What are some of your favorite books?

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Thread title says it all! Talk about what some of your favorite books are, and maybe why you like them :)

I don't know about you, but for me my childhood was composed of a lot of reading. I didn't always have the latest games or movies, and since I moved around a lot, so I was constantly the new kid on the block. Naturally, I spent a lot of time reading. Fiction, non-fiction, etc. I've got to say, it made a huge impact on me as a person, and without some great books...I probably wouldn't be the person I am today. So here are a few of my favs, some of these not necessarily from my childhood.

The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Dune chronicles (Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, etc. Frank Herbert)
The Lord of the Rings (LOTR books, The Children of Hurin, J.R.R. Tolkien)
Childhood's End (Arthur C. Clarke)
Contact (Carl Sagan)
Musashi (Eiji Yoshikawa)
The Sound of Waves (Yukio Mishima)
The Foundation series (Isaac Asimov)
The Player of Games (Iain M. Banks)
Slaughterhouse 5 (Kurt Vonnegut)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Taiko (Eiji Yoshikawa)

There are a lot more, but these came to mind as some of my immediate favorites.
 
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Da vinci code
Blood Memory
The House
Fire Starter
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out of the 11 books I've bought randomly I've only really enjoyed these 4.

So i'm hesitant when buying books becuase my success rate with enjoyment is low.

I'm a sucker for female protagonists, mystery based stuff, and (impending doom thriller moments)
Sort of like when someone's coming down the stairs and you have no way out of the room, and minimal hiding places. Just a situation basically where hope is all but lost, and the main character feels impending doom.

dunno i'm weird.
 
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, hands down favorite book of all time.
Under a Worn-Torn Sky
Every single Sherlock Holmes book, I have them all and love them.
The Giver
Fahrenheit 451
 
I NEVER read a book unless it's for a class and recently I had to read a book called Speak.

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It's a really interesting book and I'm glad I read it. It's mostly a book that adolescent girls can relate to but I still liked it enough to finish it to the end.
 
TesusJits said:
I NEVER read a book unless it's for a class and recently I had to read a book called Speak.

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It's a really interesting book and I'm glad I read it. It's mostly a book that adolescent girls can relate to but I still liked it enough to finish it to the end.
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My sister recommended that book to me. She read it. But I digress and chose not to read it. Because My sister is also into stupid MTV shows.
 
House of Leaves ( Mark_Z._Danielewski)

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This book sticks with you. You'll be thinking about it when your not reading it.

The Dark Tower ( Stephen King )

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There was already a thread for this too but I'm too lazy to look for it.

My absolute favorites... C.S. Lewis' space trilogy:

Out of the Silent Planet
Perelandra
That Hideous Strength
 
Anything H.P. Lovecraft. I do worship Cthulhu in my freetime. ;)
Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Restaurant At The End of the Universe. I love all of Adams' work.
David Moody - Hater. Awesome awesome book. I still have yet to read Dog Blood, and Them or Us comes out next month.
Dan Brown - Angels & Demons was such a badass read. I liked The Da Vinci Code too, although not as much as A&D.
Chuck Palahniuk - Choke, Fight Club. Another great author, I love his writing style.
Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho. Awesome book and movie as well.
 
The Lord of the Rings
The Hobbit
The Silmarillion
The Chronicles of Narnia (all 7)
Animorphs (lol cheesy i know :p)
The Alchemist
Robinson Crusoe
 
lord of the rings. the hobbit. unfinished tales . the silmarillion basically anythin from tolkien (my dad has every one of his books)
the wheel of time series by robert jordan also new spring and the world of wheel of time , its such a good novel since i first read it about 5 years ago ive just been rereading it in a loop ever since its worse than my mk addiction
the harry potter series

pretty much im a sucker for knights an dragons etc :)
 
it may come as a surprise but i don't read very much. but when i do i read vary old books.
i read a lot of homer.
the iliad
the oddessy
i love greek epic and tragedies.

i also love the Divine comedy (the inferno) by Dante Alighieri. i also like to read various religious text (but believe in none of them). I like to read comics, batman and green lantern mostly.
 
I lean towards science fiction and fantasy, so it's reflected in my choices.

*The Wall Around Eden (Joan Slonczewski)
*The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
*The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
*The Illustrated Man (Ray Bradbury)
*The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)...I haven't got around to reading the rest of the Chronicles of Narnia
*Voyage of the Space Beagle (A.E. van Vogt) ...more specifically "The Black Destroyer" and "War of Nerves"
*Alice in Wonderland(Lewis Carrol)

Unfortunately, getting started on reading is the hard part. I have to be in the right mood for it thus there are long spells where I stop reading. Being a slow reader doesn't help things either. I'm improving a bit since I managed to read 4-6 books last summer. I read the most books more during my middle school years, but that was only because I forced to with the Accelerated Reader program.
 
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Garth Ennis'- Preacher(Graphic Novel)
Jhonen Vasquez- Johnny THM & Squee(Graphic Novel)
Brian K. Vaughan- Y: The Last Man(Graphic Novel)
Alan Moore- Watchmen & The League Of Extraordinary gentlemen(Graphic Novel)
Frank Miller- The Dark Knight Returns(Graphic Novel)
Joss Whedon- Astonishing X-Men(Graphic Novel)
Ed Brubaker- Criminal(Graphic Novel)
Dean Koontz- The Key To Midnight & Phantoms(Novel)
Stephen King- Pet Semetary & It, The Stand, Dark Tower Series(Novel)
J.K. Rowling- Harry Potter(Novel)
Graham Han****- Fingerprints Of The Gods(Novel)
And the Song Of Ice and Fire series.
 
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