Favourite Book(s)?

[tomothy]

I'm in the market for new books...

I'd love to know which books you regard as your favourite, or left a lasting impression (whether good or bad) on you?

I just finished reading a fascinating yet horrible, horrible book called "The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks". I recommend it, although it made me grimace on numerous occasions and is very nasty and graphic.

So what's your book ?

[TheAbominatrix]

Favorites... hmm...

<i>Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trailer '72</i> by Hunter S. Thompson. I love all of his work, but that's probably my favorite
<i>Fight Club</i> by Chuck Palahniuk. Same as Thompson, I love all I've read from Chuck, but that is my favorite so far.
<i>The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe</i> by C.S. Lewis. It always has and always will be one of my ultimate favorites
<i>A Clockwork Orange</i> by Anthony Burgess
<i>Catch 22</i> by Joesph Heller

Just a random smattering of books I really enjoy.

[Del Murder]

My favorite books are:

<i>The Grapes of Wrath</i>, John Steinbeck
<i>Jurrasic Park</i>, Michael Crichton
<i>David Copperfield</i>, Charles Dickens
<i>The Catcher in the Rye</i>, J.D. Salinger
<i>The Rainmaker</i>, John Grisham
<i>Atlas Shrugged</i>, Ayn Rand
<i>Have a Nice Day!</i>, Mick Foley

And other works by the above authors.

[theundeadhero]

I really like The Sword of Truth Series by Terry Goodkin. It starts with Wizards First Rule.

[Mr. Graves]

Shogun by James Clavell. If you can, try finding some of his other books.
1984 by Orwell.

[MoonsEcho]

I really like The Sword of Truth Series by Terry Goodkind. It starts with Wizards First Rule.

One of my absolute favourite series. If you like fantasy, definitely check this serious out. Another good fantasy/scifi series is the Death Gate Cycle by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. Of course, virtually everything that Weis/Hickman write is awesome. Case in point, the Dragonlance books.

Aside from the three series I've listed, here are some more favourites of mine:

Tathea by Anne Perry
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
White Fang by Jack London
and of course The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

There are more, somewhere in the corners of my mind x_x

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis.

YES.

[Teek]

<i>Atlas Shrugged</i>, Ayn Rand.
<i>The Vampire Lestat</i>, Anne Rice.
<i>1984</i>, George Orwell.

[The Captain]

America The Book by: Jon Stewart
Brave New World by: Huxley
For Whom The Bell Tolls by: Hemingway
To The Lighthouse by: Woolf
Anything by Faulkner
Various Works and Essays by Emerson, you can't go wrong with any of them.

Just to name a few.

Take care all.

[Martyr]

I'm in the market for new books...

What kind of genre are you looking for? I mean, if you want suggestions.

Currently, I am a Carl Hiaasen fan. I've been reading his books very rapidly. The dude is hysterical. I can't recommend any particular book of his because they're all great.

C.S. Lewis is fantastic. Besides the Chronicles of Narnia, he has excellent books (With a focus on Christianity)

Alice and Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll: I read those recently. Very funny little fairytales. Not something to be ignored on the basis that Disney made a movie about it once.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is probably a book that everybody has read. But, in case you haven't, you may as well know that I believe it to be one of the finest storties ever to be written.

Those are a few goodf books, but there are many, many, many more.

I can really only recommend books effectively if I know what you're loking for. I guess I like the classics more than anything.

[theundeadhero]

Nathaniel (sp?) Hawthorne's complete book of short stories. It has just about everything he ever wrote in it and I love his writing style.

[m4tt]

Anything by Michael Crichton or Dan Brown. Lord of the Rings is also a good book.

[fire_of_avalon]

I love books!

My favorite book of all time ever is The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (yay me and Del have stuff in common) because it's AMAZING, but you really have to read Franny and Zooey (by the same author, of course) to get the full circle effect of what Salinger wants to say. All told, it's an amazing message of what some consider to be Christianity, but what I interpret as human redemption to oneself.

I'll stop talking, but suffice to say a lot of the books that have been mentioned I love to bits.

MESSAGE TO THEABOMINATRIX/ASHLEY - Have you ever read Choke or Lullaby by Palanhuik? I really loved Choke , but I don't think I completely understood the point of Lullaby. Ooooh, and I'm reading Catch 22 right now and it's weird and fun.

YAY BOOKS

[Dr.K]

I Found Aldous Huxley's Brave New World interesting, pretty warped tho.
Also like Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë and 1984 by Orwell.

[Rye]

Princess Diaries Series
Ella Enchanted
Harry Potter series
The Seventh Tower
The Keys to the Kingdom

[theundeadhero]

I Found Aldous Huxley's Brave New World interesting, pretty warped tho.

I found it very interesting too. Theres also a sequal to it but I can't remember the name at the moment.