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Posted June 05, 2011
1 - Dark Tower Series - Stephen King
2 - Otherworld Series - Tad Williams
3 - The Stand - Stephen King
4 - A Song of Fire and Ice Series - George RR Martin
5 - The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester

I'm up to about 17 actual books there so I'll stop...;o)
Posted June 05, 2011
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Coelocanth: If you like science fiction, you owe it to yourself to read it. It's fantastic. Probably my favorite sci-fi novel of all time.
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MGShogun: I dig science fiction very much. :) I'll check if my library has the copy. I heard so much about it so I'm going to give it a go.
Oh no, Dune is hardly science fiction, since science fiction should be about ... you know ... science. Dune is more of a futuristic fantasy book that has completely mind blowing plot.
Posted June 05, 2011
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Hussar: and yours?
Mine would the the Twilight series listed ten times.
Posted June 05, 2011
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jepsen1977: 1: Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenace by Robert Pirsig
2: In the Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
3: Lord of the RIngs By J.R.R. Tolkien'
4: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
5: Women by Charles Bukowski
6: American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis
7: The Unbrearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
8: Dracula by Bram Stoker
9: The Trial by Frans Kafka
10: Shogun by James Clavell
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dudalb: Not much for books published before the 20th Century?
No Tolstoy.
No Dickens
No Doestoevsky.
Hell, in the 20th Century no Hemingway,no Fauklner,no Steinback.
You need to expand your horizons a little.
My own list:
1.War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.
2.Great Expectations by CHarles Dickens.
3.Brothers Karamzov by Doestoverksy.
4.Lord of the Rings by Tolkien
5.A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway.
6,Huckleberyy Finn by Mark Twain
7.The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck.
8.1984 by George Orwell
9.The Killer Angels by Michael Sharra
10.Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
ehhhh to be honest your list looks like a cliched, safe and unadventurous load of faux fancypants-ism.. lt's more like a typical a list of required reading from junior high and high school.
Ok here is my list

1. Super Mario Bros 3
2. Gyros
3. Michael Jordan
4.Pulp Fiction
5. Brunettes
6. I like both cats and dogs
7. Chevy cavalier
8. Home owner
9. Pro-choice
10. Lithuanian
Post edited June 05, 2011 by CaptainGyro
Posted June 05, 2011
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BarryMC: Mine would the the Twilight series listed ten times.
If I could stomach stalker abusive Volvo-driving vampires long enough to actually get through the books, I'd probably enjoy them for a good laugh too. Somehow, we need a MST3K for terrible novels.
Posted June 05, 2011
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nondeplumage: If I could stomach stalker abusive Volvo-driving vampires long enough to actually get through the books, I'd probably enjoy them for a good laugh too. Somehow, we need a MST3K for terrible novels.
But they're stalker abusive Volvo-driving vampires that SPARKLE. How cool is that?
Posted June 05, 2011
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BarryMC: But they're stalker abusive Volvo-driving vampires that SPARKLE. How cool is that?
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Posted June 05, 2011
1. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
2. Motherless in Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem
3. Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
4. Night Watch - Terry Pratchett
5. Gun With Occasional Music - Jonathan Lethem
6. The Otherland Tetralogy - Tad Williams
7. The man in the High Castle - Phillip K. Dick
8. A Pebble in the Sky - Isaac Asimov
9. The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
10. 20,000 Fathoms Under the Sea - Jules Verne.
Posted June 05, 2011
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nondeplumage: If I could stomach stalker abusive Volvo-driving vampires long enough to actually get through the books, I'd probably enjoy them for a good laugh too. Somehow, we need a MST3K for terrible novels.
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BarryMC: But they're stalker abusive Volvo-driving vampires that SPARKLE. How cool is that?
I tried these books - would have quite enjoyed them if it weren't for one grating fact - the 'heroine' of the story is SO pathetic and unlikeable I could have no empathy for her at all. No empathy, no connection meant I didnt enjoy the books as much as I thought I would.

