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 Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 7:33 pm
demetre_s_baby Hmm, it's really hard to choose favorites, but among my top choices are Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, and Edgar Allan Poe's short stories. I love Edgar Allan Poe's poems and stories as well. As for my favorite books, I enjoy Harry Potter, Artemis Fowl, and His Dark Materials, and when it comes to classics I love Goethe's Faust. And I have been pretty pissed lately because I can't find it even though I finished it a while ago gonk
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Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 3:43 pm
Dan Brown is a pretty good author, I like Angels and Demons and the Da Vinci Code. I'm going to read Deception Point soon too.
His Dark Materials is a good series too, but I didn't like the ending.
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Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 5:19 pm
Childhood book: The Secret Garden
Classic book: Pride & Prejudice
Fantasy book: Black Jewels trilogy
Soap Opera book: Troy Game series
And I am firmly within the LotR/Narnia camp as opposed to Potter.
( xd Sorry Potter lovers!)
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Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 10:37 am
Heh, I wouldn't really say there are camps, Tolkien and Lewis were collaborators, but Rowling seems to have taken a lot from both. Potter books are passable, but not up to the caliber of LoTR.
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Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 9:25 pm
Cajun Niglet Heh, I wouldn't really say there are camps, Tolkien and Lewis were collaborators, but Rowling seems to have taken a lot from both. Potter books are passable, but not up to the caliber of LoTR. Well yes, that's my point. There are many out there who grew up with Tolkien and Lewis, who read the Potter books and decided they didn't like it. Upon stating dislike, however, they get confronted by who knows how many tweens defending their generation's fantasy cult classic. As you said, Rowling took a lot from both, but doesn't cut it. It's my belief that the age of high fantasy of the caliber of LotR and Narnia has passed. It is also my belief that I will be proved wrong one day. Furthermore: to add to my list of favorites: The Neverending Story
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Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 9:23 am
I think that while LoTR and Narnia were good, they didn't fully explore all that fantasy has to offer. Newer facets of the human personality are explored by authors today, that can be good, or bad.
One of my favorite series is The Dragonlance Chronicles and all of the books involving the world of Krynn because all of the characters are unique, yet intertwined, and it gives the videogame-esque feel of being a wandering adventurer who's supposed to save the world.
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Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 7:32 pm
Cajun Niglet I think that while LoTR and Narnia were good, they didn't fully explore all that fantasy has to offer. Newer facets of the human personality are explored by authors today, that can be good, or bad. True, true. I guess it really depends on the reader and what s/he feels like reading. Myself, when I read those particular books or others of similar style, I tend to be in the mood for plain black-and-white, good vs evil. However, I do also like books where the gray area is large and the edges of it are murky. The Troy Game series, for one. Friekin soap opera of a series, but the characters who start out as evil go through changes of personality and become likable, if not lovable, while the good characters do things that make you think, " Why?!"
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Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 10:31 am
Although, LoTR has my favorite character type, the omniscient, omnipresent, wise old man, Gandalf. So far, he's probably my favorite fantasy character, and I think that Tolkien created him perfectly.
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:09 pm
Hmm... some of my favorites. *wracks brain* A short list would be: LoTR, Harry Potter and short stories by Poe, especially The Black Cat. These seem to be favorites of a few in this thread-awesome! Also, I enjoyed The Dark Tower series by Stephen King, although the quality went down significantly in the later installments. neutral
1984 has to be one of my all-time most enjoyable reads. The vision of the future presented by Orwell affected me very strongly.
As far as novels with a historical focus I've read that I would recommend... I, Claudius is a must-read for anyone interested in the early Roman Empire and it's juicy intrigues and Generations of Winter by Vassily Aksyonov is an amazing and personal view of the early Soviet Union.
Currently, I'm slogging through Paradise Lost.
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Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 6:42 am
Ehm favorite books right? Do Mangas count as books here too?
But well from books... difficult to say. Meteor from Brown, Faust from Goethe(well at least the way of it s writing is great),The Elves from Hennen and many many more smile
But well if Mangas count too i realy like D.Gray-Man, Death Note, Bleach, One Pice, Vampire Knight and many many more
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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 10:52 pm
A lot of people have mentioned Faust... what is it about?
I'm considering reading it.
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Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:27 pm
Cajun Niglet A lot of people have mentioned Faust... what is it about? I'm considering reading it. Basically, the main character is this scholar named Faust, and he's a genius so bored with life that he makes a deal with the devil (Mephistopheles). The deal is that Mephistopheles will do anything Faust wants him to do, and if Faust ever declares that he is so happy, that the moment of happiness is so perfect that he wants time to be stopped, Faust will die and Mephistopheles will have his soul. Faust decides to explore the life that he had ignored as a scholar, pursuing things that he would never have been able to without the use of the magics provided by Mephistopheles. Along the way he meets Margeret (called Gretchen for short) and falls in love with her. They have a child together . . . The rest I cannot tell you without spoiling the ending. xd Suffice to say it's a good read.
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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:10 am
My favorite book is The House of the Scorpion. But I also like Harry Potter, His Dark Materials Trilogy and S.E. Hinton books
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Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 12:13 am
Thanks connie, I'll look into it biggrin .
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Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:06 am
Hmm...favorites. I guess like the Phillipe Gregory books about Tudor England but I also like fantasys such as the Terry Pratchett books and the Wheel of Time (I still need to finish reading that).
Right now I'm reading The Fortress of Glass by David Drake which is going to prove to be a favorite as well.
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