Your favorite book.

[MagicMouse]

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.

It is important because he has a beard.

The writing was excellent but I grew quite annoyed at the overdone lute playing parts.

 

[la-le-lu-li-lo]

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Classics anyone?

As for not so classic, I'm a fan of the Cassandra Palmer & Dorina Basarab series, both by Karen Chance. I'm also a fan of the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton, as well as the standalone novel Sunshine by Robin McKinley.

 

[Gxas]

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

You know, for as much as I tried, I just couldn't bring myself to like that book. Just like Of Mice and Men. Maybe I'm weird...

 

[ffxfriek]

Wiizard of Earthsea was awesome. and the halo books too

 

[blindthrall]

Trying to be original, which whittled away I am Legend, Chuck Palhniuk, and HP Lovecraft.

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. It's the anti-space opera. Contends that even if we found aliens, we would never be able to communicate with them in a meaningful manner, or even recognize them as sentient. The alien being a metaphor for God, of course. Kind of like tragedy with the Buggers taken to logical extremes.

Is there a movie based on the book? With George Clooney

Urggh...please don't bring that up. That movie was shite. It's like the Lifetime channel made Event Horizon. It contains absolutely none of the good, or even essential parts of the novel. You only see the world-ocean-entity for about five minutes, while about a quarter of the novel devoted to just describing its structures and habits.

Also A Canticle for Leibowitz is excellent.

 

[la-le-lu-li-lo]

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

You know, for as much as I tried, I just couldn't bring myself to like that book. Just like Of Mice and Men. Maybe I'm weird...

I didn't particularly care for Of Mice and Men either, but I adore Gatsby. It's not the characters or even the story that gets me, it's the message about the American dream, but I won't bore you with going on and on about it.

Actually getting my favorite passage from it tattooed on me tomorrow. Now that's love.

 

[blindthrall]

Anything by Stephen King really. But if i had to choose one, i would choose The Dark Tower series. Best series of books ever, and by far his best work, IMO.

Spoiler: The Dark Tower book cover

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Except the ending. EDIT: And the last few books. EDIT2: And the author self insertion.

Didn't like that ending? I thought it was kind of ballsy myself, and it definitely wasn't the happy ending I was afraid of. And while the overall quality of writing does go down during the series, I thought the last book pulled out of the nosedive nicely. It really gave a sense of things grinding down to an inevitable end. But the author self insertion was pretty much the low point of the series. Mindblowingly egotistical, lazy-almost a shark jump, really.

 

[Slaanax]

I kind of enjoyed the movie because of the idea it presented, maybe I'll have to pick up the book someday if I can.

 

[b1u3too]

You're really going to have to narrow this down to genres for me, because I read a hell of a lot. Somone lays out some genres, I'll be happy to oblige.

Okay, obligatory genres. =)
History/Biography:
Science Fiction:
Non Fiction:
Fantasy:
Comedy:
Fiction (General):

That help put a few windows in? :3

 

[b1u3too]

Now for my actual answer:
Idlewild, Edenborn, and Everfree, all by Nick Sagan.

Any character named Deuce is aces in my book. :3

 

[Zeetchmen]

Who reads nowadays?

 

[DRTJR]

Watchmen, Lord of the rings, the hobbit, ect.

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Series

I've only read the first five books of the trilogy, have you read the sixth? I wanna know if it's worth getting, or if I should leave the late, great Dentarthurdent blown to smithereens.

Lemony Snicket's A series of unfortunate events Series

Most annoying ending I have ever read.

To be honest the ending left me feeling nothing... The kind of nothing where you say 'Is that it?', I mean personally I loved every book before the 14th one, yes I said 14th

??? I ask this because I have a terrible memory, but exactly where does the 14th one take place?

13th book is the 14th book, there is also Lemony Snicket's Unauthorized Autobiography, which is less a biography (auto or otherwise) and more a who's who of cryptic background references

I don't have a favorite book. I just have the one I read most recently, which was the latest book in the Wheel of Time series.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

If graphic novels count, Watchmen.

If not, Artemis Fowl.

 

[Heraklitus]

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume (1748).