Modern books that you wish we could record.
I agree about Tolkien - that would be fun.
I'd also say any John Sanford and Clive Cussler for me - two of my favorites.
Barbara Hambly's "For Those Who Hunt the Night" - would be a great Vampire movie (speaking of which I drank a beer on SuperBowl Sunday named Nosferatu)
Robert Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land" & "Starship Troopers"
Robert Silverberg's Majipoor Chronicles
I guess I read a lot of science fiction.
I'd also say any John Sanford and Clive Cussler for me - two of my favorites.
Barbara Hambly's "For Those Who Hunt the Night" - would be a great Vampire movie (speaking of which I drank a beer on SuperBowl Sunday named Nosferatu)
Robert Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land" & "Starship Troopers"
Robert Silverberg's Majipoor Chronicles
I guess I read a lot of science fiction.
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Nabokov's Lolita.
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I'd second many of the suggestions posted here already. Here's some others:
Ray Bradbury (everything!)
Ursula LeGuin (particularly the Earthsea stuff)
Patricia McKillip, whose work is wonderful and poetic
Edward Eager, who was mentioned awhile ago in another thread
Isabel Allende (Eva Luna, which Peter and I read aloud to each other)
I'm sure there's others.. Can you tell that I, too, am a sci-fi/fantasy fan?
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Ray Bradbury (everything!)
Ursula LeGuin (particularly the Earthsea stuff)
Patricia McKillip, whose work is wonderful and poetic
Edward Eager, who was mentioned awhile ago in another thread
Isabel Allende (Eva Luna, which Peter and I read aloud to each other)
I'm sure there's others.. Can you tell that I, too, am a sci-fi/fantasy fan?
-Catharine
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hmmm... maybe this is one of those items that should be listed in the Librivox profile =)ceastman wrote: I'm sure there's others.. Can you tell that I, too, am a sci-fi/fantasy fan?
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Do you mean "Geek"?thistlechick wrote:hmmm... maybe this is one of those items that should be listed in the Librivox profile =)ceastman wrote: I'm sure there's others.. Can you tell that I, too, am a sci-fi/fantasy fan?
I happily profess to be a geek!!Aldark wrote:
Do you mean "Geek"?
I used to get razzed in school for reading SciFi / Fantasy books... my honors English teacher said to me in class one day "Why Conan and not Cantebury." My comment, "I already did that one."kri wrote:I happily profess to be a geek!!Aldark wrote:
Do you mean "Geek"?
Where to begin? Here are a few that come immediately to mind, that I haven't seen mentioned yet (though some of the authors have):
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Cannery Row, Sweet Thursday, Tortilla Flat - John Steinbeck
Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway (short and sweet)
Smith of Wootton Major - J.R.R. Tolkien (another short one)
The Once and Future King, The Book of Merlyn - T.H. White
These are among my very favorites, that I revisit from time to time like old friends...
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Cannery Row, Sweet Thursday, Tortilla Flat - John Steinbeck
Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway (short and sweet)
Smith of Wootton Major - J.R.R. Tolkien (another short one)
The Once and Future King, The Book of Merlyn - T.H. White
These are among my very favorites, that I revisit from time to time like old friends...
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The Handmaid's Tale - Atwood
Tolkein - Scratch that. I'd yawn way too much during two towers.
Narnia
Tad Williams
Heinlein
Roald Dahl
Shel Silverstein
1984, as someone already mentioned
Hitchhiker's Guide the the Galaxy
I'm sure much more, too.
Tolkein - Scratch that. I'd yawn way too much during two towers.
Narnia
Tad Williams
Heinlein
Roald Dahl
Shel Silverstein
1984, as someone already mentioned
Hitchhiker's Guide the the Galaxy
I'm sure much more, too.
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I would bore you all to coma if I started listing titles....
But one of my musts would be:
The Princess Bride.
But one of my musts would be:
The Princess Bride.
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Ohh yes I really enjoy that onemarlodianne wrote:I would bore you all to coma if I started listing titles....
But one of my musts would be:
The Princess Bride.
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It's funny, I read The Princess Bride after Spider Robinson quoted the duel scene at the top of the Cliffs of Despair .... but I detested the book as a whole: it felt too disjointed and too .. sort of ... self-conscious. But the FILM, now there's one case of the film of the book being better than the book from which it is derived! .... at least, that's the way I feel about it.
Xhello, my nem is Inigo Montoye. You keeled my fahther. Prepaare to die!
Yeah!
Xhello, my nem is Inigo Montoye. You keeled my fahther. Prepaare to die!
Yeah!
Ohhh yes, ohhh yes. Oh yes the movie is better. Man, I love that movie.Peter Why wrote:It's funny, I read The Princess Bride after Spider Robinson quoted the duel scene at the top of the Cliffs of Despair .... but I detested the book as a whole: it felt too disjointed and too .. sort of ... self-conscious. But the FILM, now there's one case of the film of the book being better than the book from which it is derived! .... at least, that's the way I feel about it.
Xhello, my nem is Inigo Montoye. You keeled my fahther. Prepaare to die!
Yeah!
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Izze, what did you think of the fourth Earthsea book? I read it once, long after reading the trilogy, and can't remember anything about it, and have no urge to read it again: it made no impression on me whatsoever.