What is your favorite?

Question

What is your all time favorite book and why?

Answer 1

Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult. It's just really good, and it's a page turner. I also liked The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. That's a very romantic story. I'd read both of these books over and over.

Answer 2

This is a hard question because I have so many favorites! Some of my ALL time favorites include:

Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
The Monk by Matthew Lewis
The Soul of Politics by Jim Wallis
The Giver by Lois Lowry
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown
The Bohr Maker by Linda Nagata

And the list goes on

Answer 3

Hard to pick out just one.I have so many.

Count of Montecristo by Alexander Dumas.The hero is Edmond Dantés, a young French sailor who, falsely accused of treason, is arrested on his wedding day and imprisoned in the island fortress of Château d'If. After staging a dramatic escape he sets out to discover the fabulous treasure of Monte Cristo and catch up with his enemies. A novel of enormous tension and excitement, Monte Cristo is also a tale of obsession and revenge, with Dantés, believing himself to be an `Angel of Providence', pursuing his vengeance to the bitter end before realizing that he himself is a victim of fate.

The author did a great job describing the emotions of the prisoner.Disbelief,denial,self pity,madness,apathy and finally hope.For God's sake don't see any of the movies based on the book.They don't do justice to the book.

A current fav is 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 who works as a detective.He stands between the general population who is ignorant about the supernatural world and the monsters - vampires,werewolves,fallen angels,fey.He is aided by Bob,a talking skull.Karrin Murphy-a police officer and Thomas-a white court vampire.

Answer 4

Telling Christina Goodbye

Answer 5

Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry. Terrific story line, epic scope yet good detail, real, believable, sympathetic characters, well paced. It's a very long book, but before you're one-fourth of the way through it, you wish it could be longer. Pulitzer Prize winner, and you can really see why. Wow!

Answer 6

THE ALCHEMIST by Paulo Coelho

"When you want something, all the world conspires in helping you achieve it." this is one of the many inspiring quotes from the book. I often recommend this whenever someone asks me. It is a tale about of following your dreams, a novel that has delighted and touched my soul. Really simple and yet immensely moving, it is a treasure of wisdom and philosophical allegories. You might also want to check out other books written by Coehlo, and let your soul be influenced by it.

Answer 7

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card is in my top three novels of all time. His writing (Card) is just so wonderful. The characters are so well developed...and real...they're believable...they have flaws...they have strengths...they have personality. They are "people" you come to know and love through the course of the book...or in some cases come to know and hate. :) It is an action filled book, there are battles to be fought....wars to be won...and what not...but the characters never lose depth in order to emphasize action and adventure.

Answer 8

My favorite book is Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. It is hard to describe why, except that it is genious. I think you really have to read a great book before you can even come close to knowing why it is so spectacular.

Answer 9

Read 'The God of Small Things' by Arundhati Roy...it is a fabulous book....

You find precision in the language which is absolutely startling and there is beauty in the use of metaphor which is simply great...

It is a heartbreaking story of two 6 year old fraternal twins....in which one of the twin, by name Rahel when she is 31 years old, narrates her childhood and growing up....so in a sense, the story is through the eyes of a 6 year old for most of it...

A quote -" Rahel and Estha are fraternal twins whose emotional connection to one another is stronger than that of most siblings:

Esthappen and Rahel thought of themselves together as Me, and separately, individually as We or Us. As though they were a rare breed of Siamese twins, physically separate, but with joint identities.

Now, these years later, Rahel has a memory of waking up one night giggling at Estha's funny dream.

She has other memories too that she has no right to have.'.....

I absolutely recommend it....

Answer 10

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, because it was autobiographical. Dickens, as always, has lots of ridiculous and some sympathetic characters in the story. And the book is pretty touching and funny.