Your favorite book?
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I'm sorry, but I can't choose just one book! Sacrilege!!0
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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.0 -
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.0 -
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.0 -
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck0
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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.0
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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!0
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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.0 -
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.0 -
Anything by Clive Barker or Neil Gaiman.0
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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.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.0 -
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
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.0 -
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.0 -
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".0
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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.0 -
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 course0 -
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
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...0 -
Naked by David Sedaris0
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A Fine Balance, Rohintin Mystry0
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