The my favourite book thread

Cosimo · 23 Mar 2008 at 16:26

Which one and why:

After all these years the one I go back to is:

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

Love, war, life, death, relationships, choices, it is all there, just a great read and when you can’t read it there is always the Sergei Bondarchuk film.

Voltar · 23 Mar 2008 at 16:32

+1 fine choice sir!
not seen the film and will never do so..
Try the Kreutzer Sonata. Always comes 1st for me in terms of style, but fave book is always War and Peace.

Thank god there is someone else here who agrees and wont flame me!

titchard · 23 Mar 2008 at 19:18

Think I am going to have to say To Kill a Mockingbird.

Only book high school did not ruin for me.

Rich

Van Hellseek · 23 Mar 2008 at 19:28

Yakuza Moon

yaboy · 23 Mar 2008 at 19:33

The LOTR book, epic adventure on like many many pages

nutcase · 23 Mar 2008 at 19:35

Not a classics or "quality" literature person, although I do enjoy Shelley's Frankenstein and Rice's Vampire Chronicles.

My favourite book however is either Tom Clancy & Larry Bond's Red Storm Rising. It's everything I enjoy in a cold war story. Otherwise Arthur Hailey's Airport. Can't really decide between the two.

XPE · 23 Mar 2008 at 20:04

Red Storm Rising is a very good read its like the ultimate popcorn flick of books

p4radox · 23 Mar 2008 at 20:29

Nineteen-Eighty Four - George Orwell

Masterfully written, and a totally inescapable plot. The guy was a complete genius. And no happy ending = win, in my eyes.

warren_1979 · 23 Mar 2008 at 20:30

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess.

The prose in that book is amazing and takes your breath away.

serlex · 23 Mar 2008 at 20:31

any Jack Reacher book for me

davethe11 · 23 Mar 2008 at 21:09

enders game by orson scott card, read it loads of times now!

neuromancer by william gibson, love the way it leaves you to translate the jargon he uses

easy riders raging bulls (non-fiction) by peter biskind, a fascinating look at the hollywood movie industry from the late sixties to the late seventies

[edit] ooh, should really have only picked one lol in that case, neuromancer for the win

Edinho · 23 Mar 2008 at 22:03

p4radox said:
Nineteen-Eighty Four - George Orwell

Masterfully written, and a totally inescapable plot. The guy was a complete genius. And no happy ending = win, in my eyes.

Dont really understand why it gets such good praise, its aged very badly, and I found it dull

Animal farm was much better imo. Though I dont really like Orwell.

Voltar · 23 Mar 2008 at 22:22

I agree with you Edinho... I don't have much love for Orwellian style, however I respect the theories and points that he tries to illustrate within his works.

cleanbluesky · 23 Mar 2008 at 22:24

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Grandmaster Fap! · 23 Mar 2008 at 22:25

Narnia chronicles, ever since i read them as a kid i just keep going back to them every year.

Antar Bolaeisk · 23 Mar 2008 at 22:50

Lord of the Rings would have to be my favorite but if I had to pick something different probably Pyramids by Terry Pratchett or anything else by the man either.

semi-pro waster · 23 Mar 2008 at 23:17

Two of my favourite books are White Fang by Jack London and The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan, very different in style but both great stories well told.

It is very difficult to narrow it down to even just two though.

titchard · 23 Mar 2008 at 23:19

p4radox said:
Nineteen-Eighty Four - George Orwell

Masterfully written, and a totally inescapable plot. The guy was a complete genius. And no happy ending = win, in my eyes.

ARGH I change my vote!

Rich

MikeTimbers · 23 Mar 2008 at 23:33

1984 has not aged, quite the contrary; I find it chillingly relevant.

My favourite would probably be Dune but I could name another five books that could just as easily be #1 on a different day.

Fatpigeon · 23 Mar 2008 at 23:41

I'd have to say Erebus by Shaun Hutson. To kill a mockingbord comes a close second, the film with Gregory Peck really does do it justice.