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Spectral Morn

30-08-2009, 22:27

In my case probably The Magus by John Fowles.
And you?

Wow, thats interesting I was just thinking about starting a thread along these lines.

If you lived in the same world as that of Ray Bradbury's Farenheit 451 and you joined the Book People which book would you memorise. For those who don't know, this story is set in the future were books are banned and firemen don't put out fires but start them by burning books.

I was not sure which book to put down so didn't start the thread. Great minds think in a similar way.

Just thought of one Childhoods End by Arthur C Clarke or perhaps The Kraken Awakes by John Wyndham. Thought of another The Ice Schooner by Michael Moorcock.

Regards D S D L

Mike

30-08-2009, 22:27

Too many to choose... :scratch:

Most things by Eric Van Lustbader and/or Robert Ludlum I guess. :)

Spectral Morn

30-08-2009, 22:32

Too many to choose... :scratch:

Most things by Eric Van Lustbader and/or Robert Ludlum I guess. :)

Do you like Sunset warrior, Shadows of Night, Dai-San and Beneath an Opal Moon by RV Lustbader...loved that series oriental fantasy.

Regards D S D L

Joe

30-08-2009, 22:39

'Ulysses' James Joyce
'The Third Policeman' Flann O'Brien
''The New York Trilogy' Paul Auster
'Decline and Fall' Evelyn Waugh
'The Long Goodbye' Raymond Chandler

Covenant

30-08-2009, 22:41

The Vinyl Adventure

30-08-2009, 22:44

anansie boys - neil gaiman
is a curent fave..everything by neil gaiman is good though. i do like my fantasy fiction!

Spectral Morn

30-08-2009, 22:48

What a great writer John Wyndham was. I re-read Day of the Triffids a while back and enjoyed it more than when I first read it aged about 14. Always loved SF-both fiction and fantasy. If you haven't read Mythago Wood by Robert Holstock I recommend it. John Brunner is another great writer-Stand On Zanzibar is brilliant but the first chapter is hard to read.

I think this will beat my Mod your Beresford 7520 thread!

Got the series of Mythago Wood...I like Robert Holdstock and his other writing alias Richard Kirks Raven series. John Wyndham is an amazing writer love everything I have read by him so far.

Always meant to read Stands on Zanzibar but not got round to it.

Regards D S D L

Spectral Morn

30-08-2009, 22:53

Thought about it and my fave book, really a Novela is At the Mountains of Madness by H P LOVECRAFT. Fantastic IMHO.

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Regards D S D L

The Vinyl Adventure

30-08-2009, 22:54

.... blimey thinkingabout it htere is just to many
has anyone read 'the elephant vanishes' by haruki murakami ... short stories - odd - really compulsive reading!!

Mike

30-08-2009, 22:55

Do you like Sunset warrior, Shadows of Night, Dai-San and Beneath an Opal Moon by RV Lustbader...loved that series oriental fantasy.

Regards D S D L

Yes... but you're missing one, there are FIVE books in the Sunset Warrior series! :eyebrows:

You need 'Dragons on the Sea of Night' to complete the list! ;)

I haven't read it yet, I'm going to re-read the other four first. It's been soo long.

aquapiranha

30-08-2009, 23:08

Thought about it and my fave book, really a Novela is At the Mountains of Madness by H P LOVECRAFT. Fantastic IMHO.

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Regards D S D L

Neil, we have more in common than I imagined, I read that book when I was about 17 - of course I have forgotten most of it now!

Other books I enjoyed reading..

Dice man
A Clockwork Orange
Dance, dance dance
Journey to the centre of the earth
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
Weaveworld
The great and secret show
the wasp factory
Oh, and sinner that I am, all of Dan Browns output!

Spectral Morn

30-08-2009, 23:40

Yes... but you're missing one, there are FIVE books in the Sunset Warrior series! :eyebrows:

You need 'Dragons on the Sea of Night' to complete the list! ;)

I haven't read it yet, I'm going to re-read the other four first. It's been soo long.

Indeed missed that one. I will have to look out for it.

Regards D S D L

Spectral Morn

30-08-2009, 23:42

Neil, we have more in common than I imagined, I read that book when I was about 17 - of course I have forgotten most of it now!

Other books I enjoyed reading..

Dice man
A Clockwork Orange
Dance, dance dance
Journey to the centre of the earth
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
Weaveworld
The great and secret show
the wasp factory
Oh, and sinner that I am, all of Dan Browns output!

