Actualy i didnt wait to see Forrester to begin read books, but here's my list:
1)Iliad/Odyssey- HOMER
2)The Raven- EDGAR ALAN POE
3)1984-GEORGE ORWEL
4)The Name Of The Rose (brilliant!!!)-UMBERTO ECO
5)And finally,100 years of solitude-GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUES
(the hidden 6th book(!) AVALON LANDING by WILLIAM FORRESTER!!!
hehehehehe
Here are my top 5 favorite works of fiction.
1. Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
2. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. Diary of a Drug Fiend - Alister Crowley
4. Perks of Being a Wallflower - Steven Chbosky
5. The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski
"Its nothing personal when bombs explode" - Chuck Palahnuik
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Musashi - Yoshikawa
The Iliad and The Odyssey - Homer
Gargantua - Rabelais
The Fall of the House of Usher - Poe
The Bridge over the Drina - Andric
Burning Daylight - London
The Overvoat - Gogol
I couldn't make up my mind so I put an extra or three =)
The cyberspace trilogy (1. neuromacer, 2. count zero, 3. mona lisa overdrive)
4. 1984, 5. brave new world
1984--Orwell
The Lord of the Rings--Tolkien
Lord of the Flies--Golding (I guess I like books about lords...)
Heart of Darkness--Conrad
Flags of Our Fathers--Bradley
+The Object of the Game--Chuck Kyle
Glad to see so many people have 1984 on their list! Just read it this January. Unbelievably good.
Approximate number of movies I've seen in the theater: 75.
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Blood Meridian-McCarthy
Absalom, Absalom!-Faulkner
Anna Karenina-Tolstoy
In Search of Lost Time-Proust
For Whom the Bell Tolls-Hemingway
Portrait of the Artist-Joyce
The Great Gatsby-Fitzgerald
Rabbit Novels-Updike
Atonement-McEwan
1. Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
2. In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
3. Collection of Hemmingway's short stories
4. The Awakening - Kate Chopin
5. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
I'm an English major so I have a lot of favorite books, but these are definitely my top 5 :)
1.The Great Gatsby- F.Scott Fitzgerald
2.Catcher in the Rye- J.D. Salinger
3.1984- George Orwell
4.All Quiet on the Western Front- Erich Maria Remarque
5.Night- Elie Wiesel
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1) "Harry Potter" - J.K. Rowling
2) "Anne of Green Gables" - L.M. Montgomery
3) "The Cider House Rules" - John Irving
4) "The Catcher in the Rye" - J.D. Salinger
5) "Guitar Highway Rose" - Brigid Lowry
A Prayer for the Wild at Hearts Kept in Cages
Technicaly the Raveb by Edgar Allen Poe is a poem, not a book. I think the word your looking for is story, or possibly novel
This list would probably change depending on the day you asked, but here are five that I really love:
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The World According to Garp by John Irving
King Lear by Shakespeare
The Collector by John Fowles
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesing
Honorable mention: Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, American Pastoral by Philip Roth, A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, all Shakespeare that I've read
royals794, I don't mean to be a pest but if Cuckoo's Nest is one of your top 5 favorite books (and I adore the novel too), you should really know that the author's name is KESEY.
Ken Kesey. Not Ken Kesing.
1. Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
(I read this way back in January not knowing ANYTHING about it and anybody associated with it. I picked it up, read it... and loved it... and not because "I identified so well with the speshul little snowflake that is Holden".)
2. The Outsiders by SE Hinton
(Since the eighth grade!)
3. Peter Pan by JM Barrie
(Since the SIXTH grade!)
4. The Chronicles of Narnia series
(I put them all together)
5. Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
(Yeah yeah--the writer's an ass, but I found the book a good page-turner! ^_^)
"Are you with me bandits?"
Loved it, hated it, and now obsess over it again.
1. Little, Big by John Crowley
2. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
3. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
4. The Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian
5. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon.
Other good ones worth mentioning: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott, As I Lay Dying by Faulkner, almost the entire collected works of Shakespeare, and Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow.
Truthful speaking would be a simple way to tell the truth, if it were simple and could be told.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexdre Dumas
1984 - George Orwell
Born Naked - Farley Mowat
Any of the Sherlock Holmes stories/novels - Conan Doyle
1. The Catcher in the Rye
2. A Confederacy of Dunces
3. The Wayward Bus
4. Of Mice and Men
5. Siddhartha