Favvy Books anyone?

KK!

So I gave up reading about the time I joined SL, but I missed it and working in a library its kinda hard NOT to wanna read, I love it, I be a bookworm!

So here a few of my fav books and a few lines! SHARE PPL!

A Child Called It - Dave Pelzer

One of my all time favs, disturbing, saddening but makes you realise how truly lucky you are.

Sickened - Julie Gregory

This story of unfathomable child abuse is told with remarkable wit, compassion, and courage.

It Happend to Nancy - Beatrice Sparks

Fourteen-year-old Nancy, an asthmatic, meets 18-year-old Collin, a gentle, caring young man who appears to be the answer to her dreams--until he rapes her, leaving her HIV-infected. In spite of her rapid decline, explained in a note at the beginning of the book, as the result of her weakened immune system, Nancy leads a full, poignantly happy life because of the loving support of both friends and family.

To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

Read it at school, loved it, love the old black and white movie, can read ove rand over again

Whatever Mother Says - Wensley Clarke

A horrific true story of a mother that kills some of her children, in the most horrific way's, after torturing them in all sorts of evil ways, truly disturbing book, makes you wonder whats really going on behind some ppls closed doors..

Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins

Unforgettable, quirky characters, an epic plot and beautiful, funny, insightful language.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Pirsig)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Thompson)
Candide (Voltaire)
Hitchhikers's Guide... *-logy up to, but not including, the Salmon of Doubt (Adams)
The Foundation Trilogy (Asimov)
The Space Trilogy (Lewis)
Ecclesiastes, Proverbs (The [Christian] Bible)
various Hardy Boys, when I was younger (Dixon)
various Encyclopedia Brown, also when I was younger (Sobol)
MS-DOS 3.31 user manual (Microsoft)

Dune - by Frank Herbert

Do NOT read anything by his son Brian Herbert and that quack Kevin J. Anderson, though.

The Chronicles of Narnia with my kids.

Uncle Johns legendary lost bathroom reader LOL *seriously *

LIttle house on the prairie series...


Left Behind series..


Lion of Judah series


Bible.. *various parts*

Various Homeschooling books

Two of my Heinlein favorites are Stranger in a Strange Land & The Cat Who Walks Through Walls.

Actually I love anything written by Heinlein and have re-read many of his books.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglass Adams

Ray Bradbury's "Something Wicked This Way Comes", is a favorite although I love almost all of Bradbury's books also.

Stephen King's "The Stand"

Karl Hiaasen's "Stormy Weather". Great Humor.

Tom Dorsey's "Florida Road Kill" - great series of books about Florida weirdness.

ooo forgot about the stand.... loved that book.... ty for reminding me rose

I love the outlander series by Diana Gabaldon, the Earth Children series by Jean Auel and Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code, all though I thought Angels and Demons was better, but that's just me I'm reading The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber right now and have a friend who believes the main female character is actually Jack the Ripper... would be interesting hehe

Leilany

I loved Snow Crash so that led me on a path to search out more virtual world type books.


Otherland by Tad Williams
is an EPIC length, 4 volume novel. I just finally finished the last vol. It is good, it is LONG. But it is interesting to read and see how close things come to SL - Sims, etc. They had an Oz sim that was evolving in a bad way. If you ride the bus, train, or car pool this is a great book to carry along. There were chapters that got me and I would stay up late reading at home as well.

The Hacker and the Ants and Live Robots by Rudolf Rucker - entertaining cyberpunk

And one of my Favorite CyberPunk books-
Trouble and her Friends – Melissa Scott - I loved this book - some parts hit really close to home with me as to my online adventures

Sci Fi - I loved Time Enough For Love - Heinlein (& all his books)

I really do like Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged etc.

All The Bells On Earth by James Blaylock. Blaylock's usual way with the endearingly quirky characters, with some demons, priests, RVs and home run businesses thrown in. Great book.

Winter Tides by James Blaylock. Blaylock turns from his usual quirky humor and writes chilling ghost tales with equal style.

Fairy & Folk Tales of Ireland edited by William Butler Yeats. Lots of good tales, references and research, and a very handy glossary.

Carpenter's Gothic by William Gaddis. An engaging story, but it's the writing I enjoyed the most. Gaddis has a way of speeding up or slowing down your reading with the pace of the storyline, from a gentle mosie to a frantic sprint.

If On A Winter's Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino. "If on a winter's night a traveler turns out to be not one novel, but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspence. Together they form a labyrinth of literatures, known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers, a male and a female, pursue both the story lines that intrigue them and one another." From the jacket, because they said it better than I could. Intriguing book.

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. The Antichrist was accidentally switched at birth, and it really makes a mess of the Apocalypse. This book is hysterically funny. Can't wait until they make the movie.

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. There's another world going on beneath London, far more fantastical and dangerous than London Above. I love Gaiman's flair for darkness blended with a sometimes whimsical imagination.

Chasing The Devil's Tail by David Fulmer. Murder in Storyville, New Orleans red-light district circa the late 1800s - early 1900s. "An exotic and erotic mixture of things we like - jazz, pimps, prostitutes, murder and dirty politics."

The Oxford Dictionary of Superstition. Pretty self-explanatory. It traces superstitions and old-wives-tales back to their earliest known references.

The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales. Good blend of dark short stories, many of which have become legends, and some of which are inspired by history, like Erzebet Bathory, The Bloody Countess.

Jonq -- I loved Good Omens as well

His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman. I know he's young adult author but I love him. I love everything he does. Phillip Pullman can do no wrong.

Harry Potter books. They just get better and better!

The Beekeeper's Apprentice and the rest of the books in this series as well. Laurie R. King is fascinating.

To Kill a Mockingbird makes me want to be a better person.

