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[MentalCha0s]

What is your favorite book?
Mine is Pillars of The Earth by Ken Follett.

Modifié par MentalCha0s, 17 octobre 2009 - 03:53 .

[Fulgrim88]

Does it have to be a single book?

Otherwise i'd throw in the Song of Ice & Fire series of George R.R. Martin.



Seldomly got sucked into a story that much

[Lord Glenwing]

Lord of the Rings.

[SpankyV]

Modern:



'The Stand'-Stephen King



classic:



'Moby Dick'-Herman Melville

[UbiquitousGrue]

'Tales of the The Dying Earth' by Jack Vance

[Amberyl Ravenclaw]

The ones that I can be sure about are in the following categories: Lord of Light (Roger Zelazny) for science fiction, and Dykes To Watch Out For (Alison Bechdel) for graphic novels. Otherwise, for other genres and subgenres I haven't found my perennial favorite yet. Also, there are so many authors. types of writing and depths to plumb that I fear naming one as a 'favorite' would detract from the wonders of others.

Modifié par Amberyl Ravenclaw, 17 octobre 2009 - 05:17 .

[q0rra]

MentalCha0s wrote...
Mine is Pillars of The Earth by Ken Follett.

Yes, that is a good book.

I think my favourite book must be "A Place Called Freedom" by Ken Follett.

[danien.grey]

Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey.

I challenge anyone to find another author who writes as eloquently and beautifully as her (Guy Gavriel Kay comes close).

Modifié par danien.grey, 17 octobre 2009 - 05:43 .

[Critical Miss]

SpankyV wrote...

Modern:

'The Stand'-Stephen King

classic:

'Moby Dick'-Herman Melville

I'll have to do the modern and classic thing too.

Modern: Perfume by Patrick Suskind
classic: Against The Grain (A Rebours) by J.K. Huysmans

[Superium]

Flags Of Our Fathers by James Bradley.

[Urifat]

Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller

[Mythopoeia]

Recently Cormac McCarthy's The Road.



All time? The Sound and the Fury.

[Remmirath]

The Lord of the Rings, with the Silmarillion as a close second. If I was choosing one for fantasy and science fiction seperately, then it would probably be Dune for science fiction.

I read a fair amount, and my secondary favourites always seem to be changing, but those remain pretty consistent. Especially the first two.

[Kimaka]

Does it have to be one? Well, I suppose Pride and Prejudice. I love that book so much. I thought I would hate it too since I dislike most school assigned books. And it isn't even a Fantasy book.



Notable mentions are Dracula and Let the Right One In.

[MentalCha0s]

Kimaka wrote...

Does it have to be one? Well, I suppose Pride and Prejudice. I love that book so much. I thought I would hate it too since I dislike most school assigned books. And it isn't even a Fantasy book.

Notable mentions are Dracula and Let the Right One In.

Have you read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies yet? I just checked it out today. 

[Whist Darkblade]

OMG





WHEEL OF TIME ALL 11 900+ page books!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Anacronian Stryx]

Tales of two cities by Dickens.

"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."

[Kimaka]

MentalCha0s wrote...
Have you read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies yet? I just checked it out today. 

Oh, no. I don't think I will be able to ever do that. A Pride and Prejudice book not written by Jane Austen? I'll be in between "Lulz" and "What are you doing to Darcy!!!?"

[SpiffymanXD]

Every video game based book I really enjoy reading beyond the games and understanding that game more.

[MentalCha0s]

Kimaka wrote...

MentalCha0s wrote...
Have you read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies yet? I just checked it out today. 

Oh, no. I don't think I will be able to ever do that. A Pride and Prejudice book not written by Jane Austen? I'll be in between "Lulz" and "What are you doing to Darcy!!!?"

Its is written by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith 

[Kimaka]

MentalCha0s wrote...
Its is written by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith 

From what I have read, it is more of a mash. They take her words and add horror elements to it. I'll just stick to the original.

[Seagloom]

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. I'd have to put Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll as a very close second.

[Kevin Lynch]

Anacronian Stryx wrote...

Tales of two cities by Dickens.

"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."

One of my favorite quotes. It was one of my old Bio forum signatures, too (still there, just not used much).

My favorite book of all time is Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald. I've never read another author that writes quite like her. I can get so wrapped up in the story that when I do set the book down, it feels like I've been dreaming. I'm currently reading her second novel The Way the Crow Flies, another great novel. Not even the all-time classics can match her books, I'm afraid.

[SovereignSith44]

Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield is my personal favorite. Second would have to be Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind.