What is your favorite book?

[ds dude]

One of my favorite books is Treasure Island.  Also I love anything by Charles Dickens, my teacher said it was a little hard to understand, and comprehend, but I got it straight through.  I just had to read slow .

[tehsnipah]

Reading Darren Shan's Cirque du Freak, this book is pretty damn good. I'm gonna be finishing this series in two weeks hopefully

My favorite book is "Point Blank", i forgot author's name, so i'll put it when i find out

[ds dude]

Reading Darren Shan's Cirque du Freak, this book is pretty damn good. I'm gonna be finishing this series in two weeks hopefully

My favorite book is "Point Blank", i forgot author's name, so i'll put it when i find out

This is probably what your talking about: http://www.amazon.com/Point-Blank-Alex-Rider-Adventure/dp/0142401641

I am familiar with that book, only because I've seen it at the library.  Although the cover art is sometimes different, depending which Point Blank book you buy.

[Lord Frunkamunch]

^ You'd probably like that series. Check it out if your library has the beginning ones.

[Blue-ninja]

Yeah, the Alex Rider book series is good. I have the first five books (as a Christmas present), and the author is Anthony Horowitz, since it isn't omitted here.

[ds dude]

^ You'd probably like that series. Check it out if your library has the beginning ones.

Yeah, the Alex Rider book series is good. I have the first five books (as a Christmas present), and the author is Anthony Horowitz, since it isn't omitted here.

Thanks guys, my library had Stormbreaker, Point Blanc, Skeleton Key, and Scorpia.  I'll go to my library tomorrow and see if I can rent Stormbreaker.  I'll check it out.

[Hair|Trigger]

I like matthew Reilly books.  I've read, Ice Station, Hover car racer, Area 7, Scarecrow, and i'm reading Seven Ancient Wonders.  Great series, especially when you get the books for free from your sister who works at a bookshop xD.

[Lord Frunkamunch]

My brother says Ice Crash (or something like that) was the best science fiction book he's ever read. Anyone here read/recommend it?

*edit* Err, make that Snow Crash.

[bja888]

Its been a while but I liked Virtual War.

[{LAW} Gamer_2k4]

Anyways..."The screwtape letters" by Lewis is my fav

That book is pretty solid, but I prefer his space trilogy (especially Perelandra).

[SadistAtHeart]

Wicked by Gregory Maguire was excellent. Also anything by Poe is awesome, whether or not it makes me sound emo

[Kagesha]

Mr. Happy by Roger Hargreaves

[blackdevil0742]

My fav has to be The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien.

[Unlucky XIII]

Probably The Redemption of Althalus by David and Leigh Eddings. Long, but its a great read if you can spare the time.

[Demonic]

One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez.

[Rainbow Concussion]

Ive read almost every Ayn Rand book. Im on my last one, Atlas Shrugged.

[JayBee]

- Charles Bukowski: Ham on Rye, Post Office, ...
- Jack Kerouac: Lonesome Traveler, The Dharma Bums, On the Road
- J D Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye, his short stories
- Henry David Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience
- Albert Camus: The Stranger, The Plague, The Fall, The Myth of Sisyphus
- J P Sartre: Nausea
- Walker Percy: The Moviegoer
- Saul Bellow: Seize the Day, Dangling Man
- Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho
- James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Philip K Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- John Dos Passos: Manhattan Transfer
- Aldous Huxley: The Doors of Perception, Heaven and Hell, Brave New World
- George Orwell: 1984, Down and Out in Paris and London
- Henry Miller: Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Black Spring
- Knut Hamsun: Hunger
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Journey to the End of the Night, Death on the Installment Plan
- John Fante: Ask the Dust
- Dostoevsky: Notes from Underground, The Idiot, Crime and Punishment
- J M Coetzee: Disgrace
- Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim
- Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi)
- Hermann Hesse: Steppenwolf, Siddhartha
- Henri Barbusse: Hell

(Yes, I like "outsider" literature. I do read other things though.)

[Slashnoob]

laff, reading is overrated.
many people that read alot of books, seem to be convinced that reading is some kind of a must-do in order to become intelligent.

i know many people that read alot and well, they have a wider vocabulary than myself perhaps, but some of them sure are dumber.

Well, I'm sure all of us read.  Reading is what keeps us educated, and its what makes us human.

...keeps us educated?...
...makes us human?...
not long ago you thought i'm still mad at you for some reason, now i'm happy to announce i'm annoyed by you for this purely idiotic comment. alot.
to counter your opinion - no, not ALL of "us" read. i sure don't.

- Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi)

isn't he the boss of Mortal Kombat I ?

[Espadon]

i know many people that read alot and well, they have a wider vocabulary than myself perhaps, but some of them sure are dumber.

Larger lexicon is not equivalent to smarter-than. A computer stores more data than my brain could ever hope to hold but dammit, I'm a yo-mamaload smarter than the computer because I tell it what to do. Also, I'm totally willing to bet that if you compare the number of book readers that are smarter than you versus the number of book-readers who are dumber than you, the 'smarter-than' category greatly outnumbers the 'dumber-than.'

Well, I'm sure all of us read.  Reading is what keeps us educated, and its what makes us human.

...keeps us educated?...
...makes us human?...
not long ago you thought i'm still mad at you for some reason, now i'm happy to announce i'm annoyed by you for this purely idiotic comment. alot.
to counter your opinion - no, not ALL of "us" read. i sure don't.

Okay, so you're a smart illiterate person. And so...

- Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi)

isn't he the boss of Mortal Kombat I ?

D'oh! Fail!

Better luck next time -- and try not to fall victim to foot-in-mouth.

[Mangled*]

I haven't read very many books in my time. I suppose my favourite is The Wasp Factory.

Although A Brief History of Time is also fecking excellent.