Your favorite book?

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  • spederse86
    spederse86 Posts: 13
    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
  • Katrioustu
    Katrioustu Posts: 2,461 Member
    Raptor - Paul Zindel
  • GnomeLove
    GnomeLove Posts: 379
    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

    I think Goosebumps and Nancy Drew were the childhood series which really helped me to develop my love of reading.
  • spederse86
    spederse86 Posts: 13
    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. ;)
  • OfficerFuzzy
    OfficerFuzzy Posts: 222 Member
    My first book was Tailchaser's Song by Tad Williams.
    It's horribly written, but that's the one that caught me when I was 11. It's the book that made me a reader. It doesn't make me on my favorites list.

    Favorites....
    The Virgin Suicides
    The Death Watch
    As I Lay Dying
    Harry Potter
    The Hunger Games
    The Merlin Conspiracy
    Neverwhere
    The Book of Lost Things
    John Green and Stefanie Pintoff as authors.
  • GnomeLove
    GnomeLove Posts: 379
    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.
  • EmilyJackCO
    EmilyJackCO Posts: 621 Member
    My favorite book of all time: Brightness Falls From the Air - James Tiptree Jr. (it's out of print, and I have had to replace it 5 times... all from used book stores - I now buy every copy I find.)

    The first book I ever fell in love with.... Are You My Mother? Dr. Seuss. I was 2. Long story... and I still love it.
  • spederse86
    spederse86 Posts: 13

    I think Goosebumps and Nancy Drew were the childhood series which really helped me to develop my love of reading.

    Agreed! ^____^
  • HappyElizabeth
    HappyElizabeth Posts: 231 Member
    Catcher in the Rye.
  • mylittletribe
    mylittletribe Posts: 84
    The Outsiders by SE Hinton. I've reread it hundreds of times since my teens. Others: Wuthering Heights and Pride and Prejudice for classics (though Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was great fun!)

    Others more contemporary that left a lasting mark: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, and Megan McCafferty's Jessica Darling series, which will never be a classic, but is five books of full of YA, chick-lit FUN.
  • Catlady87
    Catlady87 Posts: 302 Member
    I'm sorry, but I can't choose just one book! Sacrilege!!
  • liftingbro
    liftingbro Posts: 2,029 Member
    The Outsiders by SE Hinton. I've reread it hundreds of times since my teens. Others: Wuthering Heights and Pride and Prejudice for classics (though Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was great fun!)

    Others more contemporary that left a lasting mark: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, and Megan McCafferty's Jessica Darling series, which will never be a classic, but is five books of full of YA, chick-lit FUN.

    The first novel I read was Rumble Fish by SE Hinton. Having grown up in a broken home and having anger issues as a teen It pretty well hit home.
  • conniemaxwell5
    conniemaxwell5 Posts: 943 Member
    Though I enjoyed reading many years before the discovery...The first book I absolutely adored was Night by Elie Wiesel. It is still one of the most powerful pieces of literature I've ever read and the only book I really love that I can not bring myself to read again. A pretty close second to this would be I know why the caged bird sings by the great Maya Angelou.

    Honorable mentions go to: Crime and punishment, lord of the flies, and The Color Purple.

    ETA: The person above me reminded me about roots. Roots wasn't the first into my heart but it might be the one buried the deepest.

    I loved "Night." So powerful and painful to read. I got hooked on Holocaust history because of this book.
  • skinnybearlyndsay
    skinnybearlyndsay Posts: 798 Member
    My favorite book is She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb.

    Wonderful book! I Know This Much Is True is also amazing.

