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Title: Favorite Books
Post by: phosphorush on August 07, 2014, 06:35:41 PM
My list (not in order):

Non-Fiction:

Godel, Escher, Bach - Hofstadter (probably the favorite cause it gives so many tools for understanding so many things)
Will to Power - Nietzsche
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations - Wittgenstein
On the Principle of Sufficient Reason - Schopenhauer
The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene
Ethics - Spinoza
Selfish Gene - Dawkins

Fiction:

Chants of Maldoror - Isidore Ducasse (probably the best one, it's just awesome, never seen such well written text anywhere else)
1984 - Orwell
Book of the Disquiet - F. Pessoa
Brave New World - Huxley


Title: Re: Favorite Books
Post by: marryXmas on August 08, 2014, 03:02:43 AM
My favorite childhood book was "holes"

I also enjoy the harry potter books.


Title: Re: Favorite Books
Post by: leezay on August 08, 2014, 03:08:37 AM
Children of Dune series was good.

Games of thrones not bad either.


Title: Re: Favorite Books
Post by: marky89 on August 08, 2014, 07:23:51 AM
Animal Farm is an old favorite of mine. also always liked Shade's Children. Ender's Game.


Title: Re: Favorite Books
Post by: jillkelly on August 08, 2014, 07:28:09 AM
i'm a big Ray Bradbury fan. Fahrenheit 451 for the win!!


Title: Re: Favorite Books
Post by: strijelac2311 on August 08, 2014, 07:53:59 AM
My favorite childhood book was " Harry potter ( I like to see/ read book and now )  , and now  my favorit book is The Lord of the Rings!

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Title: Re: Favorite Books
Post by: phosphorush on August 08, 2014, 03:05:44 PM
Harry Potter really? :o


Title: Re: Favorite Books
Post by: badykvik on August 08, 2014, 03:11:12 PM
Books from writer Coelho and Dan brown


Title: Re: Favorite Books
Post by: BowieMan on August 08, 2014, 03:26:58 PM
Brave New World... phew, that's some serious stuff right there. Did you see the movie adaptation? Spock is in it!!!!! I like the Harry Potter series. Yeah, I know, lame, but it brings back my childhood and I really liked reading those books! I don't think there's anything wrong with that :D


Title: Re: Favorite Books
Post by: ihuntbtc on August 08, 2014, 03:47:58 PM
playboy magazine


Title: Re: Favorite Books
Post by: trattrat on August 08, 2014, 03:58:27 PM
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson my all time favorite.


Title: Re: Favorite Books
Post by: BowieMan on August 08, 2014, 04:12:05 PM
i'm a big Ray Bradbury fan. Fahrenheit 451 for the win!!

Didn't he want to call that differently. 451 is the temperature when books begin to catch fire! But I don't want to spoiler anyone how this may or may not have to do with the story of the book!


Title: Re: Favorite Books
Post by: Sunderland on August 08, 2014, 04:27:32 PM
all book from author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Agatha Christie , Enid Blyton.
im addicted about detective story


Title: Re: Favorite Books
Post by: railzand on August 08, 2014, 05:10:30 PM
Neal Stephenson


Title: Re: Favorite Books
Post by: ensurance982 on August 08, 2014, 07:13:52 PM
I like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. It's an incredible book. It's about chasing a time that's already gone and looking for something you don't even know exists. Also, you don't know which parts have really happened, and which are purely fictional. Really an incredible book!


Title: Re: Favorite Books
Post by: BitcoinMillionaire on August 08, 2014, 07:21:05 PM
I'm not really such a books-person, to be honest! I rather watch some good movies or party at the club! But you know, back in school this 'Watership Down' book somehow got to me... I mean, man, those rabbits have the same feelings as people do? Are they really that complex??? Hard stuff for children, man!


Title: Re: Favorite Books
Post by: umairsaleem010 on August 08, 2014, 07:23:26 PM
I love ebooks teaching me how to do stuff. I also like to read dictionaries.


