What's Your Favourite Book? Why?

emperor

Apr 23 2005, 03:11 PM

The question is very simple, what is your favourite boook? And why? I have also added a small pool about how many books do you read each year.
Anyway my favourite is L.A. Confidential written by James Ellroy.
It's a very good police story with a intriguing plot, but it's also a masterpiece of politic and social analize. The power games of institutions, the corruption that have attacked police and government and the general undeground atmosphere are the pillars fo this beautiful book. It isn't a simply police book, but a fresco of a society and of a period of the US history.

brandice

Apr 23 2005, 03:19 PM

I like to read textbooks and biographies, mostly. My favorite book is called I Was Right On Time by Buck O'Neil. If you've seen Ken Burns' "Baseball" you know who he is.

This is a very entertaining and inspirational book about a man who played in baseball's old negro leagues, a great history of a part of baseball that people don't get to see all of the time.

thebluekirby

Apr 23 2005, 04:55 PM

Do comic books count? I read dozens of those each year

But I don't read books that much, in school I read so many boring books, there are no books that seem interesting. But I'm into Shakephere's plays (I read them in books). I like A midsummer's night dream, it's a nice story <3.

Most of the time, I read fanfictions made by teens. Those are much easier for me to understand, and most of the time I'm on my computer anyways.

Saint_Michael

Apr 23 2005, 05:01 PM

lets seee im getting into the forgettom realms series pretty good star wars i got almost every book you could think of

and the ultmate hacker book called Wyrm

brainless

Apr 23 2005, 05:13 PM

I'm reading about one book per week but made a break for my graduation tests in the first two weeks of May :/ (but after this, I've got much more time to read

)

my current favorite book is "No Logo!" by Naomi Klein, an independent journalist who spent quite some time researching on how multinational companies act in order to maximize profits (sweatshops, McTemp-jobs, etc etc) and countermovements like the culture jammers (people who use some big company's advertising and twist it to reveal the truth behind it - either by using the same picture but a different slogan or by using the same slogan with a different picture or just some minor changes to a slogan/picure, for example Nike's "Just do it." and "Justice - Do it, Nike!").
In my opinion these 450 pages were definitely worth the 10 bucks I spent on it (it happened to me that I spent 13 bucks on 150 pages which were crap :/)...

nykegodess

Apr 23 2005, 05:14 PM

i would say my fav book is "gone with the wind" by margret mitchell.
i love that book to pieces, though she made black ppl look like fools who didn't know thier left from right... [anyway so my frind says], but she is "americanised", i am not pure african, and i don't frigging care what she had to say abt that.

i loved scarletts' courage, and plaiin out nastiness. she reminds me of myself... a lot. so... i would go as far to say that i like the book based on vanity reasons. yup!

iwuvcookies

Apr 23 2005, 06:10 PM

If your into kiddie reading you should read the harry potter series. Lol. I liked reading Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beacher Stowe. OR if you into sci fi stuff read "The Giver", "1984", and "Brave New World". Just the whole possible future thing is cool to me. These books they talk about totalitarianism and like controlling you at birth so you are born into this "caste system" society.

brainless

Apr 23 2005, 06:58 PM

I've read all of these books, cookies ... and they're all great for their genre =)

Michael: Tell me more about Wyrm, I just noticed it in the stack of books I'm going to read when I'm done with my exams

AbstracT

Apr 23 2005, 11:00 PM

My favorite book is David Copperfield. The book is amazing..the author changed diction everytime a new character spoke..so you get the feel of what the character is about. The book is long but it's very easy to follow. I love how there are nested plots inside of the major plot because it ties all the characters together.

HoRuS

Apr 24 2005, 01:18 AM

Sirius Connection, I'm addicted to ancient Egyptian mythologies

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May 30 2008, 01:51 AM

I have a few favorite books, actually. I am currently reading a really good book called Little Brother by Cory Doctorow. I am almost done it! YAY[: I also LOVE the Maximum Ride Series. I have read every book in the series. Also, Nightrise is a very good book. I am currently reading Raven's Gate, the first of that series. I will soon be reading Evil Star, the second one to the series. That is a really good series too. I'm pretty sure there are many more books out there I will love, that I just haven't gotten to read them yet. They are my favorites because I love to read action books. These books are the kind you find so interesting, about people who are amazing in someway, then get in trouble but find their way out of it and get back at the bad guys. Sounds corny, but pick up these books and you will see what I mean. What is your favorite book and why?

lethologica

Apr 28 2008, 06:07 AM

My favorite book is Angels And Demons by Dan Brown. I also like The Golden Compass. I didn't finish the trilogy though. I finished the first two books and by the time my local library got the 3rd book I had forgotten what was going on. But, based on the first two books...especially the first book I couldn't take my face out of the pages. I was so absorbed into the story and imagining what was going on. I also watched the movie...the movie was ok...it's hard for me to not compare the movie to the book. I also couldn't feel the things the way it is in the book plus things were cut out as the book is long.

adrianator

Apr 19 2008, 09:54 PM

My favorite book is by Jack London, "The Call of the Wild"

He writes from an animal's point of view, and the story is just amazing. It's about a dog kidnapped from a very fine living and thrown in with the Alaskan gold rush dogs, and eventually turning wild.

Now... I have to read it again, as I haven't read any book in quite a while.

patrickcurl

Dec 8 2007, 02:08 AM

My favorite book would be the Sword of Truth Series by Terry Goodkind, I just finally finished the series (The last book was released 11/13/07.)

The last book was a little rushed after everything building up to the climax, but overall the suspense was extremely high through all 11 books.

I'm definitely looking forward to more Goodkind novels.

Another great book series, of course is Narnia, I actually read it for the first time this past year, and it is obviously aimed at a younger audience, but the messages and themes are extremely deep and I love his mesh of mythology, and christianity.

keroshii

Dec 2 2007, 03:37 AM

Harry Potter.

It's fantasy and leads me to like.. everything.

I'm obsessed and I haven't even read much of the books, and like I know almost everything that happens...

=].

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What's Your Favourite Book? Why? - A small investigation about most popular books

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