Favorite Books

[useyourmind]

"a Quest Among the Bewildered" by Wulf Zendik

This was a tough one for me because of the great number of books that have influenced me, and all my sentimental favorites - you'd almost have to say that there's a favorite book in each and every category, fiction or non, bio, sci-fi, classic, other, and then there's shakespeare. So many books...

I finally come to which book has the most lasting value, the most impact, the most power to enrich my life, and the book i'd most choose for someone else to read - and I don't mean just to kill time!
So, I think it deserves to be newly elevated to a status deserving of the emotional impact it made on me, and the possible social and cultural impact on humanity.

This is a must read for any thinking feeling human being, if only for the wonderful descriptions of how it feels to be in love and for the author's courage to be honest about the things that everybody thinks and feels, but are afraid to say to each other.

-dennis

Here's a URL for anyone interested http://www.aquestamongthebewildered.com/

[Ruby]

I really go through phases as far as what genre of books I read. When I was young (and I still pick them up once in awhile), my favorite books were : The Secret Garden, Island of the Blue Dolphins, and this one called Ruby in the Smoke.

Now that I am older, I read everything from the classics to horror. My faves are:
Incarnations of Immortality series
Pride and Prejudice
The Great Gatsby
Silence of the Lambs

Just to name a few. I seem to be in the minority though when I say I did enjoy The Scarlet Letter, Wuthering Heights, and Lord of the Flies. I did not like Heart of Darkness and this one book about the Civil War...for some reason the name escapes me. I picked it to read for a summer book report....Oh well.

[Eric, son of Chuck]

I'm not sure if I could pick a favourite author, let alone a favourite book. My taste is just a bit too eclectic, or as my sister would say, random. In grade 8, I lived off of my dad's old philosophy texts from university, so I have a place for Confucius, Aristotle, Machiavelli, etc.

Grade 9-11, I was obsessed with Terry Pratchett. I'm in Grade 12 right now, and I'm back on Pratchett, mostly because I met the guy a couple weeks ago at a reading he did.

However, my Literature 12 class gave me a nice broad view of things, so I'm now big on Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and all the other old epics. Hence my name. ) I ended up writing a mock epic abour WRITING a mock epic, with Eric, son of Chuck (me) as the title character. And I blame Beowulf, and Eaters of the Dead entirely for this. D

[happypidgeon]

Beowulf rocks. 'Nuff said.



~Kris

[Gwenivere]

"Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follet. Wow.....a little racy but gorgeously written. Great plot, great characters, great setting, very realistic.

[Gwenivere]

"Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follet. Wow.....a little racy but gorgeously written. Great plot, great characters, great setting, very realistic.

[andina]

Hello!
I love "The Little Prince" .....

[chidemont]

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole is easily the funniest book I've ever read. If you haven't read it, and you want some laughs, check it out.

[zeowyn]

Ive always loved Charles Dickens-GREAT EXPECTATIONS, DAVID COPPERFIELD etc.- JANE AUSTENS books are great unless you get bored by all the balls and pretty dresses - TOLKIENS books of course are... well...I cant find the words.they might be a bit too good actually-TOLSTOIS WAR AND PEACE was incredible-JANE EYRE is marvellous-
CRIME AND PUNISMENT was in its own way very good-
THE HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY was one of the funniest most amusing things ever, really puts things into perspective.You should also read MADAME BOVARY-so thats my wiev of having a favourite book.

[Eric, son of Chuck]

Zeowyn, if you liked Hitchhiker's Guide, you'd love just about ANY Terry Pratchet.

[D'Artagnan]

Hi Chris,

I would love to know what it is that you hated about Crime and Punishment. It is one of my all-time favorite books, and I can't imagine anyone disliking it. But then, a friend of mine recently described Moby Dick as boring, so maybe I have an unusual tolerance for all things tedious.

Cheers,
North

I'm often surprised there's actually people who didn't find Moby-Dick boring! If you are ever curious about reading dozens of essays on 19th century whaling, then Moby-Dick is the book for you. I wasn't, though, so I found it painfully boring, really. I did enjoy Crime and Punishment quite a bit, though.

My own personal favorite is The Count of Monte-Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas.

[profrandom]

Gaiman's American Gods and Sandman
Dune
the Idiot
Hitchhiker's Guide
Focualt's Pendulum
Gates of Fire
Watchmen

[Leaf]

Top few would be, Lord of the Flies, I don't get how so many hated it, 1984 by George Orwell, The Martian Chronicles-Ray Bradbury and Julius Caesar- Shakespeare.

Books disliked: great Expectations- charles dickens
Books hated: Bodily Harm- Margaret Atwood.

[Vronaqueen]

why do they call wuthering heights a classic? Did anyone else think healthcliff was a whiner and his love a total snob? :evil: Anyone, now that I got that off my chest, my favs are Roscoe by william kennedy, the eyre affair by jasper fforde, and Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller

[Morgan]

My top books are The Plague, The Glass Bead Game and The Portrait of Dorian Gray.
I didn't exactly hated Lord of the Flies, but while reading it I was so terrified, that i decided not to experience that ever again.