Favourite Book (to help all the Big Brother Addicts)

[Jim-Willy]

Go on then......  I can't be the only booger on here that hardly ever turns the telescreen on.

My favourite Book is LOTR, unoriginal i know but although it is too short it hits me where it hurts and everything is described fully and beautifully.  I am out of reading at the mo so help Me out, any genre and any reason....  Whats Your favourite and Why.  I will read 'em and see what i think.







(Except Mills & Boon obviously)

[Rich_P]

If you feel like dipping into any of the gaming world stories, then there are three books you might like.
Book 1,
Book 2,
Book 3.

Book 2 is essentially the first Halo game's story.  Book 3 is the bridge between Halo 1 (story is in book 2) & Halo 2.  Not bad, have all three books myself and enjoyed them... but then again, I'm not much of a book reader.  :lol:

[discograham]

Lor ? do you mean Lord of the Rings ? If so then hey... best book ever written in my humble opinion... and I read it 19 times before they started to think about a new film....
Another good read.. Piers Anthony's Xanth series up to about volume ten... it gets too silly after that..
Asimov.. pretty much all he wrote
Homer.. The Odessey /The Illiad
Shakespeare... Macbeth ( yes, I really mean that... rattling good story..!)
Robert Heinlein.. The Number of the Beast
Now, if I were to be shipwrecked.... these are some of the books I'de love...(as well as" how to survive when you're shipwrecked"  :shock: )

[Sharpshooter]

Its got to be "Danny the Champion of the World" by Rhoald Dhal. Ive rad it loads of times, and still love it.

[strapping young lad]

Terry Pratchett - Discworld Series

[sleeplessparadise]

Apart from the Discworld books (and yes I have them all) my favourite set of books is a series of 7 books called The Death Gate Cycle by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.  They might just last you longer than the Big Brother thing that is happening  

[strapping young lad]

ive started the jack higgins's sean dillon series

quite good

[suzota]

anything by larry niven.

halo is just a ringworld rip off. lol

though to be honnest i read anything, yes even mills and boon. he he he

[Eeyore]

anything by larry niven.

Footfall.

Best piece of fiction I've read for a long time, if a little formulaic.

Anatoli Boukreev's 'The Climb'. A chilling, true story of how far other people can and will go to apease their guilt.

cheers
 8)
Eeyore

[suzota]

i prefer "the mote in gods eye"

[Bush Tucker Man]

Michael Crichton 'Timeline', 'Prey'  & AirFrame' are all cracking good reads, with some interesting technological ideas in the first 2.

Anything by Bill Bryson has got to be worth reading
His views on the British psyche in 'Notes From A Small Island' are spot on  :lol:

'Nick Cook 'The Hunt For Zero-Point'
Again, very thought-provoking

John Hersey 'Hiroshima'
A book written just after the end of the war & based mainly on the stories of survivors. A sombre read.


Got to agree with Jim, 'TLOTR' was quite rightly Book Of The Century.

Edit @ 11:01
I've also got to include Orwells '1984'.
A book that seems to be getting closer to reality
Also, the authors real name was Eric Arthur Blair :D

[NiceBlueWellies]

Currently reading Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truss.

It says on the cover, and it seems to be very true, - The Utter Bl@@dy Rudeness of Everyday Life (or six good reasons to stay at home and bolt the door).  :lol:

[Brains]

Adrian Mole and the weapons of mass destruction! all time favorite! :D

[wing nut]

anything with porn in the title :lol:  :lol:  :lol: or the merger by geophrey robinson :lol:

[NeilWilson]

I am currently reading Moondust by Andrew Smith, it is about the Apollo Moon shots & the tracking down of the moon walkers to find out what has happened for them in the past 30+ years.

Neil

[Dirty Gertie]

"The wasp factory" - Iain Banks - excellent twist!!
"American Psycho" - Bret Easton Ellis (not a 'nice' book!!)
"The celestine prophecy" James Redfield
anything by Roddy Doyle, Terry Pratchett and of course, JRR Tolkien

[the loon]

Have to put another down for discworld series here(especialy the nightwatch books) that and Dale Brown , Michael Crichton,and Clive Cursler (think thats how they spell there names)

[POTASH]

im reading the dictionary, i dont understand the story but each words explained as you go along :lol:

[missroadrage]

I'm reading the Harry Potter books at the moment - I'm on The Half-Blood Prince so I hope there is another one out soon or I'll be going down this list to find my next book

[fram]

Hubby likes Lee Child, a fairly new author, but very good. I think he's written about 6 books now.

I like anything easy to read that sends me to sleep at night, the usual mindless rubbish that us women read :roll: . I will add that amongst my favorite books are Lord of the Rings, Catcher in the Rye (also the one about the two men one who is not all there (very keen on rabbits!) who work on the ranch/farm. Normal one ends up killing dim one. Can never remember what it's called) and from the days when I was just a wee one Charlottes Web.

[Manicminer]

With the film being released at this moment maybe 'The Da Vinci Code' by Dan Brown would be worth a read.

Other books I have read in the last few months include -

Atlantis by David Gibbins
Shattered Icon by Bill Napier
The Double Eagle by James Twinning

[Bush Tucker Man]

Have to put another down for discworld series here(especialy the nightwatch books)

I like the 'NightWatch' collection as well, great charactorisations.

Love to see a film of 'Guards, Guards', or 'Men At Arms'

[The Ant Hill Mob]

All of the Pratchett ones and Bryson ones are worth a look.  'Notes from a Small Island' had me crying with laughter on a train once - the ticket collector took one look at the title, nodded and grinned like a loon.  

Although it's more of a kid's book, the 'Wee Free Men' (who got thrown out of faerie land for being drunk & disorderly) is great, and definitely an grown-up's book is Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.  Sometimes Pratchett is a bit too sugary for me, and the injection of dark humour makes this a book to be read again and again.

First Light (by Geoffery Wellum *I think*) is also a great read if you like true WW2 stories, he was one of the youngest figher pilots to take part in the Battle of Britain.  Then again, I WILL read most things RAF/WW2/Churchill related.....just ask RRB about the volume of books in the attic.....

[gtomo2]

H G Wells - war of the worlds and the time machine
Oh and the hobbit as well as LOTR.

They beat bb anytime

[Bulli]

Anything including root canal beats BB- what crap.

If you havent read Lance Armstrongs auto biography read it ...that guy has guts.

Bill Bryson - funny in some and 'a short history of everything' is very good

Jonathan Livingstone seagull and Illusion by Richard Bach are both awe inspiring.
I like Andy McNabbs fiction stuff

Tolkein - no need to add anymore, genious.

[Bush Tucker Man]

Bryson ones are worth a look.  'Notes from a Small Island' had me crying with laughter on a train once

I liked the description of how the British give directions to somewhere. I even type it out on here once

definitely an grown-up's book is Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.  Sometimes Pratchett is a bit too sugary for me, and the injection of dark humour makes this a book to be read again and again.

Got 'Good Omens' somewhere & it's quite good.
I like how the hell-houd turns out as a small Terrier :lol:

First Light (by Geoffery Wellum *I think*) is also a great read if you like true WW2 stories, he was one of the youngest figher pilots to take part in the Battle of Britain.  Then again, I WILL read most things RAF/WW2/Churchill related.....just ask RRB about the volume of books in the attic.....

Yes, 'First Light' is Geoff Wellum & it is definately a good book.

Paul Brickhills 'The DamBusters' is well worth a read, I've got a copy of it dating from 1952.