There are like 4 other threads out there with this topic, and they are scattered in different forums, so I am just going to make this the offical "what is your favorite book" thread.
So...what is your favorite book?
I mostly like non-fiction books...though I do like the James Bond books.
fantasy, fantasy all the way. Anything by Garth Nix rocks but my current favourite is Lirael (by Garth Nix). Dilbert is really good too although those are sort of different to other books.
like non-fiction books. they bring the realism to me.
books like lord of the rings was very inspring but a long sotry. devinci code is also a excellent book with alot of enthusiam.
Kafka
Kundera
Baricco (from Italy)
i like Action, Thriller, Suspense and sometimes love stories 
I likes Fiction books.
My favorite is Lord of the Ring.
My faves are...
* Getting Things Done by David Allen
* Working by Studs Terkel
* Gig by John Bowe, Marisa Bowe, and Sabin Streeter
* Anything from Lindsay Books, especially if written by David and Vincent Gingery.
* How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
* The Prince by Machiavelli
* The Art of War by Sun Tzu
* Johnathan Livington Seagull by Richard Bach
* The Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson
* Accelerando by Charles Stross
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He he. I simply have to put my nose into this one. MY precious is the uncanny Russian writer Dostoevskis masterpiece Notes from the underground. But since people place more than one book into this topic (I agree though, the more the merrier) I simply have to put some of his other works on: The Double and Crime and Punishment. Nobody in the whole world has captured mans own urge for the spiritual and emotional Fall (oh yeah, it’s with a capital F). If you haven’t read him yet, do yourself the favour and fetch one of his books (The Double is a good place to start) and get ready to have your world seriously rocked (only for those not faint of heart though, since it’s gruesome and eerie literature).
I enjoy fantasy books. I haven't read that many authors sadly, but I enjoy reading books by David & Leigh Eddings. They have a nice composion of humour and a great character description.
One of their works are "The redemption of Althalus" which is where I took my nick. 
The Hobbit,The Outsiders,Rules of Prey,And then there were none,and the Harry Potter Books.I'm not a huge fan of the LOTOR books,but i love The Hobbit.I'm also not a huge reader...
My favorite books are epic stories with philisophical sidestepping. The following all fit, more or less, into this category, and are ranked by order of enjoyment as best I can amongst such greats (astrisks denote series):
Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo
Shogun, by James Clavell
Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card.*
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence, by Robert Pirsig
The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams*
Discworld, by Terry Pratchett.*
Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson
Native Son, Richard Wright.
Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sophie's World, by Jostein Gaarder
Dune, Frank Herbert *
Other favorites that come to mind, in the order I think of them:
Harold & Maude, by Colin Higgins.
A Few Figs From Thistles, Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Willy Wonka & (The Chocolate Factory/The Great Glass Elevator), Ronald Dahl.
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho.
The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Expury. (sp?)
Paddington Bear, by Micheal Bond.* (Why am I thinking of children's books?)
Notable Mention: Foucault's Pendulum, by Umberto Eco seems promising, though I haven't yet managed to finish anything by him. And the Illuminatus Trilogy seemed to fit my description of a treasured book, but didn't really do it for me at the time.
That's plenty for now, but I guess I can edit in anything major that's really good I think of later.
I liek teh book wit all teh nekid ledies dad keeps in teh bathrom.
Nothing beats the Harry Potter series and Dan Brown's mystrey novels.
Thats the only two books I like.
My favorite book is Over Vaders en Zonen, it's wrote by Hugo Borst. I don't you know that book, because it's a Dutch book. I like that because it's a book about soccer. But nu only about soccer also about soccer players and them fathers.
Most likely, my favourite book is "A Tale Of Two Cities"... ok so the story, i'd give only 8/10.. but the writing style... the way the story unfolds, the choice of words, and the progression of the characters are all fantastic. Charles Dickens takes a simple love story about how we would sometimes die in order to keep the ones we truly love happy, and ingeniously carves a story with that in mind.... absolute genius...
And as for Harry Potter... well, it takes genius to come up just with that kind of a story... and fit everything in, and write it in such a way that it's simple enough for kdis to read, and engrossing enough for adults to want to read... though I'd give J.K. Rowling 9.5/10 for the storyline and all, I'd giver her only about 8/10 for the writing style... simply because it's modern literature and caters to readers who want a book that gives them the story as quick as possible, but the classics are classics because of the way they've been ingeniously written.
well i beileve the writing style is like that since its ment for kids...
I have to say my favorite books are (short list):
Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
The Vampire Chronicles (series) - Anne Rice
The Complete Works of Shakesphere - (duh 
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Snowcrash - Neal Stephenson
...and that's about it. I read quite a bit of film scripts mainly to learn the craft and compare to finished productions and book adaptations. Also, poetry has become a big part of my reading. Classics and, what I consider to be, really good unknown writers. Just personal taste. I think most contemporary well-known writers are over-published to say the least. Excuse my tangent
My favorite books are above The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams was an amazing writer i mean how can you compete with
"to fly all you have to do is throw yourself at the ground and miss"
Raymond E. Feist - a great fantasy writer.. Magician is his most well known book but its only the first of many... so far i think ive read all other than 4 of his books (he keeps writing so its hard to keep up) i just love his writing and characters... he also has real skill when it comes to writing about battles.
Harry Potter JK Rowling - i enjoyed the first 3-4 books, the 5th was the most painful book ive ever read now i understand it was aimed at kids but it gets so much good press from people while nothing happens in the book other than harry being angsty. Havnt bothered to buy the 6th one yet.
However i do like the fact that the books are getting more people to read.. because reading is always a good thing.
Katharine Kerr The Deverry Series of books - has a somewhat unique way of writing as the story happens over a series of different time periods, can be difficult to read at time as characters are reborn with the same or similar behaviour but as different people.. its hard to explain but well worth reading.
i liked the 5th book...
and you act like the 6th book as been out forever XD
The Book of The New Sun - 4 Books.
