Favourites among fiction

Grey_Wolf · 10-04-2003, 06:25 AM

Kipling's The Jungle Books
Shute's A Town Like Alice
Burnett's A little Princess
Burnett's The Secret Garden
Auel's The Earth's Children-series (the first four)
F. MacDonald's The Pyrates
W. Strieber's Warday
W. Strieber's The Wild
P. Theroux's The Kingdom by the sea
R. Pilcher's The Shellseekers

McCullough's Rome-series might just be added to this list after I've read them.

zinnite · 10-04-2003, 08:49 AM

(excluding Tolkien)

Kurt Vonnegut--"God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater"
KV--"Breakfast of Champions"
KV--"Slapstick"
Philip K. Dick--"The Man in the High Castle"
PKD--"A Scanner Darkly"
James Joyce--"A Potrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
Eugene Zamiatin--"We"
Jack Womack--"Random Acts of Senseless Violence"
Jonathan Lethem--"Gun, With Occasional Music"
William Gibson--"Neuromancer"
Joseph Heller--"Catch-22"
Don Delillo--"White Noise"
George Orwell--"1984"

***IronParrot*** · 10-06-2003, 01:46 AM

There are actually two really old threads on this subject, Favorite Books and Favourite Novel? but they've both been dead for a good while, and aren't quite as general and encompassing as simply "favourites among fiction", so I'm leaving this thread open.

My contributions: a few immediately come to mind. Interestingly, many of them have been mentioned already.

J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings
Douglas Adams - The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and sequels)
Joseph Heller - Catch-22
Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four
Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions
J.K. Rowling - The Harry Potter series
Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
L. Frank Baum - The Oz series, notably Nos. 1, 3 and 6
Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon
Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep
William Horwood - Duncton Wood (and first two sequels)
Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None
Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey

There are a lot, lot more but these ones are particularly special to me.

Goldberry1 · 10-08-2003, 06:17 PM

besides tolkien...
Willaim Gibson - Pattern Recognition
Anne McCaffrey - The Dragonriders of Pern series
Anne McCaffrey (and a few other authors) - Acorna series
Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials Trilogy
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy (and the other sequels that followed)
JK Rowling - Harry Potter series
Herbie Brennan - Faerie Wars

Shadowfax · 10-08-2003, 07:04 PM

all Tolkien...

Alexandre Dumas...The Count of Monte Cristo
Sir Walter Scott...Ivanhoe
Ken Kesey...One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Chaucer...The Canterbury Tales
Glendon Swarthout...Bless the Beasts and Children

lots more but I'll have to post em later.

sun-star · 10-10-2003, 11:24 AM

I'm bad at making lists like this - I can never remember everything at one time. But the ones I love that I can remember are:

Jane Austen - All six novels, plus fragments and juvenilia
Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisisted
Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'Urbevilles and Far From the Madding Crowd
George Eliot - Middlemarch
C.S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia
Shakespeare - lots, but in particular Hamlet
Various classic children's books, too many to name

Elvellyn · 12-21-2003, 10:05 PM

My English class just finished reading Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. I really liked that.

hectorberlioz · 12-21-2003, 11:34 PM

oh what a nice thread....

J.R.R Tolkien's -"The Lord Of The Rings"
Dostoyevsky-The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoyevsky-The Possessed
Dickens-Great Expectations
Brian Jacques-REDWALL
Timothy Zhan's "The Heir to the Empire Trilogy"
Orson Scott Card- Enders Game.

Mercutio · 03-26-2004, 01:32 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by hectorberlioz
oh what a nice thread....

J.R.R Tolkien's -"The Lord Of The Rings"
Dostoyevsky-The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoyevsky-The Possessed
Dickens-Great Expectations
Brian Jacques-REDWALL
Timothy Zhan's "The Heir to the Empire Trilogy"
Orson Scott Card- Enders Game.

