 What's Your Favourite Book? Why?, A small investigation about most popular books |
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 May 4 2005, 07:10 AM
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Newbie  Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: 4-May 05 Member No.: 6,607  |
I have two I really loved reading
Nothing Feels Good by Andy Greenwald and The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell |
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May 4 2005, 07:36 AM
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Privileged Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 534 Joined: 31-January 05 From: Bucharest, Romania Member No.: 3,516 |
My favourite books are "The Fundation" by Isaac Asimov and "1984" by George Orwell. Why? I just like SF a lot...I like everything that is releated to SF. Some could say 1984 is not SF. Well they might be true but I also find that book interesting because like Jules Verne it anticipated some things... Everyone that saw Fahrenheit 911 knows what I'm talking about
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May 4 2005, 06:16 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 117 Joined: 3-May 05 From: A Canadian South of the 49th Parallel Member No.: 6,544 |
I like to read books that I can learn from mostly. Books like "Teach yourself ..." and "Learn ... in 24 hours". Mostly anything that I can learn something interesting from; Computers, Gaming, Philosophy/Theology, Spirituality, Ancient History (The Iliad & The Odyssey are Amazing!), Physics, etc.. Almost everything interests me if it is useful knowledge! (Hence my interest in Community Forums like this one).
But I do also read some fictional books (not many though), mostly about Magic, Wizards, Elves and the like.. I have read all of J.R.R. Tolkien's works (The Silmarillian, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings) of which I found The Silmarillian to be the best one! And I am currently reading J.K. Rowlings works (the Harry Potter series) but I am only on the second book so far... Even stuff by H.G. Wells is quite interesting, like War of the Worlds and Time Machine. Much can be learned in those books as well! |
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May 4 2005, 06:44 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 423 Joined: 13-July 04 Member No.: 87 |
QUOTE(shigajet @ Apr 24 2005, 05:00 AM) It's hard for me to pick a single favourite book, but I'll list a few ones off the top of my head that I really liked: The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien) - one fo the best fantasy adventures ever - and a great precursor to the LOTR series A Wild Sheep Chase and Dance Dance Dance (Haruki Murakami) - very surreal story set (for the most part) in Hokkaido. A fine example of post-modern literature. Learning to Bow (Bruce S. Feiler) - A fine insight of a teacher's experiences in Japan while teaching English at a junior high school. Although by now it seems a bit dated (the book was published in the early 90's), a lot of what the writer observed still holds true in some ways today.  Are these Japanese books or are they just English books written by Japanese authors? Sounds quite interesting. I might make a trip to the library if they arn't in Japanese. -Shackman |
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May 4 2005, 06:56 PM
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Newbie [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 18 Joined: 3-May 05 Member No.: 6,543 |
Gosh, I love to read. My favorites are:
The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis LOTR, Silmarillion, Hobbit, etc., by J.R.R. Tolkien The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas I also really enjoy reading non-fiction titles on apologetics. Anything by Ravi Zacharias, C.S. Lewis, JP Moreland, or Norm Giesler is awesome. |
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May 5 2005, 09:45 PM
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Newbie [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 28 Joined: 4-May 05 Member No.: 6,634 |
I'm a Harry Potter nerd because they are such page turners. I've read the latest one which was over 700 pages in about two days.
I also love Eragon. <3 Good book. I like mainly fantasy books as well as horror. From time to time I'll read fiction. |
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May 6 2005, 10:36 PM
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Member [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 78 Joined: 18-January 05 Member No.: 3,318 |
My favorite book is "I am the Cheese." Probably people wont read this [great] book because of the weird title name. Its kinda sad at some parts, which I dont like in books, but this one is an expection. Since I first read it, I have probably re-read it say, 5-10 more times in a span of 5 years. Its a really good book, it doesnt have a very strong ending though. Well, yeah it does, its just hard to follow becuase all of a sudden, it spits out the big secret with no forwarning what so ever. I didn't understand it the first time through until I finished the book, then I got the book. Maybe I should have read the book backwards!
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May 8 2005, 01:57 AM
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Newbie [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 15 Joined: 6-May 05 Member No.: 6,725 |
A bries hostory of time-Stephen Hawking,that guy is incredible. He succesfully answered all questions that human race have being asking themselves since beginning of time
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May 9 2005, 12:47 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 119 Joined: 10-October 04 Member No.: 1,657 |
Hi
I don't have a specific book, I like to read to learn something ususally, no novels here. I like history books, aircrafts and tanks books since I build models for fun. Patrick |
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