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Whats your favorite book/novel?
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This doesn't seem to be topic of choice...
...but I really enjoyed Memoirs of a Geisha
The book was so much better than the movie. Very good descriptive imagery, and there was alot more story line that got left out of the movie (but that happens a lot due to time constraints)
I would recommend it to any avid reader.
...but I really enjoyed Memoirs of a Geisha
The book was so much better than the movie. Very good descriptive imagery, and there was alot more story line that got left out of the movie (but that happens a lot due to time constraints)
I would recommend it to any avid reader.
Quite a few, hard to pin down a "favorite" book among the many gems.
Possibly my favorite of all time, Cosmos by Carl Sagan.
Runners up:
Complications, by Dr. Atul Gawande
Stiff, by Mary Roach
Love in the Ruins, by Walker Percy
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William L. Shirer
The Legends Trilogy, by Weis and Hickman
Dragonflight, Anne McCafferey
Books are sacred to me. I love reading.
Possibly my favorite of all time, Cosmos by Carl Sagan.
Runners up:
Complications, by Dr. Atul Gawande
Stiff, by Mary Roach
Love in the Ruins, by Walker Percy
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William L. Shirer
The Legends Trilogy, by Weis and Hickman
Dragonflight, Anne McCafferey
Books are sacred to me. I love reading.
It's amazing how popular those books have become with young people. My two nieces, who are around your same age, have devoured those books with the same voracity that they read the Harry Potter series, and are looking forward to the next one coming out in August. They keep telling me that I need to read them, but I haven't been able to bring myself to do so yet because I've never much cared for vampire stories.
Anyway, as far as my own reading goes, I haven't yet found a book that I enjoyed as much as Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. I read it in the original French and it was much more thrilling than it could ever be translated into English. Sadly I don't have much time to read these days, but I like to listen to audio books during my commute to/from the office. A favorite that I have listened to lately is "Innocent Traitor" by Allison Weir. It's the story of Lady Jane Grey, the girl who was Queen of England for 9 days between Edward VI and Mary I.
Favorite novel (author dead): The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Favorite novel (currently re-reading): Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Favorite novel (author living): The Names, Don DeLillo
Favorite novel (planning to re-read): The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
In other words, I think it's best to have a favorite novel for multiple categories, real & imagined. Reading is a great thing.
Favorite novel (currently re-reading): Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Favorite novel (author living): The Names, Don DeLillo
Favorite novel (planning to re-read): The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
In other words, I think it's best to have a favorite novel for multiple categories, real & imagined. Reading is a great thing.
Fiction: 1984 by George Orwell
Non-fiction: Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman
Non-fiction: Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman
"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon. @#$%ing awesome book. 
There was a Dean Kontz novel I loved too but can't remember the name of...
There was a Dean Kontz novel I loved too but can't remember the name of...
I've heard that this is the greatest Sci-Fi book of all time, and though I am weary of assigning rankings to books, which are personal preferences, it certainly intrigues me enough to add it to my reading list. I have to read "Kindred" by Octavia Butler for a course, so I'm 50 odd pages into that right now. After "Kindred" I am moving on to the "Foundation" series by Asimov, and right after that I'm onto "Dune", so I'm very excited.
And to answer the thread's question, I'm going to have to go with a book I finished not too long ago called "The Worthing Saga" by Orson Scott Card (of Ender/Shadow fame). I guess I will put that as my one favorite book not only because it is one of the most recent I have read, but I'm pretty confident it will stay at a very high position no matter what books I will read in the future.
There are so many other books I want to put here, but I'll stick to the thread and keep that one as my favorite.
It is a rather unknown book, but Bud, Not Buddy is always the first book that comes mind when asked about my favorite book.
One of my all-time favorites is The Art of War. Recently my favorite book has been The Four Hour Work Week, as I can relate to it a lot, have the same thinking and outlook at the author, and have found it to be very valuable in helping me take things to the next level of where I want to be.
Friend! (or should I say weirdo?) I recently convinced my wife to read it, she said it was a very sick book. I like it though.
sorry for reviving this old thread but i didn't want to create a new one just to recommend a book i'm reading right now.
its tom levenson's "newton and the counterfeiter".
its a true history book about isaac newton but it reads almost like a novel.
the thing is its not really about newton and gravity but rather about him being ward of the mint in london, the economic crisis at the time, the king letting parliament figure out a solution and then a cat and mouse game between newton and a counterfeiter who fakes silver coins.
it's a life and death situation because there is a death penalty on faking coins. the economy goes down the drain, there is a ponzi scheme going on and newton falls for it.
it is so much the same ***** as today it's unbelievable. and this historically true story happened hundreds of years ago and nobody learned from it.
its tom levenson's "newton and the counterfeiter".
its a true history book about isaac newton but it reads almost like a novel.
the thing is its not really about newton and gravity but rather about him being ward of the mint in london, the economic crisis at the time, the king letting parliament figure out a solution and then a cat and mouse game between newton and a counterfeiter who fakes silver coins.
it's a life and death situation because there is a death penalty on faking coins. the economy goes down the drain, there is a ponzi scheme going on and newton falls for it.
it is so much the same ***** as today it's unbelievable. and this historically true story happened hundreds of years ago and nobody learned from it.
Since the thread was revived, I'll recommend Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore, amazingly well written, it became a personal favorite of mine.