Books books books! - Top 5?

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Katze <jdumas at k...> wrote:

> My top 5 would have to be (in no particular order):
> 1. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (this one *is* #1 for me)
> 2. Neverending story - movie was great, but the book is so much 
better
> 3. Forever War
> 4. Watership Down
> 5. Janet Evonovich's Stephanie Plum series (ok...so it's not one 
book,
> but a series, but they are extremely funny).
> 
> I've got so many books that I'm looking forward to reading. I've 
got at
> least 2 years worth of books. On the top of the list are:
> 
> 1. Earthsea Series, by Ursula LeGuin (I've started the first one)
> 2. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
> 3. Here be Dragons, Sharon Penman
> 4. Fire Upon the Deep, Vernor Vinge
> 
> So what's your top 5? What's on your list to read?
> -Katze

Boo-yah on the Watership Down!  Here's my five:

1. Lord of the Rings (yeah yeah...)
2. A Clockwork Orange (this is SO much better than the movie), I 
think it's easily one of the greatest books written in the 20th 
century
3. The Scarlet Letter
4. Catch-22
5. Watership Down

Gonna read for the first time:

War and Peace
Crime and Punishment
about eight million Agatha Christie novels

That's it for the immediate future, but that's because the semester 
is a particularly stressful one.  As soon as this semester ends, I'm 
really gonna get down and read a lot of stuff.

Does anyone have a favorite Christie novel?  Mine is Thirteen at 
Dinner (also called Lord Edgeware Dies), but And Then There Were None 
and Roger Ackroyd are also up there.  We can make it a separate topic 
from the Top 5 thing if anyone wants to reply to that.

Devin