I also forgot a bunch. Rogue Moon by Aldis Budrys.
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. I loved the Sherlock Holmes books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Edgar Allen Poe comes to mind. Less so, but also Lovecraft. Larry Niven's Ringworld series, Lucifer's Hammer, and other books in his "Known Universe" series. Jeez, how could I forget Douglas Adams?---all of his writing! Good Omens by Terry Prachett and Neil Gaiman was a hoot, despite being mildly blasphemous and deliberately trying to be like Douglas Adams--a kind of double apostacy. ;) Many books you mentioned should have been mentioned on my list too. Shogun, oh yeah. Gai-Jin too. More recently I enjoyed Geoff Ryman's "Air" and Vernor Vinge's "Rainbow's End". John Varley is on-again/off-again, but also on my shelf. Orson Scott Card, too. Of the more overtly Christian novelists/writiers I like C. S. Lewis a lot. Pretty much all his stuff, the Great Divorce, the Screwtape letters, Narnia, etc. G.K. Chesterton is great too. Also more contemporarily I like Ted Dekker, though he's a really strange one, more like a Stephen King or Dean Koontz or Thomas Harris than an overtly Christian writer. I tried really hard to like Frank Paretti, and initially found his spiritual warfare concept intriguing, but he got formulaic with it pretty quickly and so I kinda got bored with him before I could develop a strong connection. I had some questions about your initial list, but I'm crashing right now, so maybe I'll pick it up tomorrow between builds and meetings. - Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Ricardo Aráoz > Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 10:40 PM > To: ProFox Email List > Subject: [OT]Books > > Left out a few : > > Somerset Maugham - the razor's edge (right now reading his "Collected > short stories") > some yank - Tom Sawyer - Huckleberry Finn > Sir Walter Scott - Ivanhoe - The black rose > The Hardy boys (when I was a boy) > All of TinTin's comic books > > and I know I'm inexcusably forgetting quite a few. > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
