Caron

My most favorite book ever would have to be James Clavell's Shogun.

Foxee

Okay, everyone has had their say. This isn't a thread to discuss religion or anyone's disagreement with it. This is a thread to discuss your favorite book.

Sounds like it's about time to discuss the next book.

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GivePeaceAChance

WHY ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THE BIBLE?
come on everybody
we're here for poetry and prose.

let's not get religious like this, there's no need

GivePeaceAChance

*ahem*


anyways.
fiction: The Lord of the Rings, His Dark Materials - Phillip Pullman, The Vampire Chronicals - Anne Rice, The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams, 1984 - George Orwell

and uh... I don't read non-fiction

Kideternity

I have 3,

F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
Jean Dominique Bauby - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
John Krakauer - Into The Wild (might be my favorite as I was absolutely enthralled by the book, and the awesome movie and I haven't stopped thinking about it since I read it 6 months ago)

Tiamat10

The Dragon Jousters series - Mercedes Lackey

It's four books actually, but they're all so amazing that I can't single out one of them as being the best.

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shipwrecker

Goodnight Moon - M.W. Brown

datter

I've got too many "favorite" books to pick just one TRUE favorite above all else, but that said The Hobbit will always hold a special place with me. I've read it about 6 or 7 times over the years.

A_New_Dawn

Hmm, got about 5 or so...

Eragon
Eldest
This Present Darkness
Piercing the Darkness
The Oath

As for the Bible, yes I believe it to be true and a great piece of literature. People don't always read the Bible simply because it's a great book, they read it to sometimes get help and make good choices in life.

Evolution is also a "theory" just like creation, we have just been brain-washed all these years into thinking it's fact, it isn't, it's someones op, nothing more. And yes Malone, there is numerious evidence to suggest a world-wide catastrophic flood. Such as the Grand Canyon, rivers don't flow uphill, and since the Colorado would have had to do so to create the Canyon, it's wrong, a massive flood created it in about 2min, not 200,000 years.

Bottom Line: You can't have Evolution mixed with Creation, by embracing one, you deny the other. Microevolution actually exists and happens, macro
doesn't and has NEVER been proven accurate or true.
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Angel101

Oh, this is an easy question.

White Oleander by Janet Fitch. Her writing is so poetic and beautiful. It draws me in, and I sometimes find myself holding my breath as I read her words. I guess I'm just afraid that if I breathe, I'll lose the feeling of inspiration I gather from her work. She's truly an artist.

Faustling

You wanna talk about evidence? Whether or not there's something to your Canyon evidence we shouldn't leave out the incredible amounts of evidence in favor of evolution.
Sure, it's a theory. But it's a theory supported by both faith and evidence as opposed to Creationism which is supported by faith and opposed by the evidence.
Sorry about the off-topicness, folks. I just can't help myself sometimes.

As for a favorite book... I really can't pick. I have a hard enough time picking a favorite author and could even less pick a specific book.
I've always had a thing for "Rendezvous with Rama"by Arthur C. Clarke though.

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janeslife

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

Runner-Ups:
Pride and Prejudice
Rebecca
The Importance of Being Earnest
Breakfast of Champions
Clockwork Orange

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Stonez

When I read this, I nearly lolled in my seat. Time is the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future, or an indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another. In 1967, the 13th General Conference on Weights and Measures first defined the International System (SI) unit of time, the second, in terms of atomic time rather than the motion of the Earth. Specifically, a second was defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 cycles of microwave light absorbed or emitted by the hyperfine transition of cesium-133 atoms in their ground state undisturbed by external fields. This type of measurement is the most accurate to date. Even so, it is only accurate to 2 nanoseconds per day. So, is time constant? Even at the same point at ground state undisturbed by external fields, our seconds, dependent upon cesium-133 atoms, differ by 2 nanoseconds. Also, atomic clocks placed at orbital heights recorded time passing just slightly faster than those at sea level. Where gravity, and hence a curvature of space, was greatest time moved more slowly; where it was not, more quickly. The passage of time as we record and experience it here was actually slower than in space. At places effected by a greater gravity, or, where the curvature of space is greater, the time passes more slowly. V=D/T where V=velocity, D=distance, and T=time. In order to find time using that equation, it would be set up D/V=T. Let us assume that the velocity is infinite just to illustrate my point. Once something has the property of infinite speed (or velocity, which it does in this example), then it also gains the property of infinite gravity. Since gravity is the distortion of space, and if space remains intact, then the infinite space would fold in on itself. At this point, space becomes 1. Meaning that space is a point. The object would then have 0 degrees of motion and 0 distance to travel. The answer can be looked at in two ways. One: The distance being traveled is 0, the velocity being traveled is infinite, the time is 0. There is no time. Or, two: The distance being traveled is 0, the velocity being traveled is also 0 because it is not traveling (although infinite velocity implies an appearance and reappearence in a timeless instant...so technically, it does not have to travel at all to have an infinite velocity), and so the time is undefined (which is a nasty little term that math majors have created to use instead of the word infinity). So, the time would be infinity. Either way, it is irrelevant, because time either does not exist, or it infinitly exists, and your statement is destroyed, because time can obviously be effected. Never constant, indeed it is relative. That made me laugh, and then it annoyed me, so i had to write this.

Moving on, I do believe, it is my opinion that God is real. Sweet, end of debate. I believe it; I have faith in it. Try to tell someone that an opinion or belief is wrong. HA! Doesn't work. Moving on...

Just to remain topical...
Favorite Fiction: The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Jonathan Stroud
Favorite Non: I have a few; The Metaphysics of Morals, Immanuel Kant
The Bible, Various authors, God inspired.
Night, Elie Wiesel?

(Oh, one more thing. Why does Adam and Eve have to mean Adam and Eve? Why does one day have to mean 24 hours? Why does 2 of each species have to mean 2 of EVERY species? Can something not be meant loosely? lol. One of my biggest pet peeves is a mention of time in arguements trying to defraud something. God lives in eternity, we live in a finite time...obviously our view of a day is probably different. He blinks; we die.)

Oh, and Faustling...I was unaware that God was not supported by evidence? When other evidences fail to give any real answer, people are left desiring whatever causal effect may have created the Universe. That causal effect, to many, is God...evidence by ommition...Also, I was unaware that evolution had an incredible stockpile of evidence that supported it O.o (From what I know, most of the experiments that have been done are flawed...with the exception of microevolution...but macroevolution has NEVER been proved unless it was done in a flawed manner.) Read "Case for a Creator" or "More than a Carpenter". Im sure there is more, too. But there is a lot of evidence AGAINST evolution, lol.

Mostly just wanted to pick on the poor fella who said time was a constant,
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Stonez

One_Who_Writes_Fantasy

Thank you for clearing that up. I actually wanted to post the same thing! Well, you beat me to it.

No, time is not constant... exactly. There. Done.

And I love the Bartimaeus trilogy.

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dead_soul

Oh my gosh!! Anything includes vampire Lestat ROCKS!! Harry Potter comes next.

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