Top Five Books

[Larry Flyntz]

I am shocked we haven't had this one yet.

1. Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
2. Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut
3. A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey
5. Radical Chic (actually an essay, but put into book form with another essay entitled "Mau Mauing the Flak Catchers"), by Tom Wolfe

[Violent Unrest in Allentown]

1. 2001: A Space Oddessey
2. Of Mice and Men
3. A Wrinkle in Time
4. Childhood's End
5. The Giving Tree

[The Ocean]

1. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
2. The Dark Half by Stephen King
3. The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
4. State Of Fear by Michael Crichton
5. Dragon by Clive Cussler

[Shire Le Buff]

5. The Giving Tree

Goddammit Dan, we're Mind Twins.

No order:

Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
The World's Room by Todd London
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
The House Gun by Nadine Gordimer
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

[الله أكبر]

Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Tokyo Underworld - Robert Whiting
The Color of Water - James McBride
Animal Farm - George Orwell

[Rhino......................]

We have had this, but it was in the long, long ago.

5. The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
4. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
3. Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
2. House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
1. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut

I haven't even finished 2 or 4, but fuck are they good.

[FAGGOT WATCHIN TRON]

In no real order:

5.  American Gods - Neil Gaiman
4.  Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3.  Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2.  Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
1.  Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut

That list will probably change in five minutes.  It's just based on what books I could remember that I absolutely loved at the moment.

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I recently had some upsets/reorderings in my top 5 books so I put on my internet wetsuit and dove into the depths of the Top Five Jive volcanic crevice to locate this thread and thusly post in it...I was compelled, by some unknown, vague, guiding force to do this. Visions guided me. Was it the Lord? Was it the Devil? I fear we will never know the truth.

1. Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
2. The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon (this is the newest addition and it is awesome everyone should read it right now, etc)
3. Endymion by Dan Simmons
4. Jingo by Terry Pratchett
5. Cold Service by Robert B Parker (this was the first novel I read of a long series of mystery novels; in my opinion it is the best)

[CadmiumYellow]

1. the idiot, dostoyevsky
2. pere goriot, balzac
3. crime and punishment, dostoyevsky
4. breakfast of champions, vonnegut
i can't decide on a fifth, maybe the red and the black by stendhal? i will probably change my mind

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damn, brits! you literate as shit!

[CadmiumYellow]

read russians seth   

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anything I have to cross the Bering Strait for is, in my experience, usually just a disappointment 

[CadmiumYellow]

haha fine then just read dostoyevsky, he is my boy

[Infinite Jerkgrinders]

No order, of course:

1. Chidhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
2. Ender's Game
 a. Speaker for the dead
 b. Xenocide
 c. Chidren of the Mind
3. Dune
 a. Dune messiah
 b. Children of Dune
 c. God Emperor of Dune
 d. Heretics of Dune
 e. Chapterhouse; Dune
4. Do Androids Dream Electric Sheep
5. Stranger in a Strange Land

[Larry Flyntz]

I finally read Brave New World (yay I read at a 10th grade reading level). I liked it.

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3. Dune
 a. Dune messiah
 b. Children of Dune
 c. God Emperor of Dune
 d. Heretics of Dune
 e. Chapterhouse; Dune

I read Dune and liked it a lot, but then someone told me to stop reading before I plagued my healthy eyes with the other books. They did say that the second book was acceptable, but only barely. Any truth to this?

[Infinite Jerkgrinders]

I read Dune and liked it a lot, but then someone told me to stop reading before I plagued my healthy eyes with the other books. They did say that the second book was acceptable, but only barely. Any truth to this?

They might have been meaning don't reading the crap that frank herbert's son, brian, has been putting out under the 'dune name'

The dune books I listed are all incredible. I found God Emperor to be even better than the original Book.  If they meant the rest of the dune books sucked then they probably read them when they were too young - I made that mistake and ended up not liking them at first, but the 2nd time around I realized how awesome they were

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Yeah, I hear you. But I think this was prior to the release (and subsequent rape, apparently) of the new dune book. I think it was sometime around my freshman year of high school, so it is entirely possible that the books were a little over people's heads.

Did you ever read the Hyperion series by Dan Simmons? I try to push it on my literate friends, but no one ever reads it. And I have to meet another person of my generation who has even cracked the cover.

[Infinite Jerkgrinders]

Yeah, I hear you. But I think this was prior to the release (and subsequent rape, apparently) of the new dune book. I think it was sometime around my freshman year of high school, so it is entirely possible that the books were a little over people's heads.

Did you ever read the Hyperion series by Dan Simmons? I try to push it on my literate friends, but no one ever reads it. And I have to meet another person of my generation who has even cracked the cover.

Actually, Brian Herbert began writing sequels n prequels to dune before I got into highschool, so if your anywhere near my age then it'd be the case with you. If not, again, that person was a loser, and should re-read the later books.

Heard of hyperion, never read it. I'm currently doing a tour of classic sci-fi books I overlooked when I was younger - I'm on to foundation by azimov now.

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Foundation is pretty sweet. Personally, I stopped reading after the fourth book, but I can't remember why...I think the plot might have been getting away from me.