Favorite Books

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what are everyones favorite books (up to 3) excluding books such as orgo chem, and Gchem (i know its tempting), mine are crime and punishment, Empeor (series) and Notes from Underground (author:Fyodor Dostoekvesky-russian name)

 

[Centinel]

what are everyones favorite books (up to 3) excluding books such as orgo chem, and Gchem (i know its tempting), mine are crime and punishment, Empeor (series) and Notes from Underground (author:Fyodor Dostoekvesky-russian name)

Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
The Iliad (Homer)
Godel, Escher, Bach (Douglas Hofstadter)
Golden Gate (Vikram Seth)
The Sound of Waves (Yukio Mishima)

 

[baylormed]

1) The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
2) To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
3) Harry Potter (I'm a fan, you have a problem with that??? 😡 )

those are mine in the order of preference.

 

[Anastasis]

1. The Great Divorce
2. The Silmarillion
3. Much Ado About Nothing

 

[DF38]

In no particular order:

Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
It's Not About the Bike (Lance Armstrong)

 

[omgwtfbbq?]

A good scent from a strange mountain - robert olen butler
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - milan kundera
Molly Sweeney (play) - Brian Friel
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

and Last But Not Least -- That perrenial "illustrated novel" classic ...

The Cat With the Really Big Head, and one other story that isn't as good

 

[Sub Zero]

I don't know about favourite, havent had time to read actual novels in a while, but here are some of my recent reads.

The Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)

 

[pallcare]

1. on the beach
2. the god of small things
3. love in the time of cholera

I don't know about favourite, havent had time to read actual novels in a while, but here are some of my recent reads.

The Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)

 

[Gardenia]

In no particular order

1) 1984 (or was it 1983, hehehehe) by George Orwell
2) Twelfth Night

Would like to start on The Life of Pi.

 

[TheOpsonizer]

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, James Agee
The Iliad/Odyssey
Ulysses

 

[Kristiyana]

1. First, do no harm - Lisa Belkin
2. Wasted - Marya Hornbacher
3. Life without Ed - Jenni Schaefer and Thom Rutledge

 

[juiceman311]

I've only read two books on my own accord in my 4 years in college. They were both cool, but I'm not making it a habit to read, too much work.

Moneyball & Complications

 

[Whootman]

1. Harry Potter 4
2. Harry Potter 6
3. Harry Potter 5

 

[pnasty]

with a doubt: the marrow of tradition by charles chestnut, a freed slave who taught himself how to read and write

read it, its got some medical ethic type stuff in it as well

 

[masterMood]

1) The Great Gatsby
2) Heart of Darkness

 

[masterMood]

with a doubt: the marrow of tradition by charles chestnut, a freed slave who taught himself how to read and write

read it, its got some medical ethic type stuff in it as well

was there ever a movie that was based on that? It sounds awefully familiar

 

[Gerrymandering]

Big fan of John Grisham, William Faulkner, and George Orwell, Fahrenheit 451, Grapes of Wrath, Death of a Salesman

 

[Gerrymandering]

1) The Great Gatsby
2) Heart of Darkness

It's been a long, long time since reading Great Gatsby...i agree it's an awesome book! isnt there a play for it?

 

[Gerrymandering]

I don't know about favourite, havent had time to read actual novels in a while, but here are some of my recent reads.

The Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)

Brave New World is one of those books where you just laugh at...it's such an eerie book

 

[masterMood]

It's been a long, long time since reading Great Gatsby...i agree it's an awesome book! isnt there a play for it?

i think there was a movie based on the great gatsby, i'm pretty sure on it.

 

[Writer1985]

In no particular order:
Catch-22 (Heller)
The Count of Monte-Cristo (Dumas)
Pride and Prejudice (Austen) -- I hated this one when I read it the first time. 🙂

 

[cobalt31]

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

awesome book

i also really like:
a day in the life of ivan denisovich
war and peace
into the wild

and for some of those 'just for fun,' some dragonlance trilogies are really well done, and clive cussler books are entertaining. those are more from my youth, though.

 

[vw chichi]

1) The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
2) The Game - Neil Strauss
3) If I Had One Wish - ? (my favorite book as a child, read it like three to four times in a week, but never got a chance to read it again.)

 

[funshine]

what are everyones favorite books (up to 3) excluding books such as orgo chem, and Gchem (i know its tempting), mine are crime and punishment, Empeor (series) and Notes from Underground (author:Fyodor Dostoekvesky-russian name)

Dostoevsky's novels are among my favorites too 👍 . Others include Remains of the Day (Ishiguro), This Side of Paradise, and anything by Nabokov, Joy Williams or Alice Munro. Remains of the Day is full of penetrating insight but rather slow-paced...it's a superb book to read in the wee hours of the morning when you're suffering from insomnia or getting over jetlag.

