ID:192857
 May 6 2002, 8:15 pm
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Please post your favorite book, any type and include a summary.
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May 6 2002, 8:26 pm
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Lesbian Assassin
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I don't honestly know that I could pick one... I just walked up and down the length of my bookcases and none of them really jumped out at me... well, none more than all the others. I love books.
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I think the hatchet is the best book i ever read, i know its like for 8th graders, but i was in 8th when i read it. It was probly the only book i would have read without being forced to. I dont like to read books. Its about a boy whos family is breaking apart and his dad moves to alska and he goes to see him but the plan crashes and.... Read it you will find out.
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I too have a hard time picking out a "favorite"... But I suppose I'd have to say that I enjoyed The Lord of the Rings trilogy the most out of anything I've read... And I really doubt I need to post a summary of that...lol
However... The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series is getting rather close to the top... These books are awesome... And I don't think I could do it justice in a summary...lol | |
Vicious wrote:
Please post your favorite book, any type and include a summary. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Fifth Business, first book of Robertson Davies "The Deptford Trilogy" The Book of the Night by Rhoda Lerman Becoming Alien by Rebecca Ore Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg The story "Petra" by Greg Bear That's more than one, no summaries, and a story too. I'm a rebel. | |
That's a good book. That's my problem: everything is a good book. To me, the lesson of The Hatchet is that the Lord of the Flies would've turned out much better if each kid had been stranded on their own island.
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Hmmm. Favorites are difficult to pick.
Current book: Applied Cryptography Last good scifi or fantasy enjoyed: Stephen R Donaldson's Gap series. Space adventure, really bad guys, aliens, etc. Fun bathroom reading: Joel Achenbach's Why Things Are series Timeless classics: Calvin & Hobbes <font size="-1">(crud, Amazon doesn't seem to like linking to search results)</font> | |
I'd have to go with Death Gate. There's a great summary at that site, and a great game made based on the books, great fantasy novels, college level, I first read them around 4th grade.
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It's about a group of military academy students get stranded on an island. I havent read it yet, but everyone says its excellent.
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Scoobert wrote:
I dont like to read books. I use to not like reading books aswell, but i know now that if i start reading for a half-hour or so i soon get mesmerized and cant stop. O, and one book i havent read yet is "Fight Club", ive seen the movie but i would like to see the differnces bettween the two, has anyone read it? | |
Deathgate Cycle,
Circle of Magic(4 books), Discworld Trilogies(Especially the first two. The second one built upon the first, whereas the numerous others are standalones) Fahrenheit 451, Alathon | |
The blue book..err..wait...I am not sure... But when i was in 2 grade i made my own book.. i still have it.. :P so many memories -_-... i was the best artist in 2nd grade.. Heh
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Vicious wrote:
Please post your favorite book, any type and include a summary. The River Why by David James Duncan I didn't really enjoy reading anything that was not science fiction/fantasy before this book. (I think I still like The Darksword series the best out of those.) The River Why is about the only thing I value out of my entire college career. It now gets held above all of my sci-fi/fan. It's about a guy, his family, fishing, philosophy, love, God... Okay, that sounds like it could bore you to tears. However, it's very funny and inspiring. | |
Vicious wrote:
Please post your favorite book, any type and include a summary. For the last several years it's been The Boomer Bible. | |
Vicious wrote:
O, and one book i havent read yet is "Fight Club", ive seen the movie but i would like to see the differnces bettween the two, has anyone read it? Yep. There are a few minor differences (including the ending) but the narrative is, for the most part, pretty well intact. I also recommend Palahniuk's 'Survivor' and 'Choke'. In a nutshell, Survivor is a treatise on fame, and how it isolates celebrities from the real world, while Choke makes a comparison between religion and sex. On the surface, Survivor is about the lone survivor of a death cult, who finds fame as a televangelist. Choke is about a guy who pretends to choke on food, allowing other people to step in, "save" him, and be heroes. He keeps up correspondence with them, in which he lies about falling on hard times, and since they feel responsible for his life, the theory is that they'll send him money. Oh yeah... this guy may or may not be the second coming of Christ. :) Regards, Corporate Dog | |
