Aaron Fuegi's Lists of Favorites
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Aaron Fuegi's Lists of Favorites
FAVORITE AUTHORS (generally ordered by author preference with one
favorite book or series listed as appropriate):
SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY
- Ursula K. Le Guin A Wizard of Earthsea
- J. R. R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings
- Orson Scott Card Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead
- Robert Anson Heinlein The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- Neal Stephenson Snow Crash
- Matt Ruff Sewer, Gas, Electric
- Roger Zelazny (Lord of Light and Amber series)
- Frank Herbert DUNE
- George RR Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire series)
- Lloyd Alexander (Chronicles of Prydain series (aka 'Taran Wanderer' series))
- Steven K. Brust (Dragaera books)
- Neil Gaiman (Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett))
- Terry Pratchett (Discworld series)
- Daniel Keys Moran (Tales of the Continuing Time series)
- Raymond E. Feist Magician
- Douglas Adams Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency series
- Philip Jose Farmer (Riverworld series)
- David Brin The Uplift War
- Patricia McKillip (Riddlemaster of Hed series)
- Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (Deathgate Cycle series)
- Micheal Moorcock (Hawkmoon series)
- Kim Stanley Robinson Red Mars and Green Mars
- Joan D. Vinge The Snow Queen
- Larry Niven The Integral Trees
- Robert Asprin (MYTH series)
- Anne McCaffrey (Pern series)
- Isaac Asimov I Robot and Foundation series
- Arthur C. Clarke The Fountains of Paradise
- Katherine Kurtz (Deryni series)
- Jules Verne Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Non SF/F
- Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Ayn Rand The Fountainhead
- Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
- George Orwell Animal Farm
- Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence
- James Madison (his Federalist Papers)
- William Shakespeare (almost everything)
- Aristotle Politics
OTHER FAVORITE WRITINGS (this is a separate category from authors as
some authors' writings are not generally my favorite but specific
books are or perhaps I have just not read enough of the author to
know):
- Watership Down - Richard Adams
- The Bridge Across Forever - Richard Bach
- Scott and Amundsen - Roland Huntford
- Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- Stand on Zanzibar - John Brunner
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Dragon and the George - Gordon R. Dickson
- Dragonsbane - Barbara Hambly
- Buffett, the Making of an American Capitalist - Roger Lowenstein
- Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
FAVORITE SHORT STORIES:
- Slow Sculpture - Theodore Sturgeon
- Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
- The Gift of the Maji - O'Henry
FAVORITE MOVIES(a sampling - alphabetical order):
Amelie,
Batman ,
Best in Show,
Blazing Saddles,
Brazil ,
Bull Durham ,
Civil War series ,
'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' ,
Dances With Wolves ,
Dead Poets' Society ,
Dr. Stangelove ,
A Fish Called Wanda ,
Four Weddings and a Funeral ,
The Full Monty ,
The Gods Must be Crazy ,
The Graduate ,
Heathers ,
The Incredible Adventures of Wallace & Gromit,
Life as a House,
A Man for All Seasons,
The Manchurian Candidate ,
M*A*S*H,
Monty Python's Life of Brian ,
Monty Python and the Holy Grail ,
My Dinner with Andre,
The Night We Never Met ,
'Oh Brother, Where art Thou?',
The Princess Bride,
Raising Arizona ,
RAN ,
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead ,
Roxanne ,
Rushmore,
Ruthless People,
Schindler's List ,
The Seven Samurai ,
Sex, Lies and Videotape,
Shakespeare in Love,
The Shawshank Redemption ,
Short Cuts ,
Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan ,
Star Wars ,
Tampopo ,
This is Spinal Tap ,
Tootsie ,
Touching the Void, Toy Story and Toy Story 2,
Unforgiven,
When Harry met Sally ,
The Wild Bunch ,
The Wrong Trousers
FAVORITE MUSICAL GROUPS (generally in order, at least today): The
Grateful Dead, The Beatles, Arlo Guthrie, Indigo Girls, Led Zeppelin,
Eagles, Credence Clearwater Revival, CSNY, Bob Dylan
FAVORITE TELEVISION (no particular order - in many cases a particular episode is
listed which I think amazingly good)
The West Wing ("Two Cathedrals"),
Star Trek: the Next Generation ("The Inner Light"),
Buffy the Vampire Slayer ("Once More, With Feeling"),
M*A*S*H ("The Interview"),
Babylon 5 ("The Coming of Shadows"),
The Sopranos ("College"),
24,
Fawlty Towers,
Hill Street Blues,
Monk,
Saturday Night Live,
The Simpsons
FAVORITE GAMES:
Tichu, Cosmic Encounter(Mayfair and EON), Titan, Time's Up/Celebrities,
Euphrat & Tigris, Poker, Spades, Hannibal: Rome vs Carthage, Mu & Mehr,
Showmanager, Ricochet Robot, Black Vienna, 6 Nimmt!, Funkenschlag, Modern Art,
Wildlife Adventure, Crokinole, Aquarium Derby, Battle Line, 25 Words or Less,
Merchants of Venus, Timbuktu, Wyvern (CCG), Chess, Ogre/GEV, Illuminati,
Loopin' Louie, Quack Shot, etc . . .
OTHER HOBBIES (besides Reading, Gaming and Computers): Backpacking,
Cooking, Canoeing, Sports(Volleyball, Soccer), Swimming, Cats
POLITICS: generally Libertarian - the issues most important to me
are Civil Liberties and the Environment.
RELIGION(or lack of religion in this case): Atheism
ALIAS: Sparrowhawk/Ged 
You might also want to look at my collected Quotations.
For a set of humorous quotes look at the
Fortunes page.
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