Favourite books

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My favourite books are:
Brave new world
1984
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest
The Time Machine
The Picture of Dorian Gray

I also really like reading Tom Stoppard's plays at the moment although I have never seen any of them acted out. I also recently got hold of a book of George Orwell's essays and found them very interesting.

I think I prefer books to people, sometimes.

Does anyone else like reading? if so, what are your favourite books?

My favourite books:

Moscow-Petushki
The Master and Margarita
Moby-Dick
The Stranger (by Camus)
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (by Dostoevsky)

I also really enjoy reading Joseph Heller (the guy who wrote Catch-22, God Knows, and a bunch of others that, in my opinion, are good as well).

Just finished reading Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying. I really enjoy his writing, but I was not impressed with that book--I do have to agree with you that 1984 was good, and his essays are amazing.

I can ramble on about books, and there are so many more I want to read.

As a tangent, I'm the opposite with poetry. Most poems, I do not enjoy, and there are only a few exceptions.

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick. And I just started reading it!

here's a few i've liked


the myth of freedom -- chogyam trungpa rinpoche

taltos -- anne rice

brave new world (me too!) -- aldous huxley

an instance of the fingerpost -- ?

mipham -- very old tibetan novel, translated, based on the gesar of ling mythology

franny and zooey -- jd salinger

odd john -- olaf stapleton (also starmaker, same author)

East of Eden, John Steinbeck
Native Son, Richard Wright
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
(Pretty much all of Evelyn Waugh's novels)

i just saw about starting "do androids dream of electric sheep"

he also has an awesome trilogy (book one, valis; book three, the transmigration of timothy archer; i forget the middle one's name).

not only is valis a fascinating read, i felt there was a real experience behind it (unlikely as that may seem) and actually wrote him. i got back a letter from his agent saying dick had just died that week. this was years ago, in sf (dick lived in oakland).

much, much later i happened to see an interview with mr. dick on pbs or something. and guess what? valis is indeed based on an incredible experience that changed dick's life (and probably gave us his later, better books).

A lot of those books look really interesting! I think I might have to buy The Stranger, East of Eden, and The Myth of Freedom. They all sound like the kind of books I would like to read. Thank you, guys!

I could never get into Catch 22. Maybe I'm just not smart enough

Do Android's Dream Of Electric Sheep sounds interesting too. What is it about?

I love poetry, but they have to have some kind of rhyme scheme and rhythm, usually. I'm not thick, I know that poems don't HAVE to rhyme, I just prefer the orderliness and rhythm to it when they do. I like to be able to walk and recite poems in my head in time to my walking.

Confederacy of Dunces-John Kennedy Toole
What's Bred In The Bone-Robertson Davies
Water Music-T.C. Boyle
Oryx and Crake-Margaret Atwood
I Know This Much Is True-Wally Lamb
The Famished Road-Ben Okri
The Sea of Fertility(4 books)-Yukio Mishima
Something Happened-Joseph Heller
East of Eden-John Steinbeck
Big Chief Elizabeth-Giles Martin (non fiction)
The Viceroy of Ouidah-Bruce Chatwin (nf)
The Noonday Demon-Andrew Solomon (nf)
The Essential Zohar-Rav P.S. Berg (nf)

those are just a few.

The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time
Blue Bottle Mystery
Of Mice And Aliens
Lisa And The Lacemaker
Haze!
Of Mice And Men
Captain Underpants

Red Shift - Alan Garner

To the point of obsession.

Also:

Dhalgren - Samuel Delany

Ash - Mary Gentle

Against a Dark Background - Iain Banks

Would probably be at the top of the list if I had to evacuate my bookshelf in a hurry.

I enjoy reading the works of Charles Dickens.

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the movie bladerunner

was based on "do androids dream of electric sheep."

this cool thread reminds me of more books i've loved:


jersey thursday -- steinbeck

breakfast of champions -- kurt vonnegut jr

illuminati trilogy (satire) -- robert anton wilson

the man who mistook his wife for a hat -- ?

the holographic universe -- michael talbot ( i *think*)

wake up to your life -- ?

gaudy night -- dorothy sayers

household saints -- mary gordon

Iguanyin - thanks, but I would have been more likely to read the book than see the film! With a few exceptions, I don't really watch movies.

Most of the books by Stephen King
(To name some: The Dark Tower series, Duma Key, The Stand, Cell, some of the short stories from Everything's Eventual)
And Dean Koontz.
(Some: From the Corner of His Eye, By the Light of the Moon, The Face, Odd Thomas, Brother Odd, Forever Odd).
The Lionboy trilogy by "Zizou Corder".
The Harry Potter books.
Some of the Dark-Hunter books.