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I can't think of any other threads to make, so this will have to do for now.

Name your favorite (or your top few) author and book.

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Favorite author is Tom Clancy.  Not sure what my favorite book is though, I'm almost done with The Great Gatsby which is pretty good, despite being a romance type of novel.

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The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

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"The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien"


Hated that book myself (no offense). Undeveloped characters that were essentially clones with different names, and I wasn't at all drawn in by the plot.

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Hated that book myself (no offense). Undeveloped characters that were essentially clones with different names, and I wasn't at all drawn in by the plot."


Loved it ever since I was a little kid.

Other favorites:

Lord of the Rings trilogy by Tolkien
Dark Tower series by Stephen King (though I've only read the first two and am about 2/3 of the way through III)
Childhood's End by Arthur C Clark

I really should expand beyond sci-fi and fantasy. Seems like that's most of what I read, lol.

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Oh, and I really liked 1984 and Animal Farm by Orwell.

-- Edited by MX793 at 15:34, 2005-02-19

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Loved it ever since I was a little kid.

Other favorites:

Lord of the Rings trilogy by Tolkien
Dark Tower series by Stephen King (though I've only read the first two and am about 2/3 of the way through III)
Childhood's End by Arthur C Clark

I really should expand beyond sci-fi and fantasy. Seems like that's most of what I read, lol."


Well, if you ever need recommendations for automotive books, talk to CaMIRO on C/D. Every discussion I have with him he tells me to buy a different book to understand his viewpoint.

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Oh, and I really liked 1984 and Animal Farm by Orwell.-- Edited by MX793 at 15:34, 2005-02-19"


I enjoyed Animal Farm, but I never much liked 1984. Brave New World (I think that one's by Huxley) is also a good read, in the same vein as 1984.

But none of those "society's future problems" novels can come close to my all-time favorite: Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.

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I enjoyed Animal Farm, but I never much liked 1984. Brave New World (I think that one's by Huxley) is also a good read, in the same vein as 1984.

But none of those "society's future problems" novels can come close to my all-time favorite: Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451."


Never read that one, for some reason. Another more interesting "tale of the future" was Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy. It is sort of a Rip Van Winkle story written in the late 1800s (1880s, IIRC) that predicts what the world would be like roughly 1000 years in the future (year 2000). Some of what Bellamy predicted wrote wound up coming to be (credit cards, public radio, shopping malls). It was kind of neat to see what a man of the 19th century thought the later half of the 20th century would be like, and to find that he was within reason on a lot of it. None of this "man will inhabit the moon" stuff. It had sort of a pro-socialist leaning to it, though.

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Never read that one, for some reason. Another more interesting "tale of the future" was Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy. It is sort of a Rip Van Winkle story written in the late 1800s (1880s, IIRC) that predicts what the world would be like roughly 1000 years in the future (year 2000). Some of what Bellamy predicted wrote wound up coming to be (credit cards, public radio, shopping malls). It was kind of neat to see what a man of the 19th century thought the later half of the 20th century would be like, and to find that he was within reason on a lot of it. None of this "man will inhabit the moon" stuff. It had sort of a pro-socialist leaning to it, though.-- Edited by MX793 at 15:53, 2005-02-19"


You haven't read Fahrenheit 451 or Brave New World? I'd highly recommend either.

And I'll definitely look into Looking Backward, sounds extremely interesting. Did he by any chance predict anything about the automobile?

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Although its written like a play, we just read Inherit the Wind, which is based on the Scopes Monkey Trial. It was really good! ***** (5 stars XD)

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My favorite author would either be John Grisham or Robert Ludlum. Clancy is good as well. I don't know what my favorite book would be, really, but for a good book I've read recently, the Holcroft Covenant by Robert Ludlum will do.

As for your recommendations, I personally hated Fahrenheit 451. Nearly everyone else I've talked to that has read it liked it, but I thought it was stupid.

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As for your recommendations, I personally hated Fahrenheit 451. Nearly everyone else I've talked to that has read it liked it, but I thought it was stupid. "


Can't handle the future, eh?

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Can't handle the future, eh? "

Haha... if that's the future, I'll be a hermit.

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Haha... if that's the future, I'll be a hermit."


That's where you missed the point of the book. It's a reasonable prediction of the future deterioration of our attention spans and intelligence levels, which leads to the ultimate deterioration of our society. That alone should get to you.

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That's where you missed the point of the book. It's a reasonable prediction of the future deterioration of our attention spans and intelligence levels, which leads to the ultimate deterioration of our society. That alone should get to you."

Oh, it did, my biggest complaint with the book wasn't the story or idea, I understood what the author was trying to say, I just didn't like the way it was written. At all.

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Oh, it did, my biggest complaint with the book wasn't the story or idea, I understood what the author was trying to say, I just didn't like the way it was written. At all."


Any specifics?

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Any specifics?"

I honestly don't remember. I read it a few years ago, I'd have to read it again before I could say anything specific.

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I honestly don't remember. I read it a few years ago, I'd have to read it again before I could say anything specific."


I'd definitely recommend that you do so, if only as a topic for discussion. It's not very long.

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Hard to pick just one, so here's a few:


Isaac Asimov: The robot detective series (R. Daneel and friends)


Stephen King: "From A Buick 8" and "Christine"


Tom Clancy: "Hunt for Red October" and "Debt of Honor"


Jimmy Buffett: "Tales from Margaritaville" and "Where is Joe Merchant"


Anne McCaffrey: The entire Dragonrider and Harper Hall series.


R E Howard: The Conan series


Arthur C Clarke: 2001, 2010, 2061


Ray Bradbury: The Martian Chronicles


CS Lewis: The Narnia series


Douglas Adams: The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy series


The last has FINALLY been made into a major budget motion picture!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



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"Ray Bradbury: The Martian Chronicles "

I just started reading that today.


I can't find Fahrenheit 451, I'd like to read it.  It's probably at the Public Library but I don't have a membership.



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