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« Reply #20 on: March 24, 2004, 04:42:44 am »
Clancy, Grisham, King, and Sparknotes... I, uh... mean... Shakespear...  Shocked

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« Reply #21 on: March 24, 2004, 11:57:19 am »
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Phillip Pullman - His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass)

... Um i believe the "His Dark Materials" was actually the follwoign:

1. Northen Lights
2. The Subtle Knife
3. The Amber Spyglass

Not sure where the golden compass came from? is this one of his other books ive not heard off?
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« Reply #22 on: March 24, 2004, 07:53:03 pm »
Hunter S Thomson (Fear & loathing, Hells Angels, Songs of the doomed)
Chuck Palahuniuk (Lullaby, Invisible monsters, Fight Club)
Stephen Fry  (UK) (The stars tennisballs, Making History, The Hippopotamus)
Sue Townsend (UK) (the complete Adrian Mole series)
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« Reply #23 on: March 25, 2004, 09:53:10 pm »
True bliss comes in pages (the more the merrier)

J.R.R. Tolkien - LOTR 123, hobbit (gotta love the language, unlike any kind of english one might encounter in daily life)
Alastair Reynolds - Redemption Ark, Absolution Gap (quite long-winded, but that suits me)
Tom Clancy - from the hunt for red october to op-center, every single one
Stephen King - too many, but Salem's lot and Nightmares & Dreamscapes among others
Roald Dahl - such innocent books as "the BFG" but also "switch bitch"
Clive Barker - The Great And Secret Show

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John Grisham
Dean Koontz
Thea Beckman (dutch, you dont know her)
Ronald Giphart (dutch, you dont know him)
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« Reply #24 on: March 26, 2004, 04:25:01 pm »
Ahh yes, Dahl... and the BFG... a personal favorite Wink
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« Reply #25 on: March 26, 2004, 04:47:35 pm »
Vladimir Nabokov (Pnin, Lolita, Pale Fire)
Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karazmov)
Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead)
Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Slowness)
Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
Colin Higgins (Harold and Maude)
Italo Calvino (The Baron in the Trees)

and oodles more, im sure. it's so hard to think of these things on the spot  Smiley
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« Reply #26 on: March 28, 2004, 06:08:10 am »
Camus, Dostoevsky, Irving, Updike, Foster Wallace, Pynchon
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« Reply #27 on: March 28, 2004, 01:28:04 pm »
AAAAAH HOW THE FUCK DID I FORGET CAMUS?!!

the plague & the stranger are two of my most favorite books.

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« Reply #28 on: March 29, 2004, 04:41:55 am »
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« Reply #29 on: March 29, 2004, 05:17:38 am »
I am a huge fan of Micheal Chriton. For those of you who dont know he wrote ;jurrasic park..sphere..rising sun..and more recently timeline.. and those were just his books that were made into movies.

He really grabs you when reading. good stuff.
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« Reply #30 on: March 29, 2004, 08:05:33 pm »
as soon as i come back to america. promise.  Grin
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« Reply #31 on: March 30, 2004, 02:09:31 am »
Alastair Reynolds is a must for sci-fi lovers! He is a new author, but his books will be called classics very soon. They are just that great. If you haven't yet, go and read "Revelation Space" so you can say "I read Reynolds when he was still underground" Tongue Tongue Tongue
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« Reply #32 on: March 30, 2004, 03:06:55 am »
Damn, was going to go out and saw this thread and had to put my $far too many's worth here.

From reading Loth's list it looks like we have similar tastes....

You could use his list and add:

Gregory Benford - COSM
Greg Bear - Slant, Darwin's Radio, Distress, Eon, Anvil of the Stars
Larry Bond - Vortex, Moonseed
Peter Hamilton - Reality Dysfunction and the other two in that series, Fallen Dragon (excellent) and I liked the concept of Nano Flower and Mindstar Rising
Iain M Banks - Use of Weapons, Against a Dark Background, The Business
David Brin - most of his stuff
Patric Robinson - HMS Unseen, Kilo Class (a good alternative to Clancy)
Phillip K Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electirc Sheep?, A Scanner Darkly, Now Wait For Last Year
Douglas Adams - The first 3 books of Hitchikers series
Julian May - the Plocene and Milieu series
Greg Egan - Quarantine, Axiomatic, Permutation City, Diaspora, He is a great new author with some interesting new concepts
Adam Roberts - Salt
Orson Scott Card - the Ender series

From times past:
Michael Morecock - Everything he wrote Particularly the Eternal Champion Series
Piers Anthony - Loved his stuff when I read it
Anne McCaffery
Stephen Donnaldson

My comment about books is that you know you have too many when you need to move house to house them. (Around 2000 and still adding)

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In my hurry I forgot the following:

Tad Williams
Dale Brown
Stephen Coonts

A good read for something different is John Steakley - Armor

And how could I forget Sun Tsu - The Ancient Art of War (but you have to get a good translation)
((a good online translation can be found at http://www.newstrolls.com/news/dev/kilner/sun_tsu/gilesbare/Outer.html)
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« Reply #33 on: March 30, 2004, 06:43:45 am »
     D'oh, I totally forgot Brin, Dick, Adams, and Card (sounds like a legal firm). Thanks for the reminder, Dingo. : D
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