Favorite Books
My favorite novels:
The Hobbit, the Lord of the Rings, Percy Jackson, Heroes of Olympus, Trials of Apollo, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Chronicles of Narnia... (I will remember more later).
My Favorite Comics (like you see in the Sunday papers):
Calvin & Hobbes, the Far Side, Garfield, and Baby Blues.
That's all I can remember right now, will add more later. Now then... what are your favorite books?
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I read a lot of books. Lately ive been loving the Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children trilogy. I'm on the last book, Library of Souls and I love it so far. It's a must read if you like paranormal novels.
I also really like the GWtR (Gone With the Respiration) series, it's a series of two books, Dearly Departed and Dearly Beloved. It''s a steampunk novel about a interspecies romance between a handsome zombie and a young Victorian girl.
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You said you like steampunk? I know a fun novel you might like. It's called The Perilous Journey of the Not-So-Innocuous Girl and takes place in the late 17th century.
Dan Brown's every book is my favourite.
One of my favorites has always been Night by Elie Wiesel, it's an autobiography of his survival during the Holocaust, life inside Auschwitz, and his changing perspective on humanity.
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo is another one that comes to mind. Along with inspiring my all time favorite Metallica song, the book itself is an anti-war novel about a soldier who has his arms and legs blown off during World War I and loses the ability to speak, hear, smell, see, and move. He is kept alive in a hospital through a feeding and breathing tube, and most of the novel is spent finding his own ways to track time, as well as his attempts to try and communicate with the doctors and nurses that care for him.
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My favorite novels are: The Witcher Saga, The Godfather, Metro 2033, The Deluge ( "Potop" in Polish), A Song of Ice and Fire (Even though I've only finished one book and I'm starting the second one.)
I'm not gonna give a list of my favorite comics since I've only read The Walking Dead but at this moment this is my only favorite one.
I don't read a lot of books, but ones I read for school that I really enjoyed were:
-Lord of the Flies
-Shoeless Joe
-The Great Gatsby
-Of Mice and Men
-Macbeth
-The Outsiders
-Son of the Mob
-Animal Farm
My favorite graphic novel that I've read is probably either Whiteout or The Dark Knight Returns.
What do you know! I've actually read Night before for school. It was quite depressing yet food for thought; and oh so historically accurate!
Books: 1984, Julius Caesar, A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, It, Christine, Abuse of Power, Trickle Up Poverty, Trickle Down Tyranny, The Art of the Deal, How to be Right, and No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden.
Comics: Spy vs. Spy, Doonesbury, Mort Walker's Beetle Bailey, Garfield, The Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes, Hagar the Horrible, Tundra, and Peanuts.
I really like A song of Ice and Fire book series also I like Lord of the rings series aswell
I just read the blurb on Goodreads and it looks interesting! I'll certainly look into it
I really like A Song Of Ice and Fire, TWD Governor/Lilly Novel Series, And a Book called Betrayal
Fiction
The Man Who Was Thursday, All Quiet On The Western Front, For Whom The Bell Tolls, The Dispossessed, The Things They Carried, The Great Gatsby, Animal Farm
Nonfiction
Homage to Catalonia, The Road to Wigan Pier (basically everything by Orwell, but his non-fiction is really under-appreciated), Anarchism and Other Essays, The Art of War, Chasing The Scream, The War That Ended Peace, Dirty Truths, The Homebrew Industrial Revolution, The Battle Fon Spain.
I'll probably think of more later.
Jurassic Park(mostly like the movie), The Lost World(not even close to the movie), and Pet Sematary(close) are my favourite fictional books. I guess I just like books about people playing God and it biting them in the ass.
Monogatari -- Bakemonogatari Monster Tale Part 01
There’s a girl at their school who is always ill. She routinely arrives late, leaves early, or doesn’t show up at all, and skips gym as a matter of course. She’s pretty, and the boys take to whispering that she’s a cloistered princess. As the self-described worst loser in her class soon finds out, they just don’t know what a monster she is.
So begins a tale of mysterious maladies that are supernatural in origin yet deeply revealing of the human psyche, a set of case files as given to unexpected feeling as it is to irreverent humor. So begins the legendary novel that kicked off the MONOGATARI series, whose anime adaptations have enjoyed international popularity and critical acclaim.
This first of three parts introduces Senjogahara and Hachikuji
Funny, I just started reading The Art of War today.
I swear I remember another tread like this, but nevermind.
Though I love books in general, my favourite writer is Cormac McCarthy, and I enjoy basically every book of his, with "The Road" being my number one.
ASoIaF is a prime example of wonderful fantasy series, not trying to be mainstream, but Martin has really pleasant style of writing which makes his book a easy, enjoyable read. I love realism in it.
Other than that, theres mainly dystopian and dark literature, such as Orwell, Huxley, Beckett, Brandbury and so on.
Recently I fell in love with philosophy, so I enjoy reading through work of many philosophers (even I don't always agree). I won't mention names cause I'm too lazy to google how their names are in English.
Did ya spring for an annotated version? Sun Tzu is surprisingly readable, but there's a lot of references to ancient Chinese history/legends that might require a bit of research otherwise.