The Urth of The New Sun - 1 Book, the sequel and unfortunately last book.
-both written by Gene Wolfe
Personally, i rate them higher than the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and this is coming from a guy who also read The Silmarillian, Unfinished Tales and The Hobbit. If you love fantasy, and are dying for a long read, i suggest you read these. But just to warn you, they are hard to get into, but once you do, you will be glad you did.
Psychopath, Mystic River, Scaredy Cat. Basically mystery/suspension fiction.
I do like the occasional fantasy.
I love Dan Brown, I read for example The da Vinci code, Digital fortress
well, I just finished the 6th book and to me, it was a big let-down... There's not one thing that you feel good about after you finish the book.... just about everything ends on a sour note.... sad.
I like the Dan Brown books (the same of Pavcio); I like da Vinci code, Digital Fortress,...
I loved DaVinci Code and Deception Point. I have not read Digital Fortress - is it good? Also, I am a big George Meredith fan. I just find his poetry so fascinating. Does anyone else read George Meredith?
I have been reading self-help books, and any other book I can get my hands on. My opnion on the self help books is this:
Take what works for you and read as much as you can. You don't have to belive in everything, if there are some differences in method. In general, self help books broaden your worldview.
I like many different kinds of books. Know any good andventure books?
my favourite authors are Stephen King and Jean Cristophé Grange.
It was definitely the 4th Harry Potter book. It was very well written and had more surprirse to it.
I like Eragon. right now I'm reading Eldest. It is so good 
Shogun, by James Clavell.
Have a good project for put on-line a site of reading promotion in portugues language. The 6ª language most spoken in the world...
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Only portugueses people please...
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Há candidatos???
Abraços!
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
| Alacarde wrote: |
| Shogun, by James Clavell. |
That book was really good, but WAY too long. Loved reading it, hated the time it took up. I can't tell there is a single favourite book I prefer, in any situation. So I will perhaps name several.
If only English titles are to be named, it gives us -
Ursula LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness
Stephen King, It
Lawrence Durrell, The Revolt of Aphrodite
Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum
Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies
Aldous Huksley, Brave New World
I suppose that's enough for a start.
my favourite book is robinson cruose... i think, it's a good book.. Also, its writer is daniel defoe..
I've started that once or twice, but I never finished reading it. 
Not sure why. I tend to get lots of books from the library and then read about two. At the moment I'm reading Angel Fever which is in the "The Quentaris Chronicles" series.
It's really good! star wars -- labyrinth of evil. I'm reading this now. But the bestest one is SW episode 1: secret menace
hmm favorit book? well changes from time to time..
temporaly it would be..
ehmmm... 
dunno
you say robinson cruese is good... maybe i should read it...
could happen that i strand a lonley island *gg Which your favourite book?
My is "A droga do amor" (Brazil)
I don't know if it's in other countries!
what makes this thread the official one?
I believe the book you are referring to is called Heart of Dog in English, but I'm not sure.
I don't have a single favorite, but some of my favorites that come to mind include: Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, Shogun by James Clavell, The (Ultimate) Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, The Little Prince by St. Antoine De-Expury, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, Harold & Maude by Colin Higgins (one version is a screenplay, one is the the book.)[/url] My favorite book is Maerchenmond - by Wolfgang & Heike Hohlbein (german), I haven't seen many books that match any of Wolfgang Hohlbein's fantasy books, he has many........ the only book better than any of Wolfgang Hohlbein's books is The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
My favourite book changes quite often (since I read so much I often change which genre I like the most etc.) but I'd have to say my all-time favourite book would be Lord of the Rings.
| Bookface wrote: |
| what makes this thread the official one? |
Well, we had to make on of the threads official, because there were too many new threads all asking which your favourite book was... so, we made this one official, and lock all the others. | navid-navid wrote: |
| just harry potter |
I Like Harry Potter... is a interesting book, good for reading, but I prefer "The Lord of the Rings"
I have many favourite books which I read all the time. Most of these are childrens books even though I am 32 years old ^_^
The Harry Potter series for example, I read whenever I have run out of anything else. I have read PoA about a 100 times! I also enjoy the Little Women series and the Anne of Green Gables series.
However possibly my favourite book is Magnificent Obession by Lloyd C Douglas. It's about a wealthy young man with no meaning or purpose in him life except to have fun who is saved from drowning at the same time as this brain surgeon drowns. The young man feels almost compelled to try and take over the brain surgeons life and purpose and then he discovers an amazing secret.
It really is an astonishing book about the power of giving. I think the idea of Pay it Forward might have come from this book.
The most brilliant book I have read recently is called 'The Palace of Heavenly Pleasures' which is the name of a brothel in small town in northern China at the time of the Boxer rebellion. The book has many wonderful and horrid characters whose stories interweave with each other. It's terribly sad and beautiful at the same time. It's by Adam Williams.
the silmarillion (tolkien)
the lord of the rings (tolkien)
illiada (homero)
I like any type of book that has anything to do with history. My favorite book however has to be Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird. It has some to do with history, since it highlights a particular period in American History. It's considered a classic here in the States.
My favourite book is 'Da vinci code'
| Ivi wrote: |
| My favourite book is 'Da vinci code' |
I've never read it. What amkes it so good? It seems to me like a lot of people are talking about it. | post-gazette wrote: |
| I like any type of book that has anything to do with history. . |
But most of all i like books which have and adventure stories in them or friction like harry potter and lord of the rings. | post-gazette wrote: |
| I like any type of book that has anything to do with history. . |
But most of all i like books which have and adventure stories in them or friction like harry potter and lord of the rings.I like a lot of books. The current favorite ones are- To Kill a Mockingbird, The Heart is a Lonley Hunter, After, In my Hands, Tom Sawyer, Hard love, Lord of the rings 1-3, The Hobbit, the wish list, every single redwall book(too many to list), Inkheart, Yearling,
Shadows of the Empire.
