Favourite books
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.
Oliver Sacks?
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They leave behind so many shadows. This substance in time forced into life,
still exists because it's here: living in me, living in all the memories, in my life.
Lost inside blank infinity.
Flavors of: Nobody. Slytherin. Autistic.
Some of my favourites (in no particular order):
*Blindness - Jose Saramago
*The Lord of the Rings (I count them even though I haven't fully finished them yet)
*The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy in five parts (six parts now if you count the new one, I haven't read it yet though)
*The Red Dwarf books
*1984 - George Orwell
*Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
*The World Without Us - Alan Weisman
*I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
*The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
*House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
*The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
*The Arrival - Shaun Tan
*One - Richard Bach
I also have a lot of favourite books that aren't fiction but I think this thread meant fiction. I'll only mention two because they're worth mentioning:
*The Book of General Ignorance
*The Book of Animal Ignorance
They're quite interesting
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
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat was written by Oliver Sacks, a neurologist. He was the doctor Robin Williams played in Awakenings. I think his Anthropologist On Mars is based on Temple Grandin.
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Yeah... I've posted this elsewhere but I think Do Androids/Blade Runner is one of the few times when the movie is better than the book (25th anniversary Final Cut is great).
And, I firmly believe that empathy is what separates human beings from human animals, aspie or not.... just my opinion.
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I love Frederik Pohl's Gateway series, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon is probably the best of the series.
The problem is that there appears to be no way to usefully control these craft, to set their course to a known destination, or to determine what course is to be followed. All that would-be pilots can do is to randomly set the controls and hope that, firstly, the craft will firstly reach an interesting destination, and secondly, and more importantly, that the craft will return, as they do automatically, before the human-provided life-support systems give out.
So spacecraft go out from Gateway, returning after days or months, with crew alive or frequently dead, and sometimes, but rarely, with treasure discovered.
Desperate adventurers from Earth travel to Gateway, and then venture out on the ships seeking their fortune. Most die, some hang on taking safer missions only when their funds are exhausted, and the very, very few make the big strike to find something of incalculable value.
Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising an account of WWIII NATO v Warsaw Pact set in the late 80s is awesome!
Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird is an extremely disturbing account of a young boy's life in Poland during WWII. I'm gonna take a class in holocaust lit. next term just so I can write a paper on it!! !
A couple more honorable mentions:
Harry Harrison's West of Eden series, about dinosaurs evolving in tandem with man.
and Iain Banks Wasp Factory, I just cracked that book open the other day, but it promises to be a great, creepy and disturbing read! Iain Banks Culture series is great too, if you like space opera...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series
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Seconded! Wasp Factory is great.
What I love is books where you get inside someone's head totally and all their thoughts. I think that is important for an aspie because it makes it easier to follow the motivations. That's why I love the likes of Dostoyevsky and Aldous Huxley - their works are totally from inside the main character's heads.
Seconded! Wasp Factory is great.
What I love is books where you get inside someone's head totally and all their thoughts. I think that is important for an aspie because it makes it easier to follow the motivations. That's why I love the likes of Dostoyevsky and Aldous Huxley - their works are totally from inside the main character's heads.
I'm going to try and find that one at the library today.
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The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Westing Game; forgot who the author was
Night by Elie Wiesel
Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare
House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The Tell-Tale Heart and The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
These are all I can think of off the top of my head. I also recall reading The Scarlet Letter and it was okay, but not exactly one of my favorites.
I've been wanting to post something to this thread, but I couldn't really think of any books that I would consider "favorites." I gave it some thought, though, and there are a couple of books that I have read and re-read repeatedly, so I'll mention those.
On Love and Barley, Basho
It's a collection of Basho's poetry. He's a 17th century Japanese poet who wrote in haiku (I think he is also credited with developing, or at least popularizing, the form...please correct me if I'm wrong). It's a small book, and it often rode in a coat pocket when I was out and about. It's nearly worn out, and I'll probably have to buy another copy.
The Outsider, Colin Wilson
Wilson wrote an analysis of "The Outsider," a person who exists outside the mainstream of society and perceives, thinks, and feels things differently than those around him/her, using people like Nietzsche, Van Gogh, Kafka, Najinksy, and Dostoevsky as examples. For much of the book I felt like I was reading about myself, except the author was articulating how I felt much better than I ever could. I've been reading this book since well before I'd ever heard of Asperger's. I used to read this book every year or so.
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Me too, A Christmas Carol is my favorite, however I like his others as well.
Also enjoy the works of Twain, Shakespeare and Doyle.
Harry Potter Series
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I listed fiction books I enjoy, however I spend just as much time, if not more, reading science texts (medical/biological mainly).
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I'm in the middle of The Picture of Dorian Gray, it's good so far.
My favorite book is The Golden Compass. (And the rest of the trilogy, but especially the first.)
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Anything by Tolkien.
Anything by Neil Gaiman (do graphic novels count?).
Anything by Storm Constantine, but especially Hermetech and Burying the Shadow.
The Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis.
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo.
The His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman.
Always Coming Home by Ursula LeGuin.
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac.
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
Perfume by Patrick Susskind.
Waxwings and Surveillance by Jonathan Raban.
Anything in the Frank Corso series by G. M. Ford.
Dancers at the End of Time by Michael Moorcock.
The Book of Dave by Will Self.
Millennium by John Varley.
Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon.
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. (Did someone mention Oryx and Crake? I liked that too, but I couldn't work out why it got such crap reviews.)
To be honest, most of what I read is non-fiction, depending on what I'm into at the time, but those are some consistent fiction favorites.
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