 

[PariPari]

count of monte cristo
les miserable
the iliad

i'm a dork, i've re-read these for fun since high school 😳

 

[funshine]

count of monte cristo
les miserable
the iliad

i'm a dork, i've re-read these for fun since high school 😳

it's funny because there are people who love re-reading books over and over again, and there are those who never read a book twice. I fall into the latter category, but I've always wondered what the fundamental difference between the two groups was. Latter group has shorter attention span?

 

[eggy]

1. Atlas Shrugged-Ayn Rand
2. Guns Germs and Steel-Jared Diamond
3. Complications-Atul Gawande

 

[e_phn]

i think there was a movie based on the great gatsby, i'm pretty sure on it.

I saw the movie when I was a junior in hs. It was a good movie. 😍

 

[e_phn]

1. go tell it on the mountain- James Baldwin

2. memoir of geisha

3. Of course, all harry potter (i read the new one last week, and it was awesome)

 

[Mikhail]

what are everyones favorite books (up to 3) excluding books such as orgo chem, and Gchem (i know its tempting), mine are crime and punishment, Empeor (series) and Notes from Underground (author:Fyodor Dostoekvesky-russian name)

What do you think about Brothers Karamazov? I liked it more than Crime and Punishement.

 

[Rogue Synapse]

Is everybody really so painfully academic and literary in their free reading? Honestly? Here's a sampling from the prolitereat:

David Sedaris - "Me Talk Pretty One Day"
Tom Clancy - "Clear and Present Danger" (or, pretty much all his works)
Patrick O'Brien - "H.M.S. Surprise" (or, pretty much everything he's written, e.g. The Far Side of the World, The Thirteen Gun Salute, Master and Commander)

 

[Rogue Synapse]

1. Atlas Shrugged-Ayn Rand
2. Guns Germs and Steel-Jared Diamond
3. Complications-Atul Gawande

Okay, "Complications" was really good.

 

[DF38]

Patrick O'Brien - "H.M.S. Surprise" (or, pretty much everything he's written, e.g. The Far Side of the World, The Thirteen Gun Salute, Master and Commander)

Those are some great books 👍.

 

[yomaxpower]

There are some cool books mentioned in this thread. I was expecting everyone to try and use this as a way to appear smarter then everyone else.

Here are my favorites.

1. A River Runs Through It - Norman Maclean
I grew up in the west going on numerous adventures with my father and brothers. I relate to this book on an infinite number of levels. Every sentence provides a new incite into my life.

2. Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurrtry
Augustus McCray is my hero. I want to be just like him in every way. This book felt more like watching an epic movie, then reading.

3. Enders Game - Orson Scott Card
There is no symbolism and all that literature crap in this book. It is just an amazing story.

Oh, I forgot to mention that Harry Potter is more addicting than crack cocaine.

I used to be a person that could re-read a book. I read the first Harry Potter 3 times word for word. I was 13 and had no friends except for Harry so... I guess nerds with no social skills re-read books. I stopped re-reading books around 15.

 

[DrVanNostran]

Hmm..

1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. Kite Runner
3. Pride and Prejudice (My sisters rip on me because I like this book...)

 

[BAM!]

Here are some good ones I've read in the past few years:

the beach - i love how this book explores the subculture of pretentious backpackers.

Ender's Game - best scifi book out there

Memiors of a Geisha (had to pick up twice before I got into it, but the book just builds and builds. It's one of the few books that ends better than it begins)

anything Grisham (I'll join the masses and throw in Michael Crichton too)
I just started the street lawyer last night. Nice opening, as always
btw - I don't think tom clancy matches up to his hype.

The river why for that person who related to a river runs through it - check this book out. I loved them both (even though I read them for school).

and b/c i'm a nerdy premed:
House of God - I love the Fat man! Terrific literary character
the death of the good doctor - good collection of shorts, well written


quick message - please put down the books they make you read for school! some of them are good and exciting(catcher in the rye), but they can't really be your favorite books of all time!

 

[Rogue Synapse]

I don't think tom clancy matches up to his hype.

Actually, I'll agree with you. I've just always been into the technical military stuff. I enjoy reading his detailed descriptions of military hardware and procedures. I don't like anything he's done in the last decade. You have to admit that Hunt For Red October was a pretty fun book.