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell -- written by a scientist who was raised Catholic before becoming happily atheist. She is now Jewish. It's a fantastic book.

Mine would be:

Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume
It - Stephen King
Skye OhMaley (and the familial saga)- Beatrice small
The Dark Tower Series - Stephen King
Mayfair Witches Series - Anne Rice
The Vampire Chronicles - Anne Rice
And I Don't Want To Live This Life - Deborah Spungen - The story of Nancy Spungen of notorious Sid & Nancy fame.

So many more but my mind is drawing zero right now.

Ringworld and it's sequels, by Larry Niven, all his Known Space short stories and novels. Hell, just about anything from him. I really enjoyed his work with Jerry Pournelle in The Mote in God's Eye and Footfall. He is my favorite sci-fi author, and I am currently reading Destiny's Road, thanks to a heads up from Chip, thanks Chip.

In His Own Write & a Spaniard in the Works, John Lennon.

The Xanth series, Piers Anthony.

The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis.

Bartleby the Scrivener and many other works by Herman Melville. I really enjoyed the short story Benito Cereno, murder mystery at sea!

Everything by Carl Sagan.

The Universe in a Nutshell, Stephen Hawking.

The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka. Had a profound effect on me as a youth.

A day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

To Kill a Mockingbird, Nelle Harper Lee

The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger.

Many novels and short stories by Stephen King, but certainly not all of them.

Goodbye my Lady, James Street - A tear jerker to be sure, both the book and the Walter Brennan movie.

Fantastic Voyage and Are We Spiritual Machines?, Ray Kurzweil.

Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke. 2001: A Space Odyssey, good movie, GREAT book!

The Jungle and The Metropolis, Upton Sinclair. The Jungle inspired Theodore Roosevelt to order an investigation into meat packing industry.Teddy was quoted as saying, "radical action must be taken to do away with the efforts of arrogant and selfish greed on the part of the capitalist." after reading The Jungle. Pretty influential stuff. Sinclair also founded a socialist experimental community called Helicon, which burned down before it really had a chance to get started.

Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton. Classic forbidden love tragedy.

Many short stories and novels by Ernest Hemingway. The Three Day Blow and The Old Man and the Sea come to mind immediately.

1984 and Animal Farm, George Orwell.

Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw.

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, my hometown hero!

The Fountainhead (currently reading), Anthem, and Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand. What a great story her life is.

A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller. Fascinating sci-fi classic.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey, what can I say? Great movie, absoultely brilliant book. McMurphy's role was made for Jack...

Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Long, yet fascinating and enlightening.

All the works of Tolkien. I devoured them during my youth. Without him, I think the fantasy genre would not be anywhere near where it is today. Same goes for Lewis Carroll, C.S. Lewis, and the rest of the grand daddys of the genre.

Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Bizarre yet captivating plot line.

Anne Rice's books, because I need a good Vampire story now and then.

Mainstreet and Arrowsmith, Sinclair Lewis. Another home town author I really like. Mainstreet is brilliant.

Cannery Row, A Day No Pigs Would Die, and others by John Steinbeck. He was a master.

The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and other works by Jack London. He kept my brain busy in my pre-teen years.

A Brain for all Seasons, William H. Calvin. Did dramatic climate changes in human history determine the evolutionary path of the human brain? Absolutely fascinating.

Chariots of the Gods?, and its sequels, Erich Von Daniken. A little absurd at times, never the less, drove my imagination and still makes me think to this day; where did we come from, and what is out there?

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe. Read this during my experimentation with drugs days. Was a prerequisite, or so I was told. I read my parents Book Club copy. They didn't read it, and I don't think they had any idea what it was about... I also read Hunter S. Thompson and Timothy Leary at this time. I tried to anyway

Everything by Mark Twain. The original curmudgeon. Hell, he even made it into Star Trek!

A History of Pagan Europe, Prudence Jones and Nigel Pennick. Great stuff. So many things that I had no idea about, yet makes absolute sense when contrasted with what they taught us in school and in church...

Uncle John's Bathroom Readers, someone mentioned it above and I must concur. I buy my parents one of these just about every year. More trivia than a game show host reunion!

Oh! I forgot dictionaries. I guess that makes me an uber geek.

I could go on and bore you all more than you already are, but this is too long of a list as it is.

Thanks to everyone who replied here for adding a couple more pages to my "To Read" list.

Everything by J.R.R. Tolkien. I can't help it.

Everything by Vernor Vinge (esp. Across Realtime and A Fire Upon The Deep);

Almost everything by Greg Bear;

Many things by Greg Egan;

The Hyperion novels by Dan Simmons;

Dune by Frank Herbert;

The Belgariad, etc... by David Eddings... sure, it's total fluff, but it's nice fluff;

The Guardians of the Flame series by Joel Rosenberg;

Neuromancer by William Gibson;

Kingdom Come by... uh, DC Comics? I dunno who wrote it, but damn if that wouldn't make one hell of a movie;

I'm sure there's a bunch more, but this is all that would come to mind right now.

'The Cuckoo's Egg' - Clifford Stoll
'Neverwhere' - Neil Gaiman
Isle of Destiny - Kenneth C Flint
Hardwired - Walter Jon Williams
1984 - George Orwell
Xlib Programming Manual - Adrian Nye.

Any technical manual thicker than a phone book.

I also like reading some books in the same way that people like watching B grade movies... for instance any of those truely horrible forgotten realms novels... Salvatore is prefered - his work is really good if you run out of toilet paper...

My wife has oft come to me and asked 'How is that?' 'Oh.. it's fucking horrible! A truely hateful peice of shit!!! I just gotta see if it gets any worse!!"

Siggy.

Geek Love by Kathrine Dunn.