    My favorite book of all time is The Giver by Lois Lowry. I re-read every so often and always find a new nuance of the story.
  • janessanessa
    janessanessa Posts: 299 Member
    The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
  • Sarah_Roop
    Sarah_Roop Posts: 36 Member
    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.
  • Pandaschaefer
    Pandaschaefer Posts: 47
    I would have to say my first childhood favorite was E.B. White's " Charlotte's Web". I read the book so many times in 3rd grade that my teacher gave it to me at the end of the year. I next fell in love with Lois Lowry's "The Giver". I can't even count the times I have read and reread that book. Now days I can't really pinpoint one particular book that I could call a favorite...there's just too many!
  • spederse86
    spederse86 Posts: 13

    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 had to read a lot of books like Great Expectations and P&P in my literature classes... some I had a better time with than others. The thing is, a lot of them are just plain depressing. I can find agonizingly depressing things without a book. *lol* Sci-fi and Fantasy are definitely my tops as well. <3
  • mmm_drop
    mmm_drop Posts: 1,126 Member
    To answer the original question, I think the first book that really grabbed me and shook me was The Hobbit.

    We read it as a class in elementary school and I thought it was amazing and magical. Since then I have immersed myself in all things Tolkein, but my love of books doesn't end there.

    I am a lover of the classics and could never really pick one or even a handful to call my favorites, ranging from Twain, to Dreiser, to Austin and ****ens.
  • miss_jessiejane
    miss_jessiejane Posts: 2,819 Member
    Anything by Clive Barker or Neil Gaiman.
  • nytius
    nytius Posts: 173 Member

    I think Goosebumps and Nancy Drew were the childhood series which really helped me to develop my love of reading.

    Agreed! ^____^

    Third this...mine was fear street.
  • liftingbro
    liftingbro Posts: 2,029 Member
    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.
  • elenathegreat
    elenathegreat Posts: 3,988 Member
    But my absolute favorite books are the Dark Tower series by SK.

    I reread them every summer...I'm just about to begin on Wizard and Glass :love:

    An excellent series! I am also rereading it this summer...just into the first book:)
    My son is reading it for the first time, so I am going along behind him.
  • spederse86
    spederse86 Posts: 13
    To answer the original question, I think the first book that really grabbed me and shook me was The Hobbit.

    We read it as a class in elementary school and I thought it was amazing and magical. Since then I have immersed myself in all things Tolkein, but my love of books doesn't end there.

    I am a lover of the classics and could never really pick one or even a handful to call my favorites, ranging from Twain, to Dreiser, to Austin and ****ens.

    I don't know why I forgot The Hobbit. X3 Definitely an amazing book, and one of my first as well! My mother read it to me and my brother to go to sleep.
  • sharon_moyer
    sharon_moyer Posts: 177
    My favorite books started out to be the Murder She Wrote series but lately I've been into novels. Right now, I'm reading J K Rowling's Adult Novel "The Casual Vacancy".
  • fannyfrost
    fannyfrost Posts: 756 Member
    Sandman - Neil Gaiman

    I so need to read this. I am reading Anansi Boys now, only 100 pages in and just love his style.
  • karu77
    karu77 Posts: 14 Member
    North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell) - again and again^^
    Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) - 1818 edition, I love how the questions raised are so up-to-date!
    The Awakening (Kate Chopin) - captivated me
    Persuasion (Jane Austen) - lost count on how many times I read this; it's my Austen favorite
    Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) - sooo dark^^
    Beloved (Toni Morrison) - intense
    Ceremony (Leslie Marmon Silko)

    There are more....of course :)
  • elenathegreat
    elenathegreat Posts: 3,988 Member
    But my absolute favorite books are the Dark Tower series by SK.

    I reread them every summer...I'm just about to begin on Wizard and Glass :love:

    I love the Dark Tower series. I've heard they are going to be made into a movie or tv series and I seriously hope it doesn't happen. It would just ruin it.

    I deeply and sincerely hope this doesn't happen.

    But Clint Eastwood would be the perfect Roland....imho.....the eyes, the voice. Yep.

    I agree with Clint Eastwood, but it would almost have to be him from 10-15 years ago. I really can't picture anyone else in the role.

    I'm thinking Daniel Craig...those blue Gunslinger Eyes...
  • mrdk92
    mrdk92 Posts: 24 Member
    Naked by David Sedaris
  • staceybradleywells
    staceybradleywells Posts: 331 Member
    A Fine Balance, Rohintin Mystry

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