Your favorite book?
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God Don't Like Ugly By Mary Monroe0
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So hard to choose just one... My Favorite children's book has always been "Where the Wild Things Are" My favorite classic book is "The Great Gatsby", and yes I have seen the new movie, and LOVED it! My favorite "newish" book is "Duma Key" by Stephen King. Pretty much what I am reading at the time obsesses me, but those have stuck with me always for some reason.
WtWTA absolutely! And Happy birthday, Maurice Sendak! Did you see today's Google Doodle?0 -
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. Ah-maz-ing series.0
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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Just. Awesome.0
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So, I have a Creative Writing B.A. and took many literature classes, but besides a serious literary ones like Jane Eyre and short stories like The Story of an Hour and The Lottery, my favorite books are adventure and fantasy! Whoo! XD Haha, but as for the ones that made it to my heart first...
Sweet Valley High, Boxcar Kids, Animorphs, and Goosebumps. (And there are more.)
I will never be ashamed of my mystery/fantasy obsession. X3
Why would you be ashamed? LOL
Haha, so many people consider genre books not as smart as classical literature. But it's so much more fun.
I can see what you are saying. Actually, books like Great Expectations and Pride and Prejudice bore me to tears. I have always been more into Sci-Fi or Fantasy.
I spent years telling people you wouldn't be interested in what I was reading. Now its popular. In High School though it was hard explaining to the male teacher that I as a girl would rather read A Tale of Two Cities or Catcher in the Rye than Jane Eyre, Great Expections or the Scarlet Letter.
FYI, to the person who started this thread thank you, I got so many ideas for more books.0 -
I love reading and have a very wide range of tastes, anything from biographies to true crimes, murder mystery to chick lit, depending on my mood, but I suppose the first book to ever make a real impression on me was Wuthering Heights which I studied in school. Have read that so many times and even have a leather bound copy of the book and the original film on DVD0
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I have so many favourites Jane Eyre being one of them but the first book that blew me away was Christine by Stephen King when i was 14 before that it was all Enid Blyton and Raold Dahl0
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Ah! So hard to pick just one...But the one I re-read most often and love dearly is 'Revolution' by Jennifer Donnelly.0
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The Bible0
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The book of Genesis is my favorite. It is also the oldest and most read book in history.0
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Catch 22!!0
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Hands down -- Gone With the Wind
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Holy smokes! Going through these books has reminded me of soooo many that are good. Ugh. Well, here goes...from the top of my head.
The Last Lion - Biography of Winston Churchill
Ender's Game (forgot about that...awesome book)
Dresden Files.
Of Mice and Men.
The Stand - Probably the best single SK book
The THree Investigoators series. Started my love of reading.
Ugh. Way too many to think of. Love this thread.0 -
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes0
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Sandman - Neil Gaiman
I so need to read this. I am reading Anansi Boys now, only 100 pages in and just love his style.
How did I forget Gaiman? Neverwhere! Amazing book.
And someone else mentioned Gabaldon's Outlander series. LOVE it, or at least the first few books. I petered out mid Drums of Autumn. Eventually I'll finish, but I could definitely just read the first book over and over. Aye, Sassenach.0 -
Anything by Clive Barker or Neil Gaiman.
I'm a big horror fan so Clive is on my list as well. I also like guys like Richard Laymon, Jack Ketchum, Brian Keene...ect.
Brian Keene is so under rated!! Love him.0 -
The Mirror (1978) by Marlys Millhiser. A close second would be The Threshold (1984) by the same author.0
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The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton. I've given away countless copies.0
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Anything by Clive Barker or Neil Gaiman.
I'm a big horror fan so Clive is on my list as well. I also like guys like Richard Laymon, Jack Ketchum, Brian Keene...ect.
Brian Keene is so under rated!! Love him.
You have to love Dark Hollow! Strange, weird, creepy but awesome.0 -
Anything by Clive Barker or Neil Gaiman.
I'm a big horror fan so Clive is on my list as well. I also like guys like Richard Laymon, Jack Ketchum, Brian Keene...ect.
And Robert McCammon!0 -
Blackwood Farm by Anne Rice
And Taltos by Anne Rice
And all of the Vampire Cronicles by Anne Rice
I like Anne Rice!!0 -
Gunslinger- Stephen King0
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The Shadow of the Wind was great.
My all time favorite book is the unabridged version of The Count of Monte Cristo. Love it!!0 -
“Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?” or “The Last Catholic in America” …both really describe growing up Catholic in the close knit Irish neighborhood I grew up in on the south side of Chicago.0
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I love reading and have a very wide range of tastes, anything from biographies to true crimes, murder mystery to chick lit, depending on my mood, but I suppose the first book to ever make a real impression on me was Wuthering Heights which I studied in school. Have read that so many times and even have a leather bound copy of the book and the original film on DVD
Mood definitely plays into my choice at the time.
I left out:
Agatha Christie
Sherlock Holmes
Janet Evanovich's books
Kathy Reich's Bones series
All mysteries, why did I forget them, because right now I am in the Scifi mood. I had been in a mystery mood these would have been first (well with Asimov and Anne Rice)0 -
Stephen King.. Black House
SK.... Duma Key
I don't have a favorite book FYI.
I also like to dabble in the corny Maggie Shayne :blushing:0 -
My first "grownup" book that I fell in love with (sometime in 6th or 7th grade) was Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
Yes! Summer after 7th grade I read Jonathan Livingston Seagull and A Raisin in the Sun. both good
Then after 8th grade I read Their Eyes Were Watching God. Still love that book, not so much the movie.
Of course I also loved To Kill a Mocking Bird. Godfather. Great Gatsby...and I did fall in love with this little group of wizards and witches that went to Hogwarts. It's true.
There are a ton of "classics" that suck though. Anything Charles ****ens. I would rather poke my own eyeballs out than be forced to Read Great Expectations again.
eta: You have got to be kidding. It edited Charles last name.0 -
Brilliant choices - can't wait to have a proper read through them.
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
This was the first adult book I really adored - we did it at school and I genuinely loved it so much I have read it countless times and watched all adaptations.
Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Copeland
The end was a bit shammy, but I loved the rest of it.
Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Enough said, really!
Hannibal Trilogy - Tom Harris
First real go as a 15 year old into adult fiction (other than above).0 -
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