Simply awesome....and it's Star Wars, there's a surprise. 
Non-Star Wars, probably Call of the Wild or Animal Farm. " ban sheng yuan " by zhang ai-ling.
it's a chinese novel about a love story... how to say, it's a sad story, that i remeber, when i read it some years ago, i did not wanna continue to read... because i don't want the sad plot going on...
harry potter and other books with good plots, such as Of Mice and Men
My favorite book is Paul Samuelson's Economics.
my favourite book is J.R.R Tolkien Lord Of the Rings all three tomes, its best book i heve ever readen
Rivethead by Ben Hamper
Others:
Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Crime and Punishment by Dostevsky
Keep the Aspidstra Flying by George Orwell
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Harry Potter, The Da Vinci Code, and any books such like these. I'm not finished with it, but for the moment, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is topping my list. It is just so absurd. I haven't seen the movie, but the writing in this book is just so well crafted, I cannot see how a movie could do it justice.
2 of my fav books are:
Airport : Arthur Hailey
Airframe : Michael Crichton
These are the list my favorite books
harry potter series by JK Rowling
the alchemist by Paulo Coelho
the little prince
the da vinci code
a walk to remember
a case of need My favorite books are:
*The Outsider
*The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
*Harry Potter
*Abarat
*Eragon
*The DaVinci Code
I like the Harry Potter books, The Little Prince (actually, I am reading this right now, but it's very nice), some of J. Krishnamurti's works. Now that I think about it, I don't have favorites, I just read books and don't rank or judge them.
My favorite books come wrapped in black plastic. These books are so well known throughout the world of academia, that the gas-station attendent snickers a little when I request a copy of this month's issue from behind the hotdog rollers. His snicker is if to say: ' wow, my exsistence is ridiculious when paled in the light of your great genious'.
-Atticus F.
This general addiction for Harry Potter is something I really cannot understand... (maybe I should try to read it ? )
However, here are some Authors I love :
- Dostoievski
- Boulgakov
- Steinbeck
- Kundera
- Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
- Amelie Nothomb
- Richard Brautigan
And much more... | post-gazette wrote: |
| Ivi wrote: | | My favourite book is 'Da vinci code' |
I've never read it. What amkes it so good? It seems to me like a lot of people are talking about it. |
Check this forum. There are many posts on this book.
ByeHi There,
Is any webpage, to your knowledge, that offer an objective book review ?
Something where you can write down the book title or its author and check what professional critics, artists think about this book .
Thanks
I am amazed that nobody has mentioned Ender's Game on here. It is one of the best sci-fi books ever written. I've also read through harry potter, and am officially a harry potter nerd, along with LOTR too, but Ender's game tops them both. If anyone is wondering what book to read next , read that and I guarantee you will not be dissapointed.
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| I'm not finished with it, but for the moment, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is topping my list. It is just so absurd. I haven't seen the movie, but the writing in this book is just so well crafted, I cannot see how a movie could do it justice. |
I thought the same thing, until I found out that Douglas Adams helped develop the screenplay. The movie is very well done, though many of the plot elements have been reworked. Hitchhikers has always been a work in progress. I haven't heard the original BBC radio show of Hitchhikers, but I understand that it is a little different than the books.Haven't read many books. Mostly manuals and Help.doc's.
My favorite would have to be the Hobbit and the Trilogy of the Lord of the Rings. I myself love fantasy. The magician series by Raymond Feist, and the Harry Potter series has to be the best ones written.
I really enjoyed reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy too.
a couple of others
The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
Illusions - Richard Bach
Power of Intention - Wayne Dyer
Conversations with God - Neale Donald Walsh
i enjoy fantasy and horror the most. stephen king is truly a great author and you cant deny the harry potter books. another series that ive liked is the inheritance series.
my favorite book would have to be eragon. i didnt enjoy eldest as much. i found it to be a disappointment. but i think its decent for being the second part of a series.
My favourite book are the tales of otroi by lian hearn which include across the nightingale floor and grass for his pilllow. These books are about a teenager called tomasu (takeo adoted name) whos whole village are killed for worshiping a serect god. tomasu is adoted by a warrior load who saved his life the night his village was destoryed. takeo then finds out that he has a range of hidden powers which include invisablity, being able to make a copy of him self and acute hearing. overall this seairs of books is a great read and i found it hard to put them down
um, let em see i think my favourite book would have to be 'The Fallen', all four books. that is like the best series i have ever read- about this guy who is half angel and half human and he has to fight angels who want to kill his race of people. realy good plot.
i also enjoy Harry Potter, as do many cant wait for the last and final book. i have read all 6 books, 1-5 2 times and 6 once. but they are still really good novels.
um im currently reading Frankenstein, its not ba dits actually good. better than what the movies portray. but its stillnot my favourite lol.
Oh yea i forgot, there is another book i loved its calledsilver eyes, and it sequel is purple eyes. or is it the other ay around not sure. but theyre really good books. interesting too.
well thats mostly all my favoutite books
See Ya. hey sorry i just posted,
but i wanted to know f The Da Vinci code is any good. i heard thats it was from all my friends but i needed more proof before i read it, dont want to waste my time with a craop book you know. well any ways thnx for answering me when you do.
See Ya. ./to the tune of A Few of My Favorite Things (Sound of Music)\.
Here are a few of my favorite books
- Harry Potter
- Lord of the Rings
- C.S. Lewis
- Abarat
- The Outsiders
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
- Da Vinci Code
- Of Mice and Men
Most of them I read in English. My Favourite books is the Halo Series
They just gives you a much huger view of the story of game, and the books are realy great 
I suggest them to all the Halo fans around the world !!!
