Originally Posted by redrose
Did you read Dimension of Miracles? This is bears' favorite.
Did you read Dimension of Miracles? This is bears' favorite.
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'll bite!
In no particular order however!
1. The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King
2. The Stand by Stephen King
3. Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein
4. Dune Series by Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert, Kevin J Anderson
5. Lord of trhe Flies by William Golding
6. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
7. The Shining by Stephen King
8. Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling
9. The Green Mile by Stephen King
10. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
11. The Chronicles of Narnia Series by CS Lewis
12. Out of the Silent Planet Trilogy by CS Lewis
13. The Talisman/Black House Series by Stephen King, Peter Straub
14. Hitchikers Guid to the Galaxy Series by Douglas Adams
15. Sacajawea by Anne Lee Waldo
Honorable Mentions:
Dahlgren by Samuel Delaney
IT by Stephen King
Bag of Bones by Stephen King
Shanarra Series by Terry Brooks
Odd Thomas Series by Dean Koontz
The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan
DT Spoiler - Enter at your own risk!
Spoiler:
Per Bear's request...
Dune...Frank Herbert
Lord of the Rings...JRR Tolkien
Exit to Eden...Anne Rice
Dark Tower...Stephen King
Grendel...John Gardner
God Emperor of Dune...Frank Herbert
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy...Douglas Adams
Salem's Lot...Stephen King
The Hobbit...JRR Tolkien
Chronicles of Amber...Roger Zelazny (the first five books...counting them as one cuz I cheat like that)
To Kill a Mockingbird...Harper Lee
Traveler...Richard Adams
Story of O...Anne Desclos
Cry to Heaven...Anne Rice
The Stand...Stephen King
So there...
Since this is supposed to include "my life," I've listed a couple of kid's books that helped hook me on reading.
in no particular order...
Where the Red Fern Grows -- Wilson Rawls
The Enormous Egg -- Oliver Butterworth
The Bonfire of the Vanities -- Tom Wolfe
Memoirs of a Geisha -- Arthur Golden
Starship Troopers -- Robert Heinlein
The Stand -- Stephen King
The Dark Tower series -- Stephen King
Christine -- Stephen King
The Magus -- John Fowles
Re-Birth (aka The Chrysalids) -- John Wyndham
The Chronicles of Narnia -- C.S. Lewis
The Weapon Shops of Isher -- A.E. van Vogt
Crime and Punishment -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1984 -- George Orwell
Radical Son -- David Horowitz (non-fiction)
In no particular order... here are the first 13
The Stand - SK
Imajica - Barker
1984 - Orwell
Vampire Lestat - Rice
The Outsiders - Hinton
The Pianist - Szpilman
The Handmaid's Tale - Attwood
Angela's Ashes - McCourt
Harry Potter - Rowling
The Road - McCarthy
MacBeth - Shakespeare
My Life - Keller
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Dahl
Buddy, you think you look strong? You’re wearing a cape.
In no particular order:
1. J.R.R. Tolkien--The Lord of the Rings
2. S. King--The Stand
3. D. Simmons--Carrion Comfort
4. George R.R. Martin--Fevre Dream
5. S. Donaldson--The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever
6. R. McCammon--Boy's Life
7. Arthur C. Clarke--Childhood's End
8. I. Asimov--The Foundation Trilogy
9. F. Herbert--Dune
10. H.P. Lovecraft--At the Mountains of Madness
11. Arthur C. Clarke--Rendezvous With Rama
12. T. Tryon--The Other
13. C. Barker--The Books of Blood
14. I. Levin--Rosemary's Baby
15. P. Straub--Floating Dragon
sk
This hard for me to do. Can only think of a few books. Will have to re-visit this thread in the future when I've read more books.
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These are not in any particular order
1. The Dark Tower (all)
2. Black House
3. The Talisman
4. The Stand
5. The Dead Zone
6. The Shining
7. Firestarter
8. David Copperfield
9. Where the Red Fern Grows
10. Charlotte's Web
11. The Outsiders
12. The Green Mile
13. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
14. A Million Little Pieces
15. Go Ask Alice
"Head Clear. Mouth shut. See Much. Say little." Roland Deschain
"Go your way, I'll take the long way 'round. Ill find my own way down, as I should." Ben Howard
I will plagarize heavily from some of your lists, while adding my own. BTW, glad to see others enjoying K Vonnegut Jr, another fave of mine.
This list is not in order of preference, its in the free association order these jumped into my head...
Where the Red Fern Grows (Wilson Rawls)
Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
Hedda Gabler (Henrik Ibsen)
King Lear (Wm Shakespear)
Phaedra (Jean Racine)
Candide (Volataire)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
Galapagos (Kurt Vonnegut JR.)
