what are your five favourite books and/or series of all time?


mine would include..

dead morn - by piers anthony
battlefield earth - by l. ron hubbard
sword of shanara series - by terry brooks
bethanys sin - by robert r. mcammon
IT - by stephen king

The Alchemist
The Pilgrimage
Veronica Decides to Die
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

...and soon to be Eleven Minutes I'm sure.. all by Paulo Coelho..

I'm such a fan..  :-[

Fav 5:

Strange Conflict - Dennis Wheatley
The Reality Dysfunction - Peter F Hamilton
Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Long hard road out of hell - Marilyn Manson

Fav series:

Nights Dawn (Reality Dysfunction, Neutronium Alchemist, and Sleeping God) - Peter F Hamilton

my favs are:

Weaveworld, by Clive Barker
Cabal, by Clive Barker
The Great and Secret Show, by Clive Barker
Abarat, by Clive Barker
The Damnation Game, by Clive Barker

Here are my 5 non Clive Barker favs

Door to December, by Dean Koontz
Red Dragon, by Thomas Harris
Misery, by Steven King
The Voice of Night, by Dean Koontz
Phantoms, by Dean Koontz

Love,
Dara

anything by Poe
anything by Lovecraft
Frankenstein- Shelley
1984- Orwell
Einsteins Dreams- forgot the author

*Weaveworld- Clive Barker, would make 6th. The man is a genius.

Clive Barker is a genius indeed! Have you read his latest, Abarat? WOW, I highly reccomend that book. It is the first of a series of 6 novels, I am impatiently waiting for Abarat #2!

Bye,
Dara

The Bell Jar
The Catcher In The Rye
Enduring Love
Just For The Record
Wasted!

Wasted...good choice! Is this the WASTED I am thinking of? About the girl with the ED???

Love,
Dara

1984 - Orwell
Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck
Animal Farm - Orwell
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemmingway

Glad to see that I'm not the only one to choose George Orwell's 1984 as one of the best books ever-chemicalsolutio Anyway on with the list.
1. George Orwell's 1984
2.Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
3.Nietzsche's Human, All Too Human
4.Herman Hesse's Siddartha
5.Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra

i had tons of favorite books but after reading 'franks world' all others fell behind