What is your favorite book?

Memoirs of a Geisha-Arthur Golden

"McDonaldization of Society" by George Ritzer. The best book I ever read and I recomend it to everyone.

I haven't read books in years. Most memorable book I can think of in my whole life was Last of the Mohicans.

There are too many. Books fill me up. I feel that I could live on them alone at times. They move me, make me cry, laugh, place a darkness in the very core of myself, or lift one that already rests there. They take me away or soundly show me the exact world I am trying to look away from. I love the feel of the pages against my fingertips. I love the way that the pages make a different sound as they are turned depending on how far through the book you are. I enjoy opening a book where it is marked with a bookmark and reimmersing myself in the story, bits of it coming back to me as I go on.

And you ask me to choose one single book that I love before all others? I cannot do it. I will not do it. The list of books that I have read and hated would be shorter.

That's a good book! Talk about books that can leave you with an ache. When she betrays the man she loves....I don't remember it all so well, but I do remember being caght up in it entirely.

I guess it's Chrisopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus.

Well, it's really a play. My favourite fiction novel is Acid House by Irvine Welsh.

Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass - I haven't read it in ages but I need to read it again.
Another is a set by Steven King - The Dark Tower Series the last of which comes out the 21st of this month. There are 7 books in all. The best reading of my life.

"Underworld" by Don DeLillo

One of my personal favorites is "Point of impact" by Stephen Hunter

Frog and toad are friends - Arnold Lobel
The old man and the sea - Hemingway
1984 - George Orwell
Dune - Herbert
Enders Game - Orson Scott Card
The collected short stories of Asimov, Bradbury and the like

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold is my current favorite.

"Elvis, Jesus & Coca Cola" by Kinky Friedman

The Old Man and the SEa was one of the worst books I ever picked up. I finish the book I'm reading 98% of the time (the only other book which I could never finish was James Morrow's Eternal Footman), but this was just that bad. And it was so short.

Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker. It's been months since I read it last, and I still can't get back into fiction books because it was so incredible.

Well, the old man in the sea appeals to the struggle of a man to prove himself to himself.
I don't think it translates to a woman's struggle to prove herself to herself.
They are different journeys.

I don't have a favorite book and I don't reread books.

IT by Stephen King..... read it 8 times, still read my fave parts once a month

At the end of the book, does he catch the fish?

It's awful, he catches it, but he is so far out that by the time he gets back to the village sharks have eaten it clean to the bones because it was too large to fit in his skiff.
It's a matter of personal victory without any material reward or social recognition.

I found that one horribly sickly and with a paste-on ending. Some of the early stuff was really good, but as it went on, I got to rolling my eyes at it. I read a review that compared the way American audiences were going to find it to the way British audiences would and that was really interesting.

Anne Rice - Vampire Chronicles...of these Memnoch the Devil
Michael Chrichton - Timeline
Morgan Llywellyn (sp?) - all that I have read so far.
Pablo Coelho - The Alchemist
Alan Moore - V for Vendetta (graphic novel)

I don't read books. I do like to look at the pictures in some magazines though.

> 1984 - Wells

George Orwell wrote 1984

I couldn't pick only one.

It's hard to pick just one, but one that is special to me is "Stairway Walks in San Francisco" by Adah Bakalinsky. I also like John Case, John Saul and Dean Koontz thrillers a lot.

The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
De Avonden by Gerard Reve

I've just finished reading Star of the Sea by Joseph O' Connor. That has to go onto any list of truly brilliant books that I have read.

that's why you pick more

The New Testament, Plato's "Symposion", certain Math books (recently T. Lam's "First Course in Non-commutative Rings"), Martin Wagenschein's books on the teaching of Mathematics, Herbert Grasemann's "Problemjuwelen", "Problemkunst im 20. Jahrhundert" by A. Kraemer/E. Zepler.

Lord of the Rings

Moby Dick

Thank you, it was late and I was tired.

I love a lot of books. I think my all time favorite book is "Anne Of Green Gables". Some of my favorite authors are Danielle Steele, Robert Paul Evans, Mitch Albom (Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet In Heaven), and SOME Stephen King stuff.

I loved "The Lovely Bones"!

I like all kinds of nonfiction--there's no particular one.

> Thank you, it was late and I was tired.

Ignorance Is Strength

I get it.
I am really not a fan of those themes of over-coming yourself.

