Favorite Books/Writings

[Vergil83]

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Just thought I would put up a poll about everyone's favorite books, authors, types, etc..

Fiction
George Orwell: Animal Farm, 1984, Down and Out in Paris and London
Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Douglas Adams

Non Fiction
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Gulag Archipelago(2000 pages but amazing! )
Robert Ingersoll, Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, Benjamin Tucker,

I think my favorite books have just been numerous "entry level" non fiction science books I got when I was a kid from the local library. They really helped me learn to love learning.

[budman7]

Sci-fi/fantasy. I have read almost all of the books in the Dragonlance series.
I also read John Grisham, Michael Crichton and Peter Benchley.
I also have read almost all of the books in the Conan series.
I am not into Isaac Asimov though.

[CoffeeMonster]

George Orwell, Animal Farm
Stephen Hawking, A Brief History Of Time

Two favourite books, one fiction, one that well, Im not at liberty to say.

[mechmaster]

any book really, no real liking book, but i do like thrillers and historical fiction books.

[shalamabobbi]

The first books that I can remember reading... Five Boys in a Cave, Richard Church
and Mark Twain's Huck Finn
In high school I got interested in SciFi.. Anything by Ray Bradbury, also Dune, Hobbit and follow ons..
In College I became interested in non-fictional historical books..
Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, Gibbon
Also loved anything about the Conquistadors-Hernan' Cortez' etc, fights with the Aztecs.. great stuff..
The history of the Mormon Church (from their perspective) though several volumes was fasciinating to me..
Black Like Me, Robert Bonazzi
Serpico, Peter Maas
The only poetic book I've enjoyed.. The Gaucho Martin Fierro by Jose Hernandez
"A son am I of the rolling plain
A gaucho born and bred
And this is my pride; to live as free
As the bird that cleaves the sky" though it sings better in the native tongue..
I enjoy books purporting to be scientific but really Sci-Fi like The Hollow Earth
And stuff (that most people find dry) I like such as Feynman's Lectures on Physics..
Or In Search of Schrodinger's Cat by John Gribbon

[billybeag]

Terry Pratchett makes our world look almost sane
I would like to re read all the asimov I read as a teenager.
I have read everything we have in the house over and over, really we need to donate most of our library to the well erm library I suppose.
Tolkien, David Eddings(though I reread his stuff recently and decided his characters are all fascists), I have read all the Clive Cusslers too, though they got a bit boring.
I read dune while I was ill. One of the best books for atmosphere though was maclean's HMS ullysses, I read it in midsummer as a kid on holiday in Malta and spent all week shivering in the 100 degree + heat.
I just re joined the library recently too, I can't believe how pants they have got in the last 10 years.
For light bedtime reading i have an apache2 book from the library right now. zzzzz
For though provocing, philosophically boring the pants off people I have been reading J.P Proudhon. remember property is theft just like software patents.

[Vergil83]

For though provocing, philosophically boring the pants off people I have been reading J.P Proudhon. remember property is theft just like software patents.

I have to admit, I gave up like half way through What is Property?

[gstuartj]

Tolkien, Bradbury, Arther C. Clark, Robert Heinlein, and George MacDonald. Fav book id Lilith by George MacDonald.

[Dapper Dan]

Since I now have two kids, I don't get to read much anymore. During the many years I WAS able to read, particular favourites included:

History/Biography
"Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" - William Shirer
"John C. Calhoun, an American Portrait" - Margaret L. Coit
"The Last Lion" series (Winston Churchill) - William Manchester
"The Real Lincoln" - Thomas DeLorenzo
"Tom" the unknown Tennessee Williams - Lyle Leverich

Fiction
"The Virginian" - Owen Wister
"To Kill a Mockingbird" - Harper Lee
Anything by Louis L'Amour
Anything by Carson Mc Cullers
Anything by Truman Capote

Favourite Science Fiction writers
Cordwainer Smith
Robert C. Clark
Ray Bradbury
Murray Leinster

[dylunio]

Fiction

Terry Pratchett's Discworld series
George Orwel: 1984, Animal Farm
James Joyce: Ulysses (still battling though this one)
Phillip Pullman: His Dark Materials
Islwyn Fowc Ellis: Cysgod y Cryman
Garth Nix: Sabrial, Liriel, Abhosen

Non-Fiction

Running Linux by O'Reilly

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