Indeed we do seem to like a lot of the same stuff.

Regards D S D L

Beechwoods

31-08-2009, 05:30

Great thread we've got here! A few of my favourite books...

And The Ass Saw The Angel by Nick Cave

An amazing tale spoken in the style of deep south blues; as the official blurb goes: This novel tells the story of Euchrid Eucrow, the product of several generations of inbreeding and raw liquor consumption. Physically malformed and born dumb, he possesses an unusual sensitivity which he hides underneath engaging bravado.

Cave also released a record of himself reading excerpts, which is essential, since Cave's delivery perfectly lends itself to the book. I heard a few minutes of a reading from the book before I read it, and so read it in Cave's voice as it were...

City by Clifford D Simak

Classic sci-fi from 1952. Very much a of it's time - post war, cold war, set in a future where man has left the earth allowing the creatures they left behind to evolve to the point where they are the ones telling legends about those that went before them.

John

31-08-2009, 08:21

A few of mine include
Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler J Leven
Mans Search For Meaning Victor Frankel
I enjoy a lot of sci fic humour Robert Sheckley Fredrick Brown Douglas Adams Chrisother Moore etc

Covenant

31-08-2009, 08:25

Dice man
A Clockwork Orange
Dance, dance dance
Journey to the centre of the earth
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
Weaveworld
The great and secret show
the wasp factory
Oh, and sinner that I am, all of Dan Browns output![/QUOTE]

Weaveworld-how could I have forgotten that? Set in my home town of Liverpool too. Clive Barker is underrated in my opinion-the Books of Blood are excellent and one of the best of the short stories is The Yattering and Jack. Its amusing rather than true horror.
The Wasp Facory-excellent too.

Spectral Morn

31-08-2009, 08:43

Dice man
A Clockwork Orange
Dance, dance dance
Journey to the centre of the earth
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
Weaveworld
The great and secret show
the wasp factory
Oh, and sinner that I am, all of Dan Browns output!

Weaveworld-how could I have forgotten that? Set in my home town of Liverpool too. Clive Barker is underrated in my opinion-the Books of Blood are excellent and one of the best of the short stories is The Yattering and Jack. Its amusing rather than true horror.
The Wasp Facory-excellent too.

I agree Clive Barker is a good writer. I particularly enjoyed his book Cabal (which was turned into the movie Night Breed...humanity are the monsters in this story), and I have read Weaveworld too.

Regards D S D L

Covenant

31-08-2009, 19:22

Anthony Burgess, now there is an author who knew how to wield a pen. Strongly recommend Inside Mr Enderby and Enderby Outside.

Spectral Morn

17-09-2009, 21:07

Scott Sigler-Infected

and I am just finishing the second part of this story Contagious.

If you like Horror and Sci-Fi then these are very good. Great economy of words romps along at a pace. Earth aliens invasion. A mix of CSI, 24, The Thing, and HP Lovecraft...sort off. If I say much more I would ruin it.

Regards D S D L

Ali Tait

18-09-2009, 21:25

Ah Clive Barker.. try Imajica,and The Great And Secret Show.Great books.My first love is SF though.Have to give a shout to Heinlein-Stranger in a Strange Land,Red Planet,Number of the Beast.Great Books! Latterly,I love Ian M Banks' Culture novels.Mind-blowing stuff! Also Greg Bear,Gregory Benford and Alastair Reynolds.Great stuff!
Fantasy's another matter-Steven Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever.Awesome! I'm impatiently awaiting the last of the latest books!

Covenant

18-09-2009, 22:00

Ali-some good news-there are two more SD books in the last Covenant series to be published. The next one, due in 2010 will be called Against All Things Ending (the publishers made SD change the title from Shall Pass Utterly) and The Last Dark.
Like you, I cant wait.

The Grand Wazoo

18-09-2009, 22:47

Well, I'm a voracious reader, but I've only read perhaps three novels in the last year.
Travel writing, books about music and American literature are my 'thing'.

Having said that, my Desert Island book would be Bill Bryson - 'A Short History of Nearly Everything'

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=suPcAAAACAAJ&dq=Bill+Bryson&source=an&hl=en&ei=3Qy0StyCGOGe4gaDpuV8&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=13

This is a book which everyone should read.
It takes some of the most complex subjects and boils them down to a level that anyone can understand, no-one feels their intelligence is being insulted and everyone learns something.

I've read it 5 times - brilliant!!