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I haven't seen one yet so I decided to make this thread about...Duh duh duh duh!!!! What are your favorite books and authors?? Here are some of the coolest books and authors (in my opinion)

Books...

Magnus -by Sigmund Brouwer
Blood Ties -Sigmund Brouwer
The Robotech macross saga books- Jack Mckinney (I think that's his name)
Thr33 -Ted Dekker


Authors...

Sigmund Brouwer. All his books that I've read are really cool.
Ted Dekker. Same as Brouwer
Frank Perreti. Some really good yarns he's done made
John Case. Cool stuff man!! (and ladies)
Stephen Lawhead. Alll the books I've read of his are cool.

My favorite book would be Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.

As authors go, I love James Thruber, Carl Hiassen and Chuck Palahniuk. I also have a weakness for Linda Fairstein's and Dennis Lehane's crime novel series.

Since I've already posted some of my favorite books on the "Book Recommendations" thread, I'll just post my favorite authors and their respective subjects:

Alvin Plantinga-Philosophy
Norman Geisler-Theology
David S. Landes-History
Stuart McRobert-Health/Fitness

Some I like are the Mandie series and the Cat Who series. I like Tolkein and CS Lewis. I like the book She said Yes about Cassie Bernall. I like the Silver Brumby books too. . . . can't think, will post more later. ^_^

Bible, for obvious reasons. Best all around read. ^_^

My favorite authors are as follows:

Theology - J. Gresham Machen
Bible study and poetry - Beth Moore
Inspirational - Beth Moore
History - Colin Brown
Autobiographies - David McCullogh
Crime Fiction - Patricia Cornwell
Literary - James McBride and Joyce Carol Oates
and a bunch of others that I like to read. ^_^

>.< can't decide. this sort of thing is too broad to be limited to a handful for me. besides, i can't remember all the books that made a deep impression on me...there's too many of them. ^^;;

Hmm, this is not easy, I won't repeat what I wrote in the Book Recommendations threads, so I'll include some others.

I'd have to say Tolkien and Douglas Adams of course. Terry Pratchett too. His best I'd say were "Good Omens" and "The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents".

Carl Sagan- I've read (and own) pretty much all of his books, excepting his scientific publications.

As far as mysteries go, I'd say Peter Tremayne who writes the Sister Fidelma series, and Ellis Peters of "Brother Cadfael" fame.

These are mine in no particular order

books-
Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
Eragon-Chris Paolini
Fellowship of the Ring- J.R.R. Tolkien
The Two Towers- J.R.R. Tolkien
Return of the King- J.R.R. Tolkien
The Chronicles of Narnia books- C.S. Lewis
The Rainbow Six and other Books by Tom Clancy
Most of John Grishams works (havent read any after the Brethren)
David Copperfield- Charles Dickens
The Three Musketeers- Alexander Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo- Alexander Dumas

anyways thats some of my favorites ill post others later lol (i read alot

books-
if you give a mouse a cookie
harriet the spy
my own octopus
most of john grisham's books
all the harry potter books
on the street where you live
all the animorphs books
remember me
the cabinet of curiousities (sp?)
regina's song
jonny tremain
to kill a mockingbird
alas babylon
rifles for watie
maniac magee ( or is it mcgee?)

authors-
edgar allan poe
j k rowling
mary higgins clark
k a applegate
john grisham
madeline l'engle (sp?)
danielle steele
there's a lot more but i can't remember them all

My favorite aurthors/books:

No real order:

Dune by Frank Herbert
Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy
The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy
Shadow's of the Empire by Steve Perry
To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee

That's all I can think of right now....

A few others that I forgot to mention:

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Barry Unsworth
Guy Gavriel Kay

My favorite books of all time:

Fiction:
The Oath
The Prophet
This Present Darkeness
Piercing the Darkness
Lord of the Rings
Chronicles of Narnia (just consider this one book for now)
Jurassic Park
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
(yes, I'm pathetic... I haven't read many Fiction books... Others I've read have all been Christians Children's books. I also read Lost World, Wizard of Oz, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, parts of Alice in Wonderland and Through the looking glass)

Nonfiction stories

Is That Really You God?
Imprisoned in Iran
CT Studd: Cricketeer, Pioneer
parts of Peretti's Autobiography, something about a Wounded Spirit?
A Tale of Three Kings
(other books I've read in this category, but didn't really "do it" for me or I just plain Don't remember were Reese Howells: Intercessor, Oral Roberts' Biography).


Non-Fiction non-story books:
Making Jesus Lord
1 or 2 sections of Battle for Truth (the ones that scared me were the marxist ones...)
Parts of Clergy in the Classroom (It's just a book of quotes of famous teachers and people in the board of education in the US... Enlightening stuff)
Visioneering
Reentry
(As for other books I've read that I didn't realy like, they're not even worth mentioning...)

BTW, my favorite short story from Literature class in school is "The Ruum."

