Literature

Found a great link for some classic books that you can read online, personally i like Darwin's Origin of the species

www.literature.org...

Whats everyones favourite piece of literature?

OK, just a few..
A Farewell to Arms - Hemingway
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Anything by Poe
Beloved - Toni Morrison

There, let's see if we can get this thread moving.

Animal Farm----George Orwell
The Alchemist----Paulo Coelho
Anything written by Edgar Allen Poe(Right there with you OB)
The Bad Place----Dean Koontz
Anything written by Carlos Castaneda
Journey Into Madness----Gordon Thomas
Anything written by Dr. Suess(I don't know if I spelled that one right)

There are others I probably forgot about.

Anything by Koontz or King...
Most H.P. Lovecraft
J.K. Rawlings (Harry Potter series...hyped I know, but excellent books)
Poe (right there with all of ya)
Anne McCaffrey (Dragons of Pern)
Tolkien
Aasimov
Bradbury
Anne Rice (except when it's a bit too homo, i.e. Armand)
Animal Farm (timeless, and considering today, rather ominous)
Seuss and Shel Silverstein (warp your kids forever, hehe...)

EDIT: Oh, and ANY Star Wars novels, despite the author...

and R.A. Salvatore...

[Edited on 24-6-2003 by Gazrok]

From "A tale of two cities"

IT WAS the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way

How relevant does that sound?

OH AV the Bad Place.. GOD that book freakd me out. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO gross!!!!!! Suess is also a good choice... simple, wonderful moral tales.

I'm having a hard time picturing the Bad Place...perhaps it's one I missed?

Janet and John Book 1 - for me.

I can honestly say that, to me it seems that I've got so many favourites, the book I've got the highest regard for, is the first book that I can remember which helped to teach me to read.