Favorite Book

[itsybitsyspider]

i dunno if someone already posted this but what is your favorite book? mines has got to be the hobbit or a harry potter book.



btw,harry potter 5 comes put tomorrow! im so excited.:-D


~Spelling edited. ~Barb

 

[Blackjack Gabbiani]

Little note, careful how you spell 'comes'. I know it's a form of shorthand, but the way you spelled it has other connotations.

For me, as far as how it's put together and crafted, I'd say "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin. It's so...flawless, like a puzzle. It heavily depends on how things are worded (which makes me wonder how they could translate it), and it fits together perfectly.

 

[Seadra Reef]

I have a hard time deciding whether "That Was Then, This is Now" or "Tex" is my favorite book. They're both by the same author, S.E. Hinton. I absolutely adore her writing, it's just incredible. ^^

"That Was Then, This is Now" is the shorter of the two, but has very appealing character development, but the ending is a slap in the face. It makes you want to throw the book at a wall. As for "Tex", it's twice as long, has great characters, but the ending seemed a bit random. Oh well, both are good books.

 

[Nine]

My favorite book is: Dance on My Grave by Aidan Chambers

It's such a good book. It's the only book, that I can honestly say that I've never been able to put down. I read it in 2 days, and I am a slow reader. lol (and no, it's not a children's book lol)

 

[brandon™]

My favorite book is The Secret of NIHM. I haven't read it in a long time, but i'll get it out again. I forget I have it alot, since it's buried away, keke.

 

[Seadra Reef]

Originally posted by Nine
My favorite book is: Dance on My Grave by Aidan Chambers

It's such a good book. It's the only book, that I can honestly say that I've never been able to put down. I read it in 2 days, and I am a slow reader. lol (and no, it's not a children's book lol)

The only time I've read a novel without putting it down was Rumble Fish. I got home from school and started reading. And I kept reading. And kept reading. Then I finished the novel. XD It was another S.E. Hinton book, too. I liked it. That is, until I saw the movie. It was terrible. No, it was god-awful. The Outsiders movie was okay, but I have yet to see Tex and That Was Then, This is Now. I haven't been able to find them in video rental stores. I did find Tex on DVD once, but I didn't have money. =P

 

[Barb]

So many books, so little time....

1. The Bible--for its influence on my life.
2. Jaws, by Peter Benchley. First novel ever read, at age 8. Couldn't understand half of it, but I knew I liked it.
3. Any of the Kay Scarpetta, M.E., novels by Patricia Cornwell. She is incapable of writing a ditsy, stupid female character. My favorite of this series is 'From Potter's Field'.
4. Any novel by Paul Zindel. His works are somewhat depressing but he deftly narrates readers through a bleak urban reality not without hope. Read 'The Pigman', it's probably his best.
5. Any novel by Paula Danziger. Her stories have heart and realistic characters. My favorite is 'Can You Sue Your Parents For Malpractice?"
6. I've read a few of S.E. Hinton's novels and loved 'That Was Then, This is Now.'
7. J.R.R. Tolkien's masterpiece 'The Lord of the Rings'. The best literary work of the 20th century.
8. Adriana Trigiani's novel 'Big Stone Gap.' A slice of Southern nostalgia with two good sequels to boot.
9. Any novel by Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston. Especially their newest, "The Cabinet of Curiosities." Their fictional FBI Special Agent Pendergast is a modern-day Sherlock Holmes.
10. Michael Crichton's 'Jurassic Park.' Forget the CG dinosaurs: the story alone is worth its weight in gold. It's technologically complex and took years to write, but it is a page-turner to the end.

 

[Pacific Pikachu]

My favorite book is The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle. This book is so eerie to me... It feels like the last fairy tale; the only one with true magic hidden in it. This book is written in the most poetic prose I've ever seen, and it's filled with mysterious passages of great insight and symbolism like nothing I've ever seen. I carried it around everywhere for months after I first read it, just to pick it up and read bits and pieces of it again.

Coming in a very close second is Watership Down by Richard Adams. It's just an all-over great tale, with symbolism, a great writing style and plot, interesting characters, rich culture, and wonderful insight into the human condition, told by using rabbits of all things! It's such a fun book to read, I was really upset to finish it. A truly incredible adventure story.

Other books I really love include:

Fluke by James Herbert
Tailchaser's Song by Tad Williams
The White Bone by (I forgot the author...)
The Power of One by Bruce Courtnay
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand (I think that's her name...)

I could continue listing for a while... ^^;;

 

[Crimson Flames]

1. The Bible - easily the most influential book in my life.
2. Harry Potter - fantastic writing, unlike anything I've seen before.
3. To Kill a Mockingbird - at first, I had my doubts about this book. It turned out to be one of my all time favorites though.
4. The Crucible - I know it's meant to be a play, but I read it as a book. Interesting historical fiction(I guess I should say non-fiction...), I learned more from this than any book I had to read in Honors American Literature class.
5. I like many other books, but none are really favorites like the first four I listed.

 

[itsybitsyspider]

im reading HP5 rite now. its so cool!

 

[Shiksa ♥]

The Westing Game is definitely a weird book. but have a lot of favs. ya lol

1. Bible
2. Perloo the Bold by Avi - Avi is a great author
3. Harry potters
4. The Time Quartet by Madeleine L'Engle - really brill books. They really make you wonder. So freaky. Highly fantasy. If you like harry potter, you'll like them.
5. Belle Teal by Ann Martin was really good, I own it

 

[achooxp]

Where to start...

I wish I could say The Bible, but as I haven't read all of it yet, I won't. xP

"Calvin and Hobbes" by Bill Watterson. The whole comic series is just so awesome. I love everything about it.