I want to make a computer animated version of it, if I can ever find the story again (it's pretty darn hard, seeing as it's just a short story)

I just noticed convoybutterfly likes a lot of the same books I like. ^_^

I need to add my favorite youth fiction authors. I read a lot of junior/youth fiction, since I tend to write in that genre.

Louis Sachar*
Richard Peck*
Madelaine L'Engle
The Magic Treehouse series, I think it's Mary Alice Pope?
Dav Pilkey
Some of Judy Bloom, but not all

My favorite book of all time is The Rape of Nanking. And With Our Own Eyes: Eyewitnesses to the Final Days of Amelia Earhart.

Jane Austen, how could I forget Jane Austen? Jane Austen made me the hopeless romantic I am today.

My fav book is...HARRY POTTER! The writing is so...so um...well, awesome. Iguess that's the only way to put. The story captivates me in a labrynth of characters and their ups and downs. Each character is so well defined that it's like you know them personally. The conflicts keep you wanting more, and you won't to stop until all is explained. Though it may be fantasy, it makes you think about things. THIS IS THE BEST BOOK EVER!!! After the Bible of course.

My favorite books and authors, hm?

Authors:

Richard Watson (theology)
J.R.R. Tolkien (epic fantasy)
W.B. Pope (theology)
W.E. Sangster (Christian living/hagiography--check out The Pure In Heart at www.wesleyanbooks.com!)
John Wesley (theology)
A.W. Tozer (theology/Christian living)
Piers Anthony (satiric fantasy)
Robert Asprin (satiric fantasy)
John Fletcher (polemics--author of the famed Checks Against Antinomianism)
C.S. Lewis (apologetics)

Books:

Theological Institutes (Richard Watson)
Compendium of Christian Theology (W.B. Pope)
The Pure In Heart (W.E. Sangster)
The Pursuit of God (A.W. Tozer)
The Silmarillion (Tolkien)
Something M.Y.T.H. Inc. (Asprin)
A Spell For Chameleon (Anthony)

true_noir_chloe wrote:I just noticed convoybutterfly likes a lot of the same books I like. ^_^

what can i say, great minds think alike. oh i can't believe i forgot frank peretti. if that's how you spell it. and i know i said it earlier but...mary higgins clark is awesome! wait no i didn't say that. but she is.

I haven't read many very-very good books, but there are some:

Les Misérables (i'm not sure how that's supposed to be written)
Talented mr. Ripley
Harry Potter-books

and many more..

Swordskill: You sound like the moon, covered by impressions. Thought I would say that before I actually let loose the dogs of... of the books I like.

Well, there's Tad Williams fantasy series Memory, Sorrow & Thorn (and their fantasy). Absolutely love Neal Stephenson (not for the faint of heart). To Kill a Mockingbird, Robinson Crusoe, Fire Upon the Deep, those are my favorites for fiction.

Philosophy would be: Soren Kierkegaard (spelling), Thomas Aquinas, C.S. Lewis' God in the Dock.

Religious would be Thomas Merton, Thomas Keating, and The Cloud of Unknowing, and of course Tao Te Ching.

I'm not as eclectic as I'd like to be, but give me time and...

Philip Yancey, John Grisham and autobiographies such as "Memoirs of a Geisha", "Gandhi".

Woot I just read "When Heaven Weeps" by Ted Dekker..If you like good Christian fiction check it out.

That Dude wrote:Books...

Magnus -by Sigmund Brouwer
Blood Ties -Sigmund Brouwer
The Robotech macross saga books- Jack Mckinney (I think that's his name)
Thr33 -Ted Dekker

thr33 is on my desk, im going to read it next probably,

the following in no particular order

my favorite books are

the entire space odessey series,
the hobbit

*runs and hides*
the left behind series(seems that it is not well liked here)
*runs back with armor on*

shaiton's fire
firefly blue


my favorite authors are

arthur c. clarke
jrr tolkien
tim lahaye
jake thoene
cs lewis

Redwall Series Brian Jacues
Hardy Boys series Frank Dixon
LOTR tolkien

Woot! a Hardy Boys fan!!! Those were pretty awesome...Got me into reading a lot. Has anybody ever read Farmer Giles Of Ham by Tolkien?? Pretty funny stuff...Totally different fromn the rest of his stuff.

Ooh Memiors of a Geisha.....that's a good book Mave. Thanks for the reminder!

My favourite books:
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (absolutely hilarious XD)
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Songmaster - Orson Scott Card
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
1984 - George Orwell
The Tale of the Body Thief - Anne Rice
Also, all the books in the Harry Potter series..

Some of my favorite books and series are:

Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles
T. S. White's The Once and Future King
LOTR by Tolkien
The Hobbit by Tolkien
all the Harry Potter books (especially the third)
The Young Unicorns by Madeliene L'Engle
David Copperfield by Dickens

There are more, but I can't think of 'em all right now!