Vicious wrote:
Please post your favorite book, any type and include a summary. Favorite book, bar none: Lord of the Rings. I read it every year. I read a lot more sci-fi than other genres. (I haven't done much reading in quite a while, though.) My favorites on that list: [EDIT] I forgot a few but they belong right here: Jinx on a Terran Inheritance - Brian Daley: This is the second in a very enjoyable trilogy of adventure sci-fi novels. My mother had picked this one up at a yard sale with some other books back when I was reading voraciously, and I fell in love with this one; it stands alone well but the whole trilogy is fun. The story is about a middle-aged Terran bureaucrat named Hobart Floyt who leaves xenophobic, isolated Earth to claim an inheritance from the ruler of several star systems; he's sent along with a companion, Alacrity Fitzhugh, who's a young breakabout spacer from offworld who got shanghaied into helping Floyt out. In this second book, they travel from the funeral to where Floyt must claim his inheritance. This book is just fun all around--one of my absolute favorites. (The first book is Requiem For a Ruler of Worlds; the third is Fall of the White Ship Avatar. All three are out of print but they're worth the trouble to track down.) Citizen of the Galaxy - Robert A. Heinlein: A young boy is sold in a slave market; unwanted by the crowd, he's bought for a pittance by a beggar who raises him like a son. The story takes turns from there, in which the boy eventually has to leave this home and take up with a clan of Free Traders--and there's more from there. It's hard to summarize the book without giving too much away, but it's a good one. Tunnel in the Sky - Robert A. Heinlein: Before Lord of the Flies, there was this story of a high school outlands survival class gone wrong. Students from several classes go through gates to an unknown planet for survival course that lasts about a week--but when retrieval time comes, no gate ever appears. The students are forced to band together to survive in their new environment. It's a tale of a hero using his wits to survive, but it's also a tale of civilization. And it's short. Dune - Frank Herbert: It is to sci-fi what Lord of the Rings is to fantasy. A great, epic story of human potential, power struggle, and the rise of an oppressed people. I find the book especially fascinating for its imagery; reading it, you can picture everything clearly, and characters and their surroundings come to vivid life. Neuromancer - William Gibson: Pretty much the original cyberpunk novel. This is the story of a matrix cowboy (i.e., like a hacker but cool) who's on his last legs, having been put out of work by his former employers who damaged his nervous system. He falls in with a mysterious ex-special forces guy and a flashy but deadly girl named Molly who promise they can restore him--so that he can help with a particular job. A very good read. Gateway - Frederick Pohl: I love this book mostly for the sense of wonder it inspires. In the future, humans have discovered an asteroid/space station orbiting the sun at 90 degrees out of the ecliptic; in it is a fleet of small ships left behind by a race humans simply call the Heechee. The ships are childishly simple to operate; basically they just go to one of many pre-programmed destinations and return. Humans who have nothing to lose go out in these ships and hope to find things--more discarded technology, scientific curiosities (worth bonuses), habitable worlds. Most come back empty-handed; some strike it rich; some die or never come back. Earth - David Brin: Brin is perhaps better known for his Uplift novels (Startide Rising is another good one), but I like Earth quite a bit, in spite of all the silly way-overblown environmentalism. It's an epic novel covering lots of characters, but basically the plot begins with and centers around a microscopic black hole that's fallen into the planet. When the attempts to find the monster get going, the scientist behind the project discovers something unexpected, and much worse. Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars (the Mars trilogy) - Kim Stanley Robinson: Filled with lots and lots of hard science, this trilogy explores the colonization and transformation of Mars. The storyline spans about 200 years, and an interesting array of characters. Definitely worth the time to check out. Lummox JR | |
Stranger in a Strange Land had a tremendous impact on me as a teenager. I still read it every few years. My old yellowing paperback now has a homemade cardboard cover. ;)
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