Top 5 Books?

24-07-2006, 05:17 PM

Some of us must be educated!

1)Small Gods (by Terry Prachett, A must Read!)
1)Lord of the rings
2)Swords of Shannara
3)Da Vinci Code
4)Hobbit
5)Crimelords

boom!headshot · 24-07-2006, 05:34 PM

1. LOTR
2. Secret Window
3. The Hobbit
4, The Silmarillion
5. See Spot Run

Grindstone · 24-07-2006, 06:11 PM

1. Sword of Shannara, and the subsequent books
2. John Grisham novels
3. C.S. Lewis novels
4. The Standard works
5. Robert Ludlum (Bourne series)

Scotracer · 24-07-2006, 06:19 PM

1- Roald Dahl books (my childhood favourites)
2- The Da Vinci Code
3- Enzo Ferrari
4- ..........
5- .........

God, I used to read all the time, look what damn video games have done to me!

KH0RNE · 24-07-2006, 06:51 PM

1 the book of five rings
2.dragon tears (not about dragons)
3. eaters of the dead
4.the hobbit
5.how to win friends and infulance people

Æ N I M A 4 6 N 2 · 24-07-2006, 07:36 PM

1.The Da Vinci Code
2.The stranger
3.The Giver
4.The Catcher in the Rye
5.Kama Sutra

Enola Bomber · 24-07-2006, 09:15 PM

1. Sin City (Collection)
2. The Art Of War
3. Robert Crumb Handbook
4. Kurdt Cobains Journals
5. Visions of Heaven and Hell

Glock 19 · 24-07-2006, 11:14 PM

Only books I read thanks to University lol.
1. Introduction to Buisness Statistics
2. Human Resource Management.
3. Organizational Theory
4. American History from 1877
5. West's Buisness Law.

StoFFe_SwedeN · 25-07-2006, 01:19 AM

Astrid Lindgren rules! *Being patriotic*

Crusader555 · 25-07-2006, 07:35 AM

1.Merlin the lost years
2.House of the scorpion
3.Gregor the overlander
4.LOTR
5.The seeing stone

oli · 25-07-2006, 12:39 PM

1.LOTR
2.the hobbit
3.Da vinci code
4.The Art Of War
5.--------

cablekiller · 25-07-2006, 01:21 PM

1. The Dark Tower 1-7
2. The Vampire Chronicles 1-10
3. Odd Thomas
4. The Picture of Dorian Gray
5. Moby Dick

bennyboo03 · 27-07-2006, 12:44 PM

Da Vinci Code
Angels & Demons (also Dan Brown)
Alex Rider Series
Eragon
Eldest

Eazy_D · 28-07-2006, 05:25 AM

The Belgariad (5 books David Eddings)
The Mallorian (5 books David Eddings)
Only Forward (Michael Marshal Smith)
The Wheel Of Time Series (10 books so far Robert Jordan)
The Hobbit/LOTR (Tolkien)

If you liked the LOTR books you must read The Belgariad and The Mallorian it makes Tolkiens works look lame.

ONLY FORWARD BY MICHAEL MARSHAL SMITH.

I'm not naturally a person that leaps easily to high praise or acclaim of a work of art, unless it is something special.
And this is more than that. This is in my mind one of the most understated and important novels of the last 15 years.

I also hate the usual cliches reviewers use when discussing a great book; "unputdownable" and " a real page turner" spring to mind. Yet this is a book where these cliches totally apply. As others have said, I lost sleep and missed a whole day of work to read this book. It was simply that fantastic, and I've never before or since been so entralled and captivated by a book.

Stark is a fantastic character and MMS is a master of the first person narrative. This book is also intensely funny, (you will laugh out loud), violent, beautiful, revalational, upsetting, and truely horrific. The ideas presented are phenomenal - mind boggolingly brilliant.

To describe this as Sci-fi is completely missing the point. The book is a hybrid of genres carefully woven into one another, encompassing, to name a few, elements of the Gothic, fantastical, satiric and horror traditions.

The writing is superb. Any criticism of clumsiness is misfounded. If it is ever clumsy, it is intentional to portraying Stark's human character. Re-read this and you will realise the writing is carefully crafted and beautifully sublime.

Plus, all the appliances talk! In one of the early chapters an elevator is said to be being treated by a "SWAT team of hydrolic psychotherapists" for "insinuating damaging things about the sexual proclivities of the building's interior designers..."!!

Absolute genius.

All I have to say is read this book. It will honestly immerse and affect you like no book has before!

Only forward is the funniest and at some times Horrific book I have ever read buy it today I promise you will not be dissapointed!

Don_Rico · 31-07-2006, 03:14 PM

1. Brilliance of the moon
2. Over the floor of the nightinggale
3. On a pillow of grass (not completely sure about that title)
4. LOTR: Return of the King
5. LOTR: TTT

Jeet · 01-08-2006, 10:21 PM

1. The Puscart War
2. Sphere
3. Don Quixote
4. Ender's Game and sequels
5. Redwall and sequels

FLANKER 5 · 01-08-2006, 11:42 PM

1. LOTR
2.caiptain underpants (childhood fav.)
3.davinci code
4.

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Syrus15 · 02-08-2006, 01:00 AM

1. Final Destination 3
2. Halo
3. A Series of Unfortunate Events(Yeah Love that one)
4. Artemis Fowl
5. Alex Rider

APERFECTOOL · 07-08-2006, 09:18 PM

1. Drawing Blood
2. Harry Potter (entire series so far)
3. Dune (entire series including son brian's)
4. Anthem
5. Brave New World

NVR 20 · 07-08-2006, 09:34 PM

i have many and most people already wrote down my top 5. i will just add something new. Anthony Horowitz books are good. i read stormbreaker last year for school and i loved it. Plus the movie is coming out soon.