Right now i am waiting for the fourth book (if they are gona make one) I really luv the book, The Lion's Game. Awesome book i recomment it to others
The only book i read is the one that has lots of pictures and bubble baloon text .. oh .. I think they call it .. comics .. ^_^ .. literature is great for knowledge though sometimes can cause conflicts (harry potter & lucifer? -- da vinci code & the church) .. but it's really fun to read and imagine, instead just lookin' at pictures .. just imagine more .. no, not on porn materials .. .. I love books loads! I think the Cherub series is great. Has anybody read the latest on, The Killing. I read it fairly recently as its only just come out. The one before last of the lemony snicket series came out today. You can read the first chapter on his website.
Also, lots of people at my school are reading Eldest. I keep on meaning to read it but haven't had the time (its a big book!)
i finished a book not too long ago i think by danielle steele about a girl whose mother dies and the night of the funeral her father tries to rape her and she kills him, goes to jail, marries a politician, her whole life that had been a secret was revealed, her kids were mad at her, the cover was yellow and black, at least in hard back it was. It was a very good book. I really like danielle steele because, although, she writes love stories they do have a plot instead of just being about sex.
The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons were both good. I think it's the suspense , the secret organizations, and the mystery behind them that intrigued me.
Oh yeah, the Harry Potter series and the Lord of the Rings trilogy are pretty good too. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon plus all five other books in the series.
Other than that,
David Copperfield by Dickens,
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
and finally,
any of Shakespeare's plays.
Besides the Left Behind series which is about the 7 years of tribulation my favorite book is Notes to Myself by Hugh Prather
My favorite book is Harry Pottter, what an imagination.
There are different kind of books I like, depends on my mood.
- Pramudya Ananta Tur, for example: Anak semua bangsa: sebuah / Child of all nations
- Arthur Japin (Dutch writer): Een schitterend gebrek (That means: A magnificent shortcoming)
- Enders Game is a great book
- The hitchhikers guide is magnificent
- But good old Sherlock Holmes / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a nice series too, especially A study in Scarlett
- And last but not least: Arthur, the once and ever king
These are not especially the best books I've ever read. There are other books, some better than these, some totally different (how could I compare 'the count of monte christo' with 'lord of the rings'? They are totally different books) But these are nice books.
Keep on reading!
JohanFH I have so many favorites it is hard to pick one!
I always seem to come back to Grendel by John Gardener as my favorite. He really gets to the spirit of one of the oldest villians from Beowulf. Also, when he wrote it (and still, because its not too old of a book) it had not been popular to cause the reader to empathize with the villian.
It is wonderful, as are so many wonderful works of literature!
Hmm my favorite has to be Hannibal and Silence of the Lambs. I don't really read books too much, but this one caught me right away and they are the first and only that I couldn't put down! They're so much more differnt from the movies. Anyone who liked the box-office versions would LOVE the books. They're compleatly differnt.
My favourite books and I won't elaborate at this time are
Jonathon Livingston Seagull and
The Fountain Head
ok, I love popular science book very much.
The first one I read (and I think it should be my most favorate book) is "fearful symmetry"
It's a fantastic book that explains the most difficult physics by using vivid, easy understanding layman words. It's not only about physics any more, but includes science, art, culture...
Another one that i love so much is "Godel, Escher,Bach, and eternal golden braid". This book explain a logic delimma by telling the stroies about a mathematician, an artist and a musician.
The popular idea is that the 60s were so innovative and radical, and the 50s were whitebread and boring. Renowned novleist David Halberstam's excellent book puts the lie to this with the thesis that nearly every major change that happened in the 50s (integration, rock music, etc., commerical culture) actually had its seed in the 50s. Like nearly all Halberstam's books, it's a long read, but chapters are broekn up into vignettes. The best place to learn about the start of McDonald's, KFC, Holiday Inn, the beat poets, the McCarty era, on and on. I've read it three times, it's so good.
History Channel did a seven-hour TV version of it. Not as good as the book, but worthwhile nonetheless.
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| I am amazed that nobody has mentioned Ender's Game on here. It is one of the best sci-fi books ever written. I've also read through harry potter, and am officially a harry potter nerd, along with LOTR too, but Ender's game tops them both. If anyone is wondering what book to read next , read that and I guarantee you will not be dissapointed. |
dude, i mentioned it. second post.
everything else you said is true though.
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| Quote: | | I'm not finished with it, but for the moment, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is topping my list. It is just so absurd. I haven't seen the movie, but the writing in this book is just so well crafted, I cannot see how a movie could do it justice. |
I thought the same thing, until I found out that Douglas Adams helped develop the screenplay. The movie is very well done, though many of the plot elements have been reworked. Hitchhikers has always been a work in progress. I haven't heard the original BBC radio show of Hitchhikers, but I understand that it is a little different than the books. |
I don't think the movie or the radio dramatizations did the novel form justice (even though some of the radio shows came first.) I don't think either the BBC series or the recent movie was anywhere near in comparison. Though the movie did have a lot of good stuff in it, it left out too much and changed stuff and couldn't provide the level of detail that could be given by a book's description, even with the Guide providing narration.I like books about the 1st and 2nd world war.
But also like the Harry Potter books, they're easier to read (and to follow ) All books of Harry Potter I absolutely LOVE the dragonlance series (YAY!!).
But some other of my favourites are Harry Potter and Discworld. I never really got around to reading Lord of the Rings, but i saw the movies if that counts for anything!
And when i was in primary school i read the Redwall series (and aussie bites.......)
Just one favorite book? I guess it's The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.
Absolutely delightful and very touching. I remember crying alot throughout the entire book 
My favorite book... that's kind of a complicated subject for me. If it were author, I'd say Anne Bishop hands down, but as for favorite book... she has 2 trilogies I love, with 2 additional books for one of them that I love just as much.
