We've got a favourite films post, let's have one for books too!
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We've got a favourite films post, let's have one for books too!
Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoinex & To Kill A Mockingbird are my favourites. The Roy Keane autobiography was an interesting read too.
Dune. Probably because its the only book that I have read right the way through.
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Firebrand by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, Nightrunner series by Lynn Flewelling (LunarWeaver is to blame for this), The Fifth Ring series by Mitchell Graham and The Artifacts of Power series by Maggie Furey. Also Angels & Demons and Da Vince's Code by Dan Brown were both good reads.
Those are just personal readings, as for stuff I read in school:
Lord of the Flies by William Golding.
A cookie goes to whoever can guess my favourite genre!
To Kill A Mockingbird, The Drifters, The Catcher in the Rye, Catch-22, The Great Gatsby, Anne of Green Gables :D ENID BLYTON books, Anna Karenina, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, A Streetcar Named Desire, Atlas Shrugged, LoTR, The Hobbit, Fever Pitch rarrr omg I could go on for ever. :)
HP + Order of Phoenix
Da Vinci Code
The Matewix
Scorpia
Rangers Apprentice series.
My turn::p
Hyperion Cathos - Dan Simmons, (my ultimate favourite)
Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco,
Retribution - Jillian Hoffman,
Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley, (go Levi:p)
and a whole bunch of others.
Out of school books, Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh was great.
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk.
It disgusted me so much, but I loved it. xD :p
1984. It's doubleplusgood!
Marion Zimmer Bradley FTW!Quote:
Originally Posted by Grinenshire
It's so much harder to choose a favourite book than a movie or CD. :| For me anyways.
But I guess the ones that I really really love are Battle Royale, The Stand, The Gift, A Clockwork Orange...:| The Perilous Gard is the only one I've read three times.
Harry Potter
A series of Unfortunate Events
Alex Rider novels
American Psycho, Glamorama, Harry Potter, Fight Club, Perks of Being a Wallflower
In the process of reading The Stand and Survivor, both of which are quality so far.
1984
Heart of Darkness
Brave New World
Cat's Cradle
Lord of the Flies
Dune
Ender's Game
...I need to stop.
The Great Gatsby, The Grapes of Wrath, The Fountainhead, The Lord of the Flies, The Martian Chronicles, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Rifles For Wattie, The Harry Potter series, The Eragon Trilogy (I'm totally pumped about #3 =D), The Wheel of Time Series, Hatchet, Crash, Holes, Number the Stars...Wow, there are so many more...I'll stop there :p If you really want a complete list, I'll email you one XD
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz. I haven't read the sequels. I heard they're not nearly as good. The first book, though, is amazing.
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood comes in second.
The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King is superior to anything else I have ever read.
Checkmate- Malorie Blackman...
:whimper: i was so sad when i had finished it..:(
Shannara Series, Dark Tower Series, David Eddings, Robert Jordan, Princess Bride (William Goldman, the memoirs by Augusten Burroughs, Christopher Moore, Snowcrash, Bruce Campbell Memoirs, Anything Neil Gaiman... etc
Is TV Guide a book? :p
No really, aside from the Harry Potter series, one of my favourite reads is Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks. It is about a soldier named Stephen Wraysford, and his experiences during the First World War, which also flashes forward to the present day, folowing his great-granddaughter researching her family tree, and discovering the tragic story, and what links the past and present.
I haven't read it for a while, and yet I was still able to remember all that. It must have had a profound effect on me. :)
I also love Susan Townsend's Adrian Mole series, and Number Ten, where the (fictional) Prime Minister decides to go undercover for a week, dressing up in his wife's clothes, in order to discover what the people of Britain really think and feel, along with the policeman who minds his door. It's really funny, and quite shocking in places.
The Catcher in the Rye
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe
I obviously forgot the later on my list.:tongue:Quote:
Originally Posted by Omni Legacy
I...have so many favourite books! So many! Well.
The Watch series are very good, though i've only read Night and Day, i'm eagerly awaiting Twilight.
