my alltime favorite book is the curios incident of the dog in the nite timeby mark haddon it'l be hard to put down. p.s. the author apparently malested a chicken no joke check it out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Haddon
Mine is Hunter by James Byron Huggins. In fact my signature is a battle scene from that book. It's about this prehistoric man-beast thing that gets loose out of a lab somewhere's in the arctic circle and runs rampant killing everything in it's path. To stop it the military get a tracker named Nathan Hunter to track down the monster so their highly tactical and awesome team can blow the shit out of it. Think of Predator only plotted in an arcitc desert, without Arnold telling everyone to "Run to the Chopper!" It even reads like an action movie- really fast paced. It's awethsome.
I would have to say The Freedom Writers is my all time favorite. That book is so amazing and its all true stories. I have not put it down... and the movie is great also... Just Wonderful
Adverbs - Daniel Handler American Gods - Neil Gaiman Though most things that are written for style (Nabakov, Robbins) make it up on the list. Those two in particular stand out for me.
Little Women, beautiful story, Louis M Alcott would be one of my favourite authors, just for that book, it's great
My favorite book would have to Be Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy. I don't know why I can just sit down and read that book anytime; it doesn't matter how many times I have read I still enjoy reading it again. Although I do liked the Legends of Dune Trilogy by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. They were a really good read. I need to recheck them out from the library, as long as I can pay the fines I have.
American Gods by Neil Gaiman is definately on my list as well - the first time I read through it, I thought it was kind of dense but worth the effort, but it was wonderful to read it the second time through knowing more about the mythology, the illusions and allusions. And If On a Winter's Night a Traveller [Italo Calvino] is definately my favorite out of any book I've read recently. A whole book about books and reading! And it's wonderfully written and, I suspect, another one of those books that gets better the second time through.
I can honestly say that I don't currently have a "favourite" book, i'm still looking for it... will let you know if and when I do find it though Like somebody else though (can't remember who said it), my favourite book growing up was Matilda by Roald Dahl.
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing Why Shoot the Teacher? by Maxx Braithwaite Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene If I had to choose just one my head would blow up.
I have recently read Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs, and Hanibal Rising by Thomas Harris and they are amazing. i am about to start readin Hanibal later (my mam bought me it when she went down the town earlier.) Heather
Isn't 'Silence of the Lambs' a movie as well? Isn't it suppose to be a horror movie or something like that?
Just reread a childhood favourite - Enid Blyton - Magic Faraway Tree - and would like to proclaim this my favourite ever book.
The Faraway tree... I used to love that book. I really hope It didn't get thrown away. I read that book heaps of times. I gotta go find it now!
MY favorite is Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. It was her fisrts book and a major bestseller. Shes like my role-model. I hope that happens to me anyway its an absolutely amazing fiction book. A romance with a twist. I won't ruin it for you. I like a lot of other books but theres far too many to name.
The love of my life in literature has to be Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. When I ever feel blue I put that 1960's edition copy of that old book to my heart and all is well again. The story is that of a painted world full of love, betrayl, adultery, mystery, suspence, suicide, murder, wisdom, and friendship. The main character, who has no name perhaps portraying every woman's heart and intuition and youth, finds a friendship with a widowed man. The inside of his home is neat and tidy with busy maids and butlers, but the lingering effect his late wife's spirit lives on. The story unravels and our heroine faces the fact that she is not wanted by the people her husband trusts the most, it takes a long journey of selfdoubt to relize the strength within herself. This is the greatest peice of literature written, it's better even that To Kill A Mocking Bird. I LOVE IT!