Favorite books

---Rev--- · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 864 **Location:**

So I would like to see what your favorite books are and why.

My personal favorites are Catcher in the Rhye because I can relate the the character realy well, and the final scene is so awsome. And Farenheit 451 I like this book because I think its an interenting view on a future society that isnt to hard to imagine.

Remuss · **Joined:** Feb 2006 **Posts:** 273 **Location:**

Brave New World -- just read it.
Oil! -- An amazing story that is not hard to relate to modern times
Fatal -- Love the fact that someone such as a doctor can be corrupt, and cause more harm than good.
Society -- See above

Amelie · **Posted:** Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:10 am

The Perfect Crime - Jean Baudrillard. :love:

Pilot · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 670 **Location:** Above you

Lost Word--Michael Crichton

iGod · **Joined:** Oct 2006 **Posts:** 3728 **Location:**

Anything by Guy de Maupassant

inky · **Joined:** Nov 2006 **Posts:** 4025 **Location:**

It's spelled as "rye" by the way. Yeah, it's a good novel by JD Salinger although I prefer the more contemporary version of it by Stephen Chbosky, Perks of Being a Wallflower. I'm not sure if I can really pick a favorite book but I can mention a couple of books that I enjoyed reading. Like those by Kurt Vonnegut such as Blue Beard and Slaughter House V. Oh, and there's also On The Road by Jack Kerouac, 1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. There's also The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins and..well, I did read all seven Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling.

Sylhana · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 3467 **Location:**

Some of my favourites already mentioned above ^^, including Life of Pi ~ Yann Martel, Catch-22 ~ Joseph Heller, The Dice man ~ Luke Rhinehart, plus anything written by Chuck Palahniuk.

TOloseGT · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 7129 **Location:**

harry potter and the goblet of fire

HellsAdvocate · **Joined:** Jul 2006 **Posts:** 382 **Location:** georgia

definatly paris hiltons book, "it has pictures and everything"

Panu · **Joined:** Aug 2007 **Posts:** 3536 **Location:** Around

The Informant - John Grisom (cant spell his last name)

Deadsolid · **Joined:** Dec 2007 **Posts:** 1789 **Location:**

---Rev--- wrote:

And Farenheit 451 I like this book because I think its an interenting view on a future society that isnt to hard to imagine.

Yes, that was the book I was going to write. I did lit crit on it and was very impressed by the bok and its message.

Morgoth · **Joined:** Feb 2006 **Posts:** 854 **Location:**

Angels and Demons
The Pendragon Series (<<= a must read!!!)
Eragon Cycle

Dystopia · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 2317 **Location:**

What are these books you speak of?

Doron · **Posted:** Wed Mar 12, 2008 5:17 pm

^^People in school were speaking about them..

I was like, wtf??

Then I saw one...

It's just something like, a bunch of paper wrapped together with more paper...

And this magical place called "Library" is where they store those things for sale..

pretty interesting...

I once held one, but the only thing I thought of was:

I can roll a lot of cigs with a package of rolling papers like this...

Doppleganger · **Posted:** Wed Mar 12, 2008 5:21 pm

Physics Of The Impossible by Michio Kaku

RuYi · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 7145 **Location:** Done.

I love reading, though I don't have much time for it.
Among my favorites, The Lily Theather, Empress Orchid and The Go Player.

Currently reading Memoires of a Musketeer, about the life of Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras.

Doron · **Posted:** Wed Mar 12, 2008 5:25 pm

^Above post= bad humor...

I'd love to read Freedom Writers, before I'm going to see the film with english class later on this year...

And also all three Golden Compasses...

JacksColon · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 2018 **Location:**

The Stranger - great imagery. made me want to move to algeria
Things Fall Apart - great look at tribal life in Africa when colonization was first making inroads
The Things They Carried - an amazing book about how war, specifically in Vietnam - affects people
Lord of the Rings trilogy + the Hobbit - simply amazing and for some reason, all the talk about food in the Hobbit always made me super hungry when reading it!

Anotherplyer · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 291 **Location:** WoE

Where the Red Fern Grows-because it was one of the first books I really loved as a kid

Stress · **Posted:** Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:16 pm

Norman Mailor - The Naked and the Dead.

X4rd4S · **Joined:** Aug 2007 **Posts:** 355 **Location:**

Some of my favorites, I like various genres.
J.R.R. Tolkien - Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbits
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Fellowship of The Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Return of The King
J.R.R. Tolkien - the Children of Hurin
Paulo Coelho - Alchemist
Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
Alex Garland - Beach
I cant remember anymore..

Amelie · **Posted:** Thu Mar 13, 2008 12:15 am

X4rd4S wrote:

J.R.R. Tolkien - Silmarillion

that's my bible. :love:

i love j.r.r tolkien.

edit: my dad used to read me that book in 6 different languages. I was like 8 years old.

MrJoey · **Posted:** Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:29 am

Harry Potter and Death's Hallows
Lord of the Ring series.
Anything by Raymond Feist, especially the series that have to do with Midkemia, love those ones.
The Dresden Files series.
Used to like Eragon series, but now when I try to read them, they don't seem like they're that great of a book series. Plus, it annoys me how long its taking the third one to come out.

Squirt · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 8186 **Location:**

Why me
Yeah its a real book about a girl who is at her friends house then a guy picks her up in the street and she gets raped. I read it in the 7th grade i think and i liked it.

Midori · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 3425 **Location:**

Enders Game is pretty awesome. not much else besides that really. (well maybe harry potter)

Squirt wrote:

Why me
Yeah its a real book about a girl who is at her friends house then a guy picks her up in the street and she gets raped. I read it in the 7th grade i think and i liked it.

thats pretty dark

Doron · **Posted:** Thu Mar 13, 2008 8:52 am

ok.. wierdness.. ^^^

That fella/gal has got the hair BEHIND the eye??

That's phunny...

Yet wierd and incredibly disturbing..

RiceFarmer · **Joined:** Dec 2007 **Posts:** 342 **Location:**

I don't read books, I can't train myself to sit there and read one, I'd rather be doing... other stuff...

I do however read the Atlas on a rare occasion... gotta love the Paraguay.

---Rev--- · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 864 **Location:**

RiceFarmer wrote:

I don't read books, I can't train myself to sit there and read one, I'd rather be doing... other stuff...

I do however read the Atlas on a rare occasion... gotta love the Paraguay.

ROFL I am in the libary at Uni and loled out loud and everybody turned to look at me and gave me a look like WTF is that retard doing.

rek · **Posted:** Thu Mar 13, 2008 12:29 pm

Harry potter series
All quiet on the western front
Rangers apprentice

Mark. · **Joined:** Mar 2008 **Posts:** 672 **Location:** Italy

- every book by Terry Brooks
- Harry Potter
- The Lord of the Ring
- The Children of Hurin is pretty nice too ^^
- most of the books by Paulo Choelo
- comics

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