Can you name your one favourite book?

Question

So I finally started reading again.

Anybody read Stone Junction by Jim Dodge?
The book itself is tattered, the pages are stained by spilt coffee and have turned a straw-yellow. It has that wonderful smell of old paper.
I've read this book countless times and I've never grown tired of it. It's tory still moves and facinates me.

Can you name the one book for you that has the same effect?

Heh, because I love this book so much and someone requested it, i'll run off the description from the back of Stone Juntion (too hard to explain).

"Starting with his mother's 'roundhouse' to a nun's jaw, Stone Junction is a modern odyssey of one man's quest for knowledge and understanding in a world where revenge, betrayal, revolution, mind-bending chemicals, magic and murder are the norm.
With a genuinely awesome scope, a stiletto-sharp wit and an array of utterly bizzare characters, Jim Dodge has woven a mesmerising and age-defining tale. Like a river constantly changing direction, Stone Junction is both stomach-clutchingly hilarious and heart-rendingly sad but always utterly compelling. Prepare to step into a world where nothing is ever as it seems."

Answer 1

Pride and Prejudice

Answer 2

I can't name just one... there are a bunch of different books that I have read again and again that i couldn't stop thinkin about afterwards.....
A Time To Kill, The Client, The Pelican Brief (all of those are by John Grisham), Katherine It's Time (a true story about a lady that had 15 different personalities), The Giver (t's not exactly a book for adults- the first time I read it was in the 6th grade for school... but i am 22 now and i can still read it and be interested), and The Interview With The Vampire (the book is much better than the movie... i've read it probably 7 times since i first read it about 8 years ago).

Answer 3

The years of the Hungry Tiger by John Gordon Davis.

It's out of print now, but I've read it every year since I was 17. My copy is old and tatty.

If anyone ever wants to read it, it's about a British policeman who is based on Communist Hong Kong. He falls in love with a Communist schoolteacher. It's got great insight of what Hong Kong was like in those times. And of how much a man can love a woman. It's a great story.

Answer 4

I'd have to say the whole Children of the Earth Series by Jean Auel. This includes ( I hope in order) The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Valley of Horses, The Mammoth Hunters, The plains of Passage, The Shelters of Stone. I hear there's another one coming too.... I think I need help, I almost named my daughter Ayla (main character)

Answer 5

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

This book has opened up my eyes so much to the people of the middle east and some of their trials - it has made their plight personal and has really opened me up as a person.
Whenever, I need a reminder or need to be brought down from the clouds - I read this book.

He recently published another book called 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' <- I haven't read it yet, but I am sure it will be fantastic!

Answer 6

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers.

Answer 7

Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis is becoming that book for me - I only discovered it a few years ago and have read it several times since then. It's a great mix of sci-fi with philosophy, with great writing style.

Answer 8

Assassin's Apprentince by Robin Hobb

Answer 9

The Stand by Stephen King. I've read it at least 3 times and it has had an inspirational effect each time I've read it.

Answer 10

As a matter of fact, I can. It's called The Old Curiosity Shop, by Charels Dickens.

Answer 11

No I can't, but what is Stone Junction about? A novel or a non-fiction piece? Do you highly recommend it for anybody?