Your favourite book(s)

[Tom Sailor]

We've got a music thread already. Now I want to know what your favourite books are. I would also like to know which one you just read or recently read...

My favourite books are:

Sophies World by Jostein Gaarder
Harry Potter I-V by J.K. Rowling
Dude, where's my country by Michael Moore

At the moment, I read Henning Mankels "The dogs of Riga" :)

[Heretic]

Ya. I like to read books. My favorite books are:

"Sinuhe egyptian" by Mika Waltari
"Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R.Tolkien
"Harry Potter" and more...

...about Egypt and other ancient civilizations (aztecs) :cool: :go:

[Darius]

My fav:
Lord of the Rings- Tolkien
Harry Potter- Rowling
and bunch of books about historie...

[Bagpipe]

I prefer books about wars and history:go:

From fiction, I would choose books by E.M. Remarque. Also I like science fiction very much!!!

[Jorghan]

All the books in the Dune series by Frank Herbert.

I read mostly Fantasy and SCI-FI, but I want to start to read som classics as well. I don't much like modern literature.

[King Aldred]

Any J.R.R Tolkin literature, the Slayer series and the books from Bernard Cornwell (if you like napoliontic or medieval warfare have a go at these, there great)
:cheers:

[Nike]

Anything from Tolkien. I also liked The Count of Monte Cristo very much.

[Emhyr var Emreis]

favorite?

ANDRZEJ SAPKOWSKI!!!!!!!!!!

My nick is a name of one of his characters in Viedzmiñ

[Snowden]

"Catch 22" by Joseph Heller if I have to chose. :)

[Kortimus]

Any books from stephen King and David Eddings.
But also historical books.;)

[Martinus]

Originally posted by Emhyr var Emreis
favorite?

ANDRZEJ SAPKOWSKI!!!!!!!!!!

My nick is a name of one of his characters in Viedzmiñ
Like Sapkowski too, but prefer the short stories to his novels (the latter are too "heavy").

Also guys, if you like low fantasy and medieval intrigues (and I suspect you do, since you are here), there is no better series than George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire (the books published so far are called "Game of Thrones", "Clash of Kings" and "Storm of Swords").

Other favourite books include Herbert's "Dune" and Zelazny's "Chronicles of Amber".

[Arjenvs]

Lord of the Rings
The First men in Rome
(6 books sequel...1000 Pages per book....very good!!!about Julius Ceasar, from before his birth till after his death...)
Earth´s Children
(The beginning of Humanity)
Several Dutch books too....but you all probably don´t know them.....

[Emhyr var Emreis]

oh, and I forgot George Orwell's 1984

[Elewyn]

Originally posted by Emhyr var Emreis
oh, and I forgot George Orwell's 1984

bit too depressing, when you realize what is happening now :D Kafka is better. And then? what else can I mention? Baudelaire, Prachett, Tolkien, Umberto Eco, he's the best author of historical novells I guess

[EricTheRed]

Favorite story book epic whatever you wanna call it : Beowulf no doubt.

Favorite modern book is the blue nowhere by jeffery deaver

[Emhyr var Emreis]

If Orwell is too depresing, what is Kafka then?!?!?
I wasn't able to read more than 30 pages of Der Prozes(The Process)

Have anybody else here met Franz Kafka?


Like Sapkowski too, but prefer the short stories to his novels (the latter are too "heavy") What do you mean by that? Book which took me the longest time I red no more than 2days (almost nonstop, because you can't stop reading when you start once) and it was the last one, "Pani jeziora", in czech "Paní jezera" with its 560 pages :D
I really like jumps in time

But, YES, I like also his short stories, OF COURSE!

[orenda]

well...
All flesh is grass - Cliffor Simak
The human factor - Graham Green
Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
books of Jeffrey Archer and Karel Capek

my favourite bulgarian authors are Aleko Konstantinov, Hristo Botev and Geo Milev
:cheers:

[Emhyr var Emreis]

what of Karel Èapek? That's nice he's already known abroad...

[Stanceland]

Best ever:

The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet

Great story set in the 12th-century England ;)

[Heretic]

I see here are clever persons. In Lithuania it is in "The Red Book".;)