What's your favorite book?

itom37

itom37

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I'm a bit Cat's Cradle fan... really quick easy book, and excellent. I also love The Satanic Verses if you're interested in something more... complex. It's also always a good exercise to read a book that is so inflammatory as to result in its banning by an entire religion.
A really interesting mystery/thriller is House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielowski. Good book.
 
reefboys

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I love any book by Clancy and W.E.B. Griffin. The Bourne series by Robert Ludlum is also very good (actually better than the movies which i thought were great). Of course the Harry Potter books are great. Da Vinci Code was entertaining. My favorite book of all time though probably has to be All Quiet on the Western Front...
 
blazehok68

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Originally Posted by seeinstars89
OK, lets not make fun of me for this.... My favorite has to be the Harry Potter books.... Now before anyone can say anything, if you are basing your opinion off of the movies, then you really shouldnt say anything about the books. The books are phenominal and the movies just plain SUCK. Anyone who has actually read the books always likes them. I have not read the last one yet so I dont know how it ends but I really love the story.
Other books I really liked:
The Life of Pai by Yann Martel (I REALLY like this book)
Left Behind
Enders Game (someone mentioned that, its very good and is a whole series)
The Count of Monte Cristo
I have not read the Lord of The Rings but I think it would be very good.

the harry potter series was fantastic. i have read each book (including the 7th) three times. i start at book one and just go to the end of 7....FANFRIGGINTASTIC!
the count of monte cristo was excellent too. i like it best when dantes is in prison plotting his escape. when he finds the treasure on the island is cool too and when he gets his revenge is pretty sick too. (did i say i like the book?)
i have read some jules verne also. 20000 leaguse beneath the sea was great. captain nemo was the man. around the world in 80 days and journey to the center of the earth were cool too.
dan brown is pretty good too. i will have to agree that angels and demons was better than davinci code.
a good biography ( if you are into them) is the beatles by bob spitz. there is a ton of information in that book (about 1000 pages) but he ties it all together very nicely.
c.s. lewis, the chronicles of narnia. i have a combined book with all of the books together and i read it all at once. definately a must for fantasy lovers.
and of course good old j.r.r. tolkien. i have read the lotr about 7 times over the past 10 years. i love it. probably have read the hobbit just as many. this is a must for anybody who likes to read period. have also read all of tolkiens other stuff except the children of hurin. anybody read it?? i keep wanting to buy it but am cheap and dont want to pay 26 bucks for it.
 
crimzy

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Has anybody read Night by Elie Wiesel? I forgot to mention it earlier but this is one of the most powerful and moving books... probably ever written. It's so heavy but it's also an easy read. The type of book that you can read in a couple of days. IMO, every college student who studies WWII should read Night. It's even more moving because it is a true account.
 
mike22cha

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Oh and the author of Band of Brothers, blanked out on his name, well his books are realy good.
I also like Jarhead and Black Hawk Down.
 
petjunkie

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We read Night in school, pretty good. I'm also a fan of Stephen King, Palahnuik (I really like Choke but I lent it to a friend some years back), cs lewis and madeline l'engel ? were my favorites when I was younger. I just read a Dan Brown book and was pretty impressed, I want to start the ludlum books but haven't.
 
seeinstars89

seeinstars89

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Originally Posted by BLAZEHOK68
the harry potter series was fantastic. i have read each book (including the 7th) three times. i start at book one and just go to the end of 7....FANFRIGGINTASTIC!
the count of monte cristo was excellent too. i like it best when dantes is in prison plotting his escape. when he finds the treasure on the island is cool too and when he gets his revenge is pretty sick too. (did i say i like the book?)
i have read/listened to 1-6 a ton of times.... When the 7th one came out that day i decided to read to them all over again before the last one... so I am currently on the sixth! So dont say ANYTHING....
The count of monte cristo was excellent. Great story, made me cry numerous times!
 
