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  1. 11th July 2004, 08:54 PM #1
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    Your favorite book

    Tell all your favorite books! Marvel at the similarities in taste! Be shocked by the differences! Revisit titles long lost to your memory! I'll start us off with my favorite book. It would have to be Dune by Frank Herbert. That series blew my mind at the tender age of 10, and, thanks to my father, introduced me to really GOOD fiction, rather then the "weird tales" I'd been consuming earlier. I really not a fan of Herbert's son though, who is tearing apart the series. In any case, The Stand by Stephen King comes in as a close second, simply because I really liked the story as a whole.
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  2. 11th July 2004, 09:45 PM #2
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    This really should be in the Book of Dark Wisdom forums. Perhaps a friendly Admin can move it? In any event some of my favorite books to soon follow.
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    What, no one reads around here? Okay, here are some of my favorites in no particular order:

    Stephen King: Salem’s Lot, The Shining, The Stand.

    David Morrell: First Blood (it’s about 100,000 x better than the flick).

    Frank Herbert: Dune.

    William Gibson: Neuromancer.

    Clive Barker: his first three Books of Blood.

    Joe R. Lansdale: The Magic Wagon, The Drive In (parts 1 & 2) and almost anything else he writes.

    Dean Koontz: Phantoms, Twilight Eyes.

    Skipp & Spector: The Light at the End, The Scream, The Cleanup.

    F. Paul Wilson: The Keep.

    Chuck Palahniuck: Fight Club.

    Robert R. McCammon: Blue World, Swan Song.

    Thomas Harris: Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs.

    80% of the stuff written by HPL and the short fiction of Robert Bloch.

    Steven Pressfield: Gates of Fire.

    John Shirley: In Darkness Waiting.

    Simon Clark: Blood Crazy.

    And I know I’m forgetting about a dozen or so more. Now if you pinned me down and made me choose just one book to be my all time favorite then I’d have to say King’s The Shining for personal reasons (it was the first horror book I ever read) if for no others.
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  4. 13th July 2004, 05:38 PM #4
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    Note: I wrote my list without reading Thor’s so my inclusion of Dune and The Stand are genuine and not just sucking up so there.
    BTW: 2 fine choices: Thor.
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  5. 13th July 2004, 05:59 PM #5
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    Re: Your favorite book

    Cruddy by Lynda Barry

    A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (death to those in Hollywood who are making it into a film starring--shudder--Will Ferrell)

    Water Music by T. Coraghessan Boyle

    The Shadow Over Innsmouth by HPL

    Good Omens, The Nice and Accurate Prophesies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
    "He stumbled on things no mortal ought ever to know, and reached back through the years as no one ever should reach; and something came out of those years to engulf him." - H. P. Lovecraft, 'The Case of Charles Dexter Ward'
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  6. 13th July 2004, 06:09 PM #6
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    But Cthulhudude... how can you be sucking up when it is YOU who has nearly quadruple the number of posts as me? Unless I somehow psychically predicted the future, knowing your choices, so it is me who is sucking up *shifty eyes*.
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  7. 13th July 2004, 06:23 PM #7
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    Necroscope series ( yes all of them ) Brian Lumley
    Everything Clark Ashton Smith
    Most of Lovecraft's stuff
    All of Howard's
    Everything Micheal Moorcock has written
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez's stuff
    William King's Slayer Series
    As you can see I really rarely have a favorite book and it changes every so often as I finish books or my tastes change randomly day to day.
    Wow.. I feel worthless I read constantly but I can't really think of a favorite book......suck...


    I can tell you what isn't on the list, the book that when I finish I can die happily, the bane of my existance, one of my life goals....
    THE SILMARILLION!
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  8. 13th July 2004, 08:58 PM #8
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    Clive Barker, Imajica, Books of Blood & al.
    Phyllis Gottlieb, Flesh & Gold and two associated others
    Gwynneth Jones, The White Queen Trilogy
    Robert Charles Wilson, Darwinia
    Matt Ruff, Sewer, Gas & Electric
    Cory Doctorow, Down & Out in the Magic Kingdom & others - he's the BoingBoingBlog dude
    Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan - he's the DiePunyHumans dude
    China Miéville, The Scar & others

