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Last book I finished was Steel Beach by John Varley, I really recomend it. Now it is time for The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnik ;)

Playboy september 99 ... because of the interesting stories!

i totally second that, what a fucking cool novel!

"1984" by George Orwell.

the man in the high castle is so overrated :p the characters and their story are so boring. I wonder if it isn't the only P.K. Dick not yet adapted to movies and/or games.

There are a lot of clasic or not so clasic books I want to read, unfortunatelly I have read very few. My favorite must be "The active side of Infinity" by Carlos Castaneda.

Fear and loathing in las vegas

I don't read as much now as i used to (not at all versus all the time :) But recently I read Maya by Jostein Gaarder which i quite liked..
The green mile by Mr. King had me reading all night, but some other book of his I tried (his usual stuff can't remember the name) only lasted for some 70 pages and I'd had it.

I want to read more Asimov though.

Oh, And Fear and loathing was nice :)

current read: ferdinand de saussure, "cours de linguistique générale" (russian translation though, my french sucks). i have read it long time ago already but wanna dig it up again since i'm highly interested in semiotics right now and saussure is essential. gonna read michel foucault's "les mots et les choses" as soon as the package arrives here.

plus, currently reading parts of walter kempowski "das echolot. barbarossa '41". partly shocking, but all in all relaxing read...

oh, this thread is about FAVORITE books.. hmm.. thats too many to name anyway.

"Puk en de Petteflet" by Annie M.G. Schmidt.

btw, i'm reading it in quechua, but that's just because my swahili sucks.

Gabriel García Márques' One hundred years of solitude is definitely one of the best books I've read. Mika Waltari's Sinuhe is also one of my favourites.

HP and discworld.

too many goods books. "A Scanner Darkly " by p.k. dick is one of the last very good i've read.

zest: The only one? You mean beside Solar Lottery, The World Jones Made, The Man Who Japed, Eye in the Sky, The Cosmic Puppets, Time Out of Joint, Dr. Futurity, Vulcan's Hammer, The Game-Players of Titan, The Penultimate Truth, Martian Time-Slip, The Simulacra, Clans of the Alphane Moon, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Dr. Bloodmoney, Now Wait for Last Year, The Crack in Space, The Unteleported Man, The Zap Gun, Counter-Clock World, Galactic Pot-Healer, Ubik, A Maze of Death, Our Friends from Frolix 8, We Can Build You, Flow My Tears the Policeman Said, Confessions of a Crap Artist, A Scanner Darkly, VALIS, The Divine Invasion, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike, Radio Free Albemuth, Puttering About in a Small Land, In Milton Lumky Territory, Humpty Dumpty in Oakland, Mary and the Giant, The Broken Bubble, Nick and the Glimmung, Gather Yourselves Together or Lies Inc?

Th last book I read was The Cat Inside by William s. Burroughs.

Not sure which my favourite book is though. I've alot of favourites.

zest: the characters and their stories are completely beside the point, perhaps you missed that. And no, it's not the only PKD story that is not yet adapted. The man wrote stories at the same frequency that optimus posts new threads ;)

jb: I'm still struggling through that one. Next stop, VALIS? :)

kafa - the trial, bad suffocating feeling all way through. Bukowski rules as well, post office, pulp etc. bret easton ellis - glamorama is weird and brutal deluxe. hubert selby is also a favourite. greetings to them.

at least optimus doesn't need any hard drug ;) optimus wins! i can't even imagine what would "produce" an optimus as stoned as a PK Dick :]

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PKD - Man in the high castle, Do Androids dream of electric sheep?, UBIK, Maze of death

Orwell - 1984, Animal farm

Adams - Hitchiker's Guide

ze german stuffs:

Kafka - Die Verwandlung

ze French stuffs (i can't even read french, but translations did the trick)

Camus - L'Etranger
Sartre - La nausée

Dutch stuffs:

Brusselmans - Gugenheimer trilogie
Louis Paul Boon - Mijn kleine oorlog

Oh yeah:

Atari ST/TT profibuch! =))

Bringers of the Dawn - Teachings from the Pleiadians by Barbara Marciniak.

Robert Fulghum: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

As for sci-fi, the Dragonlance Chronicles.

Oh and seriously, Harry Potter rocks :D

Discworld sounds very interesting to me after looking around the net. But I heard that is has lots of somewhat very archbrittish humor. Is that true? and would someone not-brittish get it?