Your 2 Favourite books...1 Fiction, 1 Non fiction

[Smudge3920]

Fiction...
Herman Melville's classic - Moby Dick (or the Whale)

Non Fiction...
T.E Lawrence (An autobiographical account) - 7 Pillars of Wisdom.

[WestgateRun]

Fiction: Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
Non-Fiction: The Alan Clark Diaries (not the ex-Leeds legend)

[lufc1304]

Fiction: The Power of the Dog (Don Winslow)
Non-Fiction: Careless Love, the unmaking of Elvis Presley (Peter Guralnick) (with a special mention for his Sweet Soul Music, which is an epic tome)

[Lorimer46]

Fiction - Strip Jack (Ian Rankin) Rebus book no 4
Non Fiction - An Innocent Man - John Grisham . The true story of the wrongful conviction of Ron Williamson

[John in Louisiana]

Fiction: The Lucia novels by EF Benson

Non-Fiction: The Harry Potter novels by JK Rowling.

Don't tell me they're not real!

In actuality - and it's hard to call this work a "favorite" as it is so horrifying - it's The Gulag Archipelago, bu Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

[Smudge3920]

Fiction: The Lucia novels by EF Benson

Non-Fiction: The Harry Potter novels by JK Rowling.

Don't tell me they're not real!

Oh they are mate...definately real

In actuality - and it's hard to call this work a "favorite" as it is so horrifying - it's The Gulag Archipelago, bu Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Read that back in the 80's mate, you are right ...it is a horrifying recollection

[Azkal]

Fiction: The Glass Palace - Amitav Ghosh

Non-Fiction: Sword And Scimitar - Raymond Ibrahim

[John in Louisiana]

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

Albus Percival Wolfric Brian Dumbledore

[Gandalf]

Fiction: The Millennium series of books by Stieg Larsson (and after his death by David Lagerkrantz) introducing the amazing character - punk hacker Lizbeth Salander - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Later made into the film series.

Non-Fiction: Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson. Wonderfully funny rendition of the travels of the author (An American) around Britain. A must read.

[60sUnited]

Fiction : Captain Corellis Mandolin

Non Fiction : Around Ireland with a Fridge ( something like that )

[White Riot]

Fiction: Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
Never had the same thrill reading any other book as this one when you read it for the first time.

Non-fiction: Journey into Darkness - John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
John is one of the founding FBI profilers and the true mind behind the great TV show Mindhunter.
So, very disturbing, but entrancing too.

[The Subhuman]

Fiction: Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
Never had the same thrill reading any other book as this one when you read it for the first time.

Non-fiction: Journey into Darkness - John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
John is one of the founding FBI profilers and the true mind behind the great TV show Mindhunter.
So, very disturbing, but entrancing too.

The only thing wrong with LOTR is it lacks humour, outside of that it's nigh on perfect. Only Feists's Riftwar saga comes close for me.

The movies don't do the books justice.

[White Riot]

The only thing wrong with LOTR is it lacks humour, outside of that it's nigh on perfect. Only Feists's Riftwar saga comes close for me.

The movies don't do the books justice.

I think there is some humour in LOTR, just it's very subtle. Though Peter Jackson did a valiant job, I always feel that reading a book is a very personal experience. A film is always just going to be a director's interpretation of what he/she experienced when reading the book. So for me I just take the movies for what they are. A filmed version of a book can never really capture your own experience and how your imagination flowed at the time you delved into the book.

Jackson did try to inject humour into the films, some of which worked and some came across as a bit heavy handed and not in tune with the original themes of the story. I haven't read the Riftwar saga Faaip, but will probably get round to it in the years to come, I've tended to avoid fantasy stuff, as I couldn't get into stuff like Isaac Asimov.

For historical novels there is no one better for me than Conn Iggulden, the Emperor series about Julius Caesar is absolutely breathtaking.

David Fincher has done a great job directing Mindhunter, and I think he's a brilliant director. But again it's never going to match the feelings I had when first reading the John Douglas books.

I've probably had much better movie experiences when I haven't already read the book before watching the film: Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Black Hawk Down, etc, i.e. these were new and different experiences for me as I was unfamiliar with the stories.

[The Subhuman]

I think there is some humour in LOTR, just it's very subtle. Though Peter Jackson did a valiant job, I always feel that reading a book is a very personal experience. A film is always just going to be a director's interpretation of what he/she experienced when reading the book. So for me I just take the movies for what they are. A filmed version of a book can never really capture your own experience and how your imagination flowed at the time you delved into the book.

Jackson did try to inject humour into the films, some of which worked and some came across as a bit heavy handed and not in tune with the original themes of the story. I haven't read the Riftwar saga Faaip, but will probably get round to it in the years to come, I've tended to avoid fantasy stuff, as I couldn't get into stuff like Isaac Asimov.

For historical novels there is no one better for me than Conn Iggulden, the Emperor series about Julius Caesar is absolutely breathtaking.

David Fincher has done a great job directing Mindhunter, and I think he's a brilliant director. But again it's never going to match the feelings I had when first reading the John Douglas books.

I've probably had much better movie experiences when I haven't already read the book before watching the film: Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Black Hawk Down, etc, i.e. these were new and different experiences for me as I was unfamiliar with the stories.

Not sure I agree on the directors interpretation. He gave bigger roles to some characters if they had big names playing them. Arwen is a fairly minor character in the books. Think Liv Tyler has a much bigger role. Moved a couple of locations around as well IIRC, I could only watch the first two and never watched the final one.

You're right in the most part about books to movies or series but LOTR trilogy is one of the worst for me and there are a few that get it spot on for me.

[The Subhuman]

GOT works for me as book to TV except maybe for the final series (not as bad as some made out though and episode 3 The Long Night is probably the finest single episode of anything...) Though the TV series outpaced the books in the end, I think GRRM is still writing the final book/s

[White Riot]

Not sure I agree on the directors interpretation. He gave bigger roles to some characters if they had big names playing them. Arwen is a fairly minor character in the books. Think Liv Tyler has a much bigger role. Moved a couple of locations around as well IIRC, I could only watch the first two and never watched the final one.

You're right in the most part about books to movies or series but LOTR trilogy is one of the worst for me and there are a few that get it spot on for me.

I would say that it's much more difficult to develop and portray characters in movies than in books. I'd read that the Tolkien family were very unhappy with the way the films portrayed the books.

I enjoyed the Harry Potter films, but watched them before I read the books. But I still found the books were a much better experience.

Watching the first few moments of Fellowship of the Ring I knew immediately that I was going to be absolutely disappointed if I compared the movies to the books.

So I pretty much treat movies as separate entities and know they can't live up to my expectations.

For me films are much more of a shallow and temporary experience, whereas books stick in your mind forever.

A good example is Silence of the Lambs, the books are awesome, but I was so crestfallen with that movie. Johnathon Demme did not come anywhere near doing justice to that story. Yet, it won lots of awards.

[liggy]

Non fiction Being and time Martin Hiedegger


Fiction.....the little match girl bros grimm

[BobHirst]

I can't decide which
category to put these in.

The Bible - God

On the origin of species - Charles Darwin

[Gandalf]

Non fiction Being and time Martin Hiedegger

"Hiedegger, Hiedegger, was a boozy beggar, who could drink you under the table" - maybe not you, though.

[The Subhuman]

I can't decide which
category to put these in.

The Bible - God

On the origin of species - Charles Darwin

That's very "Texas" of you