h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Er....I know I'm gonna think of a million more by the time I post, but here goes anyway...

(Can I leave out Hitchhikers? Come on, it takes up 5 spaces!! )

1. The Outsider - Albert Camus
2. The World According to Garp - John Irving
3. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
4. Slaughterhouse-5 - Kurt Vonnegut
5. And the Ass Saw the Angel - Nick Cave
6. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
7. Perfume - Patrick Suskind
8. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
9. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
10. Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen

I'm going to stop now, before I think of any more!!

'course you can! Messrs Adams, Pratchett and Tolkien don't need your support - the others do... and good choices as well!

I got home and saw all my books staring at me...

"Why wasn't I on your top ten?" whimpered "1984"
"I thought you really enjoyed me" sighed "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". etc etc.

It's like trying to pick which of your kids you love the most....

1. Lord of the Rings, by JRR Tolkien
2. The Echanter's End Game, by David Eddings
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
4. Den Cubanske Kabale, by Bjarne Reuter
5. The Hobbit, by JRR Tolkien
6. Lord of the Clans, by Christie Golden
7. Finding Forrester, by James W Ellison
8. Prins Faisals Ring, by Bjarne Reuter
9. Timeline, by Michael Crichton
10. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by JK Rowling

1. Lord of the Rings, by JRR Tolkien
2. The Echanter's End Game, by David Eddings
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
4. Den Cubanske Kabale, by Bjarne Reuter
5. The Hobbit, by JRR Tolkien
6. Lord of the Clans, by Christie Golden
7. Finding Forrester, by James W Ellison
8. Prins Faisals Ring, by Bjarne Reuter
9. Timeline, by Michael Crichton
10. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by JK Rowling

1. Lord of the Rings, by JRR Tolkein
2. The Wasp Factory, by Iain Banks
3. Dune, by Frank Herbert
4. Thief of time, by Terry Pratchett
5. War of the worlds, by HG Wells
6. Belgariad series, by David and Leigh Eddings
7. Sex, Drugs and Sausage rolls, by Robert Rankin
8. Earthsea Trilogy, by Ursula Le Guin
9. Songs of distant Earth, by Arthur C Clarke
10. Ivanhoe, by Sir Walter Scott

That's why I was anxious to put DNA's work in their, even if I did kind combine them.
RE: Your original post; Only 5? Don't tell me you've skipped the Dirk Gently series, Last Chance to See, and Salmon of Doubt (not to mention the Meaning, and Greater Meaning, of Liff)?

My 5 was in reference to the Hitchhiker's books, and not necessarily DNA's other stuff...I've read bits and pieces...but none of it really compares to Hitchhikers for me...and therefore doesn't really make it into my top 10...although I'm already rethinking the top ten as it is ...

1. Perfume, Patrick Suskind
2. Where the Wild Things Are, Boris 'thingy'
3. The Birds, Daphne Du Maurier
4. The Crystal Singer, Anne McCaffrey
5. A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
6. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
7. Princess Bride, William Goldman
8. The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham
9. Whisky Galore, Compton McKenzie
10. Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquival

Yeah, where the wild things are - I remember really enjoying that

Sprout

its amazing how books from your childhood stay with you. i think it is the pictures of max in his white suit, sitting on the shoulders of the wild things being their king. would you believe i went out and bought a copy!!

What am I doing this for - I hate lists

1. Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck
2. 1066 and All That, by Sellars and Yeatman
3. The Gormenghast trilogy, by Mervyn Peake
4. The Grapes of Wrath, by Steinbeck
5. On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
6. Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein
7. The Compleat Molesworth, by Willans and Searle
8. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, by Alan Sillitoe
9. Catch 22, by Joseph Heller
10. Kes, by Barry Hines

1-my bible
2-the hobbit
3-the lord of the rings
4-the song of albion x 3(stephen lawhead)
5-woman of substance x 3
6-message from nam (danelle steel)
7-dream thief(stephen lawhead)
8-pendragon cycle x 3(stephen lawhead)
9-piercing the darkness (frank peretti)
10-the stories of narnia

think that covers my top favourites,,, I know theres more but these stand out first,

I've thought of another couple,

8: Lord of the Flies by William Golding

&

9: To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee

I'll eventually find a number 10

I've just completed the marathon task of counting all the votes and updating the page, and I'm very pleased to announce the DNA is now Top of the h2g2 Literary Pops... you wouldn't want it any other way, surely?

Errr. Well personally I would have liked the Grapes of Wrath to have won. But, then again I'm not really entitled to say because I didn't vote.

Well, that was just the latest update - voting's still open, and your top 10 would be very welcome...

1. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
2. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
3. Tess of the D'Urbevilles - Thomas Hardy
4. Love in a Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
5. America - John Dos Passos
6. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
7. Earthly Powers - Anthony Burgess
8. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
9. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Cheers me Dears

Good man! We could do with more like you around here... I can't believe that those are the first votes for Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kundera and Chandler.

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