What's Your Favorite Book?

[rottenPauL]

castaneda is damn good...

[sanguinekane]

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass are my two favorite books, bar none.

After that, The Song of Ice and Fire series by George RR Martin are great, and then Lord of the Rings, Catcher in the Rye, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest, River God, and Lord of the Flies.

[couch-potato]

I only read books that have a nice, clean white paper and good print quality on the text. I am serious. My favorites are:

The Lord of the Rings
Jurassic Park
Dante's Inferno
Lord of the Flies
Darwin's Black Box (A must read for anybody interested in the Evolution vs. Intelligent Design debate)
Do Penguins Have Knees? (Yes they do, it's just a book full of random, useless facts that are interesting when you're blazed)
When do Fish Sleep? (more facts)

[baisez le monde.]

oooh i have more books....


the electric kool aid acid test- tom wolfe
air conditioned nightmare- henry miller

[birdgirl73]

I like biographies. My all-time fave is Growing Up by Russell Baker. It won the Pulitzer in 1983. A simple, sweet, unpretentious story.

[jamstigator]

My favorite book would probably be Dune (Frank Herbert), The Stand (Stephen King), or The Mote in God's Eye (Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle). Hard to decide among those three.

I looooove reading. When I was 18 I made a list of all the books I had read, and it was over 5,000 even at that young age. I was a freaking voracious reader during my teens and 20s. One night I read two books then started the Chronicles of Amber and read ALL OF THOSE too, for a total of 7 books in one night (granted, they were kinda thin). I lived one block from a library, which helped, although they wouldn't give me an 'adult' library card until I turned 16, which was pretty funny seeing as I was reading adult stuff when I was quite young. One of my 5th grade teachers caught me reading the Exorcist one day, and I happened to be at the point where the girl is jamming the cross into her vagina and saying, 'Fuck me! Fuck me!' He told me that was not an appropriate book for my age and told me not to bring it to school anymore. So I put a Jacque Cousteau book cover (Mysteries of the Deep or something) over the Exorcist, so I could finish it in peace. Heh.

Anyone remember the Science Fiction Book Club? They had this deal where when you'd join, you got four free books, and whoever recommended you got two free books, then you had to buy two books over the next year. Well, I had four people (family) who let me use their names, plus my own, so I had this rotating system using all five names (four family plus my own). One name joined, got 4 free books. Then that name got the other four names to join, which got me 24 more free books. Then I had to buy ten books at $1.99 each (for hardbacks!), then I'd start the cycle over again. So for $20 plus shipping, I'd end up with a total of 38 books. I sucked them dry and filled a room with hardback science fiction books.

These days I don't read as much. We have computers and far more TV channels; there's just more options these days. I'm down to 8 books every two weeks now, and no more library a block away either.

[Gone]

I've read the entire Stephen King library pretty much. I love most of his books, particularly Hearts in Atlantis, The Stand, and the Dark Tower series.

Lately I've been trying to branch out a bit more. I read On A Pale Horse by Piers Anthony. A sweet fantasy/sci-fi book about a guy who kills death, then has to fill the position of death himself.

Jamstigator, I just started Dune. I'm only 30 pages in, and its pretty interesting so far. A lot of confusing planet names and titles and such, but I guess I'll get used to that.

[digweed]

Mr Nice by Howard Marks,a drug smugglers tale,excellent read and a true story.

[acrca]

i dont read

[halosin8r]

The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
don't hate on my religion please.