The Black Jewels Trilogy seemed to be a very unique kind of fantasy, dark, thrilling and erotic without being sexual... Seeing the High Lord of Hell be spun in circles by a little girl has got to be considered classic.
Aside from the Anne Bishop Books, Jane Eyre would have to be my "second" choice. I first read this book when I was about eleven... not quite old enough to understand it but it was a book that stuck with me as something I would want to read later when I was more "literarily" capable. Which I did... actually had to write a report on it for my English 2A class in college. Not sure why it appeals to me so much, maybe it's after everything she goes through she can still go back to the man she loves and be a stronger woman for him... I need to go back and re-read over my paper, and the book itself. Odd enough, it appeals to my overly-romantic side lol
As mentioned by brightskies, Da Vinci Code was great for it's suspense and what not, but it's the ending that keeps it from being at the top of my "favorites" list.
WinterMoon My favourites books are :
Dracula (Stoker)
"Harry Potter"s (Rowling)
Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Laclos)
Interview With The Vampire, Lestat the Vampire, etc. (Rice)
Cyrano de Bergerac (Rostand)
I'm french, and I read all of them in original version.
Hm... Like many of you, I have several:
The Hitchhiker's Guide Series by Douglas Adams - plain HILARIOUS. And the awesome thing about this series is that it's comedy with intelligence... and scientific intelligence, at that. I love science.
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - possibly the real near-future of mankind. Which is sad. But that makes the book all the better.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky - in letter format. Very nice coming-of-age novel. Fans of A Separate Peace and A Catcher in the Rye should definitely check this one out.
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne - just finished reading it for the third time (for school). Makes me love Hester Prynne and Pearl even more. Oh, and it's about secret sin.
Revelation by the Evangelist, John - loads of symbolism and insight. Some even believed he was on wormwood (since it is mentioned in the book) while writing it. Whatever.
His Dark Materials Series by Philip Pullman - sure, it's set for a kids-teen audience, but adults are even found reading it as well. Fantasy buffs, it's a must-read.
My favourite book is C++ Demystified by Jeff Kent, it's a really easy book to learn C++ and always resource to turn back to when you really need to program a simple and handy program!
otaku, i really don't like THE OUTSIDERS, but clearly i'm a minority. i do love THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER, though. also THE CENTER OF EVERYTHING, ORDINARY PEOPLE [remember that movie?] and SPEAK. [all rather depressing, i realize . . .]
i dont really have a favorite book but i really like dis really kool mag:
PC POWERPLAY
Its like the best pc mag ever. i buy it every month!
Ursula K. LeGuin's The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed...
Sylvia Plath's The bell jar
Patrick Suskind's The perfume
Nabokov's King, Queen, Knave...
And everything written by Micheal Cunningham.
Lord of the Rings has become too over-rated since the movies came out. People are like, "Yeah it's awesome...Never read the book but hey XD"
It's become more being popular than people liking it. 
It's pretty hard choosing a favorite book, I guess mine is The Seventh Sun and the books that follow that. Orson Scott Card, an awesome author, I wonder if he uses drugs to come up with the awesome ideas hhehe.
For now, i found an old book that I still find very appealing. It's SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL by E.F. Schumacher.
It was written in the 1970s but it discusses issues that are still very relevant up to these days. From nuclear wastes, education to finding your center -- your fundamental values.
It discusses enomomics, really, as if people mattered...
i like Lord of the Rings better than any other books that have ever written...the story line up and the story telling is too great!!! it has power to creat a universe of it own in our heads...i also like some of the books by SS, like Tell me your Dreams and If Tomorrow Comes...but LOTR is first offcourse
my fav are:
Lord Of The Rings,
The Silmarillion,
Tell me Your Dreams,
If Tomorrow Comes,
Never love a stranger.
but my all time fav is the Silmarillions and then comes LOTR, i have also read some books from The King though...
All time: Pride & Prejudice (do i fit in this forum? )
others very enjoyable one: Tales of the Otori, Spoil of Time, Da Vinci Code & Jin Shei
| Varun wrote: |
my fav are:
Lord Of The Rings,
The Silmarillion,
Tell me Your Dreams,
If Tomorrow Comes,
Never love a stranger.
but my all time fav is the Silmarillions and then comes LOTR, i have also read some books from The King though... |
Never love a stranger? that sound interesting, who wrote it?
Need to read : Lord of the Ring, Harry Potter series, Star Wars, Shadowmancer, Memior of Geisha and more Otori tales (I don't have that much time to go to the library 
) Dragonsbane by Barabara Hambly is a good read. I also really enjoyed the sequels, though not as muh.
Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austin rules! nothing beats classical romance
lots of tolkien fans here huh? lord of the rings and all of it's magic is great too... BUT I WANNA BE DORIAN GRAY!
to read Ender's Game is on my 2do list now Current: De Asielzoeker by Arnon Grunberg.
Followed by his two books he wrote under the name Marek van de Jagt.
In my childhood it was most likely:
Kruistoch in Spijkerbroek by The Beckman.
Roald Dahl for his whole collection though.
Has anybody read Eragon that and the second part are my favorites, I can't wait to read the last part.
I recommend Da Vinci Code of Dan Brown. It's quite addictive story - once you start reading you don't want to stop.
Apart of Code I have never read any other book of this author but think that they are all the same in general idea. 
This is the impression I have got from the reviews. I really like the Harry Potter series gg (No, don't crucify me, please ^^)
But A book that I really love is "The Impotance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde ^^ Really funny, I love the scene, where Algy and Jack are in the garden and Algy talks about Bumburying and eats muddins ^^ lovely ^^
I also really adore "Dantes Comedia Divina" ^^ but that's a little hard to understand I think.
I once read Neil Gaiman's "Neverland" It's quiet good and entertaining =) The Lord of the Rings Books are surelly fantastic and interesting, but sometimes Tolkien's descriptions are too long and a little bit boring.
