Which books are your favorite?

Post by **Messatsu** » Fri May 27, 2005 2:19 pm

Oh yeah forgot to mention i have Most of J.R.R. Tolkien's works. Ive read everything from The hobbit to The silmarillion, but i have yet to read The forgotten tales and the 15 volume history of middle earth series.

Post by **Buzkashi** » Fri May 27, 2005 2:46 pm

misuru wrote:He's actually my friend's uncle. Never met him though.

Thers a guy in my class whos uncle was jon denver.

Post by **halfnhalf** » Fri May 27, 2005 2:47 pm

I am sorry to say though, but i felt the LOtR books were crap and just too boring. I read the first one waaaaaaaaaaaaaay back, like 10 years ago.. and it barely got my attention. The movies did a very good job, i dont think the books were ever that exciting.

Post by **Buzkashi** » Fri May 27, 2005 2:49 pm

I read "The Hobbit" before i even knew about LotR or the movies. Then when i started seeing comercials of LotR i was like hmm this is similar to the hobbit. so i read the LotR books and i thought they were really good.

Post by **MrFelony** » Fri May 27, 2005 3:13 pm

hehe dont know how you could go about missing the lotr books

. did you ever see the hobbit movies when you were younger. talk about pieces of art...

Post by **call_me_kip** » Sat May 28, 2005 7:42 pm

MrFelony wrote:hehe dont know how you could go about missing the lotr books . did you ever see the hobbit movies when you were younger. talk about pieces of art...

I vaguely remember something about a cartoon hobbit movie I watched when I was a kid.

I thought of another book I like, albeit a gross one, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser. Not a book for everyone...

Post by **vermillion** » Mon May 30, 2005 11:50 pm

I read some medieval histories. "Straight medieval". Often the facts described have a true historical part; but then, it was necessary, being a troubadour, to attract people's interest in order to gain money. So they used to take artistic licenses to exaggerate some points about what happened, making it look more heroical.
I read Valtario, Rolland, Cid Campeador, the Lara infantes ("los infantes de Lara", in Spanish; I'm not sure if it's well translated), and some short stories which names I don't really remember.

I also like literature and mythology. I read the Iliad and the Odissey from Homero, and also the Theogony of Hesiod, as well as many other greek myths; the Aeneid of Virgil, which is not greek but roman; and also germanic mythology, specially two versions of "the Ring of the Nibelung": Wagner's (ok, it's not really a book, it's an opera's argument) and Hebbel's.

Then English detective novels. God, I love Agatha Christie's work. The way she describes the characters' psychologies is amazing. Though I also like in this matter Conan Doyle, author of Sherlock Holmes (of course), Chesterton and Edgar Wallace (only read Penelope of Polyantha so far, but it was enough for me to believe he must be a great writer).

Besides, that I remember, I read Tolkien (Hobbit, LOTR, Simarillion and some things more), Jules Verne (long, long list), Emilio Salgari (all Sandokan, I didn't like his other works that much) and Georg Orwell (1984, Animal Farm). As well as classic books like Robinson Family, the swiss Robinson, Treasure Island, and long etc. again.

Post by **Libaax** » Tue May 31, 2005 8:41 pm

I have always liked the Odissey story havent read the book is it any good ? how long is it?

Also Valtario, Rolland, Cid Campeador, the Lara infantes are these the names of medievil books or the authors names?

Tue May 31, 2005 8:53 pm

Hehe libaax, Odyseén and Illiaden is both written "på dikt och prosa" might be hard and boring for you to read either of them

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Anyways at first I thought the da vinci code was a good book but after a while I came to the conclusion that he would be a good "Facts book" writer but he certainly doesn't have the talent for writing novels that's for sure.

Post by **vermillion** » Tue May 31, 2005 9:43 pm

Valtario, Lara and Cid Campeador are about Spanish medieval stories. The Cid is very well known, the other ones are not known, I step with them by chance.

Rolland is french; "la chanson de Rolland" or something like that is the original title, I believe (though I'm not sure); the thing is that I read all that in Spanish, so I cannot help you with the English names for it

Well, if there is an English translation for Valtario and Lara at all (those are not THAT important, though I really liked them).

I don't remember how long the Odissey was (I read it 10 years ago), but I believe it's not THAT long. It should be pretty easy to find in Internet.

