What's your favorite book?

[Bighuey]

Avalon by Anya Seton

-- 04 Jan 2012, 09:27 --

Well, that and also Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon

Have youread Sirus by Stapeldon? That was always one of my favorites.

[Redlegs]

I can't do a single favourite, but I can offer my favourite "top ten" fiction books (so far): -

Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Love In the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Underworld - Don DeLillo

But that could change!

[pa3de8]

Animal Farm is one of my all time favorites!

Scott B.

[SaKazee]

I am a kid at heart so the Harry Potter series is my favorite, but the "Girl with a Dragon Tattoo" trilogy and "The Hunger Games" trilogy were amazing too.

[Ant]

I can't do a single favourite, but I can offer my favourite "top ten" fiction books (so far): -

Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Love In the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Underworld - Don DeLillo

But that could change!

Some great books there Redlegs, I like your choices.(except GWTW)

[mitchritz]

Twilight The saga

[thebluejay]

Inkspell, it is awesome!! although it made my cry but it is still great. I like it becuase it left my spellbound of days I couldn't think about anything else, I know this sounds crazy, it was AMAZING

[Amphigory]

To The Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf. It is infinitely rereadable for me, and just as joyous and heartbreaking each time.

[Redlegs]

To The Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf. It is infinitely rereadable for me, and just as joyous and heartbreaking each time.

This would have to be one of the most boring books I have ever read. I am clearly missing something!

[Amphigory]

To The Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf. It is infinitely rereadable for me, and just as joyous and heartbreaking each time.

This would have to be one of the most boring books I have ever read. I am clearly missing something!

I can understand that! Not much in the way of anything happens for most of it, just thought after thought. It's a strange bird. It didn't become my favorite til I read it the second time — the first time my reaction was the same as yours.

The thing that appealed to me about it was what I felt to be the truth (or, well, my truth — I don't know about anyone else's!) in the minds of her characters — they experienced life much as I do, and were just as contradictory in their thoughts from one moment to the next, blowing tiny things up into great big things, brushing the big ones off easily. Sometimes it went to a ridiculous extreme, yes, but still! Pretty much every sentence evoked some kind of emotion, which is a rare thing in a book, for me.

I'm teetering on the edge of raving about it, though! I'll restrain myself.

[Redlegs]

To The Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf. It is infinitely rereadable for me, and just as joyous and heartbreaking each time.

This would have to be one of the most boring books I have ever read. I am clearly missing something!

I can understand that! Not much in the way of anything happens for most of it, just thought after thought. It's a strange bird. It didn't become my favorite til I read it the second time — the first time my reaction was the same as yours.

The thing that appealed to me about it was what I felt to be the truth (or, well, my truth — I don't know about anyone else's!) in the minds of her characters — they experienced life much as I do, and were just as contradictory in their thoughts from one moment to the next, blowing tiny things up into great big things, brushing the big ones off easily. Sometimes it went to a ridiculous extreme, yes, but still! Pretty much every sentence evoked some kind of emotion, which is a rare thing in a book, for me.

I'm teetering on the edge of raving about it, though! I'll restrain myself.

Thank you for sharing that. I am always open to another point of view. Perhaps I should give it another go.

[Bighuey]

Ive read quite a few books lately, and I have found some to add to my favorites. The list will probably never end. One was Footsteps Of Thunder by James David and I have read some of Sabine Baring-Goulds stuff, Id have add him as one of my favorite authors. Especially his non-fiction Book Of Werewolves. Ive gone back and read parts of it over again. Another was Silas Marner, I hated it in school but read it again and found it to be a great book.

[Wintermute]

Neuromancer!

[Gannon]

Neuromancer!

Hi there Wintermute. I also love Neuromancer and Count Zero. They are both great books. I would be very interested to know if you have read "Zero History". I got it after reading the other two and just could not get into it. I got half-way through it but had to stop it was just so boring.

[Mrs_Britt]

Wow okay, do i really only have to choose one? That's almost impossible.... Its actually i tie between two series. The Sword of Truth Series by Terry Goodkind and The Black Jewels Trilogy by Anne Bishop.