It was asked of Clive Cussler which were his favorite 10 books. Here's what he responded with ;


Old Yeller by Fred Gibson

HMS Ulysses by Alistair MacLean

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

The call of the Wild, White Fang and Sea Wolf by Jack London

The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea, For whom the Bell Tolls and A Farewell to Arms by Earnest Hemmingway



Care to share your favorite books ?

Dirkpitt

That's easy!

RT Titantic, Sahara, Cyclops, Atlantis found, and I think there are 30 more by the same author.

Someone else wrote a book?

Steve

Great comeback !!

Yep, if someone asked me, it'd be a whole bunch of Dirk Pitt adventures. I also like to read and collect Wilbur Smith books and I recently learned that Wilbur Smith's works were an inspiration for Clive Cussler himself !

Yep, Cussler books are at the top of my list too. I also like to read fantasty - Eddings, Feist etc. Also like Historical Fiction - Erskine, Gabaldon etc, and I like to read non-fiction too, esp autobiographies. And I confess that I am a big fan of the Harry Potter books. Actually pretty much anything with words sums it up!

My husband's read Cussler for years and I finally started about 4 months ago. I've now read all he's written and I feel lost without one of his books. I can blow through one of them in two days ususally. His charachter are so endearing.

I also like Lord of the Rings, Star Wars novels, Piers Anthony, Tom Clancy. I think I'll read the Odyssey next (i've been inspired, you could say). I think I'll also give Eddings a try.

It was asked of Clive which were his top ten movies, here's what he said ;


Stagecoach

Union Pacific

Gone with the Wind

Casablanca

The Maltese Falcon

Lawrence of Arabia

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Cool Hand Luke

The Sand Pebbles

:D like steven king and tommas harris 2 i read what i am in themood 4 really
in reading harry potter at the moment

Much like Loren, I recently started reading Clive Cussler novels. I can't put them down. But my first experience with Cussler was in 87 while I was in college. On my to class I would listen to public radio. They were reading Treasure. I only heard several chapters but I was hooked. I was also often late for class, especially the scene where Pitt is driving the Cord through the mountains with Ismail in hot pursuit. I had remembered the book for years and finally got the chance to read it.

For books, Cussler, Cussler, Cussler, Stephen King, Michael Crichton.. thats about it.

For movies, The Matrix Trilogy, The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, (hopefully) Sahara, Pirates Of The Caribbean.

^_^ worth a check ^_^

I'd just like to point out only 5 books were posted ;o Did he only answer with 5 or are thsoe the only ones you put?

Old Yeller by Fred Gibson

HMS Ulysses by Alistair MacLean

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

The call of the Wild,
White Fang
Sea Wolf (all 3 by Jack London)

The Sun Also Rises
The Old Man and the Sea
For whom the Bell Tolls
A Farewell to Arms (all 4 by Earnest Hemmingway)

Hope that helps
Mike

ah whoops didn't look closely enough ;o stupid me

LOL naahhh I do it all the time. ;)
Take care
Mike

lol right

Clive's books are by far my favorite but I'm a big fan of Jack Du Brul's books also. His hero Philip Mercer is more of the academic type but he gets into the same predicaments that Dirk and Al get into. they are a great read check them out!! JimO

Although i would get blasted for saying this on another, more harsh fansite, i am partial to the in your face action of Matthew Reilly.......i guess you could call it a guily pleasure..........








[SIZE=1]please don't hurt me... :unsure:

Did I say Loren? I meant Blitzen. :huh:

I have to echo Clive's choice of the Hemingway stuff. I collect Hemingway firsts, and everything Hemingway. I also love Jack London. My list is also full of Clive, Carl Hiasen, Patrick O'Brien, and Elmore Leonard.

Cannot think of specific favourite books. My personal top five author's.

Clive Cussler

H.G. Wells

Ian Fleming

J.R.R. Tolkien

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

i am at home with the printed word B)

i love all the dirk pitt novels but i also enjoy writings by

David Eddings

The Harry Potter Series

jack london

the lord of the rings

books by meg cabot

Alexander Dumas

Victior Hugo

and of course the Dagaz

and alot of other books on the side



if any of you want to read the dagaz you can go to this site. it's writen by a friend of mine


http://www.geocities.com/slade_sully/index.html

-Ta

I like Clives choices for novels, though most of them are the ones I was forced to read in high school and write reports on. I never started reading novels for fun until I was about 20 years old and usualy I like whatever I read...here are some of my favorites.

