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Miss Martini · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 5:15 am Post subject: Ze Book Topeek...

Reading books is not a very popular thing nowadays, what with all the movies and the guns and the hip hop with the bippen and the boppin, but there are still some of us who love to read, and thats reading books other then the flavour of the month kind (Harry Potter - I did enjoy these books though; The Di Vinci Code - this was an 'ok' read, but I am not much of a Dan Brown fan etc etc).

So what kind of books do you enjoy reading? What is your favorite book? Who is your favorite author? Are you reading a book at this moment, if so, tell us a bit about it? Got a book reveiw you would like to share? Share it here!

Discuss everything about your favorites, your least favorites, your own work, your reviews and everything to do with books!

I will post my own reveiws, summarys and such things later when I have some more time, but right now ya'll should get a postin'
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Snuggably_Wonkable · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 5:23 am Post subject:

Yay! A book topic. I do love books.

Hmm, the books I do enjoy alot are:

Harry Potter
Lord of the Rings
The Vampire Chronicals
The Diana Gabaldon series
Eragon
Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet is my favorite though)

I am currently reading Phantom of the Opera, but I have alot of books on my list to read.
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Miss Martini · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 5:30 am Post subject:

So you enjoy fantasy? I used to love that genre when I was younger, it takes so much imagination and effort to pull of a convincing fantasy style peice of writting, and I admire the authors who are able to pull it off well.
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Snuggably_Wonkable · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 7:54 am Post subject:

No kidding. Expecially Tolkein. He actually created so many languages so complex. I know, i'm attempting to learn them T_T;; Its a slow going process. Elvish really is complicated...

Though lately, after watching Phantom of the Opera, I find myself wanting to read more and more plays...
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shrotty · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 1:45 pm Post subject:

I don't have a favourite book. I like books by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (le petit prince etc), Edgar Allan Poe (mostly the short stories, though), oskar wilde and lewis carroll.
I have a thing for child novels. (when I was little I used to love the italian writer silvana gandolfi, she is so great).

hmm... one of my favourites would be The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Mr. Wilde, which was great. Well written, with insane charakters. Also The Black Cat by Mr Poe... Then Le Petit Prince by Saint-Exupéry, and of course Through the Lookingglass (I think it was better than alice in wonderland).

I also enjoy german literature, especially two books you might know, Jakob the liar (Jakob Der Lügner), which was later filmed twice, once by a german production and later with Robin Williams ( agreat movie, I think) and the book Das Parfum or the perfume, whose film version I think is now in theatres.
then of course stuff by goethe and schiller, the classics.

Talking of Harry Potter, oh well. I was obsessed with it when the 4th book was published, and I still read the coming books, but I think this time is over... but I still haven't coped with Sirius death Sad

that was too much for me.
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Viivi · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 2:12 pm Post subject:

My favourite book. It has to be either Pappan och havet by Tove Jansson (her Moomin books seem to be known worldwide) or Alastalon salissa by Volter Kilpi (very exclusively Finnish, and probably quite impossible to translate - don't know if anyone has tried).

I've also tremendously enjoyed books by Agatha Christie and P.G. Wodehouse. I love the kinda nostalgic upper class world they represent. "Indeed, sir?"

Shrottyyyyy! Sirius died? Shit! I've read only the first three books so far, I had no idea. Oh bugger. Well, I don't know how he dies, so technically that's just a partial spoiler.
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shrotty · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 2:15 pm Post subject:

Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to spoil everything for you... but yes, it's true Sad

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Snuggably_Wonkable · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 3:22 pm Post subject:

I'm still trying to cope with that too. He was my favortie characture, next to Remus.
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shrotty · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 3:29 pm Post subject:

Same here. I always hoped those rumours about him being not really dead were true. stupid JKRowling Sad

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Morgana · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 4:15 pm Post subject:

I'm a huge Neil Gaiman fan. I've read most of his books, and I highly reccommend Neverwhere for anyone who likes fantasy/scifi stuff.

Also I read a lot of fantasy, like Tolkien and Marion Zimmer Bradley (I think The Mists of Avalon was the biggest book I ever read), and horror (the Exorcist is highly underrated as a book.) But in general I don't have many limits on subject matter; I read just about everything fiction. I like historical fiction a lot, but I find it too much work to read a lot of old literature. I do like Mark Twain though.
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Miss Martini · Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:29 am Post subject:

At the moment I am reading Wilt by the amazing Tom Sharpe, absolutly hilarious! It has everything, blow up dolls, lesbians, a nymphomaniac, murder, a man with a plastic fetish, alcohol... so so funny. I have to say it has really gone up there with my favorites, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
Brilliant.
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Ulliv · Depptologist Joined: 05 May 2006 Posts: 168

I like...books.

