what is your favorite book and why?

Answer 1

The Lord of the Rings (originally written as one book by the way)

Despite the fantastic scenery, strange plots, and impending doom set over the book that I rarely encounter in real life, I found the characters easy to relate to and very engrossing in their outlandish problems. This is especially true for the hobbits to me, as when I first read it I was in Elementary school, and much like them was rather sheltered and naive to the enormity of the world around me and I was beginning to tread into that world, but with the help of Friends in similar conditions it became much easier. In addition, as I reread it now, I yearn to alleviate Frodo's pain, just as Sam would, to seek security in friends as Frodo did. In my last reread of the books I found myself more relating to Aragorn, as he steps up to embrace his wondrous destiny and the evil that inherently comes with it.

Answer 2

My favorite book is the same as my most unfavorite book:
1984, by George Orwell.
The atmosphere is perfect, and you're drawn in at the first line. Not one second of that book bored me...and it got thrown against the wall twice while I was reading it. Which is why I hated it.

Answer 3

Life of Pi/Yann Martel
The Devil Wears Prada/Weisberger
Speak/ Laurie Halse Anderson
Prom/ Laurie Halse Anderson
Monster/Walter Dean Myers
Catcher in the Rye/Salinger
The Lovely Bones/Sebold
Buried Onions/Soto
The DaVinci Code/Brown

I can go on forever....

I love all these books for different reasons. They are entertaining, enriching, and influential in my life.

Answer 4

Sun Tzu Ping Fa (The Art of War) by Sun Tzu

It's probably the best book about planning, strategy and execution I've ever read. It's simple yet very practical. I've read other excellent books but The Art of War was the first.

Answer 5

das boot, by Lothar Gunther-Buchheim, because it really got down to the nitty gritty about what submarine warfare was like and showed the war from the German perspective. It was quite a controversial book as well because a lot of Germans didn't want to talk about the war as there was a lot of shame in it for them. The movie made by Wolfgang Peterson was excellent as well.

Answer 6

A child called It~ Dave Peltzer
The Lost Boy~Dave Peltzer
Climbing Higher~ Montel Williams

I like true stories and inspiring stories rather than fiction

Answer 7

Life of Pi, by Yann Martel

because it's a great story, extremely well-written, and it has the best ending of any book I've ever read - Months after finishing it, it still sticks with me.

Answer 8

Lots of favorates.Hard to pick out just one.

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.

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.

The Vivero letter by Desmond Bagley.Jeremy Wheale's well-ordered life is torn apart when his brother is murdered by a mob hit man, whose bait was a family heirloom - a sixteenth-century gold tray. The trail takes Wheale from Devon to Mexico and the wild tropical rain forests of Yucatan. In dense jungle, he helps two archaeologists locate the rest of a fabled hoard of gold - treasure from Uaxuanoc, the centuries-old lost city of the Mayas. But his brother's enemies are on Wheale's trail, and with them are the Chicleros, a vicious band of convict mercenaries.

Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini.When his best friend, a young clergyman, is killed in a mockery of a duel by an arrogant noble, just to quiet his eloquent expressions of democratic ideals, Andre-Louis Moreau vows revenge. From that point, through meteoric careers as a consummate actor and scenario writer, then as a fencing master, and finally a politician, the brilliant Moreau keeps thwarting the aims of the aristocratic Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr. However, the nobleman causes pain to Moreau as well, and the time must come when the two will meet to settle their enmity once and for all. You are not likely to guess how their confrontation finally turns out. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, this swashbuckling novel is exciting throughout, and it presents one of the most dashing heroes in fiction, a man who can fight equally well with his mind, his mouth, his pen, and his sword, a man who stirs up events wherever he goes.

Answer 9

One of my favorite novels is John Ridley's The Drift. This novel is so well-written that you can actually FEEL when a character is Stabbed!!!! The reader can truly get inside the characters' heads - Believe me, this novel is just GREAT!!!John Ridley is a Superb Author!
"Lotta Honey"

Answer 10

The Little Prince (le Petit Prince) by Antoine de St Exupery, because it teaches the value of love and friendship and how to go about obtaining it. I have read many times.