
14. Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
15. The 14-Carat Roadster - Jenő Rejtő
16. Madam Bovaris - Gustav Flaubert
17. The Portait - Nikolai Gogol
18. Count de Monte Christo - Alexander Dumas
19. The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne

Poetry by Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Richard Aldington (although can't get thru his novels), Alexander Blok, Georg Heym, all that decandent & expressionist stuff.

Most dissapointing books:

Der Untertan - Heinrich Mann Homo Faber - Max Frisch The Castle - Franz Kafka The Plague - Albert Camus Unlimited Dream Factory - J.G. Ballard

My father wanted me to read The Great Gatsby and I never did!

So Ian, are those ones you've read or did you just post ones on yer shelf?