meh - praps its because Im a 40 year old hairy Northern Englishman instead of a young teenage American lass....;o)
Posted June 05, 2011
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dudalb: Not much for books published before the 20th Century?
No Tolstoy.
No Dickens
No Doestoevsky.
Hell, in the 20th Century no Hemingway,no Fauklner,no Steinback.
You need to expand your horizons a little.
My own list:
1.War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.
2.Great Expectations by CHarles Dickens.
3.Brothers Karamzov by Doestoverksy.
4.Lord of the Rings by Tolkien
5.A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway.
6,Huckleberyy Finn by Mark Twain
7.The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck.
8.1984 by George Orwell
9.The Killer Angels by Michael Sharra
10.Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
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CaptainGyro: ehhhh to be honest your list looks like a cliched, safe and unadventurous load of faux fancypants-ism.. lt's more like a typical a list of required reading from junior high and high school.
Ok here is my list

1. Super Mario Bros 3
2. Gyros
3. Michael Jordan
4.Pulp Fiction
5. Brunettes
6. I like both cats and dogs
7. Chevy cavalier
8. Home owner
9. Pro-choice
10. Lithuanian
Epic - just EPIC!!! LOL!
Posted June 05, 2011
Hmmm novels eh...that means I can't put down short stories. I'm not big on novels, but I do have quite a few favourites. Well let's see, in no particular order:

1) Tarzan of the Apes (and The Return of Tarzan)
2) A Princess of Mars
3) White Fang
4) Before Adam
5) Legend
6) Morningstar
7) The Hound of the Baskervilles (and A Study in Scarlet, which I should add is ***amazing***)
8) Asimov's Robot series
9) Simon R Green's Nightside series
10) Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden series

You know, we really need a "top 10 favourite short stories" thread to complement this too :P
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CaptainGyro: ehhhh to be honest your list looks like a cliched, safe and unadventurous load of faux fancypants-ism.. lt's more like a typical a list of required reading from junior high and high school.
Ok here is my list

1. Super Mario Bros 3
2. Gyros
3. Michael Jordan
4.Pulp Fiction
5. Brunettes
6. I like both cats and dogs
7. Chevy cavalier
8. Home owner
9. Pro-choice
10. Lithuanian
I lol'd.
Post edited June 05, 2011 by lowyhong
Posted June 05, 2011
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jepsen1977: As others have said that's a rather snobbish attitude to take. I simply gave the top 10 on the top of my head and didn't just give out books according to the canon. I own several of the books you talked about and have read most of them. I too own several books like The Western Canon by H. Bloom and Why Read the Classics by Italo Calvino. But when it comes to what I find is "fun" to read my list is pretty decent I think.
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orcishgamer: Don't even worry about people like that:
1) Doestoverksy and Steinbeck are fucking boors, seriously, overrated crap there.
2) Entire time periods and languages seem to escape them. Seriously, no The Little Prince, no The Three Musketeers, never anything by Homer or Sophocles; I could probably go on for half a page but you get the point. Half of them don't have the decency to include Tolkien or Asimov (oh I know, not "real" literature, is it?).

Seriously, you're already kind of off by trying to name the 10 best books of all time with absolutely no other criteria; then to complain about someone else's different version of "best" is... well damn, I can't even find the words.

Oh and if I wasn't clear before: Screw Steinbeck!
Thx man for the support! Since he hasn't responded to any comments yet, it is hard to tell what his intentions were but there is always the chance that he was trying to be ironic/coy and it just didn't came across well "in writing". Using humour on paper is a little dangerous because it doesn't translate well at all times - especially not on a global site like GoG. If he was being dead serious with his remarks I can completely understand your anger. But thx for the support still.
Posted June 05, 2011
1. "The History of Bestiality" trilogy - Jens Bjørneboe
2. "At the Mountains of Madness" - HP Lovecraft
3. "And the Ass Saw the Angel" - Nick Cave
4. "Anna Karenina" - Leo Tolstoy
5. "Skråninga (The Slope)" - Carl Frode Tiller
6. "The Room" - Hubert Selby jr.
7. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" - Lewis Carroll
8. "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" - Douglas Adams
9. "Roots: The Saga of an American Family" - Alex Haley
10. "Brave New World" - Aldous Huxley
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