Picking a short list of favorite anythings is hard thing to do,
when it's a short list of something you really love like books or movies
it's not only hard, it is near imposable.
Here we go in no particular order...
The Odyssey by Homer, Robert Fagles translation
Boy's Life by Robert McCammon
Necroscope by Brian Lumely
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein
The Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Well, mine probably suck to you guys, but here goes:
1. All of Madeline L'Engles books in the swiftly tilting planet series
2. the left behind series
3. the hobbit
4. lord of the rings
5. lion the witch and the wardrobe series - there are more than one book in this grouping
6. the bible - the stories are great and they have some wonderful morals - it was required reading throughout my childhood
Honorable mention - the dictionary, if someone says something you don't understand, you can find out the meaning here. If they made the word up, you can bust their chops about it, too.
1984- George Orwell
Animal Farm-George Orwell
Zombie Survival Guide-Max Brooks (always comes with me to the bathroom lol)
anything Star Wars (Han Solo Trilogy by A.C. Crispin is prob my fav though)
Kilobyte-Peirs Anthony
Brave New World-Aldous Huxley
1. C.S. Lewis
2. H.P. Lovecraft
3. E.A. Poe
4. W. Shakespeare
5. Timothy Zahn (star wars... HE should have re-wrote eps 1-3 to make the NOT suck)
6. J.R.R. Tolkien (Silmarilion especially)
I have way too many favorites...this is just a list of SOME of them. I've read too many things, I swear.
Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
Ham on Rye, Charles Bukoswki
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
Notes From The Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
anything Kafka
I give up, too many to list. I'm really just a fan of the Beats, the Russians, and the post-post-modernists of the past ten years who ramble and make a lot of pop culture references. And Harry Potter, too, but mostly just books three and five, especially the "Give her hell from us, Peeves" part in five. <3 the Weasley twins.
1. Animorphs (I was slightly surprised that someone else posted the series before I had, but this is the first series I remember reading)
2. Almost any Piers Anthony, specifically Incarnations of Immortality and Xanth (I think my talent is to be extremely resistant to puns, not quite immune, but close - I support that by having read all the books except the newest one, some multiple times and still enjoying the puns)
3. Harry Potter (And while some of the fanfics are disturbing, I've found some that I love that are quite strange. One had Voldemort and Snape as the father and mother of Harry and Hermione. And that's just how they started the story...)
4. Tolkien (Lord of the Rings, Hobbit and Lost Tales specifically)
5. The Foundation books (I want to say Asimov)
6. Goosebumps. (I think I actually read these before Animorphs, but it didn't really lead me into much of any books, except other R.L. Stine books which were decent).
And, yes, I know that I (like others) technically cheated by listing series and authors rather than books (for example, my #1 and #6 combine for almost 100 separate books just by themselves).
I'm going to partially agree about reading requirements. Yes, I read things I wouldn't have otherwise, but most of it I don't remember.
But, if it weren't for having been made to read (and remember some of) it, I probably wouldn't have read (and enjoyed) Romeo and Juliet, any of the poems of Pablo Neruda (just wow).
Of course, I know that a few books were ruined for me, by having to read them. I forget which they were, but I do remember that it happened.
And this is coming from someone that found out that the public library had a rental limit to the number of books one person could check out at a time during the summer reading program. I would read through the books at a rate faster than they let us check them out at.
Reading requirements! Boo! I think all they do is get kids to hate reading.
I disagree; I read lots of things that I never would have because of required reading. Some of my favorites, like Vonnegut, I wouldn't have gotten to for quite some time if they wouldn't have been required.
That said,
Ender's Game (and the rest of both series, for that matter) -- Orson Scott Card
The Man In The High Castle -- Phillip K. Richard
Slaughterhouse-Five -- Kurt Vonnegut
Slapstick -- Kurt Vonnegut
Probably a dozen different ones by Heinlein, but mostly Job and The Past Through Tomorrow
THANK YOU! i was going to pull all my hair out if no one mentioned the ender series!
It would take me a long time to choose what I really think are the 6 best books ever, but I have a few comments and an addition:
I agree with everyone who likes Harry Potter and Ender's Game. I recently read Lord of the Rings for the first time - I don't know how I missed it in my teen-age years - and liked it. As a teen, I read a lot of Robert Heinlein, Anne McCaffrey, and some Isaac Asimov (yes, he did the Foundation series).
I want to mention the Alvin Maker series by Orson Scott Card. The powers of a "maker" are similar to what some people have speculated about telekinesis being able to do just about anything.
1. The Lord of the Ring series by Tolkien. It has to be included, because it pretty much single-handedly brought into being the fantasy genre as we know it.
2. The Earthsea books by Ursula K. LeGuin. Tolkien comes along and says, "Hey Rocky, watch me pull a genre out of my hat!" And LeGuin promptly ignores him and makes something deep and original.
3. The Principia Discordia by Malaclypse the Younger. Should be required high school reading everywhere.
4. The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. Further down the rabbit hole opened up by the Principia, and a literary gateway drug, if you will, into many interesting tangents. Should be required college reading.
5. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. If you've read it, you know exactly what I mean.
6. Tough one, so many to choose... but I'm going with the Incarnations of Immortality series by Piers Anthony.
Eragon wasn't the worst I've read, but it's definitely nothing original. Pretty standard cut-and-paste fantasy fiction, at least all the parts about Eragon. It doesn't get really interesting until the second book where it gets to
the villagers running from the king's troops after Eragon left them.
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