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Subject: What Is Your Favorite Book?
Mine has changed to "Misery" by Stephen King. Right now, anyway.
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
my favorite books are:
1984-George Orwell
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Animal farm-Orwell
Slaughterhouse5-Kurt Vonnegut
and the Karma sutra ::)
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
good question...
not much into reading, but Id have to say "And then there were none"-Agatha Christie is definatly in the running for my favorite... or "Into thin air"-Jon Krakaur
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
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my favorite books are:
1984-George Orwell
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Animal farm-Orwell
Slaughterhouse5-Kurt Vonnegut
and the Karma sutra ::)
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I like your choices...well, except for the Kama Sutra...
My favorite is still The Jewish War (Bellum Iudacium) - Flavius Josephus.
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
Definitely "Good Omens" by Terry Pratchett/Neil Gaimen
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
The title is "Cheifs" but I can't, for the life of me, remember who wrote it. It was about 4 generations of law enforcement officers from the same family in a small southern town. I read it years ago and can't seem to find it anywhere now. Anyone else ever read it?
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
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The title is "Cheifs" but I can't, for the life of me, remember who wrote it. It was about 4 generations of law enforcement officers from the same family in a small southern town. I read it years ago and can't seem to find it anywhere now. Anyone else ever read it?
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It was written by Stuart Woods!
Chiefs, Stuart Woods
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
They had a vote for the nations top 100 books in May in the U.K I was gutted because The Hound of the Baskervilles wasn't in it and I even bothered to vote too !
basically in a couple of months they are going to publish the list of 100 and get people to vote for their favorite from that list to work out which ones go where in the list.I have to admit some of the entries were a surprise !
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
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It was written by Stuart Woods!
Chiefs, Stuart Woods
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Thanx Taoist! You da man!
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
Here's the list what do you think??
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
The BFG, Roald Dahl
Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
The Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
Dune, Frank Herbert
Emma, Jane Austen
Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
The Godfather, Mario Puzo
Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
Holes, Louis Sachar
I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
Katherine, Anya Seton
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, CS Lewis
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
The Lord Of The Rings, JRR Tolkien
Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
Magician, Raymond E Feist
The Magus, John Fowles
Matilda, Roald Dahl
Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Mort, Terry Pratchett
Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
Nineteen-Eighty-Four, George Orwell
Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
Perfume, Patrick Süskind
Persuasion, Jane Austen
The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
Pride And Prejudice, Jane Austen
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
The Stand, Stephen King
The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
The Twits, Roald Dahl
Ulysses, James Joyce
Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
War And Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Watership Down, Richard Adams
The Wind In The Willows, Kenneth Grahame
Winnie-the-Pooh, AA Milne
The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
I don't have one favourite but I read mostly murder/mysteries and true life crimes which worries hubby greatly.
The one other book that sticks in my mind is Old Yella...still cry buckets when I read that.
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
Actually boris, my hub loves all those true life crime and gruesome murder stories. I often wonder what he plans to do with all that info.. :o
Fav. book
Rachel's Holiday-
Marion Keyes
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
I've not long finished Marion Keye's latest one - Angel(s)...every one of her books have been brilliant
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
Swan Song by Robert Mccammon
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
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I've not long finished Marion Keye's latest one - Angel(s)...every one of her books have been brilliant
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I agree ! I love Marian Keyes though Last Chance Saloon is my favourite I can even quote bits of it,how sad is that??
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
I have thought long and hard about this question and it is just almost impossible to answer because there are so many wonderful books out there-some have already been mentioned. But, I think the one book that I "use" more times than not is The World Almanac. I buy the lastest one every year and I'm constinately refering to it for one thing or another.
Cat
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
This is really difficult because it dosen't destingush between categories. I would have to say the in fiction, it would be between the Harry Potter books and The Lord of the Rings. In non-fiction, there are so many good books that I really can't single any out. All of Marx is interesting, some of Lenin is worth a read, and MANY historians have written insightful stuff on numerous topics. Marcus Rediker's Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea is great, and I bought three copies of Hayes & Hayes My old Man and the Sea(about a father and son who sail around Cape Horn the easy way), one for me, one for my dad, and one for my son. I have many more favorites. So many books, so little time.
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
Without a doubt, my favourite book would be The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay. A very close second would be April Fool's Day also by Bryce Courtenay - a book about the life of his son Damon, who suffered from haemophilia and later died from AIDS after contracting it through a blood transfusion. It is a very sad book but also a very powerful book. :'(
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
my top three (can't pick one) would be:
animal farm by george orwell
harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban by j. k. rowling (i like the entire series, but the third is my favorite. :))
the shining by stephen king
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Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
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my top three (can't pick one) would be:
animal farm by george orwell
harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban by j. k. rowling (i like the entire series, but the third is my favorite. :))
the shining by stephen king
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If you haven't read it yet you would probably enjoy Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Its similar to 1984 ;D I also like the Harry Potter series ;D
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
if your talking about one that we own then it would be my
Marilyn Monroe: The somplete Last sitting by Bert Stern containing 2,475 photographs of Marilyn in a 464 page book, and wieghs over 4 pounds.
but if your talking about ones that you read randomly then it would be go ask Alice
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
Here's a few of mine:
The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Milagro Beanfield War - John Nichols
Interview With A Vampire and The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice
Rendevouz With Rama, The Ghost Of The Grand Banks and
Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
War Of The Worlds and The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
On A Pale Horse and And Eternity - Piers Anthony (I actually like the whole Incarnations of Immortality series but these 2 are my favorites.)
