what book facinates you the most and why?

Answer 1

"Tuesday's with Morrie" by Mitch Albom. This is an easy to read and touching book. What it so great about it, is that it has some very important life lessons in it and helps you to keep the really important things, in the forefront.

Answer 2

There are so many that do, but if I had to pick one, I'd pick a relatively short novel by Samuel R. Delany. It's called Nova. The story itself is fairly straightforward space opera, but it was written in the 1960s and predates a lot of the "cybernetic" stuff we see in contemporary science fiction, especially in stuff like the Matrix films. But what most intrigues me about this book is the measure of characterization and visual intensity of the story as it unfolds. It's a story that reaches truly mythic proportions and you're never 100% certain who the good guys are...mostly because everyone in this novel is flawed and human.

There are maniacs, there are monsters (at least monstrous people) there is love, obsession, adventure...but what struck me the most was the fact that the characters in the novel are also ethnically diverse in ways that are incredibly rare. It was one of the first science fiction novels that implied that Black people have a place in the future, right alongside Gypsies, Austrailians, and everyone else who is known to exist today. At the time I read that novel, that was the most powerful statement any novel could have made, especially since it didn't hit me (as a reader) over the head with socio-political lectures about equality and justice. It just told a really awesome story, which coincidentally seemed to accommodate me as a person. Not only that, but the descriptions are vivid, the dialogue is snappy, and well...there is an interesting relationship between good and evil that I won't spoil by going into detail here...but it's one of the FIRST novels where I fully understood WHY and HOW a "bad guy" could become so obsessively "bad," and what role a good guy has in making him that way.

Answer 3

I would have to say Eragon and Eldest the are the original and sequal. I could never pick just one. The first one is about a boy named Eragon who lives on a farm with his uncle and cousin. He finds a dragon egg in the woods. and he raises her in secret. That secret has killed his uncle and taken him on a wild adventure all over the world with his village storyteller. Its a gtreat book. The second one is still about Eragon but he is in training with the elves. He has one of the only dragons left. The oldest elf there teaches him about training to be a rider, the protecters of the land. ( they are like, none left.) He also falls in love with an elf. Now that he knows even more about being a rider, he goes through even more dangerous tasks. This book is more actionany than the first. I am ready and waiting for the third one!!!

Answer 4

probably 1984 because I've always been interested in that genera. a futuristic totalitarian government with such power that if someone even thinks that you're not happy with the government you disappear and are never heard of again, your very existence is erased from history. it's like some of the communist countries today, except a little more dramatic (but not by much). it really makes you wonder if something like this could really happen to us. if you are not familiar with the book i suggest that you read it!!! i don't think that there is a movie for it but there are certainly many films that have the same theme such as V for Vendetta.
God Bless!!!

Answer 5

The Electric Michaelangelo was one of the weirdest and most fascinating books I have ever read. The plot is simple: a young boy growing up in the 1930s becomes apprenticed at a tatoo parlor, learns the trade, moves to Boston and starts up his own parlor. A woman then comissions him to cover her entire body with eyes.
The book is so fascinating because it concentrates itself on an interesting theme: what leads people to put a permanent mark on their bodies? The main character eventually categorises his customers and we learn that women don't cry as much as men, how an artist has to practice on himself before he beccomes proficient... it's just fascinating, as you said.

An author whose work has always fascinated me is Charles De Lint. Most of his novels involve fantasy in an urban environment: gnomes and fairies hiding behind skyscrapers, ancient Indian magic adapting to contemporary beliefs, eery celtic towns that somehow escape reality- it's an awesome combination!

Answer 6

I think fantasy books fascinate me the most. If I had to pick just one, I would probably go with King Fortis the Brave. Basically, just a fun book, it helped inspire me to teach and I use it in the classroom with great success. My students love it.

Answer 7

I have found that I truly enjoy classic literature. Although they are hard to dig into, books like Homers, Odyssey and John Bunyan's, Pilgrims Progress fascinate me the most.

Answer 8

That would have 2 be So You Call Yourself A Man. It's about 4 friends and how they mess up their family and their friendship. Its a really good book. I read it in one day.

Answer 9

There are sooo many! But if i had to choose one, it's definately be Faust by Goethe, because it's so deep, so powerful book, which seems to talk about, like, mystic things, but in fact covers only natural ones, the evil inside human soul..

Answer 10

Harry Potter, Eragon, King Fortis the Brave and Artemis Fowl are all fascinating. They all have great characters and keep you turning the pages.