J.D. Salinger is my favorite author. Because you know, I'm an adolescent, introvert, wannabe intellectual. I started reading his books when I was around 13. Franny and Zooey or Nine Stories is probably my favorite book.

I like Kafka. I like Nietzsche. I like Satre. I like Kierkegaard. I like Harry Potter.

Douglas Adams is really neat too. I'm a fan of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

I also like books on Existentialism, Sociology, Socialism, and Philosophy.

Redfox · Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 7:37 am Post subject:

some of my favourite readings are also myths, fairy tales, all sort of folk tales, local legends.....I especially like when people tell me those, not to read it in the book so much. I want it to be alive.

but some places and mysterious objects have made it both to tales and books....like the Baron Stone on an island I recently visited, Vormsi island. In one folk tale (quite new folk tale though, only 18th century) it is said if 9 brothers make nine times nine rounds counterclockwise around that stone the island will sink back into the depths of the sea. the stone is said to cover a grave of a local baron who made a deal with a devil. to keep him in his grave....
some livonian folk tales are so morbid that even I get bad vibes. like one where a whole family goes to sauna, and the youngest daughter stays behind to collect her stuff afterwards, and a bad spirit cuts her head off for her mom to find when she comes back looking for her daughter. and other stories along that line....

and I like books like...not fiction, but explaining the origin of something or local chronicles. like I have a very nice book on family signs - little markings carved into every household object at old times. and where those have come from and what they mean.
and I like to just re-read books of our own authors, and ponder for hours about the origins of one or two words. it is so exiting really, how a word or phrase can travel and influence the understanding of culture.
also, that reminds me - books on cultural history, cultural analysesnaturally, I have had to read a lot, because of my speciality. and sometimes biographies. I am not keen on todays fashion of every over-18 bitch or machoguy writing biography. they dont really have a very impressive story to tell yet. but by joe, I have read some life stories that just amaze me.

and of course, my love of childrens books - I like to read them still. there is so much sincerety and honesty that the same writers dont put in their other creations that they write for grown ups. what a great responsibility it is really, to write for children.
Viplala is my very favourite.

and then poetry. I especially like this "village poet" we have here, Contra. I was once the first to do a research on him, by now everybody knows him of course. he writes in a very humoristic manner, dealing with things from everyday life, daily news, his personal experience (for example about 2000 poems of when he was in the borderguard unit) and he also sings his poems - not that he has made songs or anything, it is pretty freestyle and he just...y´know, takes his book of poems and starts singing them.

ahh enough..
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ChillyPeper · Apprentice Joined: 08 Jun 2006 Posts: 70 Location: Estonia

I love the books:
Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre"
Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", "Sense and Sensibility"

My all time favorites Smile

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TLTguitarist · Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 2:22 pm Post subject:

I'm currently reading As I Lay Dying by William Folkner. It's kinda difficult to follow but the story is good.

my favorite author at the moment would have to be Stephen King. that man is a genious and i desperately want to take a little drive up to Maine, knock on his door, and shake his hand so i can tell my children that i saw him in person. Of course that would probably freak him out but i don't think I'd ever get the nerve to do it anyway

my favorite book has got to be To Kill A Mockingbird. I mean, it's everyones favorite but it's just a beautiful story and if you havn't read it i demand you get it right now and read it all the way through!

i have always loved reading though. I'm lucky cause i grew up right next to a library so i would sometimes spend an entire day at the library reading. thats how i memerized the prelude to Romeo and Juliet. I can recite it word for word...and yes I'm very proud of that.
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Miss Martini · Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 2:34 pm Post subject:

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i have always loved reading though. I'm lucky cause i grew up right next to a library so i would sometimes spend an entire day at the library reading. thats how i memerized the prelude to Romeo and Juliet. I can recite it word for word...and yes I'm very proud of that.[/quote]

I have a friend who's attic is somewhat like a library, its amazing, so jealous... Although I think if it were my house, I would simply never leave that attic.
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shrotty · Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 6:34 pm Post subject:

Miss Martini · Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 3:09 am Post subject:

Urgh, at the moment the text we are studying at school is Border Crossing by Pat Barker... and the only word I cant hink to describe it would be: Tedious(sp?)
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Goth_Hobbit_TheSequel · Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 4:17 pm Post subject:

Right now I'm rereading Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews. It's a good book.

My favorite authors include J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, Neil Gaiman, Francesca Lia Block, Stephen King, and Kelley Armstrong. I <3 fantasy and horror. I eat them like pickles, YUMYUMYUM!

