What is your favorite book, be it fiction or non?
Why is it your favorite?
Please don't include the Bible, Qu'ran or any religious text. You may include books written about the religious texts, however.
Thanks...I'm just wondering!
2006-09-05 05:06:57 · 23 answers · asked by paganmom 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Don't forget to tell me WHY.
2006-09-05 05:12:12 · update #1
I am once more banging the drum for Bleak House, by Charles Dickens. This is Dickens as an older man, he's lost his faith in simple answers and is looking for complicated ones as he looks at the England of his day and the huge pile of things that are wrong with it.
He takes a group of people, from the highest in the land to the most miserably poor all of whom are involved someway or other in a huge court case about a will and follows them as they struggle, some successfully and some very much not, to make a decent life for themselves and those they love.
It's sad, funny, tragic, old-fashioned and weirdly up-to-date, parts of it even remind me of the magical realists of South America.
It's a huge book and not all of it works, but it's trying to do so much the fact that it doesn't always succeed is irrelevant.
2006-09-07 13:46:25 · answer #1 · answered by UKJess 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.
Card writes this book so well that you being to FEEL that you are the Ender, the main character. Yes, it is a science fiction novel, but it is so much more. The humanity and emotion that comes through the pages and words is amazing. It is a pure page turner and keeps you enthralled in the story line from the first word to the last. I would recommend it for just about anyone.
2006-09-05 05:27:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Stand Steven King
2006-09-05 05:08:58 · answer #3 · answered by Rebecca 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M Auel, as well as the sequels to this book which are: Valley of Horses, The Mammoth Hunters, Plains of Passage and The Shelters of Stone. Great reading!!!
2006-09-05 05:12:13 · answer #4 · answered by chriseles 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stephen King's Dark Tower series
2006-09-05 07:20:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Foundation series by Isaac Asimov. Over a series of books, he weaves together a whole universe. They are both science fiction and historical novels set in the future.
2006-09-05 05:10:37 · answer #6 · answered by Michael T 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Winter Prey by John Sanford
2006-09-05 05:08:31 · answer #7 · answered by Jet 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well mines "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams in my opinion he's an excellent writer!He knows how to keep them hooked (and makes unusual)well to me through the first chapter i had already eaten the worm! If you are looking for books to read read his range of books!"The Restaurant at the end of the Universe" or "Life ,The Universe and Everything" , "So long,and thanks for all the fish" and "Mostly Harmless" that's all of which I recommend !
2006-09-05 05:20:08 · answer #8 · answered by babbaler 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My favourite book is Heer ranjha written in Punjabi by Waris shah. This book is based on true love story. In this story writer described very impressive way for example: when we are reading about Heer's beauty and environment, it took us in there, just like we are not reading we are living that. It is making a picture in our mind. Writer of this story is just amazing in writing.
2006-09-05 05:43:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-01 08:26:32 · answer #10 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