what is you favourite book and why?

Answer 1

1984 - read this when I was 13 and it made a deep impression on me - since then, Orwell's message about surveillance, the bland-ing and cultural homogenisation, propoganda / spin re the necessity in a totalitarian society of a never-ending, unstoppable ongoing war system has become ever more relevant.

Answer 2

Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver.

It is a book that I can identify with for so many reasons. The main character, Cody Noline, left home to pursue....well.... not much. She didn't have a goal of her own. She went to medical school, but didn't finish because she really didn't want to be a doctor. So she works the night shift at 7-11. She lives far away from her family until she gets a call to go home...her father is very sick. This is where the story really unfolds in her old, small, Arizona hometown. She deals with self-identity, ties to family, ties to friends, and learning to trust that there are people in this world who will love her.

My explanation really did no justice. It's a great book. Read it. :o)

Answer 3

Tough, since I keep about a thousand in the house...

Favourite.
Not most meaningful, best written, most influential, or the one I'd most recommend? Just favourite?

It's still got to be Lord Of the Rings.
For scope. For a landscape and history vastly wider than the story-line. For the sense of driven characters moving through a world of ruined spendour.
For all the Norse appeal of the honourable last stand...

Magnificent. Everything that followed has struggled against being derivative.

Answer 4

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Keasy.

No book ever reinforced the concept of separate realities so well for me. The Chief's vision of the world is so disturbing and different and yet much more truthful than any one else in the book. Because of his becoming an invisible person the people around him don't bother to filter who they are or what they say. His reaction to the world around him and his acceptance of his vision as the only real world affected me profoundly. So much so that it becomes completely logical to believe him when he says "it is the truth, even if it didn't happen".

His belief in McMurphy is what makes you believe that a sociopath can actually positively effect people, and make a true antihero, whom you morn when he is killed metaphorically and rejoice when the vessel that housed that spirit is put out of its misery.

Answer 5

Harper lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird'.

This was a brave book of its time; confronting racism in the Southern US was a controversial topic, but how beautifully she did it. To tell the story from Scout's perspective was genius.

It is also rare in being an outstanding book that was also made into an outstanding film.

Wouldn't you just love to be an Atticus Finch.

Answer 6

Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry- The portrayal of the sympathetic, selfish, intelligent, childish, central character inhabiting a vividly portrayed tragic world is unlike anything I have read elsewhere- without many of the stylistic gimmicks so favoured by the academics.

Lord of the Rings??? Oh please leave that for the under-12s...Gene wolfe has written fantasies for adults..

Answer 7

The Zemindar
Its about the indian uprising during the Raj great book very vivid and I creid alot. A must if you like that sort of thing

Answer 8

Favourite book eek...hmm series Wheel of time ..just deep twisting grown up fantasy.LOTR is three books so if lords fans can have that i can have Robert Jordan.

Answer 9

Frenchman's Creek by Daphne DuMurier because it is the most quietly romantic book ever.

Answer 10

the incredible journey about the 2 dogs and a cat . lovely book