Favorite Book
 

What is your favorite book? Mine is Go Ask Alice, it doesnt say who the author is, but its a good book... - Here is the back cover -

January 24- after you've had it, there isn't even life without drugs...

The harrowing true story of a teenager's descent into the seuctive world of drugs. A diary so honest you may think you know Alice. --Or someone like her. Read her diary. Enter her world. You'll never be able to forget Alice.

Obviously in a true diary her name is not really Alice and they use fake names and addresses but they events are real.. Almost unbelievable..

My favorite book is called Best of Enemies and is by Bassam Abu-Sharif & Uzi Mahnaimi. Here's where the front cover says:

"A Palestinian airplane hijacker. An Israeli intelligence officer. A friendship that would change the course of Mideast politics."

It's a true story of both of their accounts of the fued between Israel and Palestine. It's very informative and interesting to read.

It doesn't take a hero - General H. Normal Schwarzkopf.

I'm a big history/war buff so it comes natural.

I've been reading the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan...I also like the Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind. Im mostly into the whole medieval sword fighting fantasy ****...

how to stop time::heroin a to z
the perks of being a wallflower
to kill a mockingbird
memoirs of a geisha
the little prince
the chronicles of narnia books by cs lewis
grimms fairy tales
and the house of leaves

Catch-22 is my favourite book of all time, although I still remember the first time I read Catcher in the Rye.

catcher in the rye is a great book. so many books to pick from, reading lolita in tehran, teh great gatsby, a complicated kindness, the house of sand and fog, 1984, catcher in the rye would probably be up there, lots of others.

The BFG by Roald Dahl.

Lucas by Kevin Brooks

(I think that's the author's name.)

Noam Chomsky is one of my favorite writers and i like some Stephen King books ('salems lot, pet cemetary, and the shining)

the davinci code is an amazing book. It's got a great story to it, really, really interesting, the only thing is it could be written better, but it's still a good book.

I havent read that but everyone tells me to, in fact I have no idea what that book is all about.
My favorites are Native Son by Richard Wright and A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. Yeah, I don't read too many books, but I do remember reading this book called Watership Down, it was about these crazyass evil rabbits. There was an animated movie on it, and it had gore and blood in it. Weird....

i can't really decide...i really like:
-the wanting seed by anthony burges
-a clockwork orange by anthony burges
-choke by chuck palanuik (however that bastard's name is spellled)

Ditto and ditto. :)

I also would like to throw in some Heubert Selby Jnr with Requiem for a dream, The Room, and Last Exit to Brooklyn.

And George Orwell, 1984.

Chuck P is class also, as said above. So many to choose from. Oh, and Irvine Welsh.

I think Catcher in the Rye is almost a cheat to most bookworms, but maybe I shouldn't be too confident because I myself do not and have not read many great novels. I think J.D. Salinger created a timeless character that nearly everyone can (at some point) relate to in some manner. The emotions Holden Caufield experiences are typical and his reactions are within understanding. Overall, my opinion is that the character is not that deep. It is the other characters in the book that have more depth that creates what Holden is in most of the readers' minds

i also like the novella "the body." if you've seen the movie stand by me than you know the story

i love "The Catcher in the Rye"-J.D. Salinger (maybe Holden isn't deep but he's just like teenagers are...don't we all consider ourselves superior from time to time?<almost all the time> but i think he's smart...he was created in a very intelligent way)
i also like "The Alchemist"- Paulo Coelho (it may be a cliche but it's a great book..it has a strong message and it makes you think deeper telling you that all your dreams could come true because the Universe wants that to happen)

this may sound REALLY REALLY DUMB but i'm not gonna hide my first favorite book that i still love..."Winnie the Pooh"- A.A. Milne and now i'm gonna say why i love it...i think it's a metaphore and Winnie represents Christopher Robin's childhood and at the end, when it says that a little boy and his bear will be forever playing in the woods and that the woods will be there for anyone to find them, it surely means that you can always remember about your childhood and <here is the embarrassing part> i cried when i read the end of it...because i wanted to go back in time and do the kind of stuff that i never did cause i was always too mature to have imaginary friends...

what's my point?? easy: a book is good as long as it makes you feel something: it may make you laugh or cry...
by the way..i used to love the Harry Potter books before they got so popular and all the 5-year-olds are "wooh....i wanna be Harry Potter!!"...and you know why? they made me feel something too...

when i was younger my favourite book was 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe', C.S. Lewis.
Out of all the books that i've read, i re-read that one the most...

i like that one too! :)

I recently read Anthony Kiedis' autobiography called Scar Tissue and it was excellent that man has a very interesting life.

I've always enjoyed the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov, and His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman..

The Da Vinci Code is also a good one.

any Vince Flynn Book.
the best series is 'Red', 'black' and 'White' by Ted Dekker. Abosolutly amazing.

Ha ha,this is one of those odd coincidence things, this girl i know today pulled that book out of her purse, but I was quick to say that books lame, but knowing others like it too ill check it out, right now im reading nothing feels good

1984

I don't really have a favorite, I just finished reading "the girl who loved Tom Gordon" by stephen King, but I have to say that this is definatly not one of his bests...

My favourites would have to be,
1984- George Orwell
A brave new world- Aldous Huxley
Most books by Wilbur Smith and Matthew Reilly and also this book by this french author i dont know the name of either but the story line constanly had the main character relating life to the habits of cattle. It was deep lol. Also when i was a lil kid i loved anything by Enid Blyton .

My favorite has got to be Lucas by kevin brooks too. he is an amazing author.

Last Exit to Brooklyn is in my "to do" pile, and seeing as you liked Catch-22 and Catcher, I'm looking forward to it.

Has anyone ever read The Canterbury Tales? Some of the stories in there are kinda sleazy. ;)

I'm pretty down with Dean Koontz novels right know, Odd Thomas, and The Door to December are both Damn good books.The Necronomicon is one of the most interesting books i have read, and my most hated book i've read is, The Naked Lunch. It was so wrong and disterbing i couldn't put it down, o man i can't believe i read that.

the world according to garp is an amazing book too, everyone should read it.

Best story Book The Bible, mostly just the book of Revelations, i'm not religeous but thats some dam good reading.

Good Call :thumb:

Favorite Books
 

This is simple. Just post your favorite book(s):
here's one of mine:

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You just read that. Must have had quite an impact.

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On the Road, Infinite Jest, The Stranger, 1984, Gravity's Rainbow, Either/Or, Being and Nothingness, Das Kapital, and a lot of Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Cornel West, Norman Finkelstein, Reza Aslan, Alan Moore, and Slavoj Zizek (his articles.) I feel pretentious now so I'm going to stop. I like It by Stephen King alot.

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It could just have easily been Slaughterhouse 5 or Players Piano. This reminds me, I have to read that short story for the book club.

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Blackburn by Bradley Denton. The life story of a murderous vigilante that somehow manages to be hilarious, disturbing and deeply moving all at the same time.

Great book! Not my favorite by him but still very good.