I'm surprised at how few people enjoy reading, I've always loved reading ever since before I can remember. My favourite authors are John Wyndom and Ray Bradbury, I remember reading Fahrenheit 451 when I was 11, and thinking it was the best book I ever read, what's your favourite book?
2007-02-24 06:39:49 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Reading is boring and has too few car chases.
2007-02-24 08:54:20 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I love reading and books, and have always enjoyed the odd happy afternoon spent pottering about in the local library or second-hand book store!
In fact just before Xmas I quit my well paid job as a computer programmer and have just been offered a post as a library assistant. I'll actually get paid to talk to and help people, will have a far better work-life balance AND be around books all day. Perfect!
Don't have a fave book of all time, though I do enjoy a spot of crime fiction and of stumbling across some amazing stuff published by Penguin Classics.
2007-02-26 04:06:52 · answer #2 · answered by Philippa 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love reading, I always have to read for at least 30mins before going to sleep. My favourite books are the Dark Tower series by Stephen King - I was completely absorbed in the story from start to finish, but didn't get much sleep for a few months! I love Ray Bradbury too, especially his short stories.
2007-02-24 06:48:22 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I love to read - it's really easy to get lost in a good book! Fahrenheit 451 was a great one. I love Hemingway, too - The Sun Also Rises is my favorite book, but I also love the collection of his short stories. I also enjoy Robin Cook medical thrillers and Dean Koontz suspense thrillers. I think people who don't take the time to open a good book are really missing out.
2007-02-24 06:42:58 · answer #4 · answered by SeaSquirt 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I do. My favorite authors are Dickens, Agatha Christie, Shakespeare and lots of romance novels for variety. I, too, read Bradbury when I was 11 (The Illustrated Man). I read "Animal Farm" and George Orwell's "1984" when I was 10 or 11.
My favorite book is "Curtain", which is about Hercule Poirot's last case.
2007-02-24 07:12:14 · answer #5 · answered by 1985 & going strong 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It rates up there right behind breathing in my list of favourite activities. (I admit to frequently reading while eating).
It took me a long while to "get" Ray Brabury.
Favourite books divide into categories: most eye-opening, most informative, most entertaining...
Some that made a lot of impact did not do so well on re-reading, others get better with each visit.
Fantasy: Tim Powers at his best: "Last Call" "The Anubis Gates" "The Stress of Her Regard" (but at his worst his tales don't work),
Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings,
History: "The Battle for Spain" Antony Beevor
"The Battle of the Bulge" Charles Macdonald.
Philosophy: Keith Stanovich The Robot's Rebellion.
Possibly, amongst so many other candidates...
2007-02-24 07:02:39 · answer #6 · answered by Pedestal 42 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love reading and just could not live without my books, I will read anything and everything, I'm like that little robot, more input, I read a lot of philosophy because its something I'm interested in but don't talk about to people as most find it boring, I also read a lot of spirituality books as that is a great love of mine, I don't particularly have a favourite author/ess but for light reading and time out I do like Cathy Kelly and Meave Binchy, books to lose yourself in.
2007-02-24 09:38:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am always amazed at how many people I know that don't read books, but I think that the internet has taken over and a lot of people spend time in chat rooms. I love Dean Koontz, Steven King and Marian Keyes - I think it's amazing where they get their inspiration from. But the two books that have really affected me are:
The Time Travellers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (You have to read this!)
The Lovely Bones by Alice Seabold (Beautifully written and incredibly sad)
2007-02-24 06:48:39 · answer #8 · answered by Jojotraveller 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Les Miserables, by the French author Victor Hugo, just amazing, I think I'll never forget it.
I also enjoyed The pillars of the earth, by Ken Follet, and
Scarlet and Black, also by a magnificent French author, Stendhal.
I like many more, but I wouldn't finish
2007-02-24 06:56:43 · answer #9 · answered by Abbey Road 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, I love it. Nothing better than curling up with a good book. Beats TV anyday. I love science fiction/fanstasy so I read Issac Asimov, Kurt Vonnegut, H.G. Wells, Robert Asprin, Poul Anderson, George Orwell. I don't have a favorite, I don't like reading books a second time.
But my sister, I don't think she's read two books in her whole life. Even as young children we had that difference. I would bring my poor mom as stack of 15 books for her to read to me, my sister would get bored halfway through one.
2007-02-24 06:48:49 · answer #10 · answered by apuleuis 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes i`d rather read a good book than watch TV favourite authors Stephen King, John Connolly, and Clive Cussler, but my favourite book is the lord of the rings
2007-02-24 06:47:33 · answer #11 · answered by puzzled? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