----------------------------------- jonos Sun Feb 29, 2004 6:07 pm the written word ----------------------------------- i thought that this thread would be deserving of such an amazing title, so i made it so. this is for your favourite books (those things with a cover and little words that exist in the material world, much like those things that exist on a computer screen). my favourite books/books i respect: 1984 - george orwell animal farm - " brave new world - aldous huxley to kill a mockingbird - harper lee dracula - bram stoker lotr - tolkien harry potter (yeahhhhhhh) - rowling the gentle spirit - some eastern european/russian guy the pearl - i forget (steinbeck maybe) of mice and men - steinbeck the catcher in the rye - salinger franny and zooey - salinger nine stories - salinger some sociology books from my dad - ? hannibal - ? (the book about that carthaginian who almost conquered rome) the russian revolution - ? mein kampf - hitler, duh (kindof interesting, im not anti-semitic) the communist manifesto - marx/engels (also kindof interesting, but hard to understand for me) i will add some more when i remember them or come across them. i read a lot and i recommend all these books to you. post your favourite books do the poll too ----------------------------------- poly Sun Feb 29, 2004 6:49 pm ----------------------------------- I don't really like to read. The only books i usually read are for school work, someone must force me to read a book and force me to enjoy it, than maybe ill start reading more ----------------------------------- shorthair Sun Feb 29, 2004 7:10 pm ----------------------------------- Really cool books i really like The universe in a nutshell - Stephen Hawking The Universe string theory - Collection of Writers Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury Titus and Dronicus - Shakespeare ----------------------------------- Paul Sun Feb 29, 2004 7:43 pm ----------------------------------- Woot! the Star Wars series, over 150 books, I've read at least half of them. Woot! The Ender's Game series! Woot! Hearts Blood series, by Jane Yolen Woot! LOTR series Woot! Dragon Lance series, by Margaret Weis