Mine is Bambi by Felix Salten. It's very dark and not light-hearted like the Disney movie... TRUST ME. But I love it all the same! :)
2006-12-12 16:57:52 · 10 answers · asked by B K 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Toss up: Harry Potter books, "No Flying in the House" by Betty Brock, "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton, or "Wild Seed" by Octavia Butler
2006-12-12 17:03:09 · answer #1 · answered by Genea_80 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I loved Bambi too! You are so right about it being different from the Disney version. Have you read Bambi's Children? It was even better.
My favorite book ever would have to be Lord of the Rings (well, my favorite 3 books ever--you can't read just one). Has more depth than most fantasies I've read--makes the world it describes seem real, has very characters that grow throughout the story...and kept me hooked through all three books (all of them long). Also a very "dark" story...but also very hopeful.
If you like Bambi and you also like fantasy, you might like "Tailchaser's Song." Its one of those books that seems like it would be a kids story by the cover, but is much darker.
2006-12-13 10:21:40 · answer #2 · answered by Ecaria 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Moby Dick is the best all around book I have ever read. It combined facts with lore and science with a great story. Melville did a fantastic job writing that book and it deserves to be studied but more at a college level than high school
A close second is Stephen King's Green Mile. That was the first book I ever cried reading (at the ending where Paul Edgecomb is all by himself after seeing everyone he cares for die over the years). The movie missed the ending putting the emphasis on Coffey's death. King has never been better.
2006-12-12 17:03:11 · answer #3 · answered by I like Chinese food 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Firm by John Grisham. Also, The Chamber by the same author. I learned a lot from these books.
These books may seem boring at some point but you will khow they are not once you have read half way through.
The Firm is realistic, entertaining, sometimes humerous, and gives you ideas about many things.
2006-12-12 17:08:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a book whore, so my all time favorite tends to switch from time to time. Currently it's "The Constant Gardner" by John LeCarre. Other than my personal conviction that LeCarre walks on water, what I love most about this book is the character of Justin Quayle. He's such an unlikely hero - mildmannered and completely underestimated by the bad guys.
2006-12-12 17:53:28 · answer #5 · answered by Ellie G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Diana Gabaldon's series, the first book is called Cross Stitch. The series is about a woman in 1945 leading a double life, she has a husband in one century and a lover in another.......
She is a war time nurse that is on her honeymoon in Scotland and innocently she walks through a stone circle in the Highlands, and finds herself in a violent skirmish taking place in 1743. Suddenly she is a Sassenach, an out lander, in a country torn by war and by clan feuds and the looming carnage of Culloden. She is forced to marry a highlander to escape the Jacobite's and redcoats. And so their story begins which takes them to France, and to America. A must read!!!!!!!!
2006-12-12 18:27:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
'A Brief History of Time' by Stephen James Hawkings. It absolutely takes you out of this world and beyong the scope of ordinary imagination. Love it!
2006-12-12 17:06:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, beacause it illuminated/explained some people's behaviour that I had never understood before.
2006-12-12 17:53:31 · answer #8 · answered by short5641sweet 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
jitterbug perfume....tom robbins
so many reasons why...the beauty of his writitng, the realness of the surrealness, the underlying tones and tempos...i've read it probably 12 times and i don't like to read the same book twice!
2006-12-12 17:04:22 · answer #9 · answered by chinacat 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Mutant message down under....changed my outlook on life!!!
2006-12-12 17:04:49 · answer #10 · answered by -------- 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