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Favourite Fiction Books

Post by Jack Daniels » August 18th, 2004, 3:20 pm

Hello,

What is your favorite fiction book?

Myself, I am a great fan of Stephen King, and his dark tower series in particular. The first one is perhaps my most favorite.

What's yours?

Jamie. :)

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Post by anniefay » August 19th, 2004, 7:28 am

is hopefully the one i am currently reading. i like all kinds of fiction but lean towards mystery/suspense. i've read stephen king, but don't really like that genre.

but right now, at this very time... i am reading...(which is now my favorite fiction) Biggest Elvis by Kluge. Let me tell you how i wound up reading this book. I'm an NPR listener in the a.m. while getting ready for work and they have this ongoing bit where this librarian from Seattle comes on and tells you what books are good reading. she recommended Biggest Elvis and it sounded like fun... so began my journey in getting a copy.

my first step was the local library. (i'm cutting back on donating to B&N) and they didn't have the book... in fact, hadn't heard of it. So i went on line and visited Amazon... they didn't have a copy either. It is apparently out of print... although it made it all the way to a paperback edition (was published in the late 90's). So it's out of print... and it is sold out... evidently... everywhere. no copies availiable, except this one guy is selling his used copy which is in fair condition for $45. Yeah, no thanks.

i thought, must be... this book is worth reading. so i check into the inter-library loan dealy through our local library and ordered a copy. about a week later, they notify me my copy is in... and i picked it up Sunday...

it isn't exactly what i expected when i got it, but i am enjoying it. and worth the wait to get to read it ...however, i sure wouldn't pay $45 for a copy... i do recommend that if you see a copy in a used bookstore or garage sale... pick it up. if you don't like the book, you can always sell it "on line" for $45 and get a good return on your investment.

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Post by anniefay » August 19th, 2004, 8:55 am

i spent so much time telling you how i got the book i didn't tell you anything about the book.

the Biggest Elvis is set in the Phillippines in a bar renamed Graceland after the hit of its new act opens. the act is composed of 3 elvis impersonators. the first is "baby" elvis who portrays the music and times of elvis just starting out. the second is "dude" elvis and portrays elvis in his glory days... and the last is the declinging elvis who has eroded himself with drugs and grown a bit paunchy... he is the biggest elvis. this character is suffering from some negative events but still a little idealistic. very likeable, in fact.

the author, kluge, is a good writer. his book deals in character development and you really feel you are acquainted with his principal characters. the plot develops as different characters relate their story. its about a time now gone, idealism... and lots of stuff...

honestly, its a good read. check it out if you can get a copy. you won't be sorry.

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Sci-fi goodies

Post by magicmystery » August 21st, 2004, 10:46 pm

I am torn between authors for my favourite fiction....

I am a Sci Fi Fan....

Greg Bear is a reincarnate Frank Herbert and I love them both,
and then there's Arthur C. Clarke

OK here's the books...


Greg Bear's Eon series....

Frank Herbert's Destination Void and "Ship" series ( I Know he's more famous for "Dune" but I like these other's better....)

And Arthur C. Clarke's Songs of Distant Earth.....

All of these books examine our tabos, religious phobias and the effects they have on our economies and environments, ecology.

Eon deals with a society locked in a hollowed out asteroid after a nuclear war makes earth uninhabitable... It has time traveled back 1000 years to just months before the beginning of the war.... but in the examination of the asteroid, our astronauts make a discovery... that the internal mechanism constucted by its inhabitants extends the asteroid's internal ecosystem into infinity.... and the society that has been created within the confines of this "Mile-long" rock in space dubbed "the Pototo" for it's outward appearance.

Frank Herbert has a knack for getting to the root of religion. In this series, he explores the interactions of a crew faced with certain death unless they can create a sentient computer (artificial intelligence) who dubs itself "Ship" and insists on the "WorShip" of itself over many millenia and affects on the ecosystem of a new planet called Pandora.

Arthur C. Clarke gives us a peak into a society created without the benefit or interference of religious references, tabos.... which makes life more peaceful and much more uneventful. Colonized by one of the last ships to leave Earth before her Sun went nova... life has been a tranquil paradise here until one of the slower evac ships from Earths first days of exodus arrives... with its library and a live crew....

All of these make for some long nights... and interesting dreams afterward.... at least for me....

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Post by Glorious Amok » August 25th, 2004, 4:58 pm

personally, i'd have to go for something by Irvine Welsh, they're just so masterfully written, able to drag you into a life you want no part of.

philosophies from the other side of the tracks are always the most eye-opening, i find.

Marabou Stork Nightmares, Trainspotting, and Glue would be my selections.
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Favorite fiction? That's a hard one...

Post by billectric » August 27th, 2004, 4:15 pm

I like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson very much. Also, On the Road by Kerouac. Both of those are actually based on true events, but both writers are known to embellish. But pure fiction, let me think...

Edgar Allen Poe's Fall of the House of Usher is one of my favorites. But, you know what? I can't pick a single favorite.
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Post by dttype » August 27th, 2004, 6:02 pm

Don't know about 'favorites,' but for a good time, call...

Spider - Patrick McGrath
Humans - Donald Westlake
Little Casino - Gilbert Sorrentino
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
ANYTHING by Harlan Ellison
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth - Chris Ware
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (nonfiction) -John Berendt
The Eight - Katherine Neville
The Power of One - Brian Courtenay

classics...
Franny & Zooey - JD Salinger
Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
Sometimes a Great Notion/One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (tie) - Kesey
Cat's Cradle/Slaughterhouse 5 (tie) - Vonnegut
The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck

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