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I have a much harder time finding my top 5 or top 10 CDs or movies - which really isn't that surprising, since except for the last year I wasn't that hot on books at all. Just the number of pages of some books could make me run away screaming

Anyway, although such things as favourites are bound to change, right now I'll go with these:

American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)



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Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

House Of God - Samuel Shem

The Dark Tower Series - Stephen King

Papillon - Henri Charriere

I'm pretty sure we did this once before, although it may have disappeared after the big board cull of 2004 (?).

ilium/olympos-dan simmons
anything from discworld-terry pratchett
neither here nor there-bill bryson
neverwhere-neil gaiman
and loads more...
are we counting comics in this?

Ender's Game is probably my most favorite book of all time.

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1st: Orson Scott Card "Ender's Game" (Agreed, Alien)
2nd: Stephen King "Insomnia"
3rd: Robet Sawyer "Calculating God"
4th: Stephen King "The Stand"
5th: Orson Scott Card "Speaker For the Dead"

Max Brooks - The Zombie Survival Guide
??? - The Most Evil People in World History
?? - The Most Evil Mobsters in History
Bill Milkowski - Jaco

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

anything with pictures?? wheres wally??
just fuckin around...

I like most things by Gemmel... sword and axes and shit... violence.

i wathced mocking bird... brilliant...was supposed to read the book.

Somethng really cool though is Hidden Wisdom... a doco style book on all belief and religion systems in ancient and world history. Very interesting.

Fight Club - Chuck Palahanik
The Prisioner of Azkerbhan - J. K. Rowling
The entire Discworld series - Terry Pratchett
Smoke and Mirrors/Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers/Better Than Life - Grant Naylor
Backwards - Rob Grant
No Logo - Naomi Klein
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul - Douglas Adams
The Crow Road/Complicity - Ian Banks.

anything by lord dunsany
ursula k leguin - a wizard of earthsea
the guide - d. adams
anything by ambrose bierce
anything by lovecraft

and many more

It - Stephen King. Probably my very favorite. Insomnia is great too.
Weaveworld - Clive Barker
Into Thin Air & Into The Wild - Jon Krakauer
The Valley Of Horses & The Clan Of The Cave Bear- Jean M. Auel
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt

Master and the Margarita (Michail Bulgakov)
The Dwarf (Pär Lagerkvist)
Fugitive Pieces (Anne Michaels)
A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
The New York Trilogy (Paul Auster)
The Shadow Out of Time (HP Lovecraft)
East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
Inferno (August Strindberg)
and more...

Wow, lots of Gaiman. Sweet! I loved American Gods.

My favorites though?
Player Piano- Kurt Vonnegut (If not almost all things by him)
Siddhartha- Herman Hesse
The Great Book of Amber- Roger Zalazny
Das Energi- Paul Williams

A bunch more, nothing coming to mind right now though.

Books that I rate highly

Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
Veniss Underground - Jeff Vandermeer
Dark Tower Series - Stephen King
A Song of Ice & Fire - George R.R. Martin
Ash: A Secret History - Mary Gentle
Anything by China Meiville

Forgot some of my favorite more philosophical readings:

Homer - Odyssey
Dante - Inferno
John Stuart Mill - Utilitarianism

On top of that, I'm wondering what the name is of the guy (and the book) who wrote that book that Mr. Bungle based their song Merry Go Bye Bye off of, because my friend has it, and I can't remember who it was, but I've read very short bits and pieces, and it looks amazing.