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05-01-2005, 10:40 AM
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Hello I am just curiose which books people use to read EXCEPT AD&D and D&D based books. Write your ten top list over you most favorite book!
I shall begin:
1. Patrick Süskind ''Parfumere - story about a murder''
2. J.R.R. Tolkien ''The Lord of the Rings'' - triology
3. Robert Stone ''Hazard's Price''
4. Sir Arthur Connan Doyil - all books about Sherlock Holmes
5. Julia Jones ''The Bakers boy''
6. Franz Kafka ''The Process''
7. Alexander Duma ''Fourty Five''
8. Julia Jones '''The Cavern of the Black Ice''
9. Joanna Hmelevskaya ''Romance of the Century''
10. Georgij Danelia ''Passenger without a ticket''
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05-01-2005, 11:40 AM
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I don't read fantasy books. I cannot name my top 10 books since the top 10 would differ much depending on genre, but here are 10 of my favorites:
Aeschylus - Agamemnon
The Damascus Chronicles - Ibn Al Qualanisi
King Lear - William Shakespeare
The Countress of Pembroke's Arcadia - sir Philip Sidney
Ulysses - James Joyce
Quiet Don - Michail Sholokov
The Decay of the Angel (The Sea of Fertility tetralogy) - Yukio Mishima
Jorge Luis Borges - any collection including the Library of Babel.
Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
A Suitable Boy - Vikham Seth
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05-01-2005, 12:16 PM
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| | I don't really have the powers of memory to be definitive about these things, but here's a list of 10 that I remember loving, including some short stories:
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
like CE, any Borges collection including the Library of Babel
The Plague - Albert Camus
Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien
any collection of Kafka including the Burrow
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
The Magic Puddin' - Norman Lindsay 
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05-01-2005, 05:02 PM
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I would as soon read an AD&D book as I would shove an icepick into my brainpan.
Malraux: The Voices of Silence
Herodotus: The Histories
Italo Calvino: anything
James Branch Cabell: Jurgen
Yeats: any collection of his poetry
A. Huxley: Point Counterpoint
Voltaire: Candide
Montaigne: The Essays
Aristophanes: Lysistrata
Virgil: The Aeneid
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05-01-2005, 07:36 PM
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Off the top of my head and in no particular order...
Michael Dibden: The entire Aurelio Zen detective fiction series
Hemmingway: Anything
Iain Banks: Anything
Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov
Balzac: Anything
Umberto Eco: Foucault's Pendulum, The Name of the Rose
Emile Zola: In particular, La Faute de L'Abbe Mouret and Le Ventre de Paris. I like all of his work though.
Isabel Allende: The House of Spirits
Diane Ackerman: A Natural History of the Senses
Shakespeare: Henry V
Tolkien: LOTR
Cormack McCarthy: Blood Meridian
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05-01-2005, 08:05 PM
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Here's mine, but not in order- I couldn't decide:
China Mieville- Perdido Street Station
China Mieville- The Scar
Rob Grant- Incompetence
Terry Pratchett- Night Watch
Richard Morgan- Altered Carbon
Homer- The Odyssey
Frank Miller- The Sin City series
Chad Michael Ward- Black Rust
Eric Lustbader- The Ninja
Stephen Hawking- A Brief History of Time (no really)
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05-01-2005, 11:37 PM
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Heh - it has been a long time since I've read something other then computer/programming books.
And I've never read through books (for fun) that I don't like anyway so would have to list most of what I've read anyways  So I couldn't really say which of the books from back then was my favorites/top list.
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05-02-2005, 12:34 AM
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Originally Posted by C Elegans I don't read fantasy books. | It doesn't have to be fantasy books
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Originally Posted by The Chosen One It doesn't have to be fantasy books | I think she was only making a point based on the obsession some people have (not necessarily you) with fantasy literature.
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05-02-2005, 01:32 AM
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well here are some from me
dont have a rating
The Riftwar saga(trilogy)
the cycle of fire(trilogy)
the farseer(trilogy)
isfolket(norwagian books..it's a serie with 47 books!)
heksemesteren(isfolket continues..14 books)
lysets rike(and the last part.. 17books)
LOTR
The other feist books
some terry prathcet(sp?) books
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05-02-2005, 02:19 AM
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Originally Posted by The Chosen One Hello I am just curiose which books people use to read EXCEPT AD&D and D&D based books. Quote: |
Originally Posted by C Elegans I don't read fantasy books. | | It was in response to your inititial statement what books people read except AD&D and D&D books, as if everybody read AD&D and D&D books!  I'd rather read the phonebook than a book based on AD&D or D&D.
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05-02-2005, 04:33 AM
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I just wanted to add some more books on my list:
Moa Martinsson - Mor gifter sig (swedish book)
Nikolaj Erdman - Pis'ma (russian book)
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05-02-2005, 10:45 AM
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Since you asked... I came up with 10, then added 2 more
Virgil- The Aenid
Robert Pirsig- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (and the sequel, Lila)
Federico Garcia Lorca- Romance Sonambulo
Plato- I'll just say Collected Works- PM me about dialogues if it really matters
Hemmingway- The Sun Also Rises
Bill Waterston- The Calvin and Hobbes series
Steven Pressfield- Gates of Fire
Edward Abbey- Desert Solitaire
Gabriel Garcia Marquez- One Hundred Years of Solitude
Erich Maria Remarque- All Quiet on the Western Front
Tim O'Brien- The Things They Carried
Robert F. Jones- Slade's Glacier (the best book I've never read)
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05-02-2005, 11:29 AM
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Originally Posted by C Elegans I'd rather read the phonebook than a book based on AD&D or D&D. | Why is that? Same question goes to Fable.
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05-02-2005, 11:46 AM
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It's too hard for me to name my faves really. A lot of the stuff already mentioned.
Anything by William Gibson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Thompson, and indeed most things he wrote.
Several PJ O'Rourke books that would make many of you vomit. Not the least of which is Parliament of Whores: A Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire US Government. 
Also, @fable, didn't you used to play D&D? DO you now dislike it, or were you referring to fiction that is based on the game?
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