The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien)
The Plague Dogs (Richard Adams)
Hearts In Atlantis (Sai King)
The End of Eternity (Isaac Asimov)
The Imp of the Perverse (E A Poe)
Call of Cthulu (H P Lovecraft)
People are always talking about truth.Everybody knows what the truth is,like it was toilet paper or somethin...All there is is bull*...One layer of bullshit on top of another...what you do in life...pick the layer of bull* that you prefer...
What a great thread! I see many books I need to add to my reading list here
Here goes:
1. The Dark Tower (Sai King, of course)
2. The Outlander Series (Diana Gabaldon)
3. The Camulod Chronicles (Jack Whyte)
4. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
5. A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Madeline L'Engle)
6. American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
7. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
8. Jurassic Park (Michael Chricton)
9. Dangerous Angels (Francesca Lia Block)
10. Wicked (Gregory Maguire)
11. Piece by Piece (Tori Amos)
12. The Outlaw Bible of America Poetry
13. Verses that Hurt
14. Le Morte d'Arthur (Sir Thomas Malory)
15. Who Killed Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie)
"I was thinking about Isis, and how she thought I was so reckless."-Isis, Bob Dylan
"Versifying Robin Hoods, stealing from the wealth of our poverty to feed our spirits"-Alan Kaufman, on modern Outlaw poets
Doing this brings back memories...
1. LOTR
2. Dune
3. Pilgrimage - Zenna Henderson
4. The House on the Strand - Daphne du Maurier
5. The Stand
6. The Glass Bead Game - Herman Hesse
7. The Sneeches and Other Stories - Dr. Seuss
8. Stranger in a Strange Land
9. Refuge - Terry Tempest Williams
10. The Name of the Rose -Eco
11. The Eight - Katherine Neville
12. The Cairo Trilogy - Naguib Mahfouz
13. The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet - Eleanor Cameron
14. The Three Investigators Series
15. The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
This is in no order... might edit-in some long forgotten at a later time
Smilla's sense of snow - Peter Hoeg
Johnny got his gun - Dalton Trumbo (read this before I was 17)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Dark Tower series - Stephen King (DOTT favorite)
A Prayer For Owen Meany - John Irving
Wheel of time series - Robert Jordan
Hyperian series - Dan Simmons
Wayfarer redemtion series - Sara Douglass
Vampire series - Anne Rice
The Passage - Justin Brooks
Girl, tattoo trilogy
I consider this last a really good children's story....
Lightning - Dean R Koontz
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“The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day.” - Stephen King
I had to scroll through these to see if I ever posted.
So, here goes. In no real order...
1. The Dark Tower - Stephen King
2. Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling
3. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
4. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
5. Desperation - Stephen King
6. Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
7. The Hand That First Held Mine - Maggie O'Farrell
8. The Talisman - Stephen King
9. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
10. Night Shift - Stephen King
11. From the Dust Returned - Ray Bradbury
12. The Dead Zone - Stephen King
13. Seven Secrets of Seduction - Anne Mallory (shut up. It's my word porn, and a guilty pleasure. But, I still love the book)
14. Red Sky At Morning - Richard Bradford
15. Horns - Joe Hill (even though I've only just read it recently. It's already easily one of my favorites)
aha!! what did I say?!
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, Bears were right.
Bears were right.
It is an amazing book.
Giving this a go and playing by the rules...
1. The Dark Tower series
2. The Stand
3. The Phantom Tollbooth
4. The Lord of the Rings
5. Stranger in a Strange Land
6. Nine Princess in Amber
7. The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
8. Grey Lensman series
9. The long walk
10. 2001 a space odyssey
11. My Grandfathers war memoirs
12. Dune
13. War of the Worlds
14. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
15. Catch 22
"A real limited edition, far from being an expensive autograph stapled to a novel, is a treasure. And like all treasures do, it transforms the responsible owner into a caretaker, and being a caretaker of something as fragile and easily destroyed as ideas and images is not a bad thing but a good one...and so is the re-evaluation of what books are and what they do that necessarily follows." - Stephen King
Not in any order:
Foundation/Robot Series - Asimov
Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas
Sherlock Holmes - Conan Doyle
Mars Trilogy - Robinson
City - Simak
Martian Chronicles - Bradbury
Hyperion series - Simmons
Stand - King
Time Machine - Wells
Iliad/Odyssey -Homer
American Gods - Gaiman
20 Thousand Leagues Under Sea/Mysterious Island - Verne
Fire Upon The Deep - Vinge
Animal Farn - Orwell
Lord of Light - Zelazny
Not in any order:
Foundation/Robot Series - Asimov
Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas
Sherlock Holmes - Conan Doyle
Mars Trilogy - Robinson
City - Simak
Martian Chronicles - Bradbury
Hyperion series - Simmons
Stand - King
Time Machine - Wells
Iliad/Odyssey -Homer
American Gods - Gaiman
20 Thousand Leagues Under Sea/Mysterious Island - Verne
Fire Upon The Deep - Vinge
Animal Farn - Orwell
Lord of Light - Zelazny
Not in any order:
Foundation/Robot Series - Asimov
Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas
Sherlock Holmes - Conan Doyle
Mars Trilogy - Robinson
City - Simak
Martian Chronicles - Bradbury
Hyperion series - Simmons
Stand - King
Time Machine - Wells
Iliad/Odyssey -Homer
American Gods - Gaiman
20 Thousand Leagues Under Sea/Mysterious Island - Verne
Fire Upon The Deep - Vinge
Animal Farn - Orwell
Lord of Light - Zelazny
Not in any order:
Foundation/Robot Series - Asimov
Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas
Sherlock Holmes - Conan Doyle
Mars Trilogy - Robinson
City - Simak
Martian Chronicles - Bradbury
Hyperion series - Simmons
Stand - King
Time Machine - Wells
Iliad/Odyssey -Homer
American Gods - Gaiman
20 Thousand Leagues Under Sea/Mysterious Island - Verne
Fire Upon The Deep - Vinge
Animal Farn - Orwell
Lord of Light - Zelazny
Here's the first fifteen I thought of:
The Dark Tower – Stephen King
Obviously.
