Your top three favorites of all time. Only three, no more.
1) The Crying of Lot 49 2) The Godfather 3) Man and Microbe
(Number three is likely to change soon)
Posted by Taberah (Member # 4014) on :
quote:3) Man and Microbe
(Number three is likely to change soon)
What, are you starting to get sick of it?
Posted by HRE (Member # 6263) on :
No...its a great book, but it doesn't deserve to be number three. I just can't think of a better one right now.
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
1) LOTR 2) THHGTTG 3) The Spy that Came in From the Cold
Posted by Godric (Member # 4587) on :
1. The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien -- Yes, I'm counting the three books as one because they were split for publishing reasons.
2. Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco.
3. Winter's Tale, Mark Helprin.
Of course, I am only thinking about fiction -- if I were to consider non-fiction as well, I'm not sure if I could so easily pick my top 3 favorite/most-influential.
Posted by HRE (Member # 6263) on :
My top three now feels much better:
1) The Crying of Lot 49 2) The Godfather 3) Good Omens
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Argh. I am going to pick three, but they will be different tomorrow:
Rebecca,by Daphne du Maurier The Once and Future King, by T.H. White David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
Edited to take out the three I put in invisible ink. I will cheat in a different way.
[ March 07, 2004, 08:41 PM: Message edited by: Elizabeth ]
Posted by E (Member # 1748) on :
A Soldier of the Great War, by Mark Helprin Shogun, by James Clavell Villette, by Charlotte Bronte
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Sorry, Book, but what is THHGTTG?
Posted by HRE (Member # 6263) on :
Blasphemy!
It it The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Posted by Godric (Member # 4587) on :
quote:A Soldier of the Great War, by Mark Helprin
Ooh! I haven't read this yet, but I just found a nice hardback copy the other day at a discount book store for only $4.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
This is hard. I'll have to think.
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
Hooray for Good Omens. I consider Good Omens and THHGTTG to be somewhat interchangeable.
Posted by Auron of Zanarkand (Member # 6257) on :
1. Children of the Mind
2. The Two Towers
3. Watership Down Posted by HRE (Member # 6263) on :
Book:
I had THHGTTG there first, then I put Good Omens, then I put THHGTTG, then I put Good Omens. Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :
1) L'etranger 2) Timbuktu 3) My Side of the Mountain
(100 years of solitude should be in there - it IS an incredible book)
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
If someone were to put a gun to my head and demand that I name my three favorite books, I'm afraid I would not be long for this world.
Posted by delicate flower (Member # 6260) on :
1. Stephen King's "The Stand" 2. John Irving's "The World According to Garp" 3. Ken Follet's "Pillars of the Earth"
Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :
TD,
I feel the same way. What's a favorite? Every time I see a new brilliant film, it is my favorite. Every time I hear a new great tune (or happen upon an old great tune) on the radio. That's my favorite.
Favorite is a hard thing to clarify on a timeless objectivist scale.
fallow
PS my favorite color is green.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Me, too, Tom. What I decided was, OK, I will just write the three that come first and strongest to mind. A ton came. For instance, I JUST finished "Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn." And how about C.J. Cherryh's "Fortress" series? Cruel!
Tom, if you used D.D. Shade's list of speculative fiction subgenres, could you choose three of each of those?
Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
1. Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide. 2. Speaker for the Dead 3. Lord of the Rings
I have to consider one and three as a series. Sorry, but that's just the way I read them, and it's hard for me to remember exactly what parts are in which books. I read the Ender series together too, but they were all different enough that I can remember my feeling of each of them.
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