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Koveras · Joined: 09 Oct 2008

Gotta say, Dickens never gets his due in threads about books.

Top ten funniest novels:

1. Don Quixote
2. Pickwick Papers
3. The Golden Ass
4. Decline and Fall
5. Dying Earth
6. Roughing It
7. Tristram Shandy
8. The Good Soldier Schweik
9. Satyricon
10. Bouvard and Pecuchet

Honourable mention to Wodehouse and Gogol and Chekhov and Milne, whose funniest work was in short stories.

Kikomom · Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 4:03 am Post subject:

Books that are better than the movie:

The Prince of Tides
Bonfire of the Vanities
The Power of One
Tuck Everlasting
Kite Runner
Angela's Ashes
Catch-22
Lord of the Flies
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Watership Down

peppermint · Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 4:53 am Post subject:

The only movie I can think of that is actually better than the book, is Gone with the Wind. I think all the descriptive writing works better in a visual medium

Tundra_Creature · Joined: 11 Jun 2009 Location: Canada

bacasper · Joined: 26 Mar 2007

Movies - while not in any reel order either, there was a tie for #10:

1. Second Best
2. Koyanisqaatsi (in a theater is a must, preferably with live orchestra playing the Philip Glass soundtrack)
3. Duck Soup
4. Captains Courageous
5. Intolerance
6. Nosferatu
7. Thank You for Smoking
8. Almost Angels
9. Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down
10. Edges of the Lord
10.Fanny and Alexander
10. Les amiti�s particuli�res (This Special Friendship)
10. 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci)
10. Annie Hall
10. 2001
10. Animal House
10. Scent of a Woman (American - about the only time the American version was better than the foreign!)
10. Man Without a Face
10. Voor een verloren soldaat (For a Lost Soldier)
10. Que he hecho para merecer esto? (What Have I Done to Deserve This?)
10. The History Boys
10. The Sound of Music
10. West Side Story

movybuf · Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Location: Mokdong

PatrickBateman · Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:53 pm Post subject:

Books?

American Psycho
A Clockwork Orange
Lunar Park
Glamorama
Lullaby
Fugitives and Refugees
The Kite Runner
Don Quixote
Emma

Movies?

American Psycho
A Clockwork Orange
Alice in Wonderland
Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory
The Predator
Willow
The Life Aquatic
The Labyrinth
There Will Be Blood
Eternal Sunshine

Triban · Joined: 14 Jul 2009 Location: Suwon Station

I'll get a list soon. I just wanted to come out and say, as a UNC alum...NATIONAL CHAMPS ASAMS!

AgentM · Joined: 07 Jun 2009 Location: British Columbia, Canada

This is a tough task, as others have said. There's soo much goodness out there!

TV Shows (I'm including ones that are no longer airing):

- Monty Python's Flying Circus
- Battlestar Galactica (the modern show)
- Star Trek (in general)
- Seinfeld
- The Big Bang Theory (yes, I like it too)
- Top Gear
- Corner Gas
- Family Guy
- The Simpsons (back when it was good)
- Black Adder

Books (I'm going to cheat and list multiple books under one listing):

- Most of Terry Pratchett's work
- LOTR
- The Foundation series
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Dune
- Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series

I can't think of others that are favourites at the moment....

bossface · Joined: 05 Aug 2006

i'm just gonna do TV, books and movies i'd have to think about, which i'm too lazy for

in no order:

The Simpsons
The Wire
The Wonder Years
Madmen
The Sopranos
The OC (cmon, that show was visual crack)
Arrested Development
Cheers
30 Rock
and of course, TV Ngels

asmith · Joined: 18 Jun 2009

Movies:

Animal House
Airplane
Gone with the Wind
The Exorcist
Lost in America
Slumdog Millionaire
A Beautiful Country
Godfather--1 and 2.
Apocalypse Now
Blade Runner

Books?

I'm too stupid to read.

blackjack · Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Location: anyang

Fermentator75 · Joined: 27 Jul 2009

Books:

Charles Bukowski- Women, Post Office, Hollywood, Pulp

Kem Nunn- Dogs of Winter, Tapping the Source, Pamona Queen

Edward Bunker- No Beast So Fierce, Dog Eat Dog

Kurt Vonnegut- Breakfast of Champions, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater

Irvine Welsh- Filth, Porno

Hermann Hesse- Siddhartha, Steppenwolf

William S. Burroughs- Junky, Naked Lunch

Aldous Huxley- Brave New World

Franz Kafka- The Metamorphosis

Leonard Cohen- Beautiful Losers

Patrick Suskind- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

movybuf · Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Location: Mokdong

Fermentator75 · Joined: 27 Jul 2009

Yo MovieBuff, I know what you mean about Post Office. I like anything Bukowski, dry and otherwise. Women is classic. I have heard Ham ON Rye is better and my buddy who's opinion matters to me says Factotem is his best. Perfume is probably one of the most descriptive books I have ever read. It was made into a film in 2007 and they did a very good job adapting it considering I was under the assumption that it couldn't be done, but they left out one of my favorite parts of the book entirely basically. So that was disappointing. The book is incredible though. The reason I read it was because I read an article about Kurt Cobain that said Scentless Apprentice was based on the book. Great song on a great book. Irvine Welsh has a thick Scottish accent in his writing and for that reason, tough to follow sometimes. I would read Trainspotting first maybe to see if you like it. If I remember any more I will let you know... gotta jog the cobwebs loose to remember what I have read off hand. My collection has taken many hits on many a move and my memory apparently too.