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
I still eat meat. I am however more conscious and selective. Pink Slime anyone?
Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
Everything on Earth is interconnected, so act like it.
A People’s History of the World – Howard Zinn
Zinn puts history in perspective.
Animal Farm – George Orwell
"All pigs are equal. Some pigs are more equal than others."
"Representative Democracy" anyone?
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
Simply brilliant. Physics made accessible, cosmology too.
Cosmos – Carl Sagan
Simply brilliant. Cosmology made accessible, physics too.
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
I love books. Don't fuck with my books. I am still horror stricken from this story!!!
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
Epic fantasy.
1984 – George Orwell
"Big Brother is watching you."
"We have always been at war with Eurasia."
He was a prophet.
Manufacturing Consent – Noam Chomsky
Corporate media at "your" service.
The Shock Doctrine – Naomi Klein
Now you know. Don't be fooled again.
Walden – Henry David Thoreau
I've never seen a loon.
I have reread this book dozens of times though.
The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitesyn
Snowden had to flee to Russia.
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
"Wherever somebodies stuglin' for a place to stand
For a decent job or a helpin' hand
Wherever somebody is strugglin' to be free
Look in their eyes ma,
You'll see me!"
Honorable mention: The King James Bible; Civil Disobedience - Thoreau
"One day you're going to figure out that everything they taught you was a lie."
1. Dark Tower-SK
2. LOTR-JRRT
3. Haunted-Chuck Palahniuk
4. The Cay-Theodore Taylor
5. On A Pale Horse-Piers Anthony
6. It-SK
7. The Tripods(trilogy)-John Christopher
8. My Lobotomy-Howard Dully
9. Oh, The Places You'll Go-Dr.Seuss
10. The Stand-SK
11. The Iceman Killer-Philip Carlo
12. The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy(whole series)-Douglas Adams
13. Flowers For Algernon-Daniel Keyes
14. The Hobbit-JRRT
15. Into Thin Air-Jon Krakauer
Just been lurking, and thought I'd participate in this thread...
From childhood:
The Machine Gunners - Robert Westall
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Dahl
The Hobbit - Tolkein
Carrie's War - Nina Bawden
As an adult:
Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee
The Dark Tower
IT
The Stand
The Night Angel trilogy - Brent Weeks
Lord of the Flies - Golding
Shannara series - Terry Brooks
Animal Farm - Orwell
The Talisman
- Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
- Mistborn - Sanderson
- Desperation - King
- Harry Potter - Rowling
- Hyperion - Simmons
- Under the Dome - King
- Ready Player One - Cline
- Horns - Hill
- Locke & Key - Hill
- Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
- The Sword in the Stone - White
- Walking Dead - Kirkman
- Catch 22 - Heller
- Holes - Sachar
- ASOIAF - Martin
No particular order
1) Sphere - Michael Crichton
2) Stinger - Robert McCammon
3) John Dies at the End series - David Wong
4) The Door Into Summer - Robert Heinlein
5) The Dark Tower series - King
6) IT - King
7) Eyes of the Dragon - King
8 ) Dune series - Frank Herbert
9) Nightmares & Dreamscapes - King
10) Skeleton Crew - King
11) Night Shift - King
12) Everything's Eventual - King
13) Different Seasons - King
14) Dead Sea - Tim Curran
15) Blood Music - Greg Bear
Looking for:
- Philtrum Press Eyes of the Dragon RED #165
- Fine Viking Eyes of the Dragon proof
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