Favorite Book

[DeathbyJupiter]

What are you favorite books? I'd have to say that mine are:
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Lord of the Rings Sextet (the greates works of fiction of all time)

[Ohiokid]

hmmm...i really liked the hobbit...and hatchet..i dunno why lol :P

[Ranna]

Thats a tough one o.o

Um..
<i>Stranger in a Strange Land</i> by R. A. Heinlien
<i>The Mote in God's Eye</i>, <i>Ringworld</i> and <i>Ringworld Engineers</i> by L. Niven and J Pournelle (I didn't like <i>Ringworld Throne</i>)
Most of the <i>Redwall</i> series by B. Jacques
<i>House of Leaves</i> by M. Danielewski
<i>Motherless Brooklyn</i> by J. Lethem

I'm sure there's more, but I can't remember :o)

[guyincognito]

I like Clive Cussler's "Shockwave", "Atlantis Found", and/or anything by Michael Crichton.

[Rainblazer]

I've got a ton of favorites:

Roald Dahl - "Matilda"; "The Witches"
Richard Preston - "The Hot Zone"; "The Cobra Event"
Jane Austen - "Pride and Prejudice"
Shakespeare - "Twelfth Night"
J.K. Rowling - those Harry Potter books are good, regardless of the age 8-)
Harper Lee - "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Mark Twain - "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"; "...Huckleberry Finn"; "Pudd'nhead Wilson"
Lynne Reid Banks - "One More River"
Charlotte Bronte - "Jane Eyre"
Emily Bronte - "Wuthering Heights"
Thomas Harris - the Lecter series

Several others, I'll try and think of them

[Starseed]

Originally posted by cyberpeacock
I like Clive Cussler's "Shockwave", "Atlantis Found", and/or anything by Michael Crichton.
Yea the books by Clive Cussler are among my favorites. I also liked The Eye Of The Needle, and The Winner.

[PeaceFroggy]

'Out of the Sun' - Peggy Woodford
'Watership Down' - Richard Adams
'Day of the Triffids' - John Wyndham
The rest of John Wyndham is also excellent.

[Rainwater]

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
Alexandre Dumas- The Count of Monte Cristo
The Harry Potter series...
LOTR trilogy
Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
Margerat Atwood- The Handmaid's Tale

[Rainblazer]

Rainwater -- I've heard that Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" is pretty much the same story as "Pride and Prejudice." What's your opinion on it? I'm sure I'll read Sense someday anyway, since P&P was so good.

[Cricket Smasher]

I love brave new world by Aldous Huxley, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, and Shakespeare's Hamlet . Those are awesome. :-D

[Tatsumaki]

Shakespeare's Macbeth..
Anything written by Clive Cussler OR Agatha Christie.

[Rronnie2003]

Here are my favorites.

*Harry potter and the sorceres stone
*Harry potter and the goblet of fire
*Lord of the rings the two towers
*Resident evil nemesis(by s.d perry)
*My side of the mountain
*Resident evil city of the dead

[Nevermore..]

*mumbles* the lord of the rings isn't a sextet nor a trilogy. It's *ONE* book. *grunts*

My all time favourite books are:
Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien and his son)
The Dune Series (Frank Herbert and his son)
The Elric of Melniboné series by Michael Moorcock

The best fantasy and sci-fi books in the world :).

[_Serenity_]

i hate times like these when i dontreally know...
ummmmmm
Harry Potter all of em (you all know who thats by...)
lord of the rings sequel(you know this one too...)
and i think the stormbreaker series as well i think their quite good... (anthony harowitz)

[scudmuffin]

well i like numerous books but top ones include
Catch-22
watership down
Chocky, crysilids and day of the triffids
the finovar tapestry (all three)

(my spelling is just awful)

[Thorondor]

To be a bit of a stickler I must say that William Shakespeare did not write books. He wrote plays. They have been printed in book format, but they are still plays, not books.

Anyway, let's see...
Joe the Truck Driver, Berenstein Bears (most of them)...oh, wait. those were my favourite books when I was a kid...

Okay, seriously now:

Everything that I have read so far dealing with Arda and Middle Earth (there is a lot out there that I want to read, and hope to do so eventually, though they aren't as popular or as well known. I refer to collections such as the Unfinished Tales, history of Middle Earth, ect.)
What I have read is The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings (all six books make up the novel as a whole, thus I refer to it as one novel) and about 1/3 of the Silmarillion. After I finish the Silmarillion I plan to read Lord of the Rings again, and then move on to some other authors, as I have many books that I keep meaning to read but never get around to.

Anyway, non-Tolkien favourite books include:
C.S. Lewis - The Narnia Chronicles (particularly The Lion, the Withch and the Wardrobe, though some of the sequels were also quite good (as was the prequel). I read all of them a few times, I think, but not in a while. And I read them before readign any Tolkien, thus they were my first introductions into the land of fantasy. I don't think that I like much other fantasy, though.
Erich marie Remarque - All Quiet on thew Western Front
Timothy Findley - The Wars
H.G. Wells - The Time Machine
Robertson Davies - Fifth Business (okay, I never actually finished this book (I finished about 1/2 - 2/3 of it) but we looked at it for some time in English last year and I really liked it from our discussions and from what I had read. I later bought it, but began to read the Silmarillion before I could get on with reading it).

I think that there are some other books that I read and really liked, but I can't remember them at the moment. There are many others that I really want to read based on what I have heard of them, though I may never read half of the ones that I somewhat want to.

[guyincognito]

Hey, Jordan! Nice to see you stop by 'round these forums again. Nice post, too. ;)

[The Family Guy]

Youth
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Brian Jacques: Redwall Series
Enchanting books which read so well. Large series, but worth the time to finish.

Robert C. O'Brien: Secret of Nimh
A childhood favorite. Still good to this day. You can learn a lot from rats and mice.

Claire Huchet Bishop: Twenty and Ten
Another childhood favorite. Lessons about human nature are beautiful.

Young Adult or Adult
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Michael Crichton: Jurassic Park, Sphere, The Andromeda Strain, Congo
Nice, deep, and passionate. These make great week long readers.

Ursula K. Le Guin: Earthsea Tetrology
A beautiful peak into a magical world, feels more like history then fantasy.

Orson Scott Card: Enders Series or The Homecoming Series
You can forget everything you know about Sci-Fi books. He is the best there is.

CS Friedman: Coldfire Trilogy
Dark fantasy and deep insight into human nature. Really a nice view changing series.


Happy Reading!

[DeathbyJupiter]

Originally posted by Great Canadian Guy

C.S. Lewis - The Narnia Chronicles (particularly The Lion, the Withch and the Wardrobe, though some of the sequels were also quite good (as was the prequel). I read all of them a few times, I think, but not in a while. And I read them before readign any Tolkien, thus they were my first introductions into the land of fantasy. I don't think that I like much other fantasy, though.

I never would have taken you as a Lewis fan, you know that "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" is an alagory of the stroy of Christ don't you? Huh, anyway, my favorite Lewis book was "The Horse and His Boy


Originally posted by Great Canadian Guy

Erich marie Remarque - All Quiet on thew Western Front


Absolutely outstanding book, one of the best that I have ever read.