Yours,
angelus
Wow so many to choose from. I love reading... I'd have to go with Harry Potter 4: The Goblet of Fire. Book 6 is good to but in a different way... I won't give anything away about it though...
Best book ever: Improbable by Adam Fawer.
Really good story. Had some really short nights cause I couldn`t put this book away. Doesn`t get boring and is not predictable.
If you like gambling and mathematic you definitely should read this book.
i really liked the perks of being a wallflower. not my favorite, but none the less, i still liked it a lot. i just got through reading aimee, a novel about a girl who's friend commits suicide, and she is blamed for helping her commit it. it was very interesting and it's made it to my top list.
My favourite book?
Eeeerm...
Harry Potter and the half-blood prince! J.K. Rowling!
I only like select books, but a really good series is the new Tomb Raider series. The first one was alright, but the second one was a lot better. Gosh, it's been so long since I read them I can't remember if it's the third or fourth one I haven't read yet! Wow. As soon as I'm done with Harry Potter 6, I'll go back and read the TR books again. They're great. And not just because they have a hot chick on the cover. Seriously.
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I really like Tolkien in general... then the Narnia cicle.. R.a. Salvatore...
Science fiction (my favourite kind): all Asimov
Off the top of my head:
Fiction
Kafka, The Castle
Jack Kerouac, On The Road
Albert Camus, The Fall
Peter Carey, Peeling (short story from collected works)
Wiliam S Burroughs, Naked Lunch
Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
Richard Morgan, Broken Angels
Greg Egan, Axiomatic
George Gissing, New Grub Street
Don Delillo, Great Jones Street
Martin Amis, Money
Jose Saramago, Blindness
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Non-fiction
Naomi Klein, No Logo
Robert M Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Who have I forgotten?
My favorite books have to be anything by C.S Lewis. My mom read me the narnia series as bedtime stories when I was a kid and the world that he creates is amazing. It has so much colour, depth and imagination.
I later read the space trilogy consisting of Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength. (I highly recommend them) The depth of human perception amazed me, although sometimes what he was saying was hard to grasp. They are amaing stories that also give much insight into human nature and the world we live in.
Also the Screwtape Letters is a good one, for anyone wondering what the devil is up to in your life. The perspective was really unique, I mean what other book is from the perspective of a devil who is teaching his nephew the art of temptation? Really good book, that will make you think a lot. ANyways thats all I have to say!
All time fav: A Tale of Two Cities. But the fact that we need it in college this year is killing my love for the book! 
Aside from that A Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird. Everyone MUST read Crank! It's a wonderful book. I'm not much of a reader, but I literally could not put this book down.
I really thought The Hobbit was such an excellent book when I read it. I'm not an avid reader as I don't have time (although I do enjoy a good story every now and then) but this story was marvelous. I just felt it was an inspiring hero story. Everyone who I've recommended it to, including people who read even less then I do, thought the book was awesome. Some who read the LOTR books said they found this to be even better.....READ IT! Well, I have many favourite books in fact. I love Agatha Christie's books; they are well planned and quite different from other mystery/police books. Another book may be the french book "Jamais sans ma fille" by Betty Mahmoudy (I read the french version, but the original one is in English language). "Da Vinci Code" is also an absolute pleasure to read. And not to forget the great Harry Potter series - superb.
das schloss, franz kafka.
Still "The Lord Of The Rings"
It is very difficult to define the best book that already I read, diverse are incriveis, like of fiction scientific, spy and history. If it had that to elher one it would be between the Foundation (Isaac Asimov), Advance of Aquitania (Robert Ludlun) and The Last Order (Timotyh Zanh).
I've always loved the Dan Brown series, especially Angels and Demons.
I like Sapkowski's Witcher (Wiedzmin), but the best one is first Witcher book.
Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom, is truly a amazing book. Not only is his story interesting and moving, but the way he tells it, it captivates the soal and doesn't want to let go, even after you put the book down. It is a truly great book from a truly great man. It is a definite read to any who like either history or politics. From the first page you read, to the last page you turn, this book will move you. I have read many South-African based books and I have to say, by far this is the best one. It is also good to learn the history of South Africa from an un-biased source. Nelson Mandela, even through all the slings and arrows he suffered always believed in equality and never was discriminatory. One of the greatest politicians to date, and one of the best books I have ever read. I give it five out of five stars. But don't just take my word for it, buy it, or at least take it out of the library. Read it, and I promise you'll be glad you did.
The sharpe series are good by Bernard cornwell and douglas adams hitchikers guide to the galaxy and dirk gentleys series. Also the the wind on fire trilogy by william nicholson is good but my favourite has to be phillip pullmans His Dark Materials because it has so much hidden depth as well as a good surface storyline
My favourite book is Hagakure.
In this book it's explained the "Bushido" a Samurai doctrine.
Mizar-
absolutely without doubt
not in any particular order
1 Godfather by Mario Puzo
2. The Sicilian by Mario Puzo
3. Kane and Abel By Jeffery Archer
The Outsiders by S.E Hinton
Traitor by Matthew Woodring Stover
Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tokien
2001 - A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
Harry Potter (Yes, it's cool) - J. K. Rowling
Looking after reading The Wheel of Time (Robert Jordan), has anyone read it? Actually, it's on 12 books but I don't know if there are more to come.
This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen. Something in her writing style just captures me, and especially the relationship between Remy and Dexter. It's just so imperfect and dysfunctional, but beautiful at the same time. My favourite is absolutely The hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
Love Le Guin, Left hand of Darkness, Disposseded and Earthsea stories, especially the recent "Dragonfly."
Recent favorite of mine, Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer.
My favorite would have to be Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind. It's about a man orphaned as a baby and born without a smell. He grows up developing an amazing sense of smell to become a perfume maker. Eventually he becomes obessed with making the perfect smell which leads him to murder. It's an incredible book and the ending will have you shocked.
