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What is Your Favorite Novel

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
1 (3.2%)
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
0 (0%)
Books by Charles Dickens
1 (3.2%)
Don Quixote by Miguel Saavedra
2 (6.5%)
I Don't like to Read At All
3 (9.7%)
I Got Less Than a "550" on my SAT or GRE Verbal; Doesn't That Tell You Something?
2 (6.5%)
Something not here
22 (71%)

Total Members Voted: 31

Voting closed: March 26, 2002, 07:55:47 am

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Offline Rampage

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on: March 26, 2002, 07:53:03 am
What is your favorite novel?  Post comments below.
 

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Reply #1 on: March 26, 2002, 08:11:36 am
Lord of the Rings or the Nights' Dawn Trilogy.

Ian Banks' The Player of Games was good as well though.
 

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Reply #2 on: March 26, 2002, 08:18:54 am
Nothin' in the poll, so:

Any and all books by Timothy Zahn.
Star Trek: Vendetta by Peter David
Star Trek: My Enemy, My Ally by Diane Duane
William Shatner's trek books are all good, if overly egotistical.
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Reply #3 on: March 26, 2002, 08:24:46 am
Well I guess my opinion could sway pretty soon as I'm still 16 but right now Orson Scott Card's Enders series is pretty good. That would include Enders Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Enders Shadow, Shadow for the Hegemon.
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Reply #4 on: March 26, 2002, 08:47:37 am
  • Star Trek: Dominion War Series
  • HG Wells - War Of The Worlds
  • Homer - The Oddyssey (non-verse)
  • God - The Bible (best sci-fi ever)
  • Johnathon Swift - Gullivers Travels
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Reply #5 on: March 26, 2002, 09:39:24 am
The Lords of the Rings probably, tho I love Dune and RiverWorld too
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Reply #6 on: March 26, 2002, 09:43:55 am
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The Lords of the Rings probably, tho I love Dune and RiverWorld too


Yeah, Dune rawks.

Isn't there a WC novel series?
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Reply #7 on: March 26, 2002, 09:49:23 am
ahhhhhhhh someone else whos read the nights dawn triology - that was a cool book
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Reply #8 on: March 26, 2002, 10:06:30 am
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ahhhhhhhh someone else whos read the nights dawn triology - that was a cool book


3 books actually :D

And they rock! Although I somewhat dislike the deus ex machina at the end.

An0n: if by WC you mean wing Commander, theh yes there are WC novels, but you'll be hard pressed to find them new now.

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Reply #9 on: March 26, 2002, 10:17:49 am
you mean the sleeping god? yeah teh solution was abit simple but still great books
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Reply #10 on: March 26, 2002, 10:24:34 am
1: Asimov's Foundation (the first one and part of the second one were better than the rest IMHO)
2: Any of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels
3: Wells' The Invisible Man and The Time Machine
4: 20000 Leagues Under the Sea by Verne

oh and I had to read The Catcher in the Rye in school a while ago; this is probably the worst book I have ever had the misfortune of reading in my life. :p (To Kill a Mockingbird and Romeo and Juliet come close, but this beats them all :p)
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Reply #11 on: March 26, 2002, 10:31:28 am
The Hobbit.


Its like the only novel that I read completely and undertood.
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Reply #12 on: March 26, 2002, 10:34:27 am
1984

Still rings true.
 

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Reply #13 on: March 26, 2002, 10:35:33 am
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1984


Ah, that was another good one. :)

On a side note, has anyone here read any of Stephen Ambrose's books? (Band of Brothers, Citizen Soldiers, 101st Airborne, etc.) They are historical accounts rather than true novels, but awesome books nevertheless.
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Reply #14 on: March 26, 2002, 10:38:32 am
ok, here goes

Asimov's Foundation series
Herbert's Dune series
Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series, (especially 2010)

As for non sci-fi:

Orwell's Animal farm
Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo
Tolkien's Lord of the Rings  (we all knew that was gonna come, right
any book by Jules Verne
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Reply #15 on: March 26, 2002, 10:59:19 am
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Orwell's Animal farm
Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo


Two more greats. Man, I can't even remember all the good ones I have read... :D

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Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series, (especially 2010)


I would like to check these out sometime but haven't gotten a chance to do so yet. Another title by the same author, Rendezvous with Rama, was also a great read. :nod:
 

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Reply #16 on: March 26, 2002, 11:43:58 am
the whole A.C clarke series of books was brilliant.

Dune is just totally visionary - and it shows because its scared everyone off making a big movie on.  the TV adaptation was OK but sucked in many ways..hell...I could have done better sfx than that!

Rendezvous with rama i have to get hold of at some point.

As for books that are hard to understand.  

Well...its not sci-fi but the 4th book in the Earthsea trilogy made an interesting read.
 

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Reply #17 on: March 26, 2002, 11:52:07 am
If you had seen the original movie before the tv series, you'd think differently.  They actually did a pretty good job IMO.

On another note, Larry Niven's Ringworld series is good, as is Sun Tzu's The Art of War, but I would have to say that Starship Troopers is my favorite right now.  And whoever said To kill a mockingbird is a bad book should be taken out to the back and shot.  Seriously.
 

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Reply #18 on: March 26, 2002, 12:07:12 pm
i have seen the origional - multiple times.

Its a pity they slaughtered the origional text, plot and narrative on both of them :(
 

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Reply #19 on: March 26, 2002, 12:17:02 pm
[glow=green]FRANKENSTEIN[/glow] by Mary Shelley. The greatest book ever!
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