just chat:your favourate book

[clytzerain]

:rage: just chat:which book is your most unforgetable one?

[holograph]

demian. hesse.

[Bookworm Cris]

Difficult choice... but I would say "East of Eden", by John Steinbeck. I loved the characters Samuel and Lee, and the conversations between them about Caim and Abel, and the Book of Genesis, oh, that made me think. I think that part worths the whole book, although the main plot is very interesting too. :thumbs_up

[TEND]

'Notes from Underground' by Fyodor Dostoevsky... Just certain parts which stick in my mind that I will never forget, such an amazing read.

[clytzerain]

i've read only a few english works, and for me, the one stick in my mind is gone with the wind, so unforgetable so far

[Monica]

Umberto Eco's "Foucault Pendulum". Full stop :) And my favourite part is near the end of the book when Casaubon walks the street of Paris. A really great read. Eco should get the Noble Prize :brickwall

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Gone With The Wind

[grace86]

Clytzerain, have you by any chance seen the movie Gone With the Wind?

Welcome to the forum.

[Bysshe]

Everyone who knows me rolls their eyes when I answer this question...

My favourite book, without a doubt, is Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. I discovered it through the 1980s TV adaptation and ever since I've been a devoted fan of both the series and the book. It also turned me into an Evelyn Waugh obsessive. I can read Brideshead Revisited again and again and I never get sick of it. And as well as being incredibly tragic in places, it also has it's funny moments.

Other favourite books are probably Wuthering Heights, The Catcher in the Rye and A Clockwork Orange. A strange selection, I know.

[Pensive]

Some of my favourite books are already mentioned here like Wuthering Heights and East of Eden. Other favourites include Mill on the Floss, Bridge to Terabithia, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Roots, The Hobbit, Harry Potter series and Heidi.

So many favourites but I am afraid that I can't choose between these because they all are wonderfully-written in a way or another!

[Monica]

Other favourites include Mill on the Floss, Bridge to Terabithia, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Roots, The Hobbit, Harry Potter series and Heidi.

I read Bridge to Terabithia when I was 13 years old and it made me cry. I haven't read it second time so all the time I have an impression of that book from 8 years ago. True, hard to forget.

[unknown_lady]

hey

nice topic sis

my fav book was a religion one about all prophet histories
its wonderful

and some books

[clytzerain]

Clytzerain, have you by any chance seen the movie Gone With the Wind?

Welcome to the forum.

thank you~ i've seen the movie, but to say the truth, i don't like it so very much, i love the book more~

[Pensive]

I read Bridge to Terabithia when I was 13 years old and it made me cry. I haven't read it second time so all the time I have an impression of that book from 8 years ago. True, hard to forget.
Yep, it is a great book but the ending of the book is enough to make a person cry. It is the only book, I have read, that focuses on just the friendship of a boy and a girl, which did not change into romantic love later.

[Sarka]

As a kid I read The Dark Is Rising series by Susan Cooper, which are completely awesome. They're sort of classic kid's fantasy books in that they have magic and riddles and a crazy Good vs Evil thing with a likeable set of adolescent-or-almost-there protagonists, but at the same time they're actually kind of deep. I still go back to them occasionally at age 18. More recently... I really enjoyed Dracula (Bram Stoker) for some reason. Maybe it made such an impression on me because I read it at camp and while I was partway through it this other girl got bitten by a bat... :sick: It's melodramatic, but really well-written. I read Jane Eyre in grade 7 and totally loved it, and I still do. It's weird, though, because I had to re-read it (having already re-read it many times) for school in grade 11, and I think that if I had read it for the very first time just then I wouldn't have liked it as much. I think the characters would have annoyed me. But they didn't when I was 12, and so I still love the book. Sort of the same thing happened with War & Peace; I didn't think I would like it the 2nd time around, simply because it's all about a bunch of whiny rich people and their rich people problems. But--they're such understandable, convincing whiny rich people...!

[whitedove]

the most favorable I have ever read is '' The Awakening'' by Kate Chopin ;)

[SFG75]

I'd say Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. The language is very rich and is a pure joy to read. Not to mention the war against psychology.:)

[mtpspur]

I've been thinking about this question for a couple of days now. I'm trying for more articulate comments then the first blast of the brain cells I usually post.

In the entertainment level--Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan of the Apes set the stage for the majority of my teens/young adult reading for years. I clearly remember screaming blasphemy by Richard Lupoff summary of Burroughs NOT being a great writer at age 18. I had severe tunnel vision back then. Anyhow this book connected me to Rider Haggard, C S Forester Hornblower novels, Doc Savage novels--The Shadow (in earnest) came much later.

Would have to say Dickens Great Expectations is a favorite for introducing me to classic literature in its true sense as opposed to the junk literature I spend too much time on. This led to Sabatini and my overall favorite Captain Blood which gets reread about every 3-5 years or so.

On a spiritual level the favorate book that led me to greater things in Christian literature/theology was Arthur W. Pink's The Attributes of God discovered on Guam of all places in 1972 and changed my views on God and reading the Bible forever. Which led to Charles Haddon Spurgeon and Matthew Henry. If you want rational thinking in a Bible commentary in a common sense manner Henry is the way to go. Bear in mind he died before finishing the Bible (got thru much of Acts) and the rst was finished using his notes and it shows.

So with the usual rambling I've tried to identify the 3 areas of my life by the books that began the chain of reading--entertainment, cultural, spritual.

Plus I think this boredom stage I've been in the past few months (due to a number of personal things going on and around me) is about over and I'm starting to take reading seriously again and getting back to enjoying it--partially from watching all the people here get so excited about it.

[carina_gino20]

hi, i've been a member for quite some time but have only been lurking.lol

anyway, there are too many books to choose from and here are some of those that stood out to me.

pride and prejudice by jane austen

The Giver by Lowry - very very moving and mind-boggling

books by Paulo Coelho

[ceetee]

Of the books I've read in the last few years these are the ones that stand out.

Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore - an account of growing up in small town America
A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening by Mario de Carvalho - historical novel set in Roman Spain
Holes by Louis Sachar - comedy for children and adults

[clytzerain]

it's so good to know what people now are reading.