Thread: Favorite book

Mines is All Quiet on the western front

My favourite book is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I have heard people say that it is poor, or they weren't happy with the way the story panned out. Well, I was very happy with it. (was a bit gutted that she off'd Fred... ) I just knew that Rowling had it planned that way for a very long time, and that it was how it was always meant to be.

But, I also love Goblet of Fire, Half-Blood Prince and Prisoner of Azkaban... and His Dark Materials... and the Obernewtyn Chronicles.

Harry potter books are great, but i'm either too pretentious or too hipster to ever call something so popular my favorite. Might have to go with dostoyevsky's "possessed". Nikolai stavrogin is one of the best characters ever written into existance imo. So conflicted that you never really figure out what hes about until 800 pages in.

My favorites are:

Harry Potter Series (i consider them as a whole unit) - JK Rowling
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Angels & Demons - Dan Brown
The Mortal Instruments series - Cassandra Clare
The Hunger Games (first book) - Suzanne Collins
The Divine Comedy - Dante (Inferno and Purgatory to be more specific)

I read the whole Hunger Games series, and it's very good, but the first book in particular is quite brilliant. Also the Arena in Catching Fire was extremely creative, really enjoyed that.

- "The World According to Garp" by John Irving

- "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen

- "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London

- All books by H.G. Wells

- All books by Ray Bradbury

- All books by Jennifer Egan

Gahh! Must I choose just one? Lol

Well... If Manga is included in this then I think my top 5 books would be:

1. Fruits Basket - Natsuki Takaya (manga)
2. Animal Farm - George Orwell / The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving
3. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
4. The Girl of Fire And Thorns - Rae Carson
5. Cirque Du Freak - Darren Shan (the entire series)

Gosh that was hard, and there are still so many I would like to put up there. Thank you Cesar for saying Dante's Epic!! (I agree Inferno and Purgatory are the best written and to be even more specific I loved Inferno the most).

Flowers for Algernon was definitely my favorite book of all time. It made me sob pretty badly at the end though. Life is so unfair for some people.

Two books stand out in my mind: The Old Man and the Sea, by Hemingway, and Magister Ludi (The Glass Bead Game) by Hermann Hesse. One is short, the other is long. Both are magnificent.

Shorty Dawkins

Originally Posted by Daneril17

Mines is All Quiet on the western front

That is a good choice, Daneril17. Have you read For Whom The Bell Tolls, by Hemingway?

Shorty Dawkins

Originally Posted by slythgeek

I'm going to be classic here and say The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Even after three months of ripping it into shreds in high school English, I can still pick it up and enjoy it.

Ah, yes! The Great Gatsby. A good book. I loved it. I read around the time I was reading Catcher In The Rye and The Sun Also Rises; two more good ones.

Shorty Dawkins

I have to say things fall apart by Chinua Achebe is one of the best.