garro Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 (edited) Btw, how can you read all five of a trilogy. Do you mean a fivology? It's actually quoted on the cover as being "The fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Trilogy" IIRC They are:- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy The Restaurant at the end of the Universe Life, The Universe and Everything So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish Mostly Harmless Definately worth reading, along with most of the Discworld series from Terry Pratchett Have you read the 'Otherworld' trilogy by Tad Williams? Well worth reading too. Edited March 1, 2007 by garro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet Gorgon Posted March 1, 2007 Author Share Posted March 1, 2007 I forgot one of my favourites, a dikwort in real life, apparently, but a very nice stringing together of words poet. Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a poster etherised upon a table... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickmac Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Just thought I throw my selection into the pot. All works of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammet. Steinbeck Cannary Row and Sweet Thursday. Le Carre The spy who came in from the cold. Robert Goddard all works. G. Greene Travels with my Aunt. David Niven Moons a Balloon. David Niven Bring on the empty horses. Harpo Marx Harpo Speaks. Phillip Pullman The Dark Materials Trilogy, (knocks Harry Potter books into a Tin Hat, be interesting to see the first movie, out at Chistmas 2007). Plenty of others that could also be included, but limited myself to the above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tasasc Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 In no particular order... Christopher Brookmyre: all 9 novels (my favourite contemporary crime writer) Alexander McCall Smith: No1 Ladies' Detective Agency series (6) Joseph Heller: Catch 22, Good as Gold, God Knows John D. MacDonald: Travis McGee series(20) Terry Prachett: Discworld series(25+) Jean Paul Sartre: Roads to Freedom trilogy Xenophon: The Persian Expedition Franz Kafka: The Trial, Metamorphosis Stephen King: The Stand John Steinbeck: Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men Luke Reinhart: The Dice Man Alice Seebold: The Lovely Bones Graham Greene: Brighton Rock Albert Camus: The Plague Bill Bryson: A Short History of Nearly Everything Gunter Grass: The Tin Drum Machiavelli: The Prince Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird P.J.O'Rourke: Holidays in hel_l, Give War a Chance Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveler's Wife Throw in my 8 volume set of The Harmsworth Encyclopaedia dated 1907 and a few other history/non-fiction books and I'd struggle to keep it below a hundred. How big is this island, anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmart Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Noddy Goes To Toytown. (maybe this should be in the Pattaya forum?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meadish_sweetball Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Moved to Expat Pub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tasasc Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Noddy Goes To Toytown. (maybe this should be in the Pattaya forum?) That might be too difficult a read for some of the knuckle-draggers I've encountered there.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northpoint Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Gunter Grass: The Tin Drum The Tin Drum was also one of the best movies I have seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goshawk Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Gunter Grass: The Tin Drum The Tin Drum was also one of the best movies I have seen. The favourite author of retired racehorses.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austhaied Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 the art of war..sun tzu, the i-ching. And some cookbooks.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goshawk Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 (edited) Fantastic Mr Fox - Roald Dahl ".. Boggis, Bunce, Bean... one short, one fat, one lean.." Edited March 1, 2007 by Goshawk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tasasc Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Gunter Grass: The Tin Drum The Tin Drum was also one of the best movies I have seen. Often been disappointed with film adaptations but you're dead right about this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tasasc Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Gunter Grass: The Tin Drum The Tin Drum was also one of the best movies I have seen. The favourite author of retired racehorses.. for 10 seconds for much longer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suegha Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 My wife asked me to add 'Pride and Prejudice'!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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