What is your favorite book and why?

Answer 1

My favorite book is The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton.
It's such a great story! I love how she described everything right down to the color and shape of the characters' eyes. I liked how she made the point that it doesn't matter what social group you belong to. It's about you as an individual person. I liked how she made you feel sorry for the characters ; especialy Johnny. Even though he killed someone you couldn't help but feel sorry for him because of how hard his life had been. I felt really sorry for Dally too because of the way he died. He got the police to kill him because Johnny had died and Johnny was the only thing he had ever loved. I like how Ponyboy and Johnny bond while they're staying in the church: especially while they're watching the sun rise. I like how all the characters have family problems and the gang is their only real family. It's cool how the book begins and ends with the same sentence: showing that the novel was Ponyboy's book report. I like the way she wrote a lot of her sentences. Here's a few sentences I really like :
" I knew he was dead because Dally Winston wanted to be dead, and he always got what he wanted."
" Sixteen years on the street and you can learn a lot. But all the wrong things, not the things you want to learn. Sixteen years on the street and you see a lot. But all the wrong sights, not the sights you want to see."
There's a few more but I want list them all. I don't know why I like them, just something about the way they're written. My favorite part of the book is when they read Johnny's letter. It's so sad! But I like how he says that it was worth saving the kids and when he explains the poem. Sorry it's a little lengthy but I really like this book.

Answer 2

'Anthem' by Ayn Rand.

Quite short book about a futuristic socialist society. It is kickass.


Read it online here:
http://www3.nbnet.nb.ca/mcnally/anthem/


2nd favorite: 'The Third Life of Grange Copeland' by Alice Walker. Redemption theme. Written back when Walker was still young and hungry. The best book she ever wrote, IMO.


3rd favorite: 'The Screwtape Letters' by C.S. Lewis, the author of the Chronicles of Narnia. Short book. Correspondence between two demons (a master and his fledgeling). Considered a childs book by many, I first read this book as a 23 year old. It changed my life forever.

Answer 3

I have had many favorite books over the years, but the one that made me love reading was To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The emotional impact the book had on me was tremendous. Reading it was a huge reminder of how the world was, and what we have overcome since then.

Answer 4

I can never come up with one. I can give you favorites in various genres;
sci-fi--Childhood's End or Brave New World
mystery--The First Deadly Sin
non-fiction--The Autiobiography of the Artist as a Young Man
historical fiction--The Source, Hawaii or Cold Mountain
true crime--In Cold Blood
and best all around--To Kill a Mockingbird

Answer 5

Huckleberry Finn: set in a time of accepted racism a young boy decides for himself that it is an evil he can reject. The book is peopled with characters of incredible richness and variety. The background gives an accurate picture of the America which existed along the great Mississippi River. America is shown to be what it continues... a work in progress.

Answer 6

I am a die hard Science Fiction and Fantasy Fan The book that started this trend was "The Hobbit", the precursor to the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy by JRR Tolkien. I would say that "Foundation" by Issac Assimov is up there as favorite Sci-Fi novel. I read for enjoyment and relaxation, so after exhausting most Sci-Fi, I now read a lot of Westerns. In that Genre you cannot beat "The Sacketts" or anything else by Louis Lamour. But if I had to pick one book as my favorite it would be "The Firm" by John Grisham.

Answer 7

My favorite book at this point is a tie between Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables" and Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Idiot". I love both for the thoroughness with which the authors describe their characters and the philosophical concepts at the heart of their work. I greatly recommend both.

Answer 8

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco because he is a master at weaving things together. The book has all kinds of mystery and philosophy in it and also culture and history. This book blows the Da Vinci Code away!

Answer 9

I am not good with favorites but other than LOVING the Harry Potter series, "The Kite Runner" is a really good read. It can be intense at times but it discusses a lot about morals etc and is a very good story about a boy growing up in Afghanistan. Also, anything by David Sedaris is excellent. He writes stories about his life and they are satirical and full of sarcasm. Very witty and good.

Answer 10

Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie. my favorite type of book is a murder mystery. this one is easier to follow the reasoning than some of the meaning and it is more interesting because the investigated murder happened 15 years before the book started. also i find that miss marple has better reasoning than Hercule Pierot