Your favourite book.

My favorite book is the Prophet.

This book is a collection of poems, not exactly poems but poetic expressions. By Khalil Gibran this book has transformed more than any other books I have read.

I like war and peace and the Brothers Karamazov were some of the books that moved me and their philosophies something I find highly enlightening.

I like The Road by MC carthey too.

The greatest book, the Mahabharata is unbeatable and no books were or will be written of that grandeur and philosophy and a thousand bibles cannot equal its depth and substance

I like Harry potter serious and i think don't to define "why" .every one knows :)

Razor's Edge - Somerset Maugham
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

Ulysses by James Joyce

It moved me and spoke to me like no other book has. Simple as that.

My favorite for now is Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. But I have only read like... 50 classics or so, I'm not precocious, I'm 21 so I think that by the time I've aged like wine my knowledge of literature will expand. I also love The Inferno by Dante (I think somebody mentioned it already), John Milton's Paradise Lost, Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Dostoevsky's The Idiot and Crime and Punishment (The Brother's Karamazov comes pretty close too although I did not care for The Adolescent, which is ironic considering I get my forum name from that book and the fact that I was an adolescent at the time I read it). Anyway choosing a favorite book is hard for most people because the depth and breadth of the classic, poetry, prose, contemporary etc... catalogue is so extensive it is a daunting task to choose just one.

I have five: Wise Blood, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Which I list at a given time depends greatly on where I'm at in my living at the moment I'm asked.

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Originally Posted by djameson

I have five: Wise Blood, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Which I list at a given time depends greatly on where I'm at in my living at the moment I'm asked.

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I've read all except Wise Blood. Perhaps you could whip up a dish of your take on it? I'd like to know why you like it so much.

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Originally Posted by Adolescent09

I've read all except Wise Blood. Perhaps you could whip up a dish of your take on it? I'd like to know why you like it so much.

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Well first, it's the first novel by one of my most-loved writers, Flannery O'Connor. As a person who adores Southern Gothic, and struggles with issues of faith, her work--all that I've read, at least--resonates deeply with me. It is evocative and, particularly in the case of Wise Blood, revolves around characters with deep moral flaws. I was introduced to O'Connor by a close friend almost ten years ago, and I've been in love with her since.

Often, when I'm of a mood, I will list O'Connor as my favorite author when asked, sliding her above Tolstoy. She was, in my opinion, a genius storyteller. At just over 200 pages, Wise Blood is a fairly quick read, and if you're anything like me, you'll probably read it in one or two sittings. And her attempts to understand faith and doubt through the eyes of heretical Motes is just brilliant stuff.

My favorite book is Heights by Emily Bronte.

Infinite Jest - Wallace
Naked Lunch - Burroughs
Brave New World - Huxley
Slaughterhouse-Five - Vonnegut
Falconer - Cheever