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Favorite Books
What are your favorite books? I know mine are the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, the Luxe books by Anna Godbersen, and My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult, though there are MANY others!
PLEASE NO SPOILERS FOR ANY BOOKS!!!
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9 years ago
LOTR.
10 years ago
Hatchet all the way!!!!!!!!
10 years ago
I love anything by Stephen King (I've read all his work, including a lot of unpublished stuff) my favourite at the moment is Duma Key. I also like the work of Ruth Park - The Harp In The South books.
Norma
11 years ago
The Phantom Tollbooth.
Reply 10 years ago
classic its an awesome book
Reply 10 years ago
yay! Phantom tollbooth. I love their taste in words. Did you get it? I made a funny!
Reply 11 years ago
Loved Phantom Tollbooth.
Reply 11 years ago
OoooOOooo! I remember that one! Full of win. :D
10 years ago
My favorites are:
The Harry Potter series (J.K. Rowling)
The Inkheart trilogy (Cornelia Funke)
The Inheritance series (Christopher Paolini) (Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, etc…)
The Fablehaven series (Brandon Mull)
and the Percy Jackson series (Rick Riordan)
10 years ago
Possibly my favorite fiction book of all time is Neil Gaiman's American Gods.
That said, the others faves are:
Anything Neil Gaiman
Anything Douglas Adams
A Clockwork Orange
The Night Watch (Terry Pratchett)
Percy Jackson and the Olympians is pretty awesome. And that comes from somebody as old as Luke :D
Reply 10 years ago
I like Terry Pratchett's Wee Free Men. The first book!
10 years ago
My fave book is Coraline by Neil Gaiman! I LOVE it!
Reply 10 years ago
Gaiman FTW
11 years ago
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lord of the Flies
Catch 22
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
*All of these books are not exactly "happy", but if you're looking for amazing stories, these are my recommendations. Some of these are more "adult" themes or may offend people's beliefs. I didn't have a problem with them, but I'm just letting you know.
11 years ago
Stephen King's (It and The Dark Tower series, especially), Harry Potter (third book was my favourite), Anne McCaffery's Dragonriders of Pern, The Pigman by Paul Zindel, Jack Finney's Time and Again and Time After Time, Addie Pray by Joe David Brown (an excellent book that was made into a movie at least as good as the book)... I have a lot of favorites. Comic books are another topic, but I like Calvin and Hobbes and The Far Side and Dilbert.
11 years ago
I've read like 70 StarWars novels. I love each one more than the last.
Read them. Now.
11 years ago
I love My Sister's Keeper, Nineteen Minutes is good too.
Reply 11 years ago
I haven't seen the movie, but I heard they changed the ending. The book was great, though!
Reply 11 years ago
The people they cast for the movie looked a lot different from what I expected!
Reply 11 years ago
I read the novel with the characters on the front, though I don't know what the others looked like, so I could imagine. Was the movie good? I'm pretty sure the book is better...
Reply 11 years ago
I haven't seen the movie, just the trailer for it. It looks like it'd be good, but I bet the book is better :P
Reply 11 years ago
The movie wasn't good....
Reply 11 years ago
Was it bad or just "meh"?
Reply 11 years ago
More meh than bad. It had it's moments, but only a few.
Reply 11 years ago
Have you read the book?
Reply 11 years ago
Nope. Just the movie.
Reply 11 years ago
Should I give it a shot?
Reply 11 years ago
Absolutely!
Reply 11 years ago
The book is awesome!
11 years ago
Not my favorite but I discovered Robert Howard's corpus on the Au gutenberg site, just about to finish the last Conan story, much better than I expected.
Hmm
Favorites
"A World Out of Time" Niven
"Song of the Dodo" David Quammen
spoiler alert, the dodo is extinct
"Man Eaters of Kumoan" Jim Corbett
The tiger did it.
That's all without checking the bookcase.
11 years ago
My favorites right now are Christopher Moore books. I can pour over one in an evening if the mood strikes me.
I especially like The Dirty Job.
11 years ago
Naturally, anything by Pratchett, but also Gaiman, Niven & Pournelle, Asimov, Clarke, Mieville, Cohen & Stewart, Dawkins, Gurstelle, Bear, Brin...
Reply 11 years ago
Startide Rising by Brin is definitely awesome.
11 years ago
The Claw of the Conciliator
The Sword of the Lictor
The Citadel of the Autarch
11 years ago
I have numerous favorites in the non-fiction dept. however.