    I could go on...
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    My favorite books, in no particular order are:

    Berlin Game, Mexico Set and London Match by Len Deighton

    The Beach by Alex Garland

    Complicity by Iain Banks

    Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks

    The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

    Do Andriods Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

    Dune by Frank Herbert

    Ghostwritten by David Mitchell

    Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith

    Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

    The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

    Martin Time Slip by Philip K. Dick

    Neuromancer by William Gibson

    Non-Stop by Brian Aldiss

    The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

    Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
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  10. 15th July 2004, 07:26 AM #10
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    In no particular order:

    The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman

    The Music of Chance by Paul Auster

    How to be good by Nick Hornby

    The Cornelius Quartet by Michael Moorcock

    The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
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  11. 15th July 2004, 08:04 AM #11
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    Impossible choices.... in no particular order!

    Mother London and the High History of the Runestaff Michael Morcock

    Gormenghast Mervyn Peake

    Always Coming Home, Searoads and The Farthest Shore Ursula Le Guin

    The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkein

    Use of Weapons and The Crow Road Iain (M) Banks

    The Star Fraction and The Stone Canal Ken Macleod

    A Gift From Earth Larry Niven

    Dune Messiah Frank Herbert

    Cyteen, Merchanter's Luck, Rimrunners, The Chronicles of Morgaine C J Cherryh

    House on the Borderlands William Hope Hodgson

    At the Mountains of Madness HP Lovecraft

    With the caveat that I reserve the right, half an hour after posting, to change my mind an unlimited number of times...

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  12. 15th July 2004, 09:06 AM #12
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    As usual, in no particular order:

    The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

    The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

    Imajica - Clive Barker

    The Farseer Trilogy - Robin Hobb

    Game of Thrones - George RR Martin

    The Man in the High Castle - PKD

    The Player of Games - Iain Banks

    House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski

    Book of Illusions - Paul Auster

    It - Stephen King

    Dune - Frank Herbert

    The Foundation series - Isaac Asimov

    Childhood's End - Arthur C Clarke

    There are shed-loads more I could add to this list; these are the ones that spring most readily to mind.

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  13. 15th July 2004, 10:30 AM #13
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    I love lists! Here's some of my favourites:

    The Count of Eleven by Ramsey Campbell

    All of The Lankhmar books by Fritz Leiber

    Most of Good Old HPL, especially "The Rats in The Walls"

    Philip Pullman's Dark Materials trilogy

    The Tooth Fairy by Graham Joyce

    The Third Policeman by Flann O' Brien

    Tank Girl comic books - The Hewlett and Milligan Originals

    Alice in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll

    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick

    The Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carroll

    Report on Probability A - Brian Aldiss

    Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke

    Cold Hand in Mind and Wine Dark Sea - Robert Aickman

    Man, I could go on for ages. But I'll stop there.

    Hang on,

    Travels With My Aunt - Graham Greene

    There, I'm done now.

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    Entirely off the top of my head, no particular order, it'll be different tomorrow, etc...

    The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham

    The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K Dick

    American Tabloid - James Ellroy

    Funeral in Berlin - Len Deighton

    Junky - William Burroughs

    I Am Legend - Richard Matheson

    The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson

    Dark Feasts - Ramsey Campbell

    1984 - George Orwell

    The Devil's Home on Leave - Derek Raymond

    High Rise - J G Ballard

    Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonegut

    The White People and Other Stories - Arthur Machen

    Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco

    Things That Never Happen - M. John Harrison

    Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett

    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson
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  15. 15th July 2004, 01:34 PM #15
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    Ooh... Lists!

    Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco

    The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers

    The Man in the High Castle - Philip K Dick

    Dune Series (But not the prequels) - Frank Herbert

    The Tales of the Eternal Champion (All of it) - Michael Moorcock

    Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake

    The Golden Bough - Sir James George Frazer

    Oh, and lots of others... HPL, Clark Ashton Smith, Lord Dunsany, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, H G Wells, George Orwell, Ian (M) Banks, Arthur Machen, Lewis Caroll, Philip Pullman, Chima Mieville, Robert E Howard, Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance, Neil Gaiman, William Gibson... that's enough, time for lunch...
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