No I did not sadly, but if there's something that I don't know, it shouldn't be too hard to do the research on my own.
I love Northern Lights, from His Dark Materials series. The two ther books were kinda lame. The world building was awsome but the best story is for Northern Lights, definetly. I love how it combines all my favourite stuff (time-universe traveling, explorations in the Arctic, talking animals, quantum physics, cold weather, war, witches, a civilization of giant bears, philosophy, religion, experiments in kiddnapped children, traveling, and THE GYPTANS FUCKING RULE! plus Phillip Pullman's writing style is beautiful)
My favourite series of books currently are John Connolly's fairly underrated, yet successful Charlie Parker mystery thrillers. They dabble a bit with the horror and supernatural genres, and have a flawed, but sympathetic protagonist and a great cast of supporting characters, and in general just give a very fresh take on the mystery genre. My favourite of the series so far has been the Black Angel.
Other authors I like off the top of my head would be Dennis Lehane, Michael Connolly, Cormac McCarthy, James Ellroy, Stephen King and Derek Landy.
Macbeth is one of my favorites.
Stephan Kings' The Stand is a great work of literature:
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo. I love that book so much, read it every couple years.
2000 page H. P. Lovecraft collection of all his stories that I managed to get for 99p. Best 99p I've ever spent.
Oh and speaking of daily comics, definitely Calvin & Hobbes. I bought the massive complete collection. I'd say I'm a huge fan.
My favorite books are, the hunger games series, the divergent series, the maze runner series, and the Harry potter series.
Just started reading Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None.
Seems interesting so far. After watching and loving the new Murder on the Orient Express movie based on her book, I decided to get a couple of her other books and see if I like them.
EDIT:
Just realized. The question was What's your favorite book? not What books are you reading?.
Well, I haven't actually read much books so I'm not sure what my favorite would be. I do like the Walking Dead series.
I don't read much books... but I do like reading. It's weird.
I'd have to say the Avatar: The Last Airbender comics are really good.
Even though you kinda already know sorta how the story is resolved in the end of the first book if you've already watched The Legend of Korra, it's still really exciting.
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American Psycho
Some of my favorite works of fiction include The Road, House of Leaves, and Kite Runner. The Road and Kite Runner in particular are more emotional heavy hitters, whereas House of Leaves is more of a meta-psychological horror that utilizes the medium of written text pretty effectively.
A Song of Ice and Fire...Nostromo, The Dark Tower Series, Nausicaa
Finished reading "To Hell and Back" a couple of weeks ago. It was the memoir of America's most awarded World War 2 soldier Audie Murphy. The book was eventually made into a movie that starred Audie Murphy as himself.
Right now, I'm balancing between two books. "Moneyball" by Michael Lewis about the 2002 Oakland Athletics' baseball season, and "Bullies" by Ben Shapiro.
My favorite book is Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch. I know, I know, it can seem that this book is super religious etc. But nope. It just helped to understand better, how I should I think, in what side direct my minds. If you believe in the power of the mind, this book will be exactly for you.
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Wolf Sacks. I have to say, I read a lot but I'm old-fashioned and I really love to read real books, so you can just imagine, how many books I might have
but fortunately, I found this site that allows selling used books and buying new old books online. I think it's a great solution for small apartments and in general for ecology too. maybe it can be useful for you too
My favourite book of all time is "One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Keasy. One of the few books that I read again and again from time to time. I first encountered it at the age of 13 and swallowed it whole in just one evening... No other story has left such an impact on me. Truly a gut-wrenching experience. I was nearly driven to depression from it. A powerful masterpiece.
I haven't read many books since my school days, but my favorites were Holes, by Louis Sachar and The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster.
Phantom Tollbooth is one of my favorite books! I love the whole "play on words" scheme Juster did in it. I haven't read the book Holes, but I've seen the movie.
Yeah, The Phantom Tollbooth is a cool and cleverly written book. You should read Holes. It has some different and added scenes in it that the movie didn't show.
I'm an actor, so a lot of the books I read are about the training of acting or someone else's career. Patsy Rodenburg's the Second Circle is one of the most inspiring books I've ever read.
Another more recent one is The Disaster Artist, I read it before seeing the film and being a fan of The Room as well it was wonderful to see how the absurdity of Tommy Wiseau can affect the people around him and you really do kinda see the world how he sees it in some strange way part way though, it's an amazing book.
There’s a book I’m reading right now, I’m currently in part six of eight.
It’s called Wonder and I wanted to read the book before I watched the movie and I don’t typically read a lot in one sitting, but since I’ve been in the hospital (going on 15 hours now, woot woot!) I’ve read over half of the book. It captivates me and I’m honestly quite struck by it.
I can’t personally relate to the main character’s issue, but I can compare to a side character’s issue fairly well. Each character that has a part in the book clearly has their own problems and they either want to work through the problem or have learned to live with it (as some of their problems can’t be fixed)
I do think there’s one piece of it that kinda makes me cringe, but I think that’s why it was included. There was one part that hit way too close to home and binge reading was not my friend when it came to it, but I would probably binge read it again if I got the chance.
I just really love this book.