Title: Re: Favorite Books
Post by: Errror on August 09, 2014, 09:56:44 PM
read literature of fact, books by professor and scientist, will make you understand why thinks are as they are.


Title: Re: Favorite Books
Post by: u9y42 on August 09, 2014, 10:20:35 PM
playboy magazine

I see you're more visually driven, and don't care that much for the story telling type of books. :D

My favorite books are probably those from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (apart from the sixth book) - great story, beautifully put, and quite imaginative throughout.


Title: Re: Favorite Books
Post by: laitela on August 09, 2014, 10:28:57 PM
Harry potter series is good.


Title: Re: Favorite Books
Post by: jaberwock on August 09, 2014, 11:56:37 PM
Book - Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
I loved this book since I was first given it. Amongst a collection of sci-fi books that I'd been given as a Christmas present this one book stood out the most. The cover was brighter than the rest, so it was to first I picked up to scan through, the blurb made it sound exciting and I sat down to read it and found that I couldn't put it down. I loved the characters, the two storylines of Ender in training and his brother and sister playing politics. It was creepy in places, the game that he played and fascinating how different people manipulated situations to their benefit. I enjoyed the sequels too, but they never came close to the first book.

Author - Garth Nix
As an author that I have enjoyed most of their writing it has been Garth Nix. I again totally judged a book by its cover and picked up Sabriel without even reading the back because Waterstones were offering it 3 for 2 and I needed a third book. I didn't regret the choice. I loved reading Sabriel and bought Lirael and Abhorsen as soon as the were released. I loved the Keys to the Kingdom series, the end of Mister Monday was so freaky that I actually slammed the book shut on the train in fear before getting up the strength to continue reading the last few pages. Of all of them Shade's Children is my favourite, aimed at an older audience than the books he has written before it's a book that I would recommend to anyone that likes Young Adult fiction with a dystopian sci-fi theme.


Title: Re: Favorite Books
Post by: LorettaAndrews on August 10, 2014, 12:48:23 AM
la tahzan book ( don't sad )


Title: Re: Favorite Books
Post by: will777 on August 10, 2014, 06:07:40 AM
Harry Potter really? :o

why not

;D


Title: Re: Favorite Books
Post by: fanboy4 on August 10, 2014, 08:36:34 AM
Grant Cordone, Sell or be sold.


Title: Re: Favorite Books
Post by: bellicose on August 10, 2014, 12:11:38 PM
For me in the past years was opening the craft of Carlitos.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/32/Cc1962.JPG/250px-Cc1962.JPG

I still don't complete reading of all books, but what I have done - is awesome.


Title: Re: Favorite Books
Post by: u9y42 on August 12, 2014, 12:31:46 AM
Animal Farm is an old favorite of mine. also always liked Shade's Children. Ender's Game.

I think Animal Farm will be the next book I read - I hope it's as good as you think it is.

Anyway, did you get to read Orwell's preface to the book? That is, the one that deals with British voluntary self-censorship, that then got censured, adequately enough? :)


Title: Re: Favorite Books
Post by: blumangroup on August 12, 2014, 02:45:09 AM
I don't even know how many times I've read "I Am Legend". Seriously, the ending is just so profound. I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it yet. If you've seen the movie, you should still read it. The movie and the book are about as different as things get.


Title: Re: Favorite Books
Post by: HarmonLi on August 12, 2014, 01:42:14 PM
The Wolf of Wall Street. He really knows how to handle people. When I was younger I always wanted to become as successful as he did. The 80s truly were a magnificent decade to be alive in!


Title: Re: Favorite Books
Post by: catlinhappy on August 12, 2014, 03:40:03 PM
My husband have run mad again.


Title: Re: Favorite Books
Post by: Poorri on August 12, 2014, 04:03:28 PM
1984 - Orwell


Title: Re: Favorite Books
Post by: montello on August 13, 2014, 02:56:44 PM
Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice" i've read it countless times.