Miss Martini · Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 4:45 am Post subject:

Eww, pickles.
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Pixie · Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 4:59 pm Post subject:

Anything fantasy, horror, or sci-fi I'm into. I'm also a huge Neil Gaiman fan like Morgana, my favorite would have to be Stardust and Good Omens (this one he wrote with Terry Pratchett). But his Sandman graphic novels are just awesome, they're classic-bound, if not already. What I like about him is he tries everything: novel, comic, short story, children's books and poems. He doesn't always dish out fantastic ones, but I appreciate his effort to be flexible and try different things. And he's quite prolific, always releasing something new. I like that I can see him grow as an author.

I also LOVE J. D. Salinger. Catcher In the Rye and Nine Stories are my favorites.

Poppy Z. Brite. She writes about New Orleans cuisine now, but before that she wrote amazing horror stories. I love Lost Souls, and her short story collections, especially Wormwood (a.k.a. Swamp Foetus). I used to adore Anne Rice and her Vampire Chronicles, but when I read Poppy, I just switched; there's a youthfulness and spunk in her writing that I liked.

Other authors I like: Tolkien (of course), Edward Gorey, Douglas Adams, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft (though I feel I haven't read enough of him yet), Kahlil Gibran, Douglas Coupland, Orson Scott Card, Antoine de Saint Exupery (I've only read Little Prince, but I LOVE it)... I badly want to read more of the classics, I've read very few. Sad

TLTguitarist · Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:25 pm Post subject:

I just read The Girl Who Loved Tom Gorden by Stephen King.

it was ok i guess. It's not what i expected from a Stephen King book but it was still pretty good. It reminded me of Gary Paulson a bit and...ya it's a slow book kinda but i couldn't stop reading it despite how much i wanted to.
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Granny · Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 8:15 pm Post subject:

Reading Le Petit Prince at the moment (in French so takes about three times as long to do). Gorgeous little book. Also really like To Kill A Mocking Bird.

TLTguitarist · Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 3:30 pm Post subject:

i just started reading Different Seasons by Stephen King and it's amazing! it has four stories in it: Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, Apt pupil, The Body, and The Breathing Method

the first three stories were made into movies. I know the Shawshank Redemption is really popular so I'm going to see that soon and then Apt pupil I've never seen and The Body was actually changed to the movie Stand By Me which I've seen.

anyway, this book is definately worth buying or taking the time to read it. I'm hooked already.
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Goth_Hobbit_TheSequel · Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 3:48 pm Post subject:

cripple_crow · Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 3:57 pm Post subject:

like some of you mentioned, hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy is a favorite of mine. i just cant get enough and i'm hapy i'm only about to finish The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe..

i only found out about Douglas Adams a year ago but i'm willing to explore him till the end of it..

Gypsy · Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 5:55 pm Post subject:

I adore books. My favourites are The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, The Godfather by Mario Puzo and The Shining by Stephen King. I'll try and write more about them when I have more time.
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cripple_crow · Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 7:32 pm Post subject:

the godfather was fascinating. i hadnt read a book the whole summer and my friend gave it to me, told me: here, have it and READ IT! ...so i started to read it right away and it just blew my mind.
very very remarkable book.
[keeping in mind that i hadnt or still havent seen the movie]

Gypsy · Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:34 pm Post subject:

My favourite books, and a review of each:

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
I adore this book. It's the story of Erik, a deformed musical genius who's been outcasted his entire life and forced by the cruelty of society to hide himself away in the cellars of the Paris opera house. He falls in love with the chorus girl Christine Daae, who is being wooed by the Victome de Chagny, Raoul. Erik teaches the young girl to sing to perfection, and then threatens the Prima Donna Carlotta to step down and let Christine take her place. After Erik reveals his true self to Christine, she rejects his love, and plans to run away with Raoul, so Erik kidnaps Christine while she is on stage, locks Raoul in a torture chamber, and forces Christine to make her choice.

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Redfox · Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 8:31 am Post subject:

I have a desire to read Winnie Pooh today but I don´t have it at home. and I am too sleepy to go to the library.
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Lydia Encyclopedia · Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 5:34 am Post subject:

My favorite Book at the Moment would have to be The Tao of Pooh. I don't belong to any religious -Ism, but I love Eastern philosophies, and this book sounds a lot like a simpler version of something a transcendental philosopher like Thoreau or Emmerson might say. I highly recomend it. I'll post a list now, direct from my own myspace Cool

