Your favorite book?

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  • LordByproduct
    LordByproduct Posts: 117
    I just want to say... I'm so happy that (I'm pretty sure) no one said anything by Ernest Hemingway. I don't care how much critics say his works are wonderful, I dislike every single one of his short stories and books. >___> *lol*

    you should read "the breaking point" by Koch. Its an amazing story about what an A-hole Ernest H. was to his circle of friends and wives. all the while a very interesting history of the Spanish revolution and such......
  • AimeeJoe31415
    AimeeJoe31415 Posts: 3
    The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan

    I read a lot. Therefore it is hard to narrow it down to just one book, so the book you see here is the one that has made the biggest impression upon me.
  • Lift_This_
    Lift_This_ Posts: 2,756 Member
    Kama Sutra
  • xaMErica
    xaMErica Posts: 284 Member
    So many 'grown up books' listed :tongue:

    I think my favorite will always be The Neverending Story :blushing:

    I'm getting a library card soon, I used to read so much and I've hardly touched a book in over a year.... it sucks!
  • TheBaileyHunter
    TheBaileyHunter Posts: 641 Member
    Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne

    The Mutiny on the Bounty Trilogy (The Bounty Trilogy) by Charles Bernard Nordhoff, James Norman Hall

    Witching Hour & Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

    Pretty much anything by Edgar Allan Poe

    ETA: Also pretty much anything by Dr. Seuss!
  • ninnyfurr74
    ninnyfurr74 Posts: 111 Member
    Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King

    also love 1984 by George Orwell, the Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger, and lots, lots more!

    I absolutely loved this book, it was my first SK book. I have so many fav's that picking just one is impossible but Dragon rider of Pern started my love of fantasy. I reread it about twice a year! Also love Tolkien, Robert Jordan, Terry Goodkind, Mercedes Lackey and many others!
  • Mr_Excitement
    Mr_Excitement Posts: 833 Member
    I just want to say... I'm so happy that (I'm pretty sure) no one said anything by Ernest Hemingway. I don't care how much critics say his works are wonderful, I dislike every single one of his short stories and books. >___> *lol*

    The Old Man and the Sea is my favorite book of all time. Heretic.
  • ALKNica
    ALKNica Posts: 50
    Sooooo many, but here are some:

    Lolita--Vladimir Nabokov (uncomfortable but the man could write!!!)
    Middlemarch -- George Eliot
    David Copperfield -- Charles ****ens (the first book I read in English)
    The Count of Monte Cristo -- Dumas
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time -- Mark Haddon
    the Perelandra series -- C.S. Lewis
    And the book I've read more than 13 times since high school -- The Lord of the Rings--Tolkien

    I'm reading Enders Game just now and liking it a lot.

    Oh, and I forgot One Hundred Years of Solitude--Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • barbaratrollman
    barbaratrollman Posts: 317 Member
    It is very difficult to pick and absolute favorite, but if I was pinned down to one, I guess I'd say my favorite is Illusions, by Richard Bach :)
    I've given so many copies as presents over the years.

    I'm also a huge Tolkien, Douglas Adams, and Terry Pratchett fan. :D
  • barbaratrollman
    barbaratrollman Posts: 317 Member
    I loved "The Shadow of the Wind." Great book.
    Mine would probably be Steinbeck's "Of Mice And Men." Steinbeck has always resonated with me.

    Now, for fun, I read Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" at least once every couple of years. My favorite book of the 5 book "trilogy" is "Restaurant at the End of the Universe." I started reading Adams in high school and just fell in love with his storytelling.

    42! :) If you love Douglas Adams, you're likely to love Terry Pratchett as well. :D
  • CharlotteTheCoffeeLover
    CharlotteTheCoffeeLover Posts: 1,205 Member
    What I tell everyone my favorite book is = Gone with the Wind, which I did read and it is at the top but what my actual favorite book is The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty....
  • cpiton
    cpiton Posts: 380 Member
    I loved "The Shadow of the Wind." Great book.
    Mine would probably be Steinbeck's "Of Mice And Men." Steinbeck has always resonated with me.

