Quoted from silent0saint I've read all the books that i own, I'm just curious has anyone else read Shockwave by Clive Cussler?

I have all his book I believe. A bit of a fan actually. Especially the vintage ones and before he started co-writing.

I even have a signed first edition of Mediterranean Caper. I bought it on e-bay for $.98. Obviously an estate sale where the seller did not know the true value.

I'm sure I've read Shockwave, but I would have to check to refresh my memory since his written soooo many books.

Pia

Quoted from Combichrist Ann Rice, Interview with the Vampire, the Vampire Lestat, and Queen of the damned... Also the blood canticle!!

I met with this lady. She's very cool, and talented.

Frank Herbert's Dune.

I haven't read anything that even comes close Herbert's way of telling a story. The way he weaves and stretches a story is unbelievable and his use of prose is second to none imo.  

James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (As well as anything else by him)

and also...F. Scott Fitzgerald - This Side of Paradise; Leo Tolstoy - The Kreutzer Sonata; Dante's Inferno; and Jack Kerouac - On the Road.

This list could go on for pages.  One of the downfalls of working at the library is I read too much.

-Pat

William Golding - Lord of the Flies
Stephen King - Long Walk
Stephen King - Different Seasons
Lorenzo Carcaterra - Sleepers
J.D. Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
John Wyndham - The Chrysalids
William Shakespeare - Titus Andronicus

these are the ones I really love

I love old literature...

Anything written by John Steinbeck
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Brothers Karamazov
Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island
HG Wells - War of The Worlds
William Golding - Lord of The Flies
Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince
Stephen King - The Stand
Sun Tzu - The Art of War

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck.

They made us read it in school, It really left an impression on me but over the years I forgot all about it. A few years ago me and wife no.1 went on a road trip around California and ended up in Monterey for a couple of nights, I never realized that I was in Steinbeck country. I ended up coming out of a book shop with a copy of this book and sat in a bar on Cannery Row and read it again for the first time in 15 years, I got a few funny looks as I was sat there crying my eyes out! It still makes me cry every time I read it.

I know that Gary Sinise made it into a movie - which is not too bad really, But I would love to see someone remake it in a modern setting - that I think could work really well.

I Am Legend - Matheson

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler.

Even if we don't know who killed the driver.  It's one of the few books I've read multiple times and not been disappointed on the next reading.  Though Catch 22 by Joseph Heller is a close second.

Elie Wiesel's Night followed very closely by Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. I also might mention I read Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth just about every year in elementary school.

Really heartening to see some of the classics in there especially Catcher, Mockingbird, Matheson, Steinbeck, Wells, Lord of the Flies, Wyndham.

Allow me to throw The Forever War by Joe Haldeman and The Prestige - Christopher Priest into the pot.

I agree with the poster who said that those of you who mention Dan Brown need to read more books. Dan Brown is a great author to read on holiday on the beach or by the pool. But seriously best book of all time. For me it's Summer fiction at the very worst - no depth, obvious plot, Hollywood ending. Yuk.

Saying that judging by the number of books he has sold I appear to be in a minority. Ha.

Adverbs--Daniel Handler

By the author of "A Series of Unfortunate Events" for a more mature audience.  A work of art. "The Basic Eight" also by him is worth mentioning.

And I have to admit being in the chuck cult:

Rant-Chuck Palahniuk

It will change the way you think about everything.

One of my all time favorites is

Great Expectations
by
Charles Dickens

My four favorites are:

Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien
Timequake - Kurt Vonnegut
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

Can't believe I'm the first to mention Hemingway!