1) Lord Of The Ring J.R.R. Tolkien
2) The Saga of George R.R. Martin: The Chronicles of Ice and Fire (in italian is Le Cronache del Ghiaccio e del Fuoco)
3) American Tabloid & The Cold Six Thousand of James Ellroy
| post-gazette wrote: |
| Ivi wrote: | | My favourite book is 'Da vinci code' |
I've never read it. What amkes it so good? It seems to me like a lot of people are talking about it. |
Why does everyone like that book?
Anyways... my favorite book is bah! I prefer series. I like series like Alice, even though I am little old for that... Harry Potter, Chronicles of Narnia,
Eragon books( I forgot the series name), Little house on the Parie... and Mumse... a book in another lanuage.Not quite sure... one of the harry potter's or possible Eric by Terry Pratchett.
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of my favorite books. The characters and depth of the whole book is just simply amazing.
Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
Anything by Tom Clancy or Frederick Forsyth
All of the Shannara books
I like a bit of everything. Of course The Da Vinci Code was great, but I hesitate to add it as a favorite.
The secrets of jen-shei by alma alexander
the entire artemis fowl series by Eoin colfer
alice in wonderland by louis carroll
mostly fantasy books are my favorite
The Butterfly by Henri Charriere
Wow, so many great books were mentioned.
I love to read....
Lord of the Rings --> Just a classic. Loved it.
The Fionavar Tapestry --> Another great fantasy. By Canadian author, Guy Gavriel Kay.
The Catcher In The Rye --> An American classic.
Ender's Game --> This book amazed me. I never liked science fiction until my friend, Kyle lent me this book.
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy; A Trilogy in Four Parts --> This book is halarious.
Harry Potter --> How could I not include it?
Dostoevskij - "IDIOT"
Pushkin " Evgenij Onegin"
Isaak ASIMOV - allmoust everything
Tolstoj - Lolita
My Favriote book is
The Little Duke
also I like alot the Chronicles of Narnia
here is a review if you do not now it
The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis, is one of the very few sets of books that should be read three times: in childhood, early adulthood, and late in life. In brief, four children travel repeatedly to a world in which they are far more than mere children and everything is far more than it seems. Richly told, populated with fascinating characters, perfectly realized in detail of world and pacing of plot, and profoundly allegorical, the story is infused throughout with the timeless issues of good and evil, faith and hope. This boxed set edition includes all seven volumes. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition
My favorite book(s) would have to be all the ones that are by J.R.R Tolkien:
The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, The Unfinished Tales, The Book of Lost Tales 1, The Book of Lost Tales 2, The History of Middle Earth (it's a series of 12 books).
In other words, I basically am a God when it comes to LOTR. I know everything
I also enjoy the Halo trilogy:
The Fall of Reach, The Flood, First Strike.--All of which are extremely good books. I also have both games lol.
I haven't read the book(s) yet, but I have seen the movie. The Chronicles of Narnia. I have the book, I just haven't got the time to read it. I have about 10,000 other books that are on the list that I currently have.
Well, that about sums it up! The Lord of the Ring, is one (or should I say three?) of my favorites. I also like a book by Kurt Vonnegut, but I'm not sure what the originaltitle is. I guess something with Slapstick.
bill bryson's history of nearly everything
this days i am reading "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared Diamond. if you interested in history and science you will like it...
“Guns, Germs, and Steel is an artful, informative, and delightful book, full of surprises… there is nothing like a radically new angle of vision for bringing out unsuspected dimensions of a subject, and that is what Jared Diamond has done.” – William H. McNeill, The New York Review of Books
“Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope . . . one of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years."— Colin Renfrew, Nature
"The scope and explanatory power of this book are astounding."— The New Yorker
"Serious, groundbreaking biological studies of human history only seem to come along once every generation or so. . . . Now [Guns, Germs and Steel] must be added to their select number. . . . No finer work of its kind has been published this year, or for many past."— Martin Sieff, Washington Times
"An epochal work. Diamond has written a summary of human history that can be accounted, for the time being, as Darwinian in its authority."— Thomas M. Disch, The New Leader
"Guns, Germs and Steel lays a foundation for understanding human history, which makes it fascinating in its own right. Because it brilliantly describes how chance advantages can lead to early success in a highly competitive environment, it also offers useful lessons for the business world and for people interested in why technologies succeed."—Bill Gates
The Turner Diaries - Andrew Macdonald
Nordic Front - John Murdoch
i like gary paulson, carl hiaason, dave pilky, and the guy who wrote calvin and hobbes
My favourite book is well i dont like to be embarresed or out lol but it is kensukes kingdom lmao i read it a few years back and i fort it was quite a good book you may not like it but i shure do lmao
1) Harry Potter
2) The Books in the Holy Bible.
3) Books about history.
I'm religious, have been christed in all of my life, but i went religous wen I was eight to nine years old. I do not remember how, but I am Protestant and I want to be priest in the future.
I'm also intrested anout history.
There are so many good books!
My favorites would have to be Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, and 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marques is up there on my list too.
Any book that changes my view or way of life for the better...
Of Mice and Men, this book was soooo good, and one of the few that i actually read, to anyone who hasnt read it, go get it, and if you havnt yet, read this: Its a story of Two Men, looking for a job, they find one, but the employers and townspeople find out about their past....
its a great book, and im not spoiling it for you, i know its a pretty bland short summary of the book, but, its hard to say a whole lot more without ruining it.
My favorite book is one written by the greatest novelist of all time - Fyodor Dostoyevski. That book is Crime and Punishment. The characters are seamless and real, the questions are meaningful and the adventure of ideas and thoughts are breathtaking and brilliant.
The Harry Potter books (j.k.rowling), the Avalon series (marion zimmer bradley), the interview with the vampire (anne rice), hannibal (thomas harris), the pillars of the earth (ken follett)...and many more!
