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20 Aug 2011, 9:10 pm

I am re-reading all the Sherlock Holmes stories. What book(s) are you reading? What is your favorite book, or if that's an impossible question, what are your top four or five favorite books?
Tolkien's Lord of the Ring series
Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series
A Wrinkle in Time
Winter in the Blood
various poems too many to list

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20 Aug 2011, 9:20 pm

Currently reading Witch and Wizard by James Patterson.

My top 5:
J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series
Christopher Paolini's The Inheritance Cycle
Judge and Jury by James Patterson
House Rules by Jodi Picolut
The Client by John Grisham

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20 Aug 2011, 9:29 pm

You want me to choose the top 5?

Not the top 50 or 20 or 10, but 5?

It's wrong. It's WRONG!

Here's my list. It's subject to change 15 seconds after I post it

A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick
Ubik - Philip K. Dick
Ripley's Game - Patricia Highsmith
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
Dracula - Bram Stoker

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20 Aug 2011, 10:03 pm

I'm particularly fond of Christopher Pike. So fond of his books, in fact, that I named my son Christopher. :lol:

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20 Aug 2011, 10:08 pm

Various books on Christian mysticism, Astrology and Larry Niven's Ringworld for entertainment. It's okay, but it's really just a bunch of things happening to some space people on a big thing in space. Which is kinda like my life when I think about it.

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20 Aug 2011, 10:18 pm

A Short History of Nearly Everything.

It's quite fun.

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21 Aug 2011, 1:54 am

I suppose were talking fiction here...

* Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
* Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
* On the Road - Jack Kerouac
* The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemmingway
* One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

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21 Aug 2011, 1:55 am

Jory wrote:

A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick
Ubik - Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick is pretty much the only science fiction author I like. Though I must admit I have only read his short stories.

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21 Aug 2011, 2:11 am

Not a big fan of fiction to be honest. Though anything Michael Lewis publishes goes in my library as soon as it's released.

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21 Aug 2011, 2:46 am

FearOfMusic wrote:

Jory wrote:

A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick
Ubik - Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick is pretty much the only science fiction author I like. Though I must admit I have only read his short stories.

People tend to think I'm a big science fiction fan because Dick is my favorite author, but I rarely read science fiction from other writers, and it's even more rare for me to enjoy science fiction from other writers. He doesn't really care about the science. He's less concerned with how the androids in his stories are built and more concerned with what it means that they exist. Philosophical science fiction, I guess you could call it.

If you enjoy his short stories, you'll love his novels. The short stories aren't bad, but they're not his best work. They're simple, like Twilight Zone episodes, and he doesn't give himself enough room to breathe. I would recommend any of the first four novels that were collected by the Library of America: The Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, or Ubik.

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21 Aug 2011, 3:34 am

Jory wrote:

Yeah, I think Philip K. Dick wanted to be more of a philosopher than a sci-fi writer. One of my favorite short stories (though I can't recall the name) is the one with a robot sent to Earth with a bomb inside it. And it is designed to explode with a certain trigger, which ends up being when the robot realizes it is not human, great ending to a story.

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If you enjoy his short stories, you'll love his novels. The short stories aren't bad, but they're not his best work. They're simple, like Twilight Zone episodes, and he doesn't give himself enough room to breathe. I would recommend any of the first four novels that were collected by the Library of America: The Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, or Ubik.

I own the Library of America collection for Philip K. Dick, I just have gotten around to reading it yet.

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21 Aug 2011, 6:13 am

Top 5 Books (Fiction)

Duncton Wood - William Horwood
Elidor - Alan Garner
Davita's Harp - Chaim Potok
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
Voyage to Venus (Perelandra) - CS Lewis

Top 5 Books (Non-Fiction)

Night - Elie Wiesel
The Screwtape Letters - CS Lewis
If This is a Man - Primo Levi
My Family and Other Animals - Gerald Durrell
My Sweet Lord - Kim Knott

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21 Aug 2011, 11:27 am

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by philip k. Dick
The Ship Who Searched by Anne McCaffrey and Mercedes Lackey
Regenesis by C.J.Cherryh
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Moonwar by Ben Bova

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21 Aug 2011, 12:26 pm

Anything by John McPhee - especially Assembling California and The Control of Nature

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21 Aug 2011, 1:54 pm

FearOfMusic wrote:

That's "Impostor." The ending is great. "Wait, if that's Spencer Olham, then I'm..." BOOM. Like I said, they're like Twilight Zone episodes. Simple stories with a good twist at the end. There isn't much room for a lot of brilliance. The novels are where he really soars. If you read the Library of America books, I suggest starting with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? or Ubik instead of The Man in the High Castle or The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, but it's up to you.

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21 Aug 2011, 6:32 pm

I am reading percy jackson and the lightning thief, aspergirls, and harry potter and the goblet of fire.

harry potter is my favorite book series of all time.

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