Kevin's Watch

What is it. This has probably been done before, but I can't be bothered to check, I've gotta go to a lesson. heh.

I have to pick just one????


How about if I limit it to stand-alone novels and leave out the series, thus not having to pick a favorite Covenant book?

At this moment that would probably be either Catch-22 or The Neverending Story

Dear Gods, this is NOT an easy question. I would have to say that my favorite of all time would be The Lord of the Rings, in it's entirety. Second, would of course be the entire Chrons of TC. After those two, it just gets really murky...

I sometimes cannot decide if I like TIW or TPTP most. Is it a bad sign that I could never find something I liked more after reading those? I was thinking of becoming a writer when I was younger but I completely gave up that idea when I read TCTC - the perfect books were allready written! Perhaps this a sad thing - what if I had a lot of nice stories to tell (not likely... )?

one abreviation-TIW

I think my personal favorite at least of the TC books is WGW. I do not know why.

Stand alone books, or the first book of a series if it can stand alone:
-Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
-Bhagavad Gita translated by Eknath Easwaran
-Conversations With God by Neale Donald Walsch
-Dune by Frank Herbert
-Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
-Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter (though I've never even finished it!)
-Illusions by Richard Bach
-Magister Ludi by Hermann Hesse
-Neverness by David Zindell
-The Ninja by Eric Van Lustbader
-Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
-Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
-Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig


Serieseses:
-Earthsea
-LOTR
-TCTC

God knows what I'm forgetting. There's always something...

Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake

H.G. Wells - War of the Worlds. This book got me started on the whole reading trip. (That and Herbie the Love Bug.)
Original influences not withstanding it would be The Illearth War. No question.

"The Complete Robot" by Isaac Asimov

The Inverted World by Christopher Priest introduced my to high quality Sci-Fi. In that genre Neverness and Dune would be the best 2 stand alones. I would rank Neverness and the trilogy that follows it, A Requiem for Homo Sapiens as the best Sci-Fi series I've ever read.

Even tho he's known for horror, H. P. Lovecraft's Dreamquest of the Unknown Kadath and E. R. Eddison's The Worm Oroborus got me hooked on Fantasy. If there actually is a stand alone it would prob be Worm or The Silmarillion. Best series would be; TCTC, LOTR, the Illuminatus! trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea and the 1st 3 books (so far) of Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series.

One of my favorite novels is All the Pretty Horses by Cormack McCarthy. I also like Godel, Escher & Bach, Siddartha, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maint. and silly stuff like Vonegut, Hitchiker's Guide and Tom Robbins (especially Still Life with a Woodpecker ).

'Still Life With Woodpecker' is a great story, danlo! I haven't thought about it for years! (And as I was dating a redhead at the time... )

Hawaii - by James Michener-
What a fantastic tale he tells!

oooo Baby! Still massively in love w/Princess Liegh Cherie!

My favorite book? The Catcher in the Rye! It's the only book where I totally agreed with the narrator and then disagreed with him years later.

Ugh....That must be a guy book. Or maybe I was just too young. I hated it.

Now, I've heard of "chick flicks", but never a "guy book"!

Well, I first read it in 9th grade, and I related with Holden Caulfield deeply, feeling his uncertainty about having to grow up and not wanting to. It's a book that, when you're, say, fifteen, you agree when Holden talks about "phonies", but then when you're older your point of view has changed and you being to feel sorry for Holden instead of commiserate with him. No book has ever really done that to me--made me see it from and enjoy it from two completely different angles. It's like Holden is his own protagonist and antagonist, and the first time you read it you think the antagonist in him is the good guy because you relate to that uncertainty, and then when you're older, you feel sorry for the protagonist in him that wishes to come out.

Ahh. That must be it. I was far too old. I read it when I was 23. I couldn't help but think he was a pathetic little whiner. I really didn't get what was the big deal. Oh well...

Freedom's Landing, by Anne McCaffrey. I love those books.

Things I forgot that I remembered.

-Fools Crow: Wisdom and Power by Thomas E. Mails
-Hrolf Kraki's Saga by Poul Anderson
-A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Of everything I've listed in my two posts, my current favorite of all is possibly Atlas Shrugged. But it changes from time to time.

The Lord Of The Rings. Not saying any more