Alchemist was a cool book, but I just prefer plot driven books opposed to those ones (I absolute hated The Love Artist by Jane Allison, although it did have some nice imagery).

I'm sorry you didn't like it.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! But Claire didn't seem to care for it.

Oh, well, that's why there are so many different types of books and stories...everyone can choose his or her own favorites. Have you ever read "The Nanny Diaries"? It was hilarious!!

This website is double plus good.

Books have always been a huge part of my life. I look for sales -- one coming up soon is put on each year by the public library. On the last day of this huge warehouse booksale, all hardbacks are a buck and paperbacks are fifty cents. Many categories. I come across so many people, especially at work, who read very little or do not really read at all...

I loved "The Nanny Diaries"!

I can hardly wait for "The Dark Tower" to come out! It comes out exactly a week before my birthday! We were at Wal-Mart this evening and they had up posters showing upcoming movie, book and video game releases. The man on the cover of "The Dark Tower" bears a resemblance to Stephen King.

wow, tough question................. so many so many.
recently i liked "the five people you meet in heaven" by mitch albom
and everything by sarah waters, "tipping the velvet", "affinity", "fingersmith".

i really liked that one as well.

wow, i just checked it out on the web, i think i will have to read that one!

you have to love alice walker...............

There's an upcoming movie? I can't find anything on the net about it....what did the poster say?

I've never read The Love Artist but Coelho has a way with his imagery, that it's almost a self-help book in disguise, with his powerful messages. Definitely not something that I would read 5 times, but probably a few times throughout my life I will pick it up again for a read.

I just finished reading a similar one, by a British author, and I liked that even less. Perhaps it's just that genre

I think you misunderstood me. The poster at Wal-Mart depicted upcoming movies, books and video games. They were showing the cover of "The Dark Tower" book on the poster. The man on the cover of the book resembled Stephen King.

Which book was that?

One of the best ways to keep up with the world of Stephen King is to go to http://www.stephenking.com You can find out about when his books are due for release, what movies are being made based on his books, etc. It's a site that he has fully authorized to release info about him. I already knew the release date of "The Dark Tower" (Book VII) awhile back due to the info on the site.

awwwwwww darn......crapity crap crap crap!!!!! My husband and I have talked about how it would be great to have like an HBO series or SciFi series like Spielburgs Taken or something like that or even a Planned TV series that went on like Babylon 5 did for a planned number of seasons. I would love to see someone like Viggo Mortenson do Roland. And maybe Jada Pinkett-Smith as Susannah, and I think Sean Penn would do a great Eddie Dean but my husband thinks he's too strong for the part. We've also picked out Colm Meaney, who plays Chief O'Brien from Star Trek to play Callahan. We think he is Perrrrrfect!!!! Oh God - and how could I forget - little Jake - by the time they get filming - David Dorfman from "The Ring" will be the perfect age!! So now that we've got it all figured out ---------- what do you think? And who do you think we could sell it to??

I'm kinda iffy on the Viggo Mortenson playing Roland thingie, but I concur with your husband about Sean Penn. I'll have to think about that one for awhile, but there has been talk about making "The Gunslinger" into a movie at some point in time.

Something Might Happen by Julie Myerson.

It's about the impact of a woman's murder on her best friend and family.

Definitely.

'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker

I don't think I've read that. I'll check and see if my local library has it.

I wouldn't bother!

Yep...they have it in the New Fiction section of the library. They also have several other books by her as well that she has written in years past.

Run away! Read something good!!! Try Star of the Sea by Joseph O' Connor.

It is really that bad? I'm the type of person that generally gives a book a try and if I don't like it or can't get into (basically can't stand to read more than a few pages at a time), then I give it up.

What's it about?

It's readable. I read the whole thing (but I don't give up on books either). But it's just rather dull, and the characters are all thoroughly unlikeable, and yet I think you're supposed to care about them.

Star of the Sea is about a voyage from Ireland to America with Irish immigrants escaping a famine and fever. But there's a murderer on board, and a murder;s going to happen before the voyage is over. It's really very good, very rich and accomplished.

I'll give them both a try, but "Star of the Sea" sounds very interesting.

I don't have just one favorite...these are some of the books I love...guess you can tell I love series.

The Anne Of Green Gables books

Reading the Dark series now by Christine Feehan

Alex Cross series by James Patterson

Left Behind series

Mermaid Song by Alida Van Gordes (no longer in publication)

Prey series by John Sandford

Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus series by Faye Kellerman

Harry Potter series....many more...

