What is your favorite book?

[Lord_Ascendant]

Neuromancer was good

but I like The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher, the Codex Aleron is cool too.

 

[aswiftlytiltingreality]

Watership Down- Richard Adams
Fahrenheit 451-Ray Bradbury
American Psycho-Bret Easton Ellis
the Perks of Being a Wallflower-Stephen Chbosky
The Painted Bird-Jerzey Kozinski

 

[badassteaparty]

House of the scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Bless me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
Anything by David Gemmell

 

[hughball]

i don't have a singe favourite book...however there are some i would recommend.
Devils Chaplin - Richard Dawkins
Hitchhikers Guide - Douglas Adams
Animal Farm/1984 - George Orwell
Montmorencey (forget author but great light reads)
P.G Wodehouse (great comedy Author)

 

[ianuam]

The Odyssey, as pretentious as that sounds, and Thud!. I loved reading about massive, hard things going against tiny people viciously, it got so intense at points, seriously.

...oh shi-- I was talking about the trolls and dwarves there.

Good to see a fellow lover of the classics

 

[maximilian]

War and Peace. Tolstoy is a master of the epic.

 

[JMeganSnow]

I don't really have a single favorite.

Atlas Shrugged, The Virginian, Robinson Crusoe, Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, many of Terry Pratchett's books

 

[Murrah]

I like 'IT'
ive not finish reading it yet though
because i've been busy!

 

[Conqueror Kenny]

The Iliad Yeah say what you will but I have always been interested in ancient greek mythology, and it really is a great read.

 

[Liatach]

Anything by Terry Pratchett, especialy if it involves Rincewind

That's funny, in most interviews Terry Prachett talks about how much he dislikes writing Rincewind and cannot understand why people like the character so much. Personally I'm pretty sure his favorite character to write about is Sam Vimes (as Nightwatch is the hands down best Discworld Novel).

/Agreed

top 5 in particular order:

Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay
The Story of B - Daniel Quinn
Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
The Broken God - David Zindell
Perdido St. Station - China Melville

and i love Pratchett so Night Watch or Last hero(The best of those involving Rincewind)

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

I actually loathe Rincewind. He's almost without a positive side. Give me Vimes, Carrot, Dorfl or Death anyday.

But, much as I love Pratchett, he's really not good at writing female characters either. Monstrous Regiment was the worst of all his books. (Although Strata was bad)

 

[vlanitak]

Horus rising and the rest of the Horus heresy series

 

[Jaythulhu]

Anything at all written by H.P. Lovecraft. Without him, stephen king, clive barker, et all wouldn't have any source material to steal from.

 

[The Wooster]

Anything by Terry Pratchett, especialy if it involves Rincewind

That's funny, in most interviews Terry Prachett talks about how much he dislikes writing Rincewind and cannot understand why people like the character so much. Personally I'm pretty sure his favorite character to write about is Sam Vimes (as Nightwatch is the hands down best Discworld Novel).[/quote]

Personally I think the 'Moist' books are the best in the series so far with the Watch books coming second and the death books (hope we see some more before he starts forgetting who he is) coming in a close third.

Edit: Whoever said Animorphs earns some win. Those books are the reason I got a paper round.

 

[SecretTacoNinja]

Probably 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'. Brilliant book.

 

[Lord_Ascendant]

The Codex Alera: Jim Butcher
The Dresden Files: Jim Butcher

 

[SixAngryDwarves]

My top three:
Animal Farm- George Orwell
Flowers for Algernon -Daniel Keyes
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray bradbury

another notable book is 1984 - George Orwell

 

[H.R.Shovenstuff]

Probably 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'. Brilliant book.

It is fantastic.
But I'd have to say my favorite books are 'His Dark Materials'

 

[IonMaiden]

In no particular order:

The Boy who kicked Pigs
Redemption Of Althalus
Perseus Spur
Lord Of The Rings
Lord Of The Flies

 

[rabidrabbit]

Day By Day Armageddon, by J. L. Bourne