What's Your Favorite Book?

The Bible is my favorite too :D
But some other good books are (if you like fiction)
The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny
The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash also by Neal Stephenson
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

Right now I'm reading The Lord of the Rings. And I read the Hobbit previously.
 
Just about anything written by Bernard Cornwell. The Saxon Stories, The Grail Quest and the Richard Sharpe series kept me going for two years. (21 books)

If you like light reading, check out the Charlie Moon series by James D Doss (16 books)
 
I read all the Charlie Moon stories, all good. Along the same lines, lite reading, are the CJ Box stories. Some of my favorite authors are Don Winslow, Trevanian, Lescroart, Harlan Coben, Nelson Demille, Martin Cruz Smith and more easy reading, James Lee Burke, Lee Child and Robert Crais. Read and enjoy.
 
Tough to narrow down. For nonfiction, probably The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. Got me interested in biology and that's pretty much responsible for my career.

Fiction would have to be A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin. About an Italian WW1 veteran relating his experiences to a young man while walking across the countryside. Helprin does amazing things with th English language.
 
Zen Mind Beginners Mind - Shunryu Suzuki

"As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw."
~Shunryu Suzuki
 
UffDa said:
Just about anything written by Bernard Cornwell. The Saxon Stories, The Grail Quest and the Richard Sharpe series kept me going for two years. (21 books)

If you like light reading, check out the Charlie Moon series by James D Doss (16 books)
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I'm another Bernard Cornwell fan. I've read almost all of his books. I just finished Death of Kings. I'm looking forward to reading 1356 once it's released.
 
I found World War Z by Max Brooks a very intriguing style of writing and I loved reading it.

My favourite novels are probably Slaughterhouse 5 and Cat's Cradle, both by Kurt Vonnegut.

Extremely worthy mentions (for my part) are: Catcher in the rye by JD Salinger as well as Lord of the Flies by Golding.
 
Ask the Dust by John Fante, a brutally honest semi-autobiographical recounting of the authors life as a young poor artist in Los Angeles.

But my favorite author overall is Charles Bukowski, without a doubt.
 
I second A Soldier of the Great War, excellent book. I tried two of his other books and could not get through them
 
Insipid Moniker said:
Tough to narrow down. For nonfiction, probably The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. Got me interested in biology and that's pretty much responsible for my career.

Fiction would have to be A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin. About an Italian WW1 veteran relating his experiences to a young man while walking across the countryside. Helprin does amazing things with th English language.
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A Winters Tale by Helprin is good also.I read it first,then found ASOTGW.
The man can tell a tale thats for sure.
 
jstn said:
I teach Literature as a profession and have read many books, but my favorite is still "East of Eden" by Steinbeck.
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Indeed, this is IMO one of the books one has to read in a lifetime. Among others there would be Frank Herbert's "Dune" and "Roadside Picnic" by Strugatsky brothers.
 
el dub said:
I read all the Charlie Moon stories, all good. Along the same lines, lite reading, are the CJ Box stories. Some of my favorite authors are Don Winslow, Trevanian, Lescroart, Harlan Coben, Nelson Demille, Martin Cruz Smith and more easy reading, James Lee Burke, Lee Child and Robert Crais. Read and enjoy.
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I also have read all of C. J Box. If you like him, try Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire series. It's been made into a TV series on A&E. It wasn't as good as the books, but it was still pretty good.
A&E says that it will return for a 2nd season.
 
Lots of my favorites have already been mentioned... Snow Crash is excellent as is The Baroque Cycle (though I found it a lot slower read than many books) also by Stephenson I found Diamond Age almost as good as Snow Crash. The Road was great, I will have to check out Blood Meridian. I am in the middle of the Song of Fire and Ice series now, so it will be a bit before I am looking for another book. I also agree, Fear and Loathing is a great read, one of the few I have read more than once. LOTR as many others have said, though I could never read The Silmarillion, tried 3 times and gave up.

One I have not seen mentioned is Enders Game, this one got me hooked and I read most of the series, though it does start to feel repetitive after 4 or so books.

I also agree that The Road movie was really good, but I wouldn't say the best book to movie ever, for me that would be a toss up between The Shawshank Redemption (short story, I know) and Fear and Loathing, Jonny Depp is perfect for the lead.

I am saving this thread for after Song of Fire and Ice so I can find my next adventure.
 
I read a lot, but there's only one book that I read more than once:
"Walden", Henry David Thoreau
 
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