** Martin Eden (Jack London) http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/Writings/MartinEden/
** Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/store...3183361-0287838
** Steven King books
** Razors Edge (Maugham) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/140...product-details
** Memoirs of a Giesha (Arthur Golden) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/067...3183361-0287838
** Cold Mountain (Charles Frazier) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/037...3183361-0287838
** lame harlequin novels
** Cry to Heaven (Anne Rice) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...glance&n=507846
** Vampire and Witch novels (Anne Rice)

Movies I like...most are drama/action rather than pure action lor classics ike Clive's choices:
all LOTR, Stark Trek, Star Wars, etc.
Dances with Wolves http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099348/
The Lover http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101316/
Princess Bride http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/
Boys Don't Cry http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171804/
Jackie Chan movies
Razor's Edge, 1946 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038873/
Cold Mountain http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159365/
Powerpuff Girls http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289408/
The Matrix http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/
Grosse Point Blank http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119229/
Jurassic Park http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/
Last of the Mohicans http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/

hmmm...i like these because i don't mind seeing them over again

I put Cussler at the top, but i also enjoy Jack Higgens, Tom Clancy, and Robin Cook. Just as an aside, they made a movie of the R. C. book Spinx and I think thats the closest I've ever seen a film follow a book. :blink:

Top 10 favorite movies for me are

The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Pirates of the Caribbean

Noise's Off

The Princess Bride

Quiggly Down Under

Silverado

While You Were Sleeping

Miss's Winterbourne

All of the Lord of the Rings

The Italian Job

and ths isn't a movie but i get a laugh out of it it's called funny cats and you can find it here: http://www.oddessey2000.com/funnycats.html just download it. it's really funny.



-Ta

Oooh, Italian Job. That was a good one.

Movies:

• The Rock
• Black Hawk Down
• Master and Commander
• The Great Escape
• The Alien Saga
• Hatari!
• Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
• Lara Croft Tomb Raider and the Cradle of Life

Books:

• All Clive Cussler Books
• The Hunt for Red October
• Tom Swift series
• Ted Scott series
• All Andy McNab books
• Mars
• Return to Mars

This is just a brief sample of some books I've read and loved

I'm not going to say CC it goes without saying however to all you action readers ie Tom Clancy, Dale Brown. I have found the best thing since slice bread!!!!
Try James H Cobb and his series about Capt Amanda Garrett starting with Choosers of the slain.
If that floats your boat and you love the Sea, you will not find a better fiction story about politics and the sea than Challenge and New World, war with Yachts instead of weapons, can't put my finger on the author that would mean leaving you all.

Movies
WIND Matthew Modine + Jennifer Grey
The Cutting Edge DB Sweeney + Moira Kelly
We Were Soldiers Mel Gibson
Bruce Almight Good Ole Jim K for a bit of fun
and last sad as it my be Groundhog Day allways makes me laugh

B) Just finished "Man On Fire" and if the movie is as good as the book, it should be great.
Any Clive Cussler book, over and over and over!!
Old Stephen King novels.

funny enough, i became a reader after reading HMS UYLESSES by Alistair McLean. if you haven't read any of his works, you really need to try one or two, for example THE GUNS OF NAVARONE and WHERE EAGLES DARE. If you like Clive's books, you will also enjoy these. Im also very partical to Aruther C. Clarke.

For movies, give me lord of the rings, the guns of navarone, operation petticoat, and the shawshank redemption. Also pirates of the carribian. :rolleyes:

White Fang is a hard book to read. I had to read it in 7th grade.

Hmmmmmmmmm, I can't limit myself to 10 favorite movies or 10 favorite books...I have over 200 movies (just some of my favs) on video/dvd; and need to go get another bookcase.........no idea how many books I have but have 6 full bookcases.........that doesn't count the boxes of books (probably around 15) or the books stacked on my nightstand, headboard, and desk......thank God the kids moved out!!!! :lol: Anyway, I can list some of my very favorites of my favorites, which are usually books and movies:

Anne of Green Gables/Anne of Avonlea (the movies were close to the books, both were very good--loved the books as a kid)
Eddie and the Cruisers
The Last of the Dogmen
The Mirror Has 2 Faces
The Family Man
Field of Dreams (movie) & Shoeless Joe Jackson (the book--very different from the movie, but each were great in their own right)
Heaven and Earth (movie) & the book, same as above--different but good in their own right
Fried Green Tomatos (hated the book)
The Abyss

Yes, chick-flicks rule at my house, but I do love a good adventure story, either on film or in a book....and these were not listed in any particular order. My favorites for reading or watching movies are comedies........but it all depends on the mood I'm in.....I gotta have the right book/movie for each mood!

