Also, if you were stranded on a deserted island and could take only three books with you, what books would you choose and why? (Bonus points if you know where this question originates.)
Based my some of me decision making on it, and it worked very well for me.
it.If I was stuck on an aforementioned deserted isle, I'd have to go a little surreal; Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, etc.
It's not something people hear about.
Would get boring on an island.
As for books on a deserted island? Red Storm Rising and the Caleb Carr books. They're my favorite out of the above. bloodfyr fucked around with this message on 01-02-2005 at 10:53 AM.
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Books I most want to read again and again, 'The Dresden Files' series, books 1-6 so far. Picked the set up recently and I am now like crack addict level of hooked on them.
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JooJooFlop had this to say about Pirotess:
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide
She's an excellent fantasy writter and needs more publicity. Her books carry lots of description and her plots and worlds are tightly woven and are truly believable. She also makes women the prime focus in the main characters.
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The Witches of Eilanan series by Kate Forsythe.She's an excellent fantasy writter and needs more publicity. Her books carry lots of description and her plots and worlds are tightly woven and are truly believable. She also makes women the prime focus in the main characters.
Just wondering, how many books are in the series?
As for my own books, I don't tend to re-read many of them. I've always wanted to go back and re-read some of the more complex ones though. The Song of Ice and Fire books are too immense to get the whole scope of things on the first run through.
As for my three books to have on a deserted island? The SAS survival guide, the Boyscout Fieldbook, and an encyclopedia britannica.
No, Really. Bite me.
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And I was all like 'Oh yeah?' and Rodent King was all like:
Just wondering, how many books are in the series?As for my own books, I don't tend to re-read many of them. I've always wanted to go back and re-read some of the more complex ones though. The Song of Ice and Fire books are too immense to get the whole scope of things on the first run through.
6 books in total. At about 600 pages each.
As for three books, Redemption of Althalus by David Eddings, Icon by Fredrick Forsyth, and Cryptonimicon by Neil Stevenson. I'd bring a deck of cards to learn Solitaire from Cryptonomicon too.
"Amber" series, "Thorn Memory, and Sorrow", "Eon", "Eternity"(?), and the "Hyperion" series.
Incarnations of Immortality. I reread them at random.
I'd reread Cthon, Pthor, Soma and Plasm, but I lost the first one to an old high school friend (she went to college with the book), I've only borrowed the second one once and I can't find the last 2.
I'd like to get book 3 of the Dresden Files so I can move on to books 4, 5 and 6. 
I've reread 1 and 2 twice now.
if I had to choose 3 books?
Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide, my Preacher collection, and probably my Edding's collection.
But Polgara the Sorceress is still his best book.
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If I could only have three books on an island, they would probably be: "I, Jedi," "Black Boy," (both of those are written in first person, which I think it just awesome) and "The Diary of Anne Frank."
As for the three books, I'd take Alexander at the World's End, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, and Dune, by Frank Herbert.
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So quoth bloodfyr:
That's strange. I've never really found any other fans of Eddings before now, though I'm honestly more partial to his Elenium/Tamuli series.But Polgara the Sorceress is still his best book.
ever read his earlier stuff, I'm a huge fan of The Losers.
also I mudded on a Belgariad/Mallorean based mud for some 7 years, heh.