Terry Pratchetts Discworld books are also among my favourites, especially Night Watch (no connection to above Night Watch) and Thud!, them being among the more poignant books for me at times.
Leon Uris' Trinity and Redemption are also masterpieces.
Bernard Cornwell is well worth reading if you are of a historical disposition like myself.
Walter Macken has some great, touching books, any work of his is my instant favourite.
Everyone here should have read J.R.R. Tolkeins Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, so I do not need to explain it.
I really love a quartet by Ian Irvine, called The Well of Echoes. I'm at the end of the fourth one and the 1st book of the trilogy set after it is out now, so I'll be reading that soon. :D :D :D
I also LOVE the Resident Evil books by S.D Perry and a book called Nobody True by James Herbert :D :D :D
Smile and Be happy :love:
I don't like books. Movies or games are better.
anything with lots of sex.
The Harry potter books are all real good.
I love all the books that Mario Puzo wrote but the best by far is the Godfather
I have also been wanting to check out the Bourne Series of books
Bourne Identity
Bourne Supremacy
Bourne Ultimatum
The Contender was also a pretty good book that we read in school a few years ago
A Song of Ice and Fire is an absolute masterpiece. Every last one of them is incredibly engaging and all around fantastic. Although the series is sorely lacking in the battle action that is expected of most fantasy, I find the suspense at the end of almost every chapter to be enough to keep my eyes glued to the pages for hours on end.
The only problem is the George R. R. Martin is absolutely terrible about deadlines. Seriously, A Feast For Crows took him five years to write, and he's already a year behind schedule for A Dance with Dragons. Despite that, the series is definitely my favorite.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K Rowling is amazing.
I also like The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. That is perhaps the only book I have ever cried over.
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult is really good too
i like harry potter books but i find them a bit too lond an i rush throught them
i like all meg cabot books though, ive read most of them an there all good
LOL!Quote:
Originally Posted by Rengori
My fave is Eragon. That book rocks so much...
The Nightrunner series by Lynn Flewelling and anything by David Eddings. Elizabeth Haydon is amazing also.
Dreamfall, Joan D. Vinge
the Bedlams Bard series, by Mercedes Lackey
Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
I can't remember most of the others offhand. :(
Dyzan
zohar
Talmud
Bram Stocker's Dracula
mary Shelly's Modern Prometheus or frankenstein
Ray Bradbury's Farenheit 415
Shogun
JFK: his life
Bill Clinton; his life ( funny, because he lies so much )
The Tao of Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee fighting method volumes 1-4
Miracle Math Harry Loraine
How to develop a photographic memory
Jurassic park
The New World Order has you fooled
A Guide to Freemasonsry
Every Graphic novel of the Crow writen by James O'barr
Chakan by Robert A. Kraus
Eh...to be honest the only books I own, are the lord of the rings trilogy, that i got from my dad from when he was in school, so that's quite old, and it's all 3 in one novel.
Jurassic Park. I had Lost World but that (ironically) is now lost.
And most recent, and my newest love...The complete William Shakespeare's works. All of his plays in one gigantic book. Love it.
I like the Dragons in our Midst book series.there's always something exiting on everypage.It never gets boring.I got my cousin to start reading it to.
Harry Potter books
Redwall series
Eragon + Eldest
Barry Trotter books
Spiderman + X-Men comics!
I enjoy a good book from The Prydain Chronicles even though they're "young adult" style. :p
Anything by E.E. Knight and Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (note Cloud Atlas has nothing to do with clouds).
The greatest book ever written of course:
(SPOILER)Green Eggs and Ham
A series of Unfortunate Events, definitely
The trouble with lemons
Lily B. on the Brink of Cool
Blister
Harry Potter books are pretty good
smurfing hell, YES.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bunny
Scar Tissue, The Tales of Sir Arthur and his Noble Knyghtes, and La Divina Commedia.
-Twilight:D :love: :love:
-3 Meters above sky:D
-Eragon:p
-Eldest:p :D