The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury
1984 and Animal Farm - George Orwell
and one that I was believed written by Ngaio Marsh but I can not remember the title. It was about a little girl that was found dead and there are many suspects named in her death. She has a friend who actually knew what happened but doesn't reveal as to what really happened until the end. There are some more little tidbits about the book I remember so if anyone has an inkling as to the title and you want to describe more just let me know.
How about crappiest book I ever read: Rockabilly Hell. Do not have any idea as to why I read the whole thing.
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
I love looking through reference books. I can be quite impatient so I want a conclusion before I get to the end of the book.
My favourite novels are definitely George Orwell's '1984' and 'Animal Farm'. 'The Illustrated Man' by Ray Bradbury was great but the ending didn't seem to make sense to me - I think I was missing something.
The novel I am reading at the moment is a surreal one called 'The Astrological Diary of God' by Bo Fowler. It is about an ex Japanese Kamikaze pilot that is put on trial for the killing of time. Very witty and recommended.
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
I was going to say "Good Omens" by Pratchett & Gaiman... but Tao beat me to it; then HHGTTG, only to find that one, too.
Still, I guess there's no reason why we can't all have the same favourite book, is there?
Phil
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
Smash Hits Yearbook 2003 (A 2003 annual based on the popular music magazine containing a quiz, interviews, highlights of the yeaar and a calendar)
British Hit Singles 16th Edition (A book with every British hit single from 1952 - 2002. Superb!)
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee (I had to read it for my English lit GCSE exam)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - JK Rowling
Charlie and the Chocolate Factoy - Roald Dahl
Gareth Gates - Right From The Start (Biography about the swoonsome Pop Idol runner up)
Steps: The Official Book/Gold: Our Greatest Hits (Official contains lots of interviews, a quiz and profiles on every member in the band. Gold is a book written by the band about their experiences of their songs, videos and concerts.)
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
Can't even pin it down to a top 10!
But, I read (and re-read):
anything by Alistair MacLean
most Star Wars books
Don Pendleton's "Mack Bolan" series and the offshoots "Able Team" & "Phoenix Force"
books on King Arthur & Camelot (especially Mary Stewart's)
any & all I can get on Groucho & the Marx Bros
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
Quoting:
Here's the list what do you think??
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
The BFG, Roald Dahl
Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
The Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
Dune, Frank Herbert
Emma, Jane Austen
Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
The Godfather, Mario Puzo
Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
Holes, Louis Sachar
I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
Katherine, Anya Seton
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, CS Lewis
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
The Lord Of The Rings, JRR Tolkien
Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
Magician, Raymond E Feist
The Magus, John Fowles
Matilda, Roald Dahl
Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Mort, Terry Pratchett
Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
Nineteen-Eighty-Four, George Orwell
Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
Perfume, Patrick Süskind
Persuasion, Jane Austen
The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
Pride And Prejudice, Jane Austen
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
The Stand, Stephen King
The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
The Twits, Roald Dahl
Ulysses, James Joyce
Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
War And Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Watership Down, Richard Adams
The Wind In The Willows, Kenneth Grahame
Winnie-the-Pooh, AA Milne
The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
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You sure read a lot of books. :)
I guess my favorite would be The Lord of The Rings.
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
Just a few...
The Fountainhead
Jane Eyre
Catcher in the Rye (just cuz i was surprised by all the cussing in a high school book)
mm..Hotel St. Lawrence (most recently read)
Eye of a Needle, or Eye of the Needle, i forgot which is it.
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
I meant, to name a few...there's a lot more of course. heheh.
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Harry Potter 1-4 (#5 was too depressing), the Count of Monte Cristo, Fahrenheit 451, Robinson Crusoe, the dictionary which I read from every day(it's like a bible to me), and the phone book(it has some hilarious names in it)!
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
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Harry Potter 1-4 (#5 was too depressing)
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I didn't like #5 because Harry Potter had a major attitude problem.
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
Yeah he did have an attitude problem, so I think the death was his fault.
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
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Yeah he did have an attitude problem, so I think the death was his fault.
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We better not give too much away though :-/ ;)
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
Yeah, that's why I didn't say who it was...
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
Here are some of mine:
Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Hating Alison Ashley - Robin Klein (a great kids novel)
The Tomorrow Series - John Marsden
Anything by:
Marian Keys
Roddy Doyle
Roald Dahl
W. Somerset Maugham
Also like reading poetry books - adults and kids verse.
Cheers :)
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
The Stand by Stephen King
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
You know, in my opinion, Id like a book that something happons in...not like anything thats just like the story of someones life, like "My name is Asher Lev" by Chiam Potek, because that book bored the s___ out of me. Id like to read a book like where it shows human beings acting with instincs, mainly through dangerous situations, or something like that. For example, Shakespere is a great example, his stories rule, Im pretty sure I dont need to site anything specific, Im sure hes welll enough known. Another example would be Jon Krakaur's "Into thin air." This book featured an eye-witness account of the tragedy atop Mount Everest in 1996, and explained event by event what had led to it. A lot of my peers reading this book felt it to be boring and slow moving, but I thought it was perfect, in that, it didnt leave out anything importent, and it didnt go so into detail that it was boring. Another book I liked was "And then there was none" by Agatha Christie, because it actually displayed what I am interested to read, and thank God it didnt spend any time on detail, whihc is alway something I look for. And the story was excellant.
but otherwise, Im more into writing my own stories, perhaps to become novels one day, probably not, lol. And all my writings would be considered something I like, in my opinion, so dont consider me hypercritical.
Subject: Re: What Is Your Favorite Book?
"Murder on The Orient Express" by Agatha Christie.