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#1

Alright, being as

obsessive as I am, I finished two 500 page books in less then a week, and now I need something else to read.

XD

Yes, I want to hear some of your favorite books, and maybe a little but about them. I suppose I should

post a few to be fair. XD I’m not very good at summaries. Erm, so I’m just going to use descriptions from other

sites… XD

Twilight/New Moon by Stephenie Meyer-

[url]Hachette Book Group

Twilight is the First Book,

and New Moon is the second, that is the offical site for the books. There’s even excerpts from teh book, if you

like.

#2

Hate

books, but an avid Stephen Kind fan.

Stephen King’s

Christine.

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#3

Harry Potter , Goosebumps, and

Narnia … HANDS DOWN !!! :sunglasses:

Oh, and my PIXAR Books too . :smiley:

#4

Hmm…Favourite books, eh?

Well, I like The

Hitchiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, and pretty much anything by either Terry Pratchett, Tom Holt, Philip Pullman,

Philip Ridley, Edgar Allen Poe…I dunno, just all of that kind of stuff.

Right now, I’m more into

comics, it seems. (But not like ‘Superman’ or ‘Batman’- really don’t like thsoe.) I like ‘The Crow’ by J.

O’Barr, ‘Tankgirl’ by Jamie Hewlett, and anything by Daniel Clowes- ‘Ghostworld’, ‘Ice Haven’…

#5

Inkworld-Trilogy, by Cornelia Funke
Wave-Walkers and Darf Reflections Trilogy, by Kai Meyer.

I

LOVE FANTASY BOOKS! And I wrote a fantasy novel too.

#6

Favourite book in the world? Pride and

Prejudice by Jane Austen. Second favourite is Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

If you want

something more entertaining, I reccommend the Thursday Next series, starting with The Eyre Affair, by Jasper

Fforde. It is one of the more amazing things I’ve seen written pretty much ever. Hoorah for literary satire.

:slight_smile:

#7

Ahhh…reading – my favorite

past-time. :slight_smile: I can’t survive the day without reading a book, and that’s the truth. (One time, I panicked

because I forgot to read one of my Harry Potter novels for the day.)

So, my

favorite books, huh? This is going to be tough. Well, there’s no point in wasting time for no reason. Here’s

the list:

1. The Mouse and the Motorcycle, by

Beverly Cleary
2. [i]Island of the Blue

Dolphins[/i]
3. [i]The Hound of the

Baskervilles[/i]
4. [i]The Life of Benjamin

Franklin[/i]
5. The Harry Potter novels,

by J.K. Rowling
6. The Lord of the Rings trilogy, by

J.R.R. Tolkien
7. Return to the Wild, by Norman

Carr

#1 - One of my favorite childhood books, and most likely my favorite book in the universe. I’ve read

it over thirteen times already. At one point, I was able to memorize the entire thing by heart.

#2 -

Island of the Blue Dolphins was a novel given to me by an aunt of mine. I love it

and treasure it.

#3 - Little did I know that I was in for a treat when I opened a book entitled

The Hound of the Baskervilles. As of today, it remains standing in my bookshelf,

waiting to have its mysteries unveiled once again…

#4 - I just finished reading this book this week. I

recommend it highly, if you can find it. Borrow it at your local library, or have

someone lend it to you if you must. Just get it! It is, without a doubt, one of the most enticing, honorary

novels I have ever had the pleasure to read.

#5 - What more can I say? Thank you, Mrs. Rowling.

#6 - A truely imaginative trilogy written by one of the most talented authors in history. I have Sir

Tolkien to thank for the many wonderful experiences I encountered within the lands of Middle Earth…

#7

  • I actually wrote a short story that was based on this book, which I christened [i]A Rustle in the

Hedera[/i]. I got an ‘A’ on it, surprisingly. (The weird thing about this is that I was originally

supposed to write just a simple, short story, but I enjoyed writing my “script” so much that it turned

into an extremely long novel, well over the required 300-word count. However, my teacher loved it so much that

she gave me a high grade for it. My dad thought it was written by an experienced author. o_0 )

Return to the Wild is another fantastic book that I treausure and love.

Oops

– got a little long, didn’t it? Sorry about that, mates.

#8

I

used to be like that back in high school, but now that I’m in university I don’t have the time to read… so my

interest is diminishing. However, there are a few books that I loved reading:

-The Hitchhiker’s Guide to

the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams (I’ve never laughed out loud while reading a novel as much as this one)
-Oryx

and Crake, by Margaret Atwood (anything by Atwood is spectacular)
-Heart of Darkness, by Joseph

Conrad
-Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
-A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James

Joyce

I also read Harry Potter just for the heck of it, hehe. If I ever have the time, I want to take a

stab at Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. I watched Capote a while ago and it was

amazing.

#9

I

don’t read fiction for pleasure, but I’m trying to save up for the whole Harry Potter set. I wanna compare the

books to the movies.

Of all the books I own, my Pixar books are my favorite, but mainly my Incredibles

books. I have every Incredibles book ever made, including the 2 that were only sold in the

UK.

~~=oP

#10

I

hear you on that one! :smiley: Recently, I’ve been going at a rate of about one Michael Crichton novel per two

days.

Other than Michael Crichton, my other (and certainly equal) literary obsession is Douglas Adams.

He’s famous and all for the Hitchhiker’s Guide “trilogy”, but actually

my favorite books of his are Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency and the sequel

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. If you loved [i]Hitchhiker’s

Guide[/i] and haven’t read the Dirk Gently books, I 100% recommend them. :smiley:

Other, slightly

lesser favorites are the Harry Potter series and Eoin Colfer’s novels (he’s best-known for the four

Artemis Fowl books, but I quite enjoy his other stuff, too).

