Favorite Book

[thylasos]

Magic & Witchcraft by Nevill Drury is always good; a complete history of magical thought in mankind. Герои Нашего Времены (A Hero of Our Time) by Mikhail Lermontov is always good too, though. Or Small Gods by Pratchett.

 

[T8B95]

The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsythe. It's a thrilling, methodical tale of how an assassin plans out how to kill the President of France...what's not to like?

A close second is Damnation Alley by Roger Zelzany.

My favourite book: 1984 by George orwell.

I never liked Orwell much. I found 1984 to be fear-mongering and propogandic, but I also found it to be bland. For me at least, it just wasn't very good.

 

[The87Italians]

Right now, my favorite book is John Dies at the End by David Wong. That was the only book I've ever read twice in a row, I loved it.

 

[Aur0ra145]

"War and Peace" - Leo Tolstoy

It's long, but has a very good story with great character development.

 

[dday4you]

the aretmis fow series or the dark matter series( look it up!)
both are great

 

[44-Blue]

only forward by michael marshall smith

fav book i've read recently would be the steel remains by richard morgan - is amazing, really nothing else like it as far as fantasy is concerned. read it

 

[Engarde]

I cannot really decide on one particular book. Perhaps The Name of the Wind? Or Dune? Or Ender's Game? Maybe Shades of Grey? I think I might choose Shades of Grey.

 

[Blue Musician]

The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud. Specifically the Amulet of Samarkand.

 

[jaoblia]

To Kill A Mocking Bird- such a perfect book, just plain Beautifull.

 

[Kermi]

On any given day it wavers between Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein and Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. Sometimes I don't feel compelled by the overarching misogynistic themes rampant in Heinlein's writing and the teen-fantasy style orgy scenes, but the general message of the book is quite good.

Cryptonomicon on the other hand is a pretty decent modern day/WW2 era Sci-Fi story with well written characters, and while I feel like Randy Waterhouse is pretty much just Stephenson's author avatar accomplishing the improbable with skills and knowledge that Stephenson seems to revere, the book is pretty great.

Those are my interchangeable top 2. Catch-22 is a close but steady third.

 

[AntonicKnight]

Roadside Picnic - Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
I simply love the grim and dark dystopia stories.

 

[Osaka117]

World War Z by Max Brooks, the same guy who did The Zombie Survival Guide.

I'm not too big on reading, and I haven't read many books so I don't have many points of reference, but to me World War Z is an epic masterpiece of writing. It chronicles a zombie apocalypse so realistically that it makes you think that it could happen any second now.

 

[tkioz]

wow that's a hard question, I have a lot of favourite books... but the one that I think will always be my favourite is The Ancient Future by Traci Harding, it was the first real novel I read for pleasure, not because it was assigned in school, God that was a long time ago now, from there I was hooked and started to read books by the dozens.

My copy of The Ancient Future is all ratty and dog eared now, but it's got a pride of place on my shelf, funny thing is my family has never read it but I once heard my grandfather recommend it to one of his friends because "it got my grandson off his computer games and into reading, so it must be good".

 

[TheRobotandtheBeast]

Obviously my favorite book is Mogworld by the escapists own Yatzee, available on amazon.com