Top 5 of your favorite books

[Zhukov]

Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence and a Bad Haircut, P.J. O'Rourke

I loved the story about throwing quarter sticks of dynamite out on the farm.

 

[William Joyce]

Yeah. Peej doesn't write much anymore, but man, he was great. I first read him as a young punk in Rolling Stone, along with HST. That's pretty much what got me into conservatism. I thought of "conservative" as "lame, straitlaced, humorless, pointlessly cruel, dorky and weird" (thanks to my parents and media influence).

But then my man started talkin' sense about personal responsibility, the better flavors coming from free markets and the hypocrisy of the libs. I was intrigued.

 

[padisha emperor]

fantastic, SF :

- Lord of the Rings, by JRR Tolkien
- Cycle of Dune (7 books), by Frank Herbert
- Silmarillion, by JRR Tolkien
- Dracula, by Bram Stocker
- 2001, Space Odyssey, by A.C. Clarke
- Les Fourmis (trilogy), Les Thanatonautes, L'Empire des Anges, L'Ultime Secret, by Bernard Werber.
- Illiad and Odyssey, by Homère

History, Politic Philosophy :
- La Guerre d'Indochine (Indochina war), by Georges Fleury
- Legendes de la Mythologie Scandinave (legends of scandinavian mythology), by Jean Mabire
- Histoire militaires des Guerres Puniques (military history of the Rome/Carthage wars), by Yann Le Bohec
- Histoire de la Guerre de Secession( history of the US Civil war), by Bernard Michal
- Pensées, by Blaise Pascal
- La Bataille de l'Atlantique (The Battle of Atlantic), by Léonce Peillard
- La Guerre du Peloponnèse, by Thucydide.
- La Seconde Guerre Mondiale (WWII), by Anthony Kemp



plus other I have probably forgotten.

 

[William Joyce]

La Guerre d'Indochine (Indochina war), by Georges Fleury
- Legendes de la Mythologie Scandinave (legends of scandinavian mythology), by Jean Mabire
- Histoire militaires des Guerres Puniques (military history of the Rome/Carthage wars), by Yann Le Bohec
- Histoire de la Guerre de Secession( history of the US Civil war), by Bernard Michal
- Pensées, by Blaise Pascal
- La Bataille de l'Atlantique (The Battle of Atlantic), by Léonce Peillard
- La Guerre du Peloponnèse, by Thucydide.
- La Seconde Guerre Mondiale (WWII), by Anthony Kemp

Boy. The French sure do write about war a lot.

 

[padisha emperor]

Quote:
Originally Posted by padisha emperor

La Guerre d'Indochine (Indochina war), by Georges Fleury
- Legendes de la Mythologie Scandinave (legends of scandinavian mythology), by Jean Mabire
- Histoire militaires des Guerres Puniques (military history of the Rome/Carthage wars), by Yann Le Bohec
- Histoire de la Guerre de Secession( history of the US Civil war), by Bernard Michal
- Pensées, by Blaise Pascal
- La Bataille de l'Atlantique (The Battle of Atlantic), by Léonce Peillard
- La Guerre du Peloponnèse, by Thucydide.
- La Seconde Guerre Mondiale (WWII), by Anthony Kemp




Boy. The French sure do write about war a lot.

Anthony Kemp, the author of the book about the WWII, is british. Thucydide is greek.
the others speak of world known wars or war concerned France.



(US wrote about gastronomy, but USA are not world-known for their good gastronomy. No ? )

 

[onedomino]

In no particular order:

Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
Intruder in the Dust, William Faulkner
Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
Moby Dick, Herman Melville

"Call me Ishmael."

 

[onedomino]

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte'
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe
Pillars of The Earth by Kenneth Follet
The Allienist by Caleb Carr
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
The Dolorous Passion by Catherine Emmerich
City of God by St Thomas Aquinas
Faranheit 451
Lord of The Rings - JR Tolkein
The Hobbit

many more --- Sorry I couldn't pick just five

City of God, one of the most brilliant, and sometimes crazy, books ever written. It was, however, written by St. Augustine.

 

[padisha emperor]

"Les Rois Maudits", Maurice Druon (in english, it is probalby "the damned kings", or "the cursed kings".

Good books, seven parts, it is the romanced story of some kings of France, from Philippe IV le Bel, end of his rule (1314), to Jean II Le Bon - 1356 - .
It is really interesting, on an historic point of view, and also for the litterature, the author write well.
It is quite famous, and traslate in the wide world.
If you like the XIVth century, read it !

 

[Shattered]

Little Women
The entire Little House series (Hey, I loved that show - sue me)
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
Anything by Johanna Lindsay
Almost any cookbook I can get my hands on.
Piers Anthony - Xanth series
Grimm's Fairy Tales

 

[pennyville73]

The Stand- ALL TIME favorite- I've read it about 20 times

Anything written by John Grisham

Streetcar Named Desire

The Catcher in the Rye

The Vampire Chronicles

And, as much as I hate to admit...lol....anything by Jackie Collins

I could go on and on...not a big fan of political books...but love to read true crime

 

[Shattered]

Oh yeah - definitely gotta get the Vampire Chronicles in there.

True Crime, as well - House of Secrets was *awesome*.

 

[theim]

Timeline , Micheal Chriton (the movie sucked, but the book rocked)
Angels and Demons , Dan Brown
The Lord of the Rings , JRR Tolkein
The Illiad , Homer
A Seperate Peace , I forget who wrote it, but I first read it in High School and it was pretty good.

 

[Bonnie]

The Stand- ALL TIME favorite- I've read it about 20 times

Anything written by John Grisham

Streetcar Named Desire

The Catcher in the Rye

The Vampire Chronicles

And, as much as I hate to admit...lol....anything by Jackie Collins

I could go on and on...not a big fan of political books...but love to read true crime

Vamp Chronicles...great book!!

 

[UsaPride]

All of Sue Grafton's ABC series!! Gotta love mysteries!

 

[JohnGalt]

1. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy--- Douglas Adams
2. Atlas Shrugged --- Ayn Rand
3. All the trouble in the World---P.J. O'Rourke
4. The Definitive Book of Pick-Up Lines---- Tucker Max
5. Belligerence and Debauchery; The Tucker Max Stories ---- Tucker Max

The first book that I ever read seriously was Time Quake in the third grade. I don't remember who wrote it... but it rocked my world. Totally propelled me into the world of literature.

 

[ciplexian]

In no particular order

Gone With the Wind --- Margaret Mitchell
Guns, Germs, and Steel --- Jared Diamond
Anything by Robert Caro
The original Doppleganger saga by V.C. Andrews
The Count of Monte Cristo --- Alexandre Dumas Sr.

 

[padisha emperor]

The Count of Monte Cristo --- Alexandre Dumas Sr.

Do you read "Les 3 Mousquetaires" (don't know the english title) ? and "Le vicomte de Bragelonne" ?

 

[Said1]

Do you read "Les 3 Mousquetaires" (don't know the english title)

Yes, I read the Three Musketeers, and the Count of Monte Cristo, excellent, excellent books! But you know that right?

 

[hylandrdet]

5. Animal Farm
4. Profiles in Courage
3. Paradise Lost
2. The Art of War
1. The Bible- I'd told people before that athiests can achieve positive and tangible results, in their lives, from reading and utylizing the instructions within this book. In layman's terms, the bible can still help you, even if you don't believe in GOD.

 

[padisha emperor]

yes, I read them, maybe 5 years ago, when I was about 14
Classical french litterature books