Your favourite book/lierature.

Richmond Roadie

Great topic!

I've been a voracious reader for as long as I can remember. Off the top of my head I've been influenced by and enjoyed the following...

How Should We Then Live- Francis Schaeffer

The Story of Civilization (10 volumes)- Will & Ariel Durant

The Bible

The Mainspring of Human Progress- Henry Grady Weaver

Our Enemy, The State- Albert J. Nock

Economics in One Lesson- Henry Hazlitt

Paul Revere's Ride- David Hackett Fischer

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Oruboris

Thrilled to see so much Dickens on the list: a favorite of mine, just re-read Our Mutual Friend, am nearly finished with Bleak House. Recently read that he contributed more words to the language than anyone save Shakespeare.

Love 'Metamorphisis', too. My take on it has always been that Gregor's family were actually better off after he changed. They seem happier when they aren't so dependent.

I'm a big fan of Conrad and Thackery, Ibsen and O'Neill [love to read plays: big payoff for little time spent].

For living writers, Steven Brust [though the last 'Vlad' was a let down], Cormac McCArthy [The Crossing is better than The Road], Terry Pratchett [funniest man alive], and Richard Russo [Funny in a different way-- I think he's been spying on me...]

Oh, you Calvin fans: look out for 'Sheldon' [sheldoncomics.com]-- boy genius downloads language into his pet duck. Hilarity ensues.

As funny as Calvin? Heck no, and shame on you for asking. Calvin was unique, and couldn't have sustained it's level forever. But Sheldon is usually inteligent, sometimes wise, almost always funny. Free in your Email, if you like.

Karl Hungus

In no particluar order:

1. Last of the Mohicans, Cooper
2. Les Miserables, Hugo
3. Lord of the Rings, Tolkien
4. To Kill a Mocking Bird, Lee
5. David Copperfield, Dickens
6. On the Road, Kerouac
7. Dracula, Stoker
8. Sherlocke Holmes Complete Works, Doyle
9. Watership Down, Adams
10. Catcher in the Rye, Salinger
11. Atlas Shrugged, Rynd

I could go on and on. I love to read!

I really must read "Ulysses" sometime but I am waiting to do it when I can audit a college class that's reading it. My wife took a graduate course in English whilein college and the whole semester was spent just on reading Ulysses. Too cool!

Great stuff and very interesting to see others' lists!

slewd22

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anything by Ernest Hemingway
It's not about the bike - Lance Armstrong

- These are by no means my favourites, I dont strictly have 'favourites', i just read these recently and thought they were great.

stevecycles

1. The Bible
2. The Left Behind Series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins
3. A Good Walk Spoiled - John Feinstein
4. Since getting into cycling, anything on the sport!

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JohnJoy

Hi,

My favourite book is The Lord of the Rings and Kidnapped.

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Crankyfeet

In no particular order:

Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat
Mad Comics
The Joy of Sex
Psychological Secrets to Hitting on Girls
Jaws
To Kill a Mockingbird
Bicycle Magazine
World Book Encyclopedia (vol. T)
All Alistair Maclean works
Michael Crichton books

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Chavez

Did you ever read Maugham's The Razor's Edge? - similar ballpark thematically.

Chavez

Tim Krabbe's The Rider is pretty obvious, but if you haven't read it yet, DO SO.

iglagol

The book I like to read on and recomend to the society is the one by Mihail Bulgakov: "Master and Margarita" You are welcome to read: http://www.klassika.ru/cgi-bin/read...engl.txt&page=0

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Kita [POLAND]

What about thrillers from Coben?

I've started to read much in this year, earlier - rarely.
Generally thrillers, I enjoy too from other.

1. "Tell No One" - Harlan Coben
2. "The Dice Man" - Luke Rhinehart

That second book is very, very good. It's about person, which him moves, words, life depends on the cubes. He does everything what the cube throw away. For example: rape, leave the wife and kids, and take in his son to game which one must hit the pal, steal something from mather. Very, very interesting book. It's a bit of psychology, too.

threaded

Just about everything written by Jeremy Clarkson. I reckon in a good few years from now he'll be remembered like Charles Dickens for his social commentary, Hunter S Thomson for wit, and Søren Kierkegaard for his impenetrablephilosophy.

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Powerful Pete

I don't think I could come up with a top ten list, even if I tried.

How about Kafka, Conrad, Dante... and any modern history (especially WWI and WWII) that I can get my hands on.

As I travel to the developing world quite a bit, I end up going through phases... for the time being I am re-reading The Great Game and anything and everything on the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. Yes, a lot of time spent in the Caucasus lately!

As well as Nemesis - Battle for Japan by Max Hastings for pleasure.

No, I am not really normal. But I notice from the lists that others have provided that you most of you are weird too.

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