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Cassiel

Cassiel

Aurora, CO
September 2004

OCT 20, 2007 09:04 PM

just like the similar thread in Music

The Great Gatsby/F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas/Hunter S. Thompson
1984/George Orwell
Inferno/Dante
American Psycho/Bret Easton Ellis


honorable mentions:

The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare: The Complete Works Annotated
Heart of Darkness/Joseph Conrad
The Stand (Uncut Edition)/Stephen King
Imajica/Clive Barker
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things/J.T. LeRoy

Rafi

Rafi

Santa Monica, CA
January 2003

OCT 20, 2007 09:13 PM

The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky
Sculpting in Time by Andrei Tarkovsky

juvenilemutant

juvenilemutant

Australia
December 2004

OCT 20, 2007 09:18 PM

I don't tend to re-read books they same way I listen to music over and over
and would probably go out and buy 5 new books before I started collecting
old favourites. Having said that....

Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
Day After Tomorrow - Robert Folsom (not related to the movie - thank fuck)
Galilee - Clive Barker (or almost any book by Clive)
Time Enough For Love - Robert Heinlein
The Killing Floor - Lee Child

Despite (or maybe because of) having worked in book shops for 14 years
my literary tastes are quite shallow. smile

Jule

Jule

Pompano Beach, FL
September 2004

OCT 20, 2007 09:27 PM

Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut
A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality - John R. Perry
Delta of Venus - Anias Nin
The Witching Hour - Anne Rice
War and Peace - Tolstoy

I'm not claiming to have read W&P cover to cover. It's just a good book to have around for various reasons.

juvenilemutant

juvenilemutant

Australia
December 2004

OCT 20, 2007 09:58 PM

Jule said:
Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut
A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality - John R. Perry
Delta of Venus - Anias Nin
The Witching Hour - Anne Rice
War and Peace - Tolstoy

I'm not claiming to have read W&P cover to cover. It's just a good book to have around for various reasons.



Like keeping doors open or reaching things on the top shelf? biggrin

NoPantsDave

NoPantsDave

Cincinnati, OH
OLD SKOOL

OCT 20, 2007 10:01 PM

I may just kill myself instead. I cannot even imagine losing my books.

Jule

Jule

Pompano Beach, FL
September 2004

OCT 20, 2007 10:17 PM

juvenilemutant said:

Jule said:
Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut
A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality - John R. Perry
Delta of Venus - Anias Nin
The Witching Hour - Anne Rice
War and Peace - Tolstoy

I'm not claiming to have read W&P cover to cover. It's just a good book to have around for various reasons.



Like keeping doors open or reaching things on the top shelf? biggrin



Pretty much. It's good for quotes (I've got a future tattoo planned around one from it) and it's good for throwing at jackasses.

Formus

Formus

Milwaukee, WI
May 2007

OCT 20, 2007 10:30 PM

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Johnny Got His Gun
Grapes of Wrath
Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West
Slaughterhouse-Five

Five absolutely depressing novels.

juvenilemutant

juvenilemutant

Australia
December 2004

OCT 20, 2007 10:49 PM

Jule said:
Pretty much. It's good for quotes (I've got a future tattoo planned around one from it) and it's good for throwing at jackasses.



Ducks

JennyLou

JennyLou

Danvers, MA
December 2002

OCT 20, 2007 11:02 PM

My Ántonia -Willa Cather
The Complete Works of Kate Chopin
The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Red Tent- Anita Diamant
Peach & Blue- Sarah S. Kilborne

joker_

joker_

Minneapolis, MN
October 2005

OCT 20, 2007 11:17 PM

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy-D.Adams
Lestat the vampire-A.Rice.
Steppenwolf- H.Hesse
Brothers Karamazov- F.Dostoevsky
Cats Cradle- K.Vonnegut

Honorable mention:

The Great Gatsby- F.S.Fitzgerald
Dangerous Angels (Weetzie Bat books)- F.L.Block
Siddartha- H.Hesse
Ishmael- D.Quinn
Imajica- C.Barker

And the usuals, complete works of Shakespeare, Poe and a whole group of others that makes a long, long list.

BellyJack

BellyJack

I'm lost
May 2005

OCT 20, 2007 11:34 PM

First, I'd go looking for the blood trail of the idiot who stole my library; we're talking thousands of pounds of books, and he'd have blown a gasket getting them out of here.

