a book I love

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Hotel New Hampshire, john irving

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come on guys/girls, books... you know, those things made of paper and full of small black printed letters... :-)

Never heard of such nonsense

What's a book again?

The Canterbury Tales - to me the rather spiteful sense of humour of Chaucer is there on every page, if you can get to grips with middle English the language is charming.

The Last Gladiator - Richard Ben Sapir Starts off with the rather unlikely event of a gladiator being reanimated, but it's really an examination of ancient morals against modern ones.

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant - Stephen Donaldson, a fantasy novel but a rather more grown up one than LOTR, the entire thing is two trilogies so it's something I could really get my teeth into.

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I love The Hotel New Hampshire too!

Other favourites include:

The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow - Peter Hoeg
The 'His Dark Materials' series - Phillip Pullman

...I also love a good Pratchett, but I think he's gone off the boil a bit in recent years.

I'm the good time that's had by all...

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Job: A Comedy of Justice - Robert Heinlein
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
Isaac Asimov's Robot, Empire, and Foundation series

Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

ohmyfuckinggodheather

Long Hard Road out of Hell - Marilyn Manson

Good call, a must read, if you ask me - even for those who don't normally enjoy fantasy.

Catch 22 - Heller
The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five - Lessing
Written on the Body - Winterson
Against a Dark Background - Banks

Ah, it's been a while since I read those! I went through all six books just wanting to slap some sense into the protagonist!

ohmyfuckinggodheather

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Love biographies personally, reading and learning all in one, that said I list reading as a hobby. I do; honestly, I have three books on the go at once.

I highly recommend, "Infinite Variety" about the Marchesa Casati-by Ryersson and Yaccarino; haute camp and so interesting, and presently enjoying "Misia" about Misia Sert, by Gold and Fizdale about the greatest artistic muse of the twentieth century.

Pullman's "Dark materials" books engaged me on a fiction level, but left me feeling annoyed- can't wait for the film tho, I hope they don't gut it.

Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card, terrific author, though his ramblings on his website have become increasingly insane as time passes.
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk, though the movie is just as good if not better

a couple of my favorites

there is a game i play
try to make myself okay
try so hard to make the pieces all fit
smash it apart just for the fuck of it

The Adventures of Don Quixote. I have both parts one and two.

"What the devil vengeance can we take," answered Sancho, "if they are more than twenty, and we no more than two, or, indeed, perhaps not more than one and a half?"
"I count for a hundred," replied Don Quixote.

Love that 16th Century humour

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I have more of favorite authors than favorite books, but here goes some of them:

Foundation series by Isaac Asimov

Earth's Children series by Jean Auel (first 3 books, and ESPECIALLY "The Valley of Horses" because it contains the verbalization of my ultimate sexual fantasy! )

Valdemar and Bedlam's Bard series by Mercedes Lackey

The Book of Words trilogy by J.V. Jones

Deryni series by Katherine Kurtz

Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton

Many more...especially science fiction and fantasy stuff.

Biology is not destiny.

http://www.amazon.com/Same-Differenc...2927035&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Myths-Gender-B...2927063&sr=1-1

"Sluts are just people who have more sex than you do" - Unknown

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The Thomas Covenant series? With a bad person called Lord Foul, the most suble name I ever heard? And a leper for a hero with a rigid Catholic sense of guilt?

And lines like: "His mind bifurcated".

And the word "clench" on every other page?

Good for laughs. Sorry.