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A Clockwork Orange- by Anthony Burgess, Fast Food Nation- by Eric Schlosser, Siddartha-by Herman Hesse, Candide- by Voltaire, Catcher in the Rye- by JD Salinger, A Little Princess- The Secret Garden- both by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Memoirs of a Geisha- by Arthur Golden, King Arthur and His Knights- by Sir James Knowles, The Way of All Flesh- by Samuel Butler, A Christmas Carol- by Charles Dickens, Alice in Wonderland- Alice through the Looking Glass- Alice Underground- all by Lewis Carol, Their Eyes Were Watching God- by Zora Neale Hurston, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest- by Ken Kesey, The Chocolate War- by Robert Cormier, Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide- by Orson Scott Card, The TEachings of Buddha, Dracula- by Bram Stoker, Slaughterhouse 5, Breakfast of Champions, Welcome to the Monkeyhouse-by Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Coraline- by Neil Gaiman, Frankenstein- by Mary Shelley, Howl- by Allen Ginsberg, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde- by Robert Luis Stevenson,
The Waste land- Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats- both by T.S Elliot,
Anthem- The Virtue of Selfishness- both by Ayn Rand,
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy-Douglas Adams
The Psychedelic Experience- Timothy Leary
Walden- by Henry David Thoreau....

Yeah, I have no life....

Ulliv · Depptologist Joined: 05 May 2006 Posts: 168

Kurt Vonnegut is one of my favorite people.

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Right now I'm reading The Great Shark Hunt (Gonzo Papers Vol. 1) by Hunter S. Thompson. Really interesting. He's definitely one of my favorite authors.

Miss Martini · Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 12:33 pm Post subject:

Edgar Allen Poe:: The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writtings.
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Redfox · Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 12:56 pm Post subject:

right now I am kinda obsessed to seek out all the different versions of the Song of Nibelungs and all that I can about Siegfried and Brunhilde and those other bitches. seems the story varies greatly and is, in general, a great big mess. the nothern mythology is one thing, german is completely different.
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TLTguitarist · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 8:48 pm Post subject:

has anyone here ever heard of Augusten Burroughs? He's really popular right now and his book "Running With Scissors" was just made into a movie. He's also written Dry, Sellevision, Magical Thinking, and Possible Side Effects.

All of his books are about his life and i think all of them have been New York Times bestsellers.

anyway, I've read Running With Scissors, Magical thinking and possible side effects and i think they're hilarious! he's my new favorite author and I'm officially obsessed. So check him out if your up for something funny.
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Snuggably_Wonkable · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 9:27 pm Post subject:

I'm About to start reading Slaughter House Five. It sounds interesting...My sister had to read it too. She said it was strange. I've heard alot of wonderful things about it.

My favorite books...

The Black Cat-- Edgar Allen Poe
The Masque Of Red Death-- Edgar Allen Poe
Phantom-- Susan Kay
Phantom of the Opera-- Gaston Leroux
Othello-- William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet-- William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing-- William Shakespeare
Pride and Prejudice-- Jane Austen
Sense and Sensebility-- Jane Austen
Outlander- Diana Gabaldon
Harry Potter series-- J.K. Rowling.

I know I like more, but I cant think of any. I also love poetry. William Blake and Edgar Allen Poe are my favorites.
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mongoose_mania · Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 7:04 pm Post subject:

I think I just found my favorite topic.
Anyhow, here's a list of books I've read and enjoyed:
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, The BFG, The Magic Finger, Matilda, The Giraffe, and the Pelly, and Me, George's Marvelous Medicine, The Twits, Boy, Danny, the Champion of the World, The Enormous Crocodile, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Esio Trot, The Witches, D is for Dahl, Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes each by Roald Dahl; A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket; The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories, The Nightmare Before Christmas by Tim Burton; Burton on Burton edited by Mark Salisbury; The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily by Dino Buzzati; The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Doubtful Guest by Edward Gorey.

And here's a list of books I'm going to read:
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer; Alice's Adventure in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carrol; The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler; The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen; 1984, Animal Farm by George Orwell; The Wonderful Tale of Henry Sugar and Six More, Going Solo, The Umbrella Man and Other Stories by Roald Dahl; The Sisters Grimm Book One: The Fairy Tale Detectives by Michael Buckley; To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee.

I know, it's super long.
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Snuggably_Wonkable · Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:49 pm Post subject:

I'm just guessing her, but I would gather that your a fan of Roald Dahl...

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I finished Slaughter-House Five....

Damn, that book is amazing!!! It captured me the moment I started. Haha! Its so insane. I love it...

And so it goes....
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RustyPhrasesFree · Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 9:01 pm Post subject:

ohh... 1984 is soooo good. love.
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shrotty · Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 7:50 pm Post subject:

Well apparently we have 2 book threads? so I will close this. adieu.
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