Only five? Gotta go with stories I've re-read multiple times for enjoyment (if this were an apocalyptic scenario the list would lean heavily towards technical references) ... hmmm

Shakespeare (any complete collection of his works)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (anthology) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Dune - Frank Herbert
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

Jule

Jule

Pompano Beach, FL
September 2004

OCT 20, 2007 11:59 PM

juvenilemutant said:

Jule said:
Pretty much. It's good for quotes (I've got a future tattoo planned around one from it) and it's good for throwing at jackasses.



Ducks




Don't worry, my aim is shite.

RedBstrd

RedBstrd

Riverside, CA
April 2004

OCT 21, 2007 12:15 AM

The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Georgian Feast (cookbook)
The Prophet Armed by Isaac Deutscher
The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: a People's History by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja

everthere

everthere

Belgium
June 2004

OCT 21, 2007 01:11 AM

Lunar Park - Bret Easton Ellis
Last Exit To Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jr
1984 - George Orwell
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please - Raymond Carver
Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami

juvenilemutant

juvenilemutant

Australia
December 2004

OCT 21, 2007 01:27 AM

Jule said:

juvenilemutant said:

Jule said:
Pretty much. It's good for quotes (I've got a future tattoo planned around one from it) and it's good for throwing at jackasses.



Ducks




Don't worry, my aim is shite.



Thats fine but I'm still not cleared of being a Jackass

biggrin

Jule

Jule

Pompano Beach, FL
September 2004

OCT 21, 2007 10:25 AM

juvenilemutant said:

Jule said:

juvenilemutant said:

Jule said:
Pretty much. It's good for quotes (I've got a future tattoo planned around one from it) and it's good for throwing at jackasses.



Ducks




Don't worry, my aim is shite.



Thats fine but I'm still not cleared of being a Jackass

biggrin




I don't know you well enough to determine if you are or if you aren't. I could always go with the argument that you are a man so you must be, but I'll be fair. State your case! wink

juvenilemutant

juvenilemutant

Australia
December 2004

OCT 21, 2007 02:07 PM

I am completely unprepared. For now I am happy to have books thrown at me, I crave the attention wink

If a man says something
And a woman isn't around to hear it,
Is he still wrong?

Cigarette

Cigarette

Cleveland, OH
April 2004

OCT 21, 2007 02:14 PM

Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut
The Tao Te Ching
The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
Brockett's History of Theatre

Kleio

Kleio

Winona, MN
January 2006

OCT 21, 2007 02:48 PM

To Reign in Hell - Steven Brust
The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester
Orca - Steven Brust
Virtual Unrealities - Alfred Bester
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

This isn't even fair. I'm so close to having every book by Brust, Bester, and Pratchett, to only be able to choose five is ... unthinkable.

Jule

Jule

Pompano Beach, FL
September 2004

OCT 21, 2007 04:41 PM

juvenilemutant said:
I am completely unprepared. For now I am happy to have books thrown at me, I crave the attention wink

If a man says something
And a woman isn't around to hear it,
Is he still wrong?



yes, yes he is. wink

SockPuppet

SockPuppet

I'm lost
July 2006

OCT 21, 2007 05:38 PM

Collins English Dictionary.
Chambers Biographical Dictionary.
Richard Mabey, Flora Britannica.
Oliver Rackham, The Illustrated History Of The Countryside.
Samuel R Delany, Driftglass.

That was hard. The first two were easy, but after that...


Priapos

priapos

San Angelo, TX
October 2005

OCT 21, 2007 06:40 PM

Liber ABA Aleister Crowley,
Tao Te Ching Lao Tzu,
The Best Recipe from Cooks Illustrated,
The oldest edition of The Joy of Cooking that I could find, and
Some new science fiction novel to take my mind off being robbed.

Garfieldsghost

garfieldsghost

Ireland
May 2007

OCT 21, 2007 07:30 PM

Jack Kerouac - On the Road
Hunter S Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Joseph Heller - Catch 22
Charles Bukowski - Post Office
Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front

Honorable Mentions:
F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
J D Sallinger - The Catcher in the Rye
Robert Mason - Chickenhawk
William S Borroughs - Naked Lunch
Ernst Jünger - Storm of Steel

Phew, that was tough! I thought it would be easy to pick favourites... but it isn't!

wheezy_e

wheezy_e

Boulder City, NV
April 2004

OCT 21, 2007 08:29 PM

Toilers of The Sea - Victor Hugo
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
Tropic of Cancer - Miller
A History of Christian Thought - Tillich
The Bible - a nice reproduction of The Luther Bible since I never really read it anyhow.

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