Favorite Books/Comics/Graphic Novels/Poetry Thread

[WaveForm3]

With the opening of a new forum, we must celebrate with this!

What are you favorite pieces of Literature?

[V0id]

Books: G.Orwell's 1984, William gibson's Neuromancer, Aldus Huxley's Brave new world and the orange clockwork from anothony burgess. I love the future!!!
Comic: The Sandman, Ghost in the shell, Akira and in a humorous way Katte ni Kaizo.
Poetry: Yet to find any author i can really appreciate but i do like poetry as long as it's not about love, loving or being loved.

[Ghost Hip]

I read a lot of musician biographies and novelty (I think thats the word) books...and not so much novels

Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman
Room Full Of Mirrors by Charles Cross
.....I have a book which is basically a Nirvana Timeline....and it had the coolest pictures in it.
The Dilbert Principle
An encyclopedia of Assholes
John Lennon The life by Phillip Norman

As far as some novels, when I was young I really liked Touching Spirit Bear, and And Then There Were None (aka Ten Little Indians).

Manga: Dragon Ball and Initial D.

Poetry: Pretty much Edgar Allen Poe.

[smile_man]

I like music biographies aswell. I also really like Exclaim! and Spin magazine. And LOTR/The Hobbit.

[Dr. Sherman Sticks M.D.]

george's marvelous medicine by roald dahl is the only book ill ever read.

[tio makeke]

Cuentos de Amor, Locura y Muerte (Tales of Love, Madness and Death) by Horacio Quiroga would be my top #1 book, im shure that every time i have read it, something new comes out... i have owned it 5 or 6 times because i've found that its one of the best gifts i can come up with.

also the last great novel i read was JPod by Douglas Coupland.

[dragline]

Pretty much anything by William Burroughs, but I'm particularly fond of The Ticket that Exploded and The Soft Machine. Also "A Clockwork Orange", Kafka, Orwell, Bulgakov.

I quite like Iain M Banks' sci-fi too

[iamthesnow]

I got mad love for Love and Rockets, Robert Crumb, and Jhonen Vasquez (happy noodle boy anyone?)

[V0id]

I got mad love for Love and Rockets, Robert Crumb, and Jhonen Vasquez (happy noodle boy anyone?)

Johnny the homicidal maniac is a pretty nice one too

[hatshirt]

chariots of the gods--Erich von Däniken. mind blowing shit!
the ass saw the angel--Nick Cave. depraved southern gothic weirdness at its best!

[Caesar]

I love TS Eliot. Definitly a master.

I also like John Milton for his craftiness.

Alighieri and Boccaccio were favorites of mine.

I have an admiration for William Burroughs, Tolkien, Douglass Adams, and Alexander Pope for the ficticious stuff. For the non fiction, I apprectiate Hunter Thompson, and Suetonius, and Tacitus.

[Gunner Recall]

House of leaves, anything david foster wallace (reading consider the lobster now ), V. , the zombie survival guide, the fountainhead

Much more those are just what i've been reading lately. I'm compltely in love wth Ayn Rand. Her philosophy is seriously flawed, but her novels just speak to me. I'm like a Howard Roarke who never amounted to anything

[Pirate]

I really liked American Hardcore,as for comics and stuff I like when Todd McFarlane did the art for Spiderman,The Killing Joke,Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns,and uhhh probably a shit ton of other stuff I'm forgetting.Oh yeah the Howard the Duck comics too!Does any one wanna recommend me some gore/horror/zombie comics while we're here?

[Gunner Recall]

han solo trilogy! I read those when they first came out...I wonder if I still have them laying around somewhere...

*edit can't find it...though I did find one from the thrawn trilogy, the last command*

one of my favorite geeky books was tales from jabbas palace, a book of short stories from all the big star wars authors (a.c.crispen included) about minor characters that appeared in the early scenes of return of the jedi. Mara jade, the rancor keeper, boba fett (find out how he escapes the sarlacc kek), bib fortuna, the dancers, the band, and some bad ass assassin droid.

I'm totally geeking out and getting nostalgic right now...must find where I put this book.

[Mudfuzz]

Book: The three Pillars Of Zen, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, Here Abide Monsters by Andre Norton, The Bloody Sun by Marion Zimmer Bradley,Tolkien [everything]

Manga: Gunnm, Ghost in the shell, Mushishi, Hellsing, Elfen Lied, Mysterious Girlfriend X

Poetry:
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