I finally read that book a couple years ago...thought it was ok...found it a lil disappointing...

I liked that one too...also the short story he wrote,original title, think was, The Body, made into the movie Stand By Me (which liked the movie too)...I like how the young characters in his stories do stand together...

Timeline was good! I pretty much love all his books...

It's been on all the bestseller lists and it's certainly worth a look.

wow, where you found it and how much do they charge it?

I checked and our library does have it. Hopefully it will be in next time I'm there, but if not, I can always put a hold on it.

Oh yes, Titus Groan is also a favourite of mine.

The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie

I like that one to. I have yet to see the movie, is it close to the book?
Only problem I see with his kids, are that they are swearing soooo young and all this other stuff. Sure when I was 12 i said a little swearing, but not like that, and no one i knew smoked at twelve... but it seems all of his are smoking.
Did you read Apt Puple? lack of spelling, like, incredably bad spelling *giggles* anyway, i loved that story, but i can't for the life of me figure out if it was a movie or not. I think it is, but I can't find anyone who knows...

Because this has been done so many times before, I'm not going to go with my usual answers which are based on books I first read many years ago. Instead, I want to talk about some books that I've been reading more recently.

"The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
"The Perfect Host" by Theodore Sturgeon
"The Well of the Worlds" by Henry Kuttner
"The Best of C. L. Moore" by C. L. Moore
"City" by Clifford D. Simak
"The Sinful Ones" by Fritz Leiber

These books have a number of things in common. Most of them are collections of short stories that were originally published in pulp sci-fi magazines in the period between 1945 and 1955. "The Well of the Worlds" and "The Sinful Ones" are novels from about the same period. Some of them would be relatively easy to find. Some of them would require scouring 2nd hand bookstores. They are all books which I thoroughly enjoyed reading, purely for pleasure. I've been on a bit of a bent for vintage sci-fi for the past while. I guess I've always favoured it as my primary choice in fiction, but lately, I've really been getting into it in a big way.

It's still Infinite Jest...

James Thurber's "The Thirteen Clocks".

Difficult question - there are too many books, too little time.

Difficult question - there are too many books, too little time.
I used to re-read You Can't Go Home Again by T. Wolfe every few years becuse I loved it. I sorta fell out of love, I guess because I haven't re-read in a long time.

Difficult question - there are too many books, too little time.
I used to re-read You Can't Go Home Again by T. Wolfe every few years because I loved it. I sorta fell out of love, I guess because I haven't re-read in a long time.
There are two books I haven't finished because I liked them so much I wanted to wait for the perfect time to finish them and . . . well, I haven't finished them yet. One is The Lovely Bones also, The Archivist.
One of my favorite current authors is Josephine Hart - her first three books are just remarkable, but they aren't really the kind of books that one can recommend to others. They're rather strange. So am I.

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Favorite? Dunno.

Some of them:

The Postman
Harry Potter Series
The Stand

And I don't really feel like thinking of any more right now.

I read The Color Purple while I was in the hospital earlier this year and kept getting so frustrated with all the nurses who kept barging in on that wonderful book.

That would be annoying! You should check out her other work, because as much as I love The Color Purple, it's my least favorite fiction work she's done. I can't say enough about this woman. I'm tempted to name any daughter of mine Alice!

I'll put her on the top of my mental list for my next amazon purchase!

Yay! (I'd go with Possessing the Secret of Joy if I were you! It's my mission to get as many people to read this book as possible!)

Okay

The Harry Potter Series..... :D lol Yeah they are a little "Immature" but I like them and thats all that counts right?

bleachers

If I remember Stand By Me was close to the book but it's been years since read it compared to when I saw the movie.......I agree about the kids too...tho I did start smoking when I was 12 (tho doubt I really knew what I was doing! also quit when I was 18) and didn't cuss like that either..........I don't recall Apt Pupil as one of his books will have to ck that out...but do as a movie tho haven't seen it but have wanted to. It has Brad Renfro, Ian McKellen and Joshua Jackson...You can read about the movie at www.imdb.com

I love the book, The outsiders

Words Only Novels:
Staggerford by John Hassler
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse

Graphic Novels
Kingdom Come by Mark Waid and Alex Ross
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Blankets by Craig Thompson
Box Office Poison by Alex Robinson

Any book by Bill Bryson or 'The Stand' by Stephen King.