I also have a stack of books regarding psychological disorders....a little light reading to further my knowledge/insight/compassion at work.....

Allister McClean?
The guy who told me about Cussler books says he's another great author. Looks like that will be my next "series" of books to buy

Favorite books?
The Bible(yes I read it!)
Anything by Clive Cussler
Anything Titanic related
Gone with the Wind
Left Behind Series 1-9



Movies?
The Passion of the Christ
Gone with the Wind
Beaches
LOTR's
The Italian Job
The Transporter ( I should say anything with Jason Statham in it)
Anne of Green Gables/Avonlea
Pirates of the Carribean
Evita
Johnny English
Pretty much anything with John Cusack in it too!
:rolleyes:

Of course Clive is at the top of my list for books. I'll read anything that has to do with ships and submarines or lost and sunken ships. My favorite movie is Independence day. It drives my husband crazy. t:

Cussler has stated before that Alistair McLean was an inspiration for his own work.

My 5 favorite Movies? hmm...

Collateral
The Bourne Supremecy
Ocean's Eleven
The Naked Gun Trilogy!
The Indiana Jones Trilogy!

My 5 favorite movies (order doesn't matter) are:

Naked Gun trilogy
Star Wars trilogy (x2)
Space Balls (spoof of Star Wars)
I Robot
Matrix Trilogy

AND..... probably SAHARA th: th:

The movies that I have seen over two dozen times or more are Paper Moon, Poseidon Adventure, Where Eagles Dare, The Back to the Future trilogy, Independence Day, the James Bond Movies. My favorite authors besides Clve Cussler are Frederick Forsyth, Arthur Hailey, Robert Ludlum, James Michener, Gore Vidal, Lawrence Sanders, Irving Wallace, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jack Higgins, Thomas Block in no particular order.

I'm a Robert Ludlum fan too p: p:
And I loved Will Smith in Independence day th: th:

My favorite authors are-(too many books to choose)-
Clive Cussler
Stephen King
Anne Rice
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
H. G. Wells
Agatha Christie


Favorite Movies-
Tomb Raider and Tomb Raider II
The Mummy trilogy
Star Wars-all of them
Star Trek movies
Silverado
Tombstone
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow-more Angelina Jolie
and my biography-Hellboy :P

Favorite Books...

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

The Bible

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Enders Game by Orson Scott Card

Everything by Tom Clancy

Everything by James Clavell

Everything by Michael Crichton

Everything by Clive Cussler

Everything by William Shakespeare

Everything by Harry Turtledove

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

The Haunted Mesa by Louis L'Amour

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Illiad by Homer...an epic poem...I know

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien

Shibumi by Trevanian


Favorite Movies...

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Aliens

Captain Blood

Casablanca

Cross of Iron

It's A Wonderful Life

The Last of the Mohicans

The Maltese Falcon

Much Ado About Nothing

On the Beach

Patton

The Philadelphia Story

Predator

Pulp Fiction

Ran

Resevoir Dogs

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

The Seven Samurai



As you can see, I could go on and on...

Don't have many posts but I do have some authors I like that are not on here.

The first author/ book you guys should check out is Jeff Long. His book the Descent may be the best I have ever read. jeff long page

this is a link to his website and it contains the first chapter. If you aren't captured and wisked off to Tibet then this may not be the book for you. He has another book called Year One. It is also very good.

Of course I love CC books and some of the regulars like Grisham, Patterson and John Sandford are good reads.

Another book I like is The Sword of Bedwyr. It is a three book series by RA Salvatore. I am usually not much on fantasy but I was never a reader at all until a girl bought that book for me when I was about 25. Now 9 years and hundreds of books later, I often look back at that one book that started me on path to reading. But all in all it is a very cool story and serires.