LoTR- of course
Dostoyevsky- planning to read soon, expect to be wonderful
Dickens- I prefer A Tale of Two Cities to Great Expectations (For some reason, the French Revolution captivates me)
Redwall- enjoyable series to read

I would add, being quite brief:
the Scarlet Pimpernel
Three Musketeers
A Separate Peace
Dorothy Sayer's mystery novels
Harry Potter (they are cute!)
To Kill a Mockingbird

10-04-2003, 06:25 AM	#1
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	Favourites among fiction Kipling's The Jungle Books Shute's A Town Like Alice Burnett's A little Princess Burnett's The Secret Garden Auel's The Earth's Children-series (the first four) F. MacDonald's The Pyrates W. Strieber's Warday W. Strieber's The Wild P. Theroux's The Kingdom by the sea R. Pilcher's The Shellseekers McCullough's Rome-series might just be added to this list after I've read them.

10-06-2003, 01:46 AM	#3
*IronParrot* Fowl Administrator Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Calgary or Edmonton, Canada Posts: 53,420	There are actually two really old threads on this subject, Favorite Books and Favourite Novel? but they've both been dead for a good while, and aren't quite as general and encompassing as simply "favourites among fiction", so I'm leaving this thread open. My contributions: a few immediately come to mind. Interestingly, many of them have been mentioned already. J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings Douglas Adams - The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and sequels) Joseph Heller - Catch-22 Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions J.K. Rowling - The Harry Potter series Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland L. Frank Baum - The Oz series, notably Nos. 1, 3 and 6 Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep William Horwood - Duncton Wood (and first two sequels) Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey There are a lot, lot more but these ones are particularly special to me. __________________ All of IronParrot's posts are guaranteed to be 100% intelligent and/or sarcastic, comprising no genetically modified content and tested on no cute furry little animals unless the SPCA is looking elsewhere. If you observe a failure to uphold this warranty, please contact a forum administrator immediately to receive a full refund on your Entmoot registration. Blog: Nick's Café Canadien

10-08-2003, 06:17 PM	#4
Goldberry1 Elven Warrior Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: DC or Delaware, depending on the time of year Posts: 244	besides tolkien... Willaim Gibson - Pattern Recognition Anne McCaffrey - The Dragonriders of Pern series Anne McCaffrey (and a few other authors) - Acorna series Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials Trilogy Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy (and the other sequels that followed) JK Rowling - Harry Potter series Herbie Brennan - Faerie Wars __________________ Oh, your collegiate grief has left you dowdy in sweatshirts, absolute horror!

10-08-2003, 07:04 PM	#5
Shadowfax The Fleet-Footed Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: British Columbia Posts: 913	all Tolkien... Alexandre Dumas...The Count of Monte Cristo Sir Walter Scott...Ivanhoe Ken Kesey...One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Chaucer...The Canterbury Tales Glendon Swarthout...Bless the Beasts and Children lots more but I'll have to post em later. __________________ Jesus saved me "To remain ignorant of things that happened before you were born is to remain a child" (Cicero, 106-43 B.C.) "Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth" (Picasso)

10-10-2003, 11:24 AM	#6
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	I'm bad at making lists like this - I can never remember everything at one time. But the ones I love that I can remember are: Jane Austen - All six novels, plus fragments and juvenilia Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisisted Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'Urbevilles and Far From the Madding Crowd George Eliot - Middlemarch C.S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia Shakespeare - lots, but in particular Hamlet Various classic children's books, too many to name __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

10-04-2003, 08:49 AM	#2
zinnite Elven Warrior Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Lawrence, Kansas, USA Posts: 195	(excluding Tolkien) Kurt Vonnegut--"God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" KV--"Breakfast of Champions" KV--"Slapstick" Philip K. Dick--"The Man in the High Castle" PKD--"A Scanner Darkly" James Joyce--"A Potrait of the Artist as a Young Man" Eugene Zamiatin--"We" Jack Womack--"Random Acts of Senseless Violence" Jonathan Lethem--"Gun, With Occasional Music" William Gibson--"Neuromancer" Joseph Heller--"Catch-22" Don Delillo--"White Noise" George Orwell--"1984"

12-21-2003, 10:05 PM	#7
Elvellyn The Redneck Elf Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: In a house Posts: 539	My English class just finished reading Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. I really liked that. __________________ Oliphants make great pets.

12-21-2003, 11:34 PM	#8
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