My favourite author was Roald Dahl when I was younger but now it is Anthony Horrowitz.
My favourite book by Roald Rahl was Charlie and The Chocolate Factory.
and
My Favourite book by Anthony Horrowitz is Stormbreaker.
There's so many, but if I could only pick one.
My all time favorite book is The Da Vinci Codes.
I like the halo book series. The fall of reach, First strike, and the flood.
Eric nylund is an excellent author.
I have to agree with people who like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Narnia. But my three favourites are probably:
Old Man and the Sea.
The Fourth Protocol (very dated now)
1984.
I'm reading "Romance of Three Kingdoms" at the moment (the Chinese classic). I think it will be up there somewhere.
The DaVinci Code is exciting, but only if you ignore the fact that Dan Brown is so wrong, which really got on my nerves as I was reading the book, and ruined my enjoyment of it. At least it made me go away and read a lot of early church history to see what bits were true... and not very much was, in fact some was downright deceptive.
I haven't read Harry Potter. I really should, but there are so many other good books out there!
My favorite book is the outsider becuase the show how people are treated for beign poor and how a group of people protect each other.
and of of course just cause u live or hang out with a certain group of people it doesn't say who you are.
Cause Johnny was way different from the rest of the greasers. 
My favorite book was also the first book of Michael Crichton that I read. After watching the movie "The 13th Warrior" I was all like "this is a pretty sweet movie, and it says it is based on a book, maybe I should read that." So like after a year I decide to read the book and I go to the library and get it. I read the whole thing in like 2 days, non-stop reading, it was that good. I also read "Rising Sun" by the same guy. Really good book. I really like that guy.
My favorite book is tuesdays with Morrie. It is a good book about what humans are really like. People do a lot of things and they sometimes dont think about what they have learned. This is a story about a man who is trying to comfort an old dying mentor of his and he ends up finding out a lot of the stuff that he had forgotten. Things that could and would help him in his life. This is a good book to read if you are a hopelessly in love with books that are melancholy. It also has a life kind of theme to it. Many, many books:
All of Terry Pratchett
King Rat
Meir Shalev
... | S3nd K3ys wrote: |
Haven't read many books. Mostly manuals and Help.doc's.
My favorite would have to be the Hobbit and the Trilogy of the Lord of the Rings. |
...Ditto for me Haruki Murakami, F. Kafka, G. Markes, F Dostoevsky, A Chehov, W Golding, G Orwell
The Hill by Leanord B. Scott. I got really into it,really good novel about vietnam
I am harry potter fan..
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recently i likde eragon adn eldest
Some of my favorite books are:
Oryx and Crake, The Power of the Kaballah, Angels and Demons, Lady in the Water, The DiVinci Code, Runaway Jury, Harry Potter (don't act like you don't read them too).
I lýke Harry Potter.It ýs very good book.I have read series. The Ignored by Bentley Litle.
A lot of people believed for a long time that Stephen King was writing under yet another assumed name, but that isnt the case.
He also has another awesome book called "The Summoning"
Horror stuff.
How about "The Mayor of Casterbridge" by Thomas Hardy?" I really like the character development of Michael Henchard (the "Mayor"), althought it is more accurate to say that the character unfolds rather than develops. I think this is Hardy's best effort, although others will disagree. This time-tested classic is available free at your local library.
To decide on one single book's impossible. But, I often get stuck in the various philosophies found in good Science fiction. One name to rise above others is Philip K Dick. Any of his novel's contain exciting view's of the world to come and the world that's past. Particually intresting grip of sf in 'the man in the high tower'.
William Gibson also have to be mentioned. If you don't know him, you don't know your sf or isn't the least bit intrested. Either way - there'e no point of explaining i have a lot of favourite books. The ones i really loved are:
"Ektelesis" by a greek writer called Fredy Germanos
"The hours"
"Jonathan Livingstone seagull"
"Eleni i o kanenas" by a greek writer called Rea Galanaki
I have read Harry Potter books by Joanne Kathleen Rowling:
Sorcerer's Stone
Chamber of Secret
Prisoner of Azkaban
Goblet of Fire and
Order of the Phoenix
I just borrowed some of them (I have only PoA ang GoF), and while I'm waitng for Half-Blood Prince, I'm currenly reading Jesus Christ and the Gospel of Matthew, next is the Gospel of Mark and so on...
In the part of Half-Blood Prince, I've just read its Plot Overview and Summary..
Like a lot of people on this board, I like Harry Potter, but it is definately not my favorite.
I'd have to say my Favorite is Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. though I am currently Reading Le Morte De Arthur and the Mabinogion.
just one favorite book? hmm, maybe The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem. or The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. or Master and Marguerite by Mikhail Bulhakov. or Song of the Bird by Anthony de Mello. or dramas by Samuel Beckett. or the Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. or Night Watch by Terry Pratchett. or Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar.
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams - So long and thanks for all the fish
Douglas Adams - The restaurant at the end of the universe
Douglas Adams - Life, the universe and everything
Can't seem to remember the fifth
The baap of all science fiction books!!! My favourite book has got to be...
The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice
-The Martian Chronicles byBradbury
-1984 by georges orwell
and of course Pratchet 
"Norwegian Wood" by a Japanese author, famous, but i can't spell his name. It's coming-of-age, but in a much deeper sense.
This is my favourite book. Do you like?
I like the Lord of the Rings by Tolkien the most. I have read the books 6 times each. Along with the Hobbit, I have read that 7 times. I have also read a few of his other books.
I don't realy like the movie though, I can't help but spoting were they strayed form the books.
I don't think I could pick a favourite but I can norrow it down to two. The first one would have to be Michael Crichton's TIMELINE and the COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (it's a thick one).
| inesquecivel wrote: |
Which your favourite book?
My is "A droga do amor". (Brazil).
I don't know if it's in other countries!
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Harry Potter .