Isse, hard to read it? My God, for me it was hard to STOP reading it. As well as Tolkien. Once I read 10 consecutive hours LOTR 1 without stopping. Now that I think about it, it's incredible all the free time you have when you are a kid (sighs). So is life.

Post by **Libaax** » Tue May 31, 2005 10:05 pm

Isse:

I have read hard books to read and its not like i didnt know how Homeros wrote those books cause we read about them in school.

Wed Jun 01, 2005 10:12 am

Yah ok was just pointing it out that it's not written in a very modern manner. Didn't mean to offend you.

Vermillion: No I didn't think it was very difficult, all I was saying that it's written on "poetry and prose."

Besides that I don't know if you read the original copy where the text is quite difficult for some people, or if you read the modern translated 'newbie' 'not very difficult to read' version

Anyways No offence!

Post by **Libaax** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 11:34 am

I just borrowed The Odessy and its pretty cool book. I really like the poetry,prose writing style. Also the book is written very old swedish languge cause the translation is from 1905,lucky for me that my teacher in swedish made me read old swedish books cause i understand the old languge now in The Odessy.

Wed Jun 01, 2005 12:29 pm

=) coolies

Post by **Libaax** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 10:59 am

I reserved Dirk Gently's Holistic detective agency in English hope to get read it soon.

Post by **Buzkashi** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 3:12 am

So i bought vampire chronichles one and two. "interview with a vampire and the vamire lestat" They're pretty good so far.

Post by **MrFelony** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 3:47 am

i just finished Oryx and Crake by margaret atwood. and am about to start About A Boy and High Fidelity. gotta love having an English major for a brother.

Post by **DarkenRahlX** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 5:53 am

A really decent series I've been keeping up with is The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkin. You should check it out.

Post by **Concealed_Rage** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 2:38 am

Bruce Campbell's "If chins could kill: confessions of a b movie actor"
is great

Post by **The_Oringial** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 4:55 am

We're five pages into this thread, and I have yet to see Stephen King mentioned anywhere. For shame. I've read damn near all his books, and right now, I'm on the Shining.

Post by **obi-pie** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 7:40 pm

the prequel of the da vinci code is pretty good i think it called the bertolli mystery(it goes about rome) and i used to read karl may books who are loong but good

Post by **Buzkashi** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 10:11 pm

obi-pie wrote:the prequel of the da vinci code is pretty good i think it called the bertolli mystery(it goes about rome) and i used to read karl may books who are loong but good

...Its called angels and demons.

Post by **Libaax** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 11:16 pm

I saw a sequel to The Godfather in the libary, i'm gonna read it after Gently,Odyssy

Post by **Skullkracker** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 12:54 pm

-running from bookshelf to bookshelf-

Here's what I recommend:

For those who want something to think about: Crime and punishment (hope that's the English title). For those who want to have fun with it: Sherlock Holmes!

For history lovers: Quo vadis? / or there's a historical book published by Reader's Diegest: Great mystories of the past

For fantasy lovers: Lord of the rings (forget the movies, these pages show you much more, it's a must!)

For those who want to find a Griffith-like figure in world literature: Stendhal: Red and black (hope I got this title right too)
or another interesting one: Oscar Wilde: Picture of Dorian Grey

For those of you into poetry: Poe (who else), or some of my native writers: Endre Ady, Sándor Petőfi

And finally for those who want to commit suicide by boring to death: Economic policy...

All I could think of all of a sudden

Post by **Buzkashi** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 3:35 am

Skullkracker wrote:-running from bookshelf to bookshelf-

Here's what I recommend:

For those who want something to think about: Crime and punishment (hope that's the English title). For those who want to have fun with it: Sherlock Holmes!

For history lovers: Quo vadis? / or there's a historical book published by Reader's Diegest: Great mystories of the past

For fantasy lovers: Lord of the rings (forget the movies, these pages show you much more, it's a must!)

For those who want to find a Griffith-like figure in world literature: Stendhal: Red and black (hope I got this title right too)
or another interesting one: Oscar Wilde: Picture of Dorian Grey

For those of you into poetry: Poe (who else), or some of my native writers: Endre Ady, Sándor Petőfi

And finally for those who want to commit suicide by boring to death: Economic policy...

All I could think of all of a sudden

My most prized book is my complete works of edgar alan poe book. ITS PHATTT