mfp1016

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Dawn, also by Wiesel is a great book, however I find Mila 18 by Uris to be better than both. Personally, I enjoy Vonnegut's cut (Galapagos, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions). A Modern Sequel to the Iliad is a good book. The Dune Series. A Clockwork Orange. Anything by Dave Barry or John Schwartzwelder. Ayn Rand can always teach you a thing or two. Solaris by Stanislaus Lem. Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman. Memoirs of a Geisha. Wild Swans. Grendel.
In regards to S. King, no other author can develop their characters like he does, amazing. Especially throughout the Dark Tower series.
You should look into other genres, crime and ---- Tracy comics are kind of trite and under stimulating; but I do suppose they work for some demographics and mindsets.
 
seeinstars89

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Originally Posted by BLAZEHOK68
and of course good old j.r.r. tolkien. i have read the lotr about 7 times over the past 10 years. i love it. probably have read the hobbit just as many. this is a must for anybody who likes to read period. have also read all of tolkiens other stuff except the children of hurin. anybody read it?? i keep wanting to buy it but am cheap and dont want to pay 26 bucks for it.
I just looked this up on ---- and amazon and they are pretty cheap on there. The story looks like it would be really good. Maybe I will get it off Audible.com . It has really great reviews!
 
mr. guitar

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Woah...I have a ton of favorite books...
"Night" by Elie Weisel
"Echoes from the Holocaust: A Memoir" by Mira Ryczke Kimmelman (I was very blessed when I got to meet Mira and very blessed for her to sign my book!)
"Silent No More" by Pastor Rod Parsley
"Culturally Incorrect" by Pastor Rod Parsley
"Our God is Awesome" by Tony Evans
Books I'm fixin to read...lol...
"Original Intent" by David Barton
"Wigglesworth: The Complete Story" by Wilson Julian (Biography of an amazing/awesome Pentecostal Evangelist in the early 1900's)
"Walking in the Supernatural" by T.L. Lowery
"What the Bible Says about the Holy Spirit" by some Pentecostal guy (I forgot his name)
"Preparing for Christian Ministry" by some other guy which I forgot his name...lol
 
happyvac

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Classic books I've enjoyed...
Native Son by Richard Wright
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn can't remember author's name...
Call of the Wild and White Fang by Jack London
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Roots Alex Haley
Up From Slavery Booker T. Washington
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Probably forgetting a fair few, but those are some of my favorites.
 
happyvac

happyvac

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Originally Posted by Mr. Guitar
Woah...I have a ton of favorite books...
"Night" by Elie Weisel
"Echoes from the Holocaust: A Memoir" by Mira Ryczke Kimmelman (I was very blessed when I got to meet Mira and very blessed for her to sign my book!)
"Silent No More" by Pastor Rod Parsley
"Culturally Incorrect" by Pastor Rod Parsley
"Our God is Awesome" by Tony Evans
Books I'm fixin to read...lol...
"Original Intent" by David Barton
"Wigglesworth: The Complete Story" by Wilson Julian (Biography of an amazing/awesome Pentecostal Evangelist in the early 1900's)
"Walking in the Supernatural" by T.L. Lowery
"What the Bible Says about the Holy Spirit" by some Pentecostal guy (I forgot his name)
"Preparing for Christian Ministry" by some other guy which I forgot his name...lol
Now I'm not trying to be offensive or anything here, but I've noticed that with many of your music/literature choices, they're mostly all related to Christianity/religion. Is this a conscious choice (you limit yourself to these) or does it just so happen that you enjoy them?
Just curious.
 
happyvac

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Originally Posted by Jmick
The Jungle is a great book!
But it lags a little bit at the end due to the lengthy speeches promoting socialism...same with Native Son...
 
mr. guitar

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Originally Posted by HappyVac
Now I'm not trying to be offensive or anything here, but I've noticed that with many of your music/literature choices, they're mostly all related to Christianity/religion. Is this a conscious choice (you limit yourself to these) or does it just so happen that you enjoy them?
Just curious.
I love Christian books!
My collection of Christian books is growing and growing!

Yes I do read other books besides Christian ones if that's what you're thinkin'.
I'd rather read Christian ones though.
I got two more books yesterday...
"The Faiths of our Fathers" (Founding Fathers that is)
and....
"The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates"....The book store didn't have the Federalist one of that book...so I'm ordering that one.
 
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