#11

I’m gonna be a complete annoying

nitpicker. The Lord of the Rings is not a trilogy. It was written as a singular

book, divided into six sections, and the publisher wouldn’t release it as one volume. They made Tolkien split

it into three so that people wouldn’t gape at the size of the text and run away screaming. So really, if

you’re going to call it anything besides one book, it should actually be… a hexology? *scratches

head*

Another fun book to look at is The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde.

It’s the first book in the Nursery Crime series. In fact, here’s just a list of everything Jasper Fforde’s

done:

The Thursday Next series:
[i]The Eyre Affair
Lost in a Good Book
The Well of

Lost Plots
Something Rotten[/i]

The Nursery Crime series:
[i]The Big Over

Easy
The Fourth Bear[/i]

High quality writing, I’m telling you. If you like anything even

remotely spoofy, this will make you laugh your tail end off. Especially [i]Something

Rotten[/i], which is one of the most brilliant books I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading. Hamlet

soliloquizing about coffee is worth the price of the book, IMHO.

#12

I

love reading. To borrow a term from A Little Princess, which I also adore, I devour

books. I’ve read The Chronicles of Narnia in an afternoon, and

Hamlet in two hours.

My most favorite books are:
[i]The

Chronicles of Narnia[/i] by C.S. Lewis
[i]The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Series[/i] by Ann Brashares
The Princess Bride by William

Goldman
Cymbeline, A Midsummer Night’s Dream,

Much Ado About Nothing, and Romeo & Juliet - all by

William Shakespeare

Narnia - It’s Narnia. Enough said. Well, that,

and C.S. Lewis is awesome.

Sisterhood - I adore the Sisterhood of the

Traveling Pants series. Ann Brashares has made the characters real, not just caricatures of stereotypical teen

girls as so many other YA books do.

Princess Bride - The movie was very close

to the book, except the book has more detail. And the author’s asides and explanations are so

funny.

Cymbeline - It’s like if Shakespeare wrote Snow White, and the end is

so contrived! If you can keep up with what you’re reading, it’s quite funny.
[i]
A Midsummer

Night’s Dream[/i] - The whole thing just gets funny with the confusion. It’s always a good

read.

Much Ado About Nothing - Beatrice is a snark mistress extrordinaire.

Her battles of wits with Benedick are very enjoyable. If you would like to learn some good Shakespearean insults,

read Much Ado.

Romeo & Juliet - The first

Shakespeare I ever read. The first part of the play is a quintessential Shakespearean comedy, until the people

start dying, that is…

I’m going to make it a priority to finally read [i]The

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy[/i] in the near future, probably Christmas, because this semester is

full of so much assigned reading I have hardly any time for pleasure reading…

#13

From my Profile at TVRage.Com:

[u][b]Favorite

Books: (In No Particular Order)[/b][/u]

[b]The Harry Potter

Series:[/b] By J.K.Rowling
Harry Potter & the Sorceror’s Stone

(1997)
Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets (1998)
[i]Harry

Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban[/i] (1999)
[i]Harry Potter & the Goblet of

Fire[/i] (2000)
Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix

(2003)
Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince (2005)

[b]The

Last Roundup:[/b] By Roddy Doyle
A Star Called Henry

(1999)
O, Play That Thing (2004)

[b]The Rod Allbright Adventure

Series:[/b] By Bruce Coville
Aliens Ate My Homework

(1993)
I Left My Sneakers in Dimension X (1994)
[i]The Search for

Snout[/i] (1995)
Aliens Stole My Body (1998)

By Louis

Sachar:
Holes (1999)
Small Steps

(2006)

A Place to Stand (2002) By Jimmy Santiago

Baca
Winesburg, Ohio (1919) By Sherwood Anderson
[i]Into the

Wild[/i] (1996) By Jon Krakauer
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) By

Oscar Wilde
Chasing Spring (2006) By Bruce Stutz

Finally, the entire

BIONICLE book series by Greg Farshtey

#14

Ha – you’re not a nitpicker. As a matter of fact, I’m glad that you

corrected my rather diminutive…mistake. Yes, I actually did know that the [i]Lord of the

Rings[/i] book is just a single book, but compiled into a series of

chapters/sections. The reason why I called it a trilogy is because so many fans of the [i]Lord of the

Rings[/i] films would call it a trilogy; not surprisingly, I finally began to start calling it that

myself. Thank goodness you came on the scene.

Again, sorry for the misunderstanding. I’ll be more

careful when listing/describing my precious novels…

#15

Harry

Potter
[i]The Brothers’ War
The Gathering Dark
The Eternal Ice
The Shattered

Alliance[/i]
(all by Jeff Grubb)
Chainer’s Torment (by Scott

McGough)
Any Discworld Novel with Granny Weatherwax as a main character (I’m a practising

Headologist)
Nuklear Age (by Brian Clevinger)
Anything by Roald Dahl or

Reverend Wilburt Vere Awdry
[i]Animal Farm
Under the Hawthorne Tree
Flight of the

Doves[/i]
Etcetra

#16

Neeyaha. I introduce the books to you, Sam. :stuck_out_tongue: :wink:

I

finished Twilight in one day, and New Moon in three days (because of school).

They’re both my fave

books.

  1. Twilight
  2. New Moon
  3. A Million Little Pieces
  4. The Sisterhood of the Travelling

Pants (1, 2, 3)

Yeah. I haven’t read much lately…

#17

I love Meg Cabot’s books! I got started on her Princess Diaries Series but my favorite is her

Mediator Series, especially book #6 Twilight i think it’s called. It’s about a girl who talks to ghosts and

stuff. She writes great adult novels too :slight_smile:

#18

I’m not really a book reader. I

just enjoy reading fanfictions.