Post Your Favorite Book

Post by **Silentom** » Fri Mar 27, 2015 10:07 am

Needless to say I'm a fan of teh reading, and never seem to have enough time to read everything I want to from fiction to non. But, everyone has a favorite and mine is a high fantasy epic "the Redemption of Althalus" by David and Leigh Eddings.

Post 'em, because readers always need new reads!

Post by **Dickie Dunn** » Fri Mar 27, 2015 10:13 am

Really sets the stage for the entire series.

Post by **Willie Kool** » Fri Mar 27, 2015 10:20 am

Silentom wrote:Source of the post everyone has a favorite and mine is a high fantasy epic "the Redemption of Althalus" by David and Leigh Eddings

Never read that one, but many years ago I enjoyed his The Belgariad series and The Malloreon series.

Post by **eddy** » Fri Mar 27, 2015 10:21 am

The Road
Imajica

Post by **MalkinIsMyHomeboy** » Fri Mar 27, 2015 10:24 am

top 3:
Brave New World
Clockwork Orange
Great Gatsby

Post by **Silentom** » Fri Mar 27, 2015 10:27 am

Willie Kool wrote:
Silentom wrote:Source of the post everyone has a favorite and mine is a high fantasy epic "the Redemption of Althalus" by David and Leigh Eddings
Never read that one, but many years ago I enjoyed his The Belgariad series and The Malloreon series.

Those are on my list!

Post by **PFiDC** » Fri Mar 27, 2015 10:31 am

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Post by **Kraftster** » Fri Mar 27, 2015 11:17 am

House of Leaves

Post by **Freddy Rumsen** » Fri Mar 27, 2015 12:43 pm

Favorite Fiction book: The Divine Comedy

Favorite Fiction book (non-literature): Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy

Favorite Non-Fiction book: The Roots of American Order

Post by **tifosi77** » Fri Mar 27, 2015 12:45 pm

Post by **obhave** » Fri Mar 27, 2015 12:46 pm

American Gods, Neil Gaiman

I pretty much mention my love for Neil gaiman in every other page of the book threads

Post by **PFiDC** » Fri Mar 27, 2015 1:32 pm

obhave wrote:American Gods, Neil Gaiman

I pretty much mention my love for Neil gaiman in every other page of the book threads

I'm going to read The Fifteen Lives of Harry August and then American Gods. I'm breaking out of my Stephen King phase for a while.

Post by **Troy Loney** » Sat Mar 28, 2015 1:09 pm

Confederacy of Dunces
Inherent Vice
More or less every non fiction piece written by David Foster Wallace
Crime and Punishment
Tom Jones

Post by **AuthorTony** » Sat Mar 28, 2015 1:15 pm

Lonesome Dove and Salem's Lot

Post by **Kaiser** » Sat Mar 28, 2015 2:01 pm

Anything by Antony Beevor is in a 1st place tie.

Post by **columbia** » Sat Mar 28, 2015 2:17 pm

Some random faves:

Notes from the Underground
The Road to Los Angeles
The **** Up
Wuthering Heights
Anna Karenina
The Trial
Post Office
The Lover

Post by **LeopardLetang** » Tue Mar 31, 2015 10:51 pm

Kraftster wrote:House of Leaves

I still think about the images I created of the innards of that house while reading that book. It's up there for me

Also, no order:

The book of the New sun
Autobiography of a yogi
Mary Stewart's Arthurian saga
Exterminate all the brutes
Dark star safari
Jurassic park; Travels
Some thich nhat hanh books
Tolkien
Everville; great and secret show
Son of the revolution
The once and future king
Things fall apart
On the road; dharma bums

These books have all stayed with me over time

Post by **Reveutopique** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 6:29 am

Favorite books?! That's intense...

I recently read Bird Box by Josh Malerman. Definitely not my favorite book by any means but it was very suspenseful and creepy.

I liked Jhumpa Lahiri's newest book The Lowland.

A book that has stayed with me since I was a teen is probably the Fountainhead Ayn Rand.
Slaughter house V - Kurt Vonnegut
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
I had to read the Dubliners in hs. I can't remember much but one story that has haunted me was An Encounter. Nothing really happens yet it is so unsettling. It's stayed with me.

Post by **Reveutopique** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 6:32 am

Dickie Dunn wrote:

Really sets the stage for the entire series.

OMG I was obsessed with these books.
Why is this Not a movie but stupid Twilight IS?

Also Fearless.

These are the only things I miss about being 11.

Post by **TeamCake** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 8:26 am

Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
11/22/63 - Stephen King
Love & Death - Max Wallace
The Cake Bible - Rose Levy Beranbaum

And my favorite childhood book: The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams

Post by **Factorial** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 8:43 am

Post by **Shyster** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 2:00 pm

It's hard to pick just one, but I would say Stephen King's It.

Best series of books would be Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.

Post by **redwill** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 2:15 pm

HAHAHA! Oh, my goodness. I missed this thread until now and what's the first thing I see? David Eddings!

I love The Belgariad. There. I said it. I have been harboring this secret shame for almost thirty years.

"Hello, my name is redwill. And I ... love The Belgariad."

Thank you, Silentom and 5AF, for allowing me to come clean.

Post by **Pavement** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 2:19 pm

Lord of the Rings or anything by David Gemmell.

Non-fiction would be anything by Max Hastings or Tom Holland.

Post by **MrKennethTKangaroo** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 7:08 pm

Call of the wild. That buck be two devils.

Best character: Tom Joad