 

[NCF145]

1. Lord of the Rings Trilogy (I'm going to count it as one)
2. The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History (absolutely fascinating and it will scare the crap out of you)
3. The Divine Comedy
4. A tie between Complications and When The Air Hits Your Brain



I've recently become bored with fiction and have been reading a lot of non-fiction. I'm currently reading Misquoting Jesus by Bart Ehrman. Another good non-fiction book is The World is Flat by Friedman.

 

[medstylee]

with a doubt: the marrow of tradition by charles chestnut, a freed slave who taught himself how to read and write

read it, its got some medical ethic type stuff in it as well

great book!

two books that i recently read and really enjoyed:

portrait of an artist as an old man, by joseph heller (of catch-22 fame)
john henry days, by colson whitehead (really great new-ish author)

 

[ShyRem]

The Complete Calvin & Hobbes.

Nothing else needed. 😀



Ok, I lied. My favorite books tend to be whatever I'm currently reading: right now Brotherhood of the Bomb, and another one something like "when scientists looked over the edge of the universe and found everything" - all about dark matter and what exactly "nothing" means. Cool book.

 

[Gerrymandering]

1. Lord of the Rings Trilogy (I'm going to count it as one)
2. The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History (absolutely fascinating and it will scare the crap out of you)
3. The Divine Comedy
4. A tie between Complications and When The Air Hits Your Brain



I've recently become bored with fiction and have been reading a lot of non-fiction. I'm currently reading Misquoting Jesus by Bart Ehrman. Another good non-fiction book is The World is Flat by Friedman.

how interesting! Divine Comedy? i didn't know of any premed/med student who would read such a book...ive heard it's pretty entertaining though

 

[baylormed]

1) The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
2) To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
3) Harry Potter (I'm a fan, you have a problem with that??? 😡 )

those are mine in the order of preference.

Ooooo, I forgot to add to my list above ^^^^ :

Mafalda

It's an Argentinian comic strip. Very insightful, LOTS of political criticism, overall, Mafalda is the most awesome 8 year old I know.
If you can read Spanish VERY WELL you might enjoy it. Although you might not get many jokes if you grew up in sheltered US of A.

 

[NCF145]

how interesting! Divine Comedy? i didn't know of any premed/med student who would read such a book...ive heard it's pretty entertaining though

I had to read it in one of my Great Texts courses, which is a required course for the Honors College at my school. I read a lot of very interesting and thought provoking books in that class.

 

[baylormed]

I had to read it in one of my Great Texts courses, which is a required course for the Honors College at my school. I read a lot of very interesting and thought provoking books in that class.

Great Texts sounds awfully familiar...do you go to Baylor??

 

[SteelerFan]

The Power of One--Bryce Courtenay (This was also made into a movie, which I haven't seen, but heard it's excellent...I think Morgan Freeman is in it.) In any case, it's an awesome book, and I've never seen a movie that surpassed the book it was based on.

Crime and Punishment--Dostoyevsky. Haven't been able to finish Brothers Karamazov, despite starting it 3 times.

Dragon Lance Series by Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman; Crystal Cave and the rest of the Arthurian Saga by Mary Stewart. I was a HUUUUGE fantasy dork growing up. Of course, I love Harry Potter as well as LOTR...I wasn't a big fan of The Silmarillion.

 

[NCF145]

Great Texts sounds awfully familiar...do you go to Baylor??

Yup

 

[Gerrymandering]

The Power of One--Bryce Courtenay (This was also made into a movie, which I haven't seen, but heard it's excellent...I think Morgan Freeman is in it.) In any case, it's an awesome book, and I've never seen a movie that surpassed the book it was based on.

Crime and Punishment--Dostoyevsky. Haven't been able to finish Brothers Karamazov, despite starting it 3 times.

Dragon Lance Series by Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman; Crystal Cave and the rest of the Arthurian Saga by Mary Stewart. I was a HUUUUGE fantasy dork growing up. Of course, I love Harry Potter as well as LOTR...I wasn't a big fan of The Silmarillion.

I hate your username!!! Seattle deserved the Superbowl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nuff said... 😡

 

[SteelerFan]

Hardly...

 

[Gerrymandering]

Hardly...

🙂 man of few words!! wanna fight this one ? hahaha just messin
i respect bettis though...man deserverd that title just as much as the city of seattle!!!

 

[Oculus Sinistra]

what are everyones favorite books (up to 3) excluding books such as orgo chem, and Gchem (i know its tempting)...

Sure, good question.

1) SPHERE by Michael Crichton (based on the sheer # of times I've read it)
2) NIGHT by Elie Wiesel (because of the struggle for humanity)
3) WATERSHIP DOWN (because it's adventurous, among other things)

I've read all the HARRY POTTER books and while I enjoy them, I don't think they are 'god's gift to literature' as some others would have you believe.