    Now, for fun, I read Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" at least once every couple of years. My favorite book of the 5 book "trilogy" is "Restaurant at the End of the Universe." I started reading Adams in high school and just fell in love with his storytelling.

    42! :) If you love Douglas Adams, you're likely to love Terry Pratchett as well. :D

    42! :D I cannot read Pratchett in public! I laugh way too much. I absolutely loved "Wyrd Sisters", "Mort", "Guards! Guards!" and the one he wrote with Gaiman, "Good Omens." I even love his children's book, "Where's My Cow?"
  • lyttmab
    lyttmab Posts: 87 Member
    The very first to find it's way into my heart and gave me a love for reading was "Ferdinand the Bull," read to me by my grandpa. He was an amazing narrator and made the book interesting and fun every time he read it. I never tired of it.

    My brother captured him on video reading it just before his mind deteriorated and he was placed in a nursing home. He's been gone almost 12 years now and I can still hear his voice reading that book. It will be the first book I read to my grandchildren. I hope I can do it justice!

    AWE, what a nice memory! Be sure to do that with your grandchildren. It will be a lifetime memory, just as yours is of your grandfather.
  • nytius
    nytius Posts: 173 Member
    I'm so glad there are so many readers! I have always had this secret fear that the love of reading would die out and all the next great authors would become sales people or something LOL... Dramatic I know but that's a true fear of mine.

    I want to add Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club to this mix of favorites and I had several reminders while reading the thread of some long lost dog eared books in my storage...

    Where the red fern grows: Read and re read until it has no covers and the first two pages are missing :)
    The Kite runner: See above
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles: See above the above

    There is just nothing like a good read :)
  • Hellbent_Heidi
    Hellbent_Heidi Posts: 3,669 Member
    I want to add Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club to this mix of favorites and I had several reminders while reading the thread of some long lost dog eared books in my storage...
    Yes...I totally agree with this.

    I also read a book called The Red Tent (by Anita Diamant) that was a really great read (its definitely a women's book)
  • MarianneC93
    MarianneC93 Posts: 60 Member
    Oh, Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Seriously incredible and scary.
  • spederse86
    spederse86 Posts: 13
    I just want to say... I'm so happy that (I'm pretty sure) no one said anything by Ernest Hemingway. I don't care how much critics say his works are wonderful, I dislike every single one of his short stories and books. >___> *lol*

    you should read "the breaking point" by Koch. Its an amazing story about what an A-hole Ernest H. was to his circle of friends and wives. all the while a very interesting history of the Spanish revolution and such......

    Haha, nice!! XD
  • spederse86
    spederse86 Posts: 13
    I'm so glad there are so many readers! I have always had this secret fear that the love of reading would die out and all the next great authors would become sales people or something LOL... Dramatic I know but that's a true fear of mine.

    I want to add Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club to this mix of favorites and I had several reminders while reading the thread of some long lost dog eared books in my storage...

    Where the red fern grows: Read and re read until it has no covers and the first two pages are missing :)
    The Kite runner: See above
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles: See above the above

    There is just nothing like a good read :)

    Agreed, reading has always been my most favorite of favorite things to do. X3 <3
  • spederse86
    spederse86 Posts: 13
    I just want to say... I'm so happy that (I'm pretty sure) no one said anything by Ernest Hemingway. I don't care how much critics say his works are wonderful, I dislike every single one of his short stories and books. >___> *lol*

    The Old Man and the Sea is my favorite book of all time. Heretic.

    Nooooooo, you're a liar and a dream-spoiler! You just had to say it, didn't you?? ;)
  • S1NN3R
    S1NN3R Posts: 452 Member
    Memnoch the Devil is one I can read over and over.
  • sash3619
    sash3619 Posts: 27 Member
    I just want to say... I'm so happy that (I'm pretty sure) no one said anything by Ernest Hemingway. I don't care how much critics say his works are wonderful, I dislike every single one of his short stories and books. >___> *lol*
    Hm... The man can write. The Old Man and the Sea is classic. I also liked Farewell to Arms. Though, I can tell from his books that he disliked women. But I guess it's another point of view:)
  • barbaratrollman
    barbaratrollman Posts: 317 Member
    I loved "The Shadow of the Wind." Great book.
    Mine would probably be Steinbeck's "Of Mice And Men." Steinbeck has always resonated with me.