Norse Mythology in general is fascinating.
Mythology, folk tales, legends in general.


And then a few...

"The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Jester
"The Giver" by Lois Lowry
Almost any book by Roald Dahl is simply magical to me.
Almost anything by Charles Dickens.
"Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert
"No Longer Human" by Osamu Dazai
"Blindness" by Jose Saramago
"Jurassic Park" by Michael Crichton
"Le Petit Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"The Hobbit" or "The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien
"On the Road" by Jack Kerouac
"Slouching Towards Bethlehem" by Joan Didion

I guess that's enough for now. I have a lot more though. ^^

 

[Lara Croft]

Gah, what an insanely hard topic. ;_; No fair.

Classics:
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Grapes of Wrath by John Stienbeck
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Animal Farm by George Orwell

Modern Literature:
Mara: Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter by Laurell K. Hamilton
Crown Duel by Sherwood Smith
Bitten by Kelley Armstrong
Anything by Eddings
Old Magic by Marianne Curley

And the lists go on...but I'll spare everyone. ^_~

 

[Trainer Lisa]

I don't really read much books, mostly magazines, but anyway, since I just got it my favorite book right now is Pokemon 4Ever: The Voice Of The Forest! :-D

And it's based on the movie of course! It even has pictures inside!!

Right now, I'm only on chapter two though.

 

[Seadra Reef]

Originally posted by PokemonTrainerLisa
I don't really read much books, mostly magazines, but anyway, since I just got it my favorite book right now is Pokemon 4Ever: Voice Of The Forest! :-D

And it's based on the movie of course! It even has pictures inside!!

Right now, I'm only on chapter two though.

Dot dot dot.

 

[SulcataIxlude]

"The Dark Tower Series" by Stephen King
"Shogun" by James Clavell (If anyone is a japanese culture fan I highly recommend this book. Also its about William Adams! Well its John Blackthorne, but that character was based on this european samurai.)
"Gai-Jin" by James Clavell
" Carribean" by James A. Michiner
" The Covenant" by James A. Michiner
" The Stand" by Stephen King
" The Talisman" by Stephen King
" The Ninja" by Erica Van Lauster
The Quran

That's all that comes to mind now.

 

[Adam]

I like many many books, but here are a few of the best:

Peter F Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy (Warning: 3800+ pages). Medium/hard sci-fi with strong characterisation, brilliant plot, interesting moral issues and a touch of the supernatural rendered in a very scientific way.

Paradise Lost - John Milton. The story is too convoluted to be exciting, and this is really Latin but in English. However, for a while this was _the_ fantasy epic (though that description really does diminish it), a huge inspiration for many subsequent authors (including the genius William Blake). The real power of the poem is in being read alloud.

Shogun - someone else mentioned it before, but it is what first got me interested in Japan and japanese culture.

I'm skipping out on many many great books that I've read before, but I want ot get to my facourite.

That Sandman series by Neil Gaiman.
Quite possible the best literary work I have every read. Gaiman is a genius, with an incredible talent for the ironic, for blending fantasy and reality into an every twisting state remeniscent of the dreaming about which he writes. His stories reveal a vasy knowledge of myths and legends, contemporary and ancient. This series is blackly comedic, revels in its perversity and complexity, not for the faint of heart (ie. a Serial Killer's Convertion), and features the most likeable anthpomorphic personification of Death you will ever read.

 

[Revolutionary Girl]

I don't think I've answered this yet. My favorite books are mostly stuff of the old variety.

A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens. My absolute favorite book of the Victorian period. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." And Sidney Carton rocks my socks. Also runners up from the time: Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure and Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and George Eliot's Silas Marner. And ANYTHING by George Bernard Shaw. ANYTHING.

The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer. A fun premise for sharing some of the important folktales of the time. And I love the Wife of Bath. Medieval runners up: The Arthurian romances of Chretien de Troyes, the Tristan story by... I can't remember his name. -_-;;;

While we're on the Arthurian kick, The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley. This book singlehandedly made me get back into Medieval Studies, hoping that the King Arthur story "really" worked that way. XD

Alexandre Dumas and Victor Hugo also have spots in my heart. I'll read anything by them. Another non-English author: Milan Kundera, whom I love more with each reread of his books.

And of course Harry Potter series.

And just for my shoddy romance novel kicks, Dearly Beloved by Mary Jo Putney. The first shoddy romance novel I ever read, and still sticks with me as being somewhat less trashy than others I've read since. Plus, I emailed the author once, and she emailed me back. :-D

 

[Barb]

I should plug my favorite techno-thriller authors here: Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. They've written the following books together:

The Relic
Reliquary
Mount Dragon
The Ice Limit
Thunderhead
The Cabinet of Curiosities
Still Life with Crows

Their books are intelligent, witty, and thoroughly entertaining. Their website is here.

 

[Kinglerlord2]

Thanks to my uni course I've discovered some books that I never would have read otherwise

My faves (in no particular order) include:

"The Odyssey" by Homer
"Beowulf" author unknown but I read the Heaney translation of it
"The Amtrak Wars" series by Patrick Tilley
"The Dark Jewels Trilogy" by Anne Bishop (this one would be near the top, it is uber cool)
"The Lord of the Rings" series by Tolkein
"The Hobbit" by Tolkein
"Harry Potter" series by J.K. Rowling
All of Timothy Zahn's books from the Star Wars Universe
All of Michael A Stackpole's books from the Star Wars Universe
"The Elenium" series by David Eddings
"The Immortals" series by Tamora Pierce
"Circle of Magic" series by Tamora Peirce

flamin' hell there's no end to this list! That'll do though, i think you get the picture.