What's your favorite book?

Question

Why?

I Sort of have 2 favorites. My first favorite is a book called Hatchet and I read it in junior high school. My second favorite is the entire harry potter series. I started reading harry potter when my mom brought me the first book when i was about 12 or so. I remember looking at like what the hell is this because before that I had never heard of harry potter.

Answer 1

I Am Charlotte Simmons

I love this book b/c the main character reminds me of myself when I first went away to college and how I wised up over time. It's not all good times though. It details her depression when she realizes how cruel her peers can be.

Answer 2

Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

I like them because I grew up with them. I began reading the series when I was 7 years old and have now finished it twice at 15. It just draws you in and doesn't let you go you don't want to stop. The books take you through a series of emotions making laugh and cry at the same time.
And the movies are amazing also.
Have a great day and a fantastic tomorrow

Answer 3

Of all time? Jurassic Park.
It is really quite intelligently planned out. In the beginning, there are so many subtle hints at what the heck's going on in Costa Rica, and it gradually gets more and more obvious. It's a typical Michael Crichton book: the action is slow to start because certain technological aspects need to be explained, but once it does it becomes a rollercoaster ride of a novel. There's many more scenes in the book then the movie: the destruction of the raptor nest, the chase down the jungle river, the second t-rex (yes, there are TWO), the way the dilophosaurus REALLY was (not a large frilled lizard, but an even bigger formidable beast), hunting down the larger rex, the original introduction of flying dinosaurs, and the death of Hammond, to name a few. Very entertaining, very exciting, very thoughtful.

Oh, and did I mention the killer dinosaurs?

Answer 4

Calvin and Hobbes. All of it.
It's such a great piece of work. Bill Watterson is a genius in social commentary and does it so masterfully through Calvin. The constant wonderment and the philosophical questions about Hobbes' existance is a great topic for debates on the meaning of what life is. Overall, the works are much deeper than many people think they are. If you haven't read them extensively, I would.

As for a non-comic book reading, I would have to suggest you read and watch the play "Waiting for Godot." The first time through, you will hate me, I promise you. However, you see in the play multiple levels of interactions between the two main characters. The lessons in breaking context are a must for anyone interested in pursuing comedy. Watch the play, and make sure it's a good production, or it will be terrible. When played well, this is one of the best plays ever. When played poorly, it will be the longest, most boring play ever. It's a risk, but a great one.

Hope you like them.

Answer 5

It varies so much from time to time.
Have you tried Tom Wolfe's "A Man in Full?"
Beautifully written. Emotionally gripping, characters so real so you can touch -- as well as feel -- them. Sometimes during the book the action is so intense you can't turn the pages fast enough.
It's a longish book which puts some people off. I think of a good book as a good relationship. Fun while it lasts,sad when it ends.

Or, for a change of pace,
Jonathan Franzen's "Corrections?"
For many of the same reasons as above, except it tugs at the heart stings. Again, beautifully written.

Answer 6

Bag of Bones, Stephen King
No matter how well an author creates a character, it is still
merely a bag of bones when compared to the memory of a
real person. Not a blood and gore book - a great story, great hero.

Answer 7

Stephen King's The Stand. Good versus evil. Good wins. Great ending.

Answer 8

Double Cross by James Patterson

it was enthralling

Answer 9

Shadow Music by Julie Garwood

crowning achievement in her amazing career.

Answer 10

the primary book for 12 step programs - the Big Book of AA - it shows me how to evaluate myself and what to do to live a well adjusted happy life - I just have to exchange the word alcohol with whatever problem seems to be insurmountable in my life.