I'm looking for a new read, so I would like some opinions
Tell me your favorite book and a small synopsis
My favorite book is the lovely bones
It's a tad morbid but I loved it!!
2007-11-29 03:40:01 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
It's hard to pick, since I enjoy a few different genres, but here are my top 5:
1. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
2. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
3. The Stand by Stephen King
4. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
5. Beach Music by Pat Conroy
I also enjoyed The Lovely Bones. Speaking of morbid, you might like Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'Nan. It's about a sheriff of a small town in the late 1800's who tries to keep his sanity as the townspeople begin to die from an epidemic. It's disturbing, yet poetic.
2007-11-29 06:40:17 · answer #1 · answered by davef5054 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Strangely enough, my two favorite books were both required reading in high school: "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, and "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkein. I read a lot, but these are still my favorites. If you're into "morbid," you might like "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. And you can't go wrong with Charles Bukowski.
2007-11-29 14:26:31 · answer #2 · answered by spam_nachos 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is so hard to pick just one...classic favorites include Jane Eyre, Gone With the Wind, and Little Women.
More recently Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series..time travel, romance, historical fiction, Scotland, pre-revolutionary war America, adventure...6 great books.
2007-11-29 11:46:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I liked the Lovely Bones too...her new one is Almost Moon....it is good too. I have read so many wonderful books over the years.
Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
www.bookreporter.com is a great website for finding something to read....
2007-11-29 13:48:29 · answer #4 · answered by deb 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Although it actually a set of seven books, I LOVE the Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis. They make me happy when I read them, even though I've read them a hundred times before. My favorite of them is either The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, or The Last Battle.
2007-11-29 13:04:01 · answer #5 · answered by SurrepTRIXus 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I guess the best fiction I ever read was "1984," by George Orwell.
It's more difficult to choose a best essay. Many did please me and taught me a lot. Say: "The Machiavellians," by James Burnham; "Diplomacy," by Henry Kissinger; "Mole Hunt," by Nigel West; and many others.
But I believe that the best essay is another one I didn't read as yet. For, it is not reprinted and original printing are very expensive, that is: the unabridged version in 12 vol. of "A Study of History," by Arnold Toynbee.
2007-11-29 12:00:15 · answer #6 · answered by Space Bluesman 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
One of my favourite books is called the Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood.
The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1985. The novel, set in Cambridge, Massachusetts, explores themes of women in subjugation, and the various means by which they gain agency, against a backdrop of the establishment of a totalitarian theocratic state. Sumptuary laws (essentially, dress codes) play a key role in the form of social control in the new society.
Its a fantastic read I higly recommend it. Kept me interested all the waty through! Also love Jane Austen books such as Pride And Predjudice but i think from your question you would enjoy the handmaids tale.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Handmaids-Tale-Contemporary-Classics/dp/0099740915/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1196355011&sr=8-1
2007-11-29 11:50:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"The Grapes Of Wrath" by John Steinbeck. A story of the plight of homeless Americans during the Great Depression.
2007-11-29 11:46:31 · answer #8 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Swan Song by Robert McCammon
2007-11-29 16:14:22 · answer #9 · answered by Mrs S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my favorite book is Marley and Me by John Grogan. They're making it a movie now and the actors will be Owen Wilson and Jennifer Anisten
2007-11-29 11:55:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