    Now, for fun, I read Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" at least once every couple of years. My favorite book of the 5 book "trilogy" is "Restaurant at the End of the Universe." I started reading Adams in high school and just fell in love with his storytelling.

    42! :) If you love Douglas Adams, you're likely to love Terry Pratchett as well. :D

    42! :D I cannot read Pratchett in public! I laugh way too much. I absolutely loved "Wyrd Sisters", "Mort", "Guards! Guards!" and the one he wrote with Gaiman, "Good Omens." I even love his children's book, "Where's My Cow?"

    Yes, I love all of those too! Have you listened to the audio books of all the Terry Pratchett books? Most of the earlier books were read by Nigel Planer and the latter half were read by Stephen Briggs. Both are brilliant!
  • snowboardandasuitcase
    snowboardandasuitcase Posts: 222 Member
    The Collector by John Fowles

    THIS!!

    This book was phenomenal when I read it in High School, and I haven't been able to find it in bookstores since then. I know I could buy online, but there's just something in that moment when you find your dream book on a real bookshelf and think "thank god this book is real and it wasn't just a dream!"

    I recommend this book to everyone who's ever thought about reading a book. Not even joking.. I mention this book to anyone who talks about books with me! Haha. I'm seriously crazy right now just thinking about it...

    Sorry...... :blushing:
  • LMT2012
    LMT2012 Posts: 697 Member
    Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood"
  • thatonegirlwiththestuff
    thatonegirlwiththestuff Posts: 1,171 Member
    'Thoughtless' by S.C. Stephens. I am a sucker for romance/erotica novels. Totally my dirty little secret.
  • mister_universe
    mister_universe Posts: 6,664 Member
    'Thoughtless' by S.C. Stephens. I am a sucker for romance/erotica novels. Totally my dirty little secret.

    Title noted...
  • cpiton
    cpiton Posts: 380 Member
    I loved "The Shadow of the Wind." Great book.
    Mine would probably be Steinbeck's "Of Mice And Men." Steinbeck has always resonated with me.

    Now, for fun, I read Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" at least once every couple of years. My favorite book of the 5 book "trilogy" is "Restaurant at the End of the Universe." I started reading Adams in high school and just fell in love with his storytelling.

    42! :) If you love Douglas Adams, you're likely to love Terry Pratchett as well. :D

    42! :D I cannot read Pratchett in public! I laugh way too much. I absolutely loved "Wyrd Sisters", "Mort", "Guards! Guards!" and the one he wrote with Gaiman, "Good Omens." I even love his children's book, "Where's My Cow?"

    Yes, I love all of those too! Have you listened to the audio books of all the Terry Pratchett books? Most of the earlier books were read by Nigel Planer and the latter half were read by Stephen Briggs. Both are brilliant!

    I haven't listened to them, but now I want to. :bigsmile: Heading over to audible.com in 5...4...3...2...
  • Phoenix24601
    Phoenix24601 Posts: 620 Member
    les miserables by victor hugo. Unabridged.
  • AdriSaysRelax
    AdriSaysRelax Posts: 110
    I was a sick kid, heart was all full up of crazy, so while everyone else was outside playing, I was reading the entire young adult section at my local library, ha.

    A Wrinkle In Time was my first favorite book. Then Bridge to Terabithia, then The Phantom Tollbooth, then Watership Down. I love The Prophet, The Little Prince, Little Women, The Dark is Rising series, everything C.S. Lewis and Tolkien. Enders Game was a great read. I've read a thousand contemporary and classic titles, but nothing really compares to those first few books that just dug in deep as a kid.

    Right now, I'm on a huge non-fiction kick. I find a lot of good reads on BrainPickings.org

    (And uh, yea, I might like trashy romances, too.)
  • PaulFields56
    PaulFields56 Posts: 108 Member
    I had a hard time really learning to read. In third grade, I picked up "Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims", and I was hooked. Now, reading is my favorite passtime.

    Some of the great books I've read are

    The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway
    The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
    Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
    Night - Elie Wiesel
    The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx

    Oh there are many others, but that is a short list of books that have captured my imagination and kept me up late.

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