What is your favorite novel, what is it about, without telling me the ending :]?

Question

I want to read a really good book now, any suggestions? I like pretty much all genres... Thanks!

Answer 1

read The Notebook. i read the book before i watched the movie and was crying with the book. It's about a girl, her family is rich, who falls in love with a guy, his family is poor. her parents think that he is innapropriate for her so they cut thier summer vacation short. years later she is supposed to get married so she take a trip back to the town and meets the guy again. her fiance comes to the town to get her and she has to make a decision...does she go with the fiance and keep her family happy or does she stay with her first love?

Answer 2

I'm a soppy, hopeless, incurable romantic! So, I guess you know what kind of book I'm going to suggest!

My favourite novel of all time, is called 'Sirena' by Donna Jo Napoli. It's about a mermaid in a quest to seek love in order to gain immortality, the lessons she learns and the decisions and the consequences of the decisions that she experiences. It's a novel that combines Greek mythology as well as enough reality to make it an amazingly real love story, and an unforgettable read. If you read it, I'm sure you'll love it too! Hope this helped. ;)

Answer 3

I have a few, some of my favorites are by the author Terry Pratchet, they all are about the funny things that happen on this ficticious Discworld, where Trolls, Werewolves, Vampires and Witches are real and simply just other citizens. They're all really funny.
Some titles to look for:
Guards, Guards
Lords and Ladies
Witches Abroad
Going Postal
The Fifth Elephant
Interesting Times
Truth
and MANY others...none of them have to be read in any order to be enjoyed.

Another favorite author is Tim Dorsey: his books all revolve around this Cuban/American Psycho-killer named Serg...talk about hysterical!! You end up really rooting for this psycho!! It's all too twisted but funny as hell!!!

Some titles to look for:

Florida Roadkill
Hammerhead Ranch Motel
Orange Crush
Triggerfish Twist
Stingray Shuffle
Cadalic Beach
Torpedo Juice
and
The Big Bamboo

Answer 4

Joseph Heller's Catch 22, published in 1955. Set after the Second World War on a fictitious island off the coast of Italy, it acts as an amazing pre-sage for all that followed in the 20th century up to now. A work of extraordinary genius.

And, just as an aside, there are not many books that added a phrase to the English langauge as a result of their publication.

Answer 5

Dresden file book series by Jim Butcher.There are 8 books in the series beginning with stormfront. It narrates the story of Harry Dresden,chicago's only professional wizard.He stands between the general population who is ignorant about the supernatural world and the monsters-vampires,werewolves,fey.He is aided by Bob,a talking skull.Karrin Murphy-a police officer and Thomas-a white court vampire.

Reilly's Luck by Louis L'Amour.Its a western.A young boy is abandoned by his own mother(she tells her boyfriend to kill him)The boy ends up with a gambler and he brings him up.Turns out to be the best gamble he ever made.The boy grows up and later kills the people who murdered the gambler.The Daybreakers,Fair blows the wind are also good books by the same author.

Count of Montecristo by Alexander Dumas.Its about a young French sailor who was unjustly imprisoned for 14 years before he escapes and ultimately takes revenge on his enemies.The author did a great job describing the emotions of the prisoner.Disbelief,denial,self pity,madness,apathy and finally hope.

Answer 6

I have read not much novels but very nice novels i have read . u can read Thomas Hardy's Tess a wonderful novel. George Eliot's '"The Mill On The Floss"very good story a girl Maggie
and "The Outsider"not novel by Albert Camus the story of a man who is punished not for murder but because he not tells a lie, not supports society's terms in which they demand him to act.

Answer 7

I am a great fan of the crime & mystery novels and I especially like the novels,"The Hound Of the Baskervilles" and "A Study in Scarlet" both written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I've finished the whole series of Sherlock Holmes, u could try some out too. U could also try out some of Agatha Christie's novels as well.

Answer 8

I don't have one favorite novel, but perhaps you might be interested in one of Jane Austen's novels. Of those, my favorite is Persuasion. It's about an English woman from 200 years ago whose family pressures her to reject the man she loves because of his low social standing and poor prospects. He becomes a successful Captain in the Navy and makes a fortune, then comes back and meets her and her family again. The question is then whether he will forgive her for rejecting him and love her again, or marry another woman.

It can be found in many bookstores, and can even be read online, as it is in the public domain (out of copyright).

Answer 9

The Alchemist

Answer 10

Daddy-Long-Legs .
by Jean Webster

it is really different from the the old movie
actually it have a real different story line