What you're favorite book?

Question

Tell me what your favoirte book is and why? I'm always looking for a new a book to read, so I look forward to reading your answers : )

Answer 1

Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte. I love it for the characterization. The narrator is supposedly telling her own life story, so you see inside her mind to her motivations and fears and dreams and joys and sadness. You learn all about what made her the person she becomes. It's a love story, and although there are some things that happen in the story that seem pretty unrealistic, the two main characters are drawn so deeply, to me it is the most real and believable love story I've ever read. Whether you like or dislike them, you can fully understand why they love each other.

But at the same time, it's much more than a love story. It's about more than whether they get together in the end. It's about why this love matters so much to each of them. And it's also about what you should or should not sacrifice for love. It's a coming-of-age story, about Jane striving for a life where she can determine her own destiny instead of having it shaped for her. It's a story about what a person really, truly needs to achieve true happiness; It's about a struggle for both love and independence.

Jane Eyre touches on so many profound themes, really, that I find something new every time I read it.

It's stormy and dramatic at times, and at others calm, slow and introspective. Kind of like me, I guess, so I feel like I can relate to it.

Answer 2

Well I always say James Joyce... But I don't know that you would like him. He is an acquired taste and Ulysses is a hard read for a first timer.

I like the classics and the old timers... there is not much in new literature that I can actually make it through. Nothing very interesting these days.

Also... anything at all by Joseph Campbell. Especially His take on Joyce... The two should always walk hand in hand because before Campbell, Joyce was not as easy to find as special.

A portrait of the artist as a young man is my favorite!

"...Has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets."

I was never very good at math... I am a severe right brainer! But how I did go about learning what I do know on the subject was to read about the lives of the Mathematicians. These kinds of books I find very interesting. Same with the lives of the Poets...

The equation that could not be solved. By: Mario Livio
Galileo's Daughter
Anything on Newton! I love Newton!
Lives of the Poets. By: Michael Schmidt

Answer 3

Definitely one of my favorites is the Lioness Quartet by Tamora Pierce (and all of the other books she wrote after those four in the same world!) It's a medieval fantasy about a girl looking to be a knight by disguising herself as a boy. It's rather comical at times and a good action/drama at others.

Answer 4

I have about a gazillion favourite books ... but my favourite right now is "Justin Thyme" - a book I've just finished reading and am recommending to everyone. It's aimed at kids but has a cross-over adult appeal too, (at least, for those who enjoy the likes of Pullman, Stroud, Paolini or Rowling). It's part science fiction part fantasy ... sort of science-fantasy! The chapters are interspersed with time travel theories. Well, I enjoyed it anyway ... and the whole family found it a lot of fun too! Here's a link to it on Amazon
http://www.amazon.co.uk/justin-thyme-tar...

Answer 5

I love louise rennison's books there a re about a girl who lives in london, england and if u like comedy/ romance books this one is a keeper. but u dont always like comedy so if u like scary or something i would suggest The Lord of The Rings.

You can also check out Meg Cabot books they r funny and romancyish a couple r even based on a gothgirl!!!

Good Luck hope u liked my choices!!

Answer 6

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.
Anything by Stephen King or Richard Laymon

Answer 7

Hmm I've read so many books in my life and I have not lived long! I many a good books. I love adult fiction (no not adult as "adult") I find classics from Jane Austen entertaining and short stories are a absolute have for my collection. I like a lot of books I just don't like romance novels.

Answer 8

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. between the superb books I even have ever study in my existence. Ranked very extreme amongs human beings. Its a existence changing e book. "My heart is afraid that it will could go through," the boy instructed the alchemist one night as they regarded up on the moonless sky." tell your heart that the phobia of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered whilst it is going in seek of its objectives." each and every few an prolonged time a e book is revealed that differences the lives of its readers continuously. The Alchemist is this way of e book. With over a million and a a million/2 copies bought worldwide, The Alchemist has already regularly occurring itself as a favorite classic, universally favorite. Paulo Coelho's captivating delusion, now obtainable in English for the 1st time, will enchant and encourage a good wider objective marketplace of readers for generations to come again. The Alchemist is the paranormal tale of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to return and forth in seek of a cosmopolitan treasure as extravagant as any ever discovered. From his homestead in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and around the Egyptian barren area to a fateful bump into with the alchemist. the story of the treasures Santiago reveals alongside the way teaches us, as purely some thoughts have completed, concerning the essential information of listening to our hearts, gaining understanding of to study the omens strewn alongside existence's course, and, notably, following our objectives.

Answer 9

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, it's exciting and magical. I also really liked the Alex Rider books (not as much as the Harry Potter books) because they kept me reading with all of the action in them.

Answer 10

As a child, I enjoyed anything by Roald Dahl(Danny the Champion of the World) as an Adult, I really enjoyed Friday Night Lights and almost any auto-Biography on interesting people.