I love Harry Potter, but that's not my favorite book, and I don't want to hear if yours is, lol, sorry. If your a fan of books, then I just want to know which one you consider your favorite and why so?
2007-02-27 17:43:54 · 16 answers · asked by AckDuScheisse!! 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
playboy
it keeps me reading, which i used to find boring.... *yawn*
2007-02-27 17:47:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
My favorite book is The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kudnera. I love it so much because it was very philosophical. A lot of big questions were asked and it attempted to explain a lot about the very nature of the human psyche. While it does take a while to let the information sink in it was still very personable and easy to relate to. In addition to the way it was written I thought that it had the perfect ending.
2007-02-28 10:34:46 · answer #2 · answered by tasha 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favorite is the Alexander the Great Trilogy by Mary Renault. It consists of
1. Fire from Heaven which depicts his childhood until becoming a young king at 20 upon his father's assassination.
2. The Persian Boy is a narration by a Persian eunuch who became Alexander's servant and lover. This narration covers Alexander's conquests and his death in Babylon.
and finally
3. The Funeral Games is a political satire describing the 15 years that followed Alexander's death and the breakdown of the empire he strive to unite.
These are great historical fiction books that attempt to give a glimpse of a great man. They are enjoyable to read and with Renault's captivating style you actually live them.
2007-02-28 02:24:48 · answer #3 · answered by Pabs 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I think that a lot of contemporary fiction is crap - the authors just pull stuff out of their bums in order to get paid. They shoot for quanitity rather than quality. I prefer to read authors who are true artists. It makes their words mean more.
Having said that, I really don't have one favroite book. I have a few that I read over and over again because I love them:
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
I also read a lot of Flanner O'Connor's short stores over again too.
2007-02-28 11:23:11 · answer #4 · answered by YSIC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a great fan of books and do not have a favorite book as I have read thousands of books and authors in my 52 years on Planet Earth. Favorite authors include Issac Asimov, Sidney Sheldon, Anne Rice, Robert Heinlein, Tom Clancy, Jean Auel, Stephen King, Jacqueline Susann, J.R.R. Tolkien, Anne McCaffrey to name a very very few...
These people have, to me, captured my fevered imagination, taken me to worlds far beyond my own, and opened my mind to new and exciting possibilities and perchance, even to dream!
2007-02-28 03:33:58 · answer #5 · answered by tuxedomadness 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My current favorite book is The Singer's Crown by Elaine Isaak (it's fantasy). I loved it, first of all, because even though it has a standard fantasy plot, it has a twist that redeems it. I couldn't put it down. And the cover, unlike so many others of it's genre, is very unpreposessing. No vast conquering armies, or dragons, or muscled out warriors and hot half naked damsels in distress. It was very intriguing.
2007-02-28 19:59:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Watchmen. It's the only graphic novel to be included in Time Magazines all time top 1000 novels. The story is incredible and I hope the movie being made don't dissapoint. It's written by the same author of V for Vendetta.
2007-02-28 01:53:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you like reading fiction, I would suggest books written by
Clive Cussler
This guy is fantastic at writing stories, with the hero Dirk Pitt and sidekick Al Giordino.
If you like reading true stories, or news items, I would suggest doing a search on Google, or perhaps Ask Jeeves, and locate items from
Andrei Lankov
This man is super-fantastic at articles written about North Korea. He writes about not-too-well-known items concerning North Korea. I have found over the years his information is totally correct.
2007-02-28 01:50:25 · answer #8 · answered by Living In Korea 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favorite is book is When Darkness Falls: Tales of San Antonio Ghosts and Spirits by Docia Schultz Williams. I just love the mystery and tales it says on it. I read that book and just loved all the ghost stories it has.
2007-02-28 01:48:05 · answer #9 · answered by xSilverStarx 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"A Dead Man in Deptford" by Anthony Burgess. It a fictional account of the English playwright, Christopher Marlowe. It's my favourite because I'm reading it right now.
Burgess also wrote a wonderful fictional account of Shakespeare called "Nothing Like the Sun."
2007-02-28 08:47:12 · answer #10 · answered by jcboyle 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favorite series is the Earth Children Series by Jean Auel. Its about a prehistoric woman named Ayla. It is facinating and wonderfully researched.
2007-02-28 03:56:15 · answer #11 · answered by gus_zalenski 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