Favorite Books

Orson Scott Card "Enders Game" all the way!!!
Its the most inspiring book i've read

"The appeal of Ender's Game is hard to explain. One
of my personal thoughts is that people who love
the book can really identify with Ender. When I
read Ender's Game, I felt as if I was Ender. He is
a child who is way above the level of all the
other children in his school. He finds school
extremely boring because he is never challenged
(something a LOT of gifted and talented children
identify with.) Ender is constantly made fun of
because he is a "Third". In the future, families
are only allowed to have two children unless they
are given permission from the government to have
more. The I.F. is looking for the one who has all
the right characteristics to lead Earth's fleet.
Ender's older siblings Peter, and Valentine, who
are just as intelligent as Ender but were rejected
for other reasons, are the only reason Ender was
allowed to exist.The characters in the book are so
believable, and you really care about them. The
book is also very good science fiction and has a
lot of thought provoking ideas such as the
"Ansible" which carries messages across the
universe instantly. Ender's Game won both the Hugo
and Nebula Awards. The best way for you to
understand why Ender's Game is so widely popular
is to read it for yourself. I would recommend this
book to anyone interested in science fiction or
even anyone who enjoys reading at all."

http://www.ender.com/ender/

Interesting...

Enders Game...I'm glad I'm not the only one who found that book amazing...However, i was rather dissapointed in the two sequels, Xenocide and Speaker for the Dead...

A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy - Laurence Sterne
Although I only have an incomplete copy and don't understand the French parts. I'm still looking for a complete copy.

My favourite novel is Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, it has changed the way I see things forever and I strongly recommend it to anyone, especially to those with strong political views or those who are discontented with the world today.
I also loved The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings part 2) and the rest of the trilogy too.

I've considered The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler my favorite book for several years now. Though I don't know if I'd consider one of the greatest books ever written, though it definitely vies for the position of greatest mystery novels ever written. It's more like comfort food- or the literary form of it.

Raymond Chandler was a very talented, and it sadly underrated as an author. He didn't have crisp plotlines of, say, Agatha Christie, but he could write descriptions like few others I've come across. Can you really think of others who could give poetic descriptions of a decaying, post WWII Los Angeles? Even if it's not needed, the L.A. Chandler created in his novels are always vibrant because of the care give to even the minutest of details.

And don't forget the wit constantly utilized by Philip Marlowe. Many of the classic lines from the screen version of The Big Sleep (1946) were written by Chandler in the original novel. ("She tried to sit in my lap while I was standing up," etc.)

(By the way, I also highly recommend Farewell, My Lovely and Lady in the Lake, as well as The Little Sister and The High Window, which are more minor Chandler efforts).

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Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

Catcher in the Rye (which is another favorite, as seen below) is the Salinger book everybody knows about. Franny and Zooey actually isn't a novel at all- rather, it's two short stories combinded into one book. One centers around Franny, the other Zooey, and the connection between them is that they are siblings.

I liked this movie for the same reasons, or because of my love for, Wes Anderson's 2001 movie The Royal Tenenbaums, for Franny and Zooey are both part of a family and were both considered (along with their other siblings) child geniuses, and now that has all faded, and now they are all cynical young adults who's intelligent, caustic comments try to mask their breaking hearts and internal confusion. It's a heartbreaking story about absolutely nothing really. But I like books like that. Franny and Zooey hits a chord in me like few other books do.
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Other books I adore:

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
A Streetcar Named Desire (or anything else) by Tennessee Williams
The Trial by Franz Kafka

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My least favorite book of all time:

The Adventures of Huck Finn by Mark Twain

has no one read Dune? that would have to be one of my favorites. Also on the list would have to be: Enders Game, 1984, The Once and Future King, Gates of Fire, Watership down, and Leviathan.

Ack! so many books, so many genres! Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R. Tolkien, but I think can almost be assumed without writing it! I loved the Dune series but I got a bit bored at around book four. The Clock Without Hands by Carson McCullars but I also like absolutely everything she wrote. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. Newer novels that I read recently but will likely remain on my all-time-favorites list are The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon

Don Quixote by Cervantes. The type of book that needs to be read once a year (I can't wait til I finish it!)

Favourite book? That's an easy question. "Foucault's Pendulum" by Eco. One and only :D

Too many to list but that list would be topped by
Grapes of Wrath (and everything else by Steinbeck)
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Great Gatsby
Is Paris Burning
Armageddon

i have to admit that i am a classic lover,and thus all the books that i like may be a little old fashioned. but still i simply dote on them! my favourite book is david copperfield,charles dickens is my favourite writer, so loving his semi-autobiography seems really natural. and then, i like romeo and juliet. it is such a marvellous book, with so many beautiful sonnets and love poems. i also like oscar wilde's the picture of dorian grey,which really displays the wisdom and deep insight of a great writer.

I dont really have a favourite book, but here's a list of the books I most enjoy reading:

Brave New World
1984
Animal Farm
Jane Eyre
The Brothers Karamzov
The Idiot.......

There's more but at the moment I cant think of any :)

Ohhhhh and add A Clockwork Orange to that list! I looove that book! :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

"The MOnkey Wrench Gang"......Edward Abbey.....1975.

This book puts a face to ecoterrorism......and in fact had (has?) a bit of a cult following.....