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HADZ wrote:

Ive not really read much books, But my fav would have to be the discworld collection by write Terry Pratchett. So funny like a piss take of lotr Big grin

I also very much enjoyed a book called My side of the mountain but I cant remember who wrote it.

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A game entitled "Discworld Noir" is based on this book? Surprise I never had the chance to play it but they say it is quite good (even though it is old)

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*GOM* wrote:

HADZ wrote:
Ive not really read much books, But my fav would have to be the discworld collection by write Terry Pratchett. So funny like a piss take of lotr Big grin

I also very much enjoyed a book called My side of the mountain but I cant remember who wrote it.

Big grin

A game entitled "Discworld Noir" is based on this book? Surprise I never had the chance to play it but they say it is quite good (even though it is old)

Yeah that was the third in a series of games. The first two are the best they are just like the book you go the characters etc and its like broken sword a point and click game, I completed both of them Big grin

Discworld Noir is based on the books but not taken directly from them you dont get to go any characters your just and investigator and go around the discworld world but still a good game. The books are awsome I would recomend them to anyone.






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I'd say my favorite book so far was George Orwell's 1984.
I usually like classical novels or philosophical works, though i haven't been literate lately, merely rereading some short stories by E. A. Poe.
Really wish i could find the calmness for the pile of books waiting for me.

@Gom: Tried reading Lovecraft a few times now and i've become very sleepy everytime Smug Dunno what it is, but his style isn't very appealing to me.

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Angels & Demons -> Illuminati
The Da Vinci Code -> Sakrileg
Only read Angels & Demons so far. Wouldn't categorize it as one my favs, but it was a pretty exciting read.

btw, a book thread already exists:
http://forums.excessiveplus.net/viewtopic.php?t=11297 Tongue

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Orwell ftw! 1984 and Coming Up For Air are two of the best novels ever. Lovecraft was excellent as well, Huxley (Brave New World and "Revisited" as well as Antic Hay and Eyeless in Gaza), and Nietzsche, Julian Jaynes, Hunter S. Thompson, Neil Postman, Goethe, Richard Bach, Poe...

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books??

are you silly?? Big grin Big grin

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sure .... I am!

When the priest comes to read me the last rites
I take a look through the bars at the last sights
Of a world that has gone very wrong for me
Can it be there's been some sort of an error
Hard to stop the surmounting terror
Is it really the end not some crazy dream
Somebody please tell me that I'm dreaming
It's not easy to stop from screaming
But words escape me when I try to speak
Tears they flow but why am I crying
After all am I not afraid of dying
Don't believe that there never is an end

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I tried once to read Edward Allan Poe but I go so sleepy ...but ofc I admire him and his work even though I am unable to read his poems and stories.

I also tried to read Stephen King but failed after learning that many of his books are already movies Big grin...I prefer watch a movie rather than the book (i know sometimes the adaption is not so good but....).

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my top 5 that makes me great crazy

1. Catullus
2. Sei-Shonagon - The Pillow Book
3. Albert Camus - The Plague
4. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night
5. Vladimir Nabokov - Invitation to a Beheading

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the wind in my heart
the dust in my head..

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NecrogeddoN wrote:

Orwell ftw! 1984

+1. I also like Clancy's and Grisham's novels. Now I'm reading "The world according to Garp and I'ts nice.

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Hah, Garp book is super

The Ender books... I think that probably could be the best books I ever read.

Starts with Ender's game and they are written by Orson Scott Card. Check'em out