Hi, 12B I do have a few of them around the house!!!!

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The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

Thomas Jefferson

SiFi:
William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Neil Stephson, Larry Niven, Arthur Clark

Fun:
Rob Grant & Doug Naylor (Red Dwarf)

Enlightment:
Douglas Adams.

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I dont like reading, but I used to read alot in grade 6....I just read for 6 hours or more.
my favourite book is scarecrow by matthew reilly. Its about this assasination on 15 people....It really cool

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riley

I dont like reading, but I used to read alot in grade 6....I just read for 6 hours or more.
my favourite book is scarecrow by matthew reilly. Its about this assasination on 15 people....It really cool

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riley

I love A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bryson..I start off my classes every year with the first 2 pages of it...how the universe came to be.

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Marshall: 1971 SuperLead 100>1997 1960-TV, bunch of pedals
and a 1987 Porsche 911 Carrera coupe named Veronica

I have been readind alot of ian flemmings bond books so i guess hes my favourite author. I like reading autobiographys aswell but that usually always means only one book. But nikkis sixx's book was really good as were slash's, gordon ramsays (yes i know hes done more than one book!), ozzy, lemmy, jack dee and ronnie woods.

Wow..I'm surprised at all the responses we're certainly an eclectic bunch when it comes to literature.Good news for John Kennedy Toole fans,he did in fact write a second smaller novel called The Neon Bible,not as good or as brilliant as Confederacy of Dunces but a very good read.Thanks all for the responses,I have a great things to read list now.BTW there were rumblings a few years ago of making A Confederacy of Dunces into a movie but it apparently got bogged down in legal hassles,that's a pity,that would make a fabulous movie.

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Ooh, how did I forget The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? It's like the air I breathe.

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I really like all them "Aster" guitars. You know, like the Stratoc, Telec and Jazzm.

Well bless my socks. You never cease to surprise me, RR!

I wasn't going to post on this thread - cos the pages here aren't long enough for my requirements. An author and/or book? P-lease!

However, I just have to give a friendly wave to another Beowulf reader. It's my secret geek obsession - I have shelves and shelves full of Beowulf related material.

Matter o' fact, Seamus Heaney is nearly my least favorite edition. No time here for a ten thousand word critical analysis, so a single example to stand for all the others. Line 11: "þæt wæs god cyning!" = "That was one good king!" Down da hood, maybe. Come off it, Seamus - try harder!

Actually, for all it's compromises I like Michael Alexander's verse translation for Penguin as well as any. And I've recently been getting into Benedict Flynn's translation - which I also have in an audio edition on my iPod. How nurdy is that? Pah - I can get more nurdy: I also have a CD of Trevor Eaton doing the entire three hours - in the original Anglo-Saxon. That's uber-nurd!!!

Still, have you ever seen the 25 lines or so that Tolkien translated - in the middle of an essay explaining why you shouldn't read Beowulf in translation? A tiny glimpse of what would have been the best translation of all - the coy little swine!

And what the heck is any of this doing on a forum about electric guitars?

Cheers - C

PS From the OP: I also like Hunter S Thompson a helluvalot...

Tolkien is probably the author I've read the most - The Silmarillion is my favorite of his works.

Dune is also one of my favorite books

Loved Moby Dick

Ayn Rand is great too. though I've only read The Fountainhead. Once I finish the Shining, I will probably read Atlas Shrugged.

Off the top of my head, The Hobbit is the first book that comes to mind as a favorite. There are many others though.

my fave is frank schaetzing. a great thriller writer.

cheers

A single book would be difficult to target, kind of like favorite song. Authors are in no particular order,

Stephen R Donaldson, he wrote "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenent" a series still to be completed.

Terry Pratchett, the Disc World books, an incredible series of books with satire and great characters and stories.

Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time books, he died in 2007 and the series will be completed by Brandon Sanderson.

J.K. Rowling, yes I really enjoyed the Harry Potter series.

Stephen King, Dark Tower series

These are just the ones that come to mind immediately. I am always reading, as soon as I complete one book, I'll start another.

Jgauker

Suprised you cite Pratchett. He's one author who's humour I fully expect not to cross the Atlantic. I'm a big fan of his too. This diease thats hit him is a terrible tradegy, yet he persists in writing despite the horrible effects of alzheimers.

Saw him a couple of weeks ago stating the case for euthenasia. Makes me very sad that the bloke will be wanting out one day.

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I confess I haven't read any of Beowulf in the original. I once read the Canterbury Tales in the original Middle English, and it just about killed me. Maybe one day I'll work up the strength to attack Beowulf on his own turf. My knowledge of German should help me out--at least I hope so. The Seamus Heaney translation is actually the only complete rendering of Beowulf I have read, and I think I like it because I found it very accessible. But it could be worse: I could base my opinion of the piece on that atrocious 3D movie with Angelina Jolie that came out a while back.

By the way, would I be correct in assuming you have read the novel Grendel by John Gardner? It tells the other side of the story very nicely.

Perhaps it fits in with the artwork on all those old Molly Hatchet album covers.

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I really like all them "Aster" guitars. You know, like the Stratoc, Telec and Jazzm.