cloudff7pc Posted May 12, 2010 Report Share Posted May 12, 2010 My favourite book is The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. It was such a good read. A Movie adaptation of it is coming out soon but I'm a little skeptical about it since adaptations are generally a failure. Let's hope for the best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slayer Posted May 12, 2010 Report Share Posted May 12, 2010 My favourite book is The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. It was such a good read. A Movie adaptation of it is coming out soon but I'm a little skeptical about it since adaptations are generally a failure. Let's hope for the best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denkywarke Posted May 12, 2010 Report Share Posted May 12, 2010 Mine is Harry Potter- J.K RowlingGuilty Pleasures- Laurell K. Hamilton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crumejack Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 Hello All,My favorite book of all time is The Great Gatsby. I'm reading The Beach right now, though and that is really good too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doom5k2 Posted May 15, 2010 Report Share Posted May 15, 2010 I'm reading a bunch of John Grisham books and he is just an excellent author Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oblivia Posted May 15, 2010 Report Share Posted May 15, 2010 Lol, we have two same threads, one should be closed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JE9 Posted May 15, 2010 Report Share Posted May 15, 2010 i'v been reading those books by Hopkins. bout drugs. there printed out in a very strange way n there r no chapter dividers. i have Glass n Burned. i wanna get the rest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mustangtaisa Posted May 15, 2010 Report Share Posted May 15, 2010 Dunno if anyone here is familiar with Mishima Yukio, but he's a fabulously brilliant and eccentric Japanese author who committed suicide in 1970 after making an address to the Japanese Self-Defense Force. I recommend "Confessions of a Mask" and "Forbidden Colors." =D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medora Posted May 29, 2010 Report Share Posted May 29, 2010 Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. A decent biography of Lincoln, but even more a portrait of the time period and its major players. Walter Karp, The Story of Two Wars Which Altered Forever the Political Life of the American Republic 1890-1920. Provides a unique look at American governance from the lead up to the Spanish-American War, to the conclusion of the Great War. According to Karp, Presidents McKinley and Wilson were conniving war mongers, and the Congress used war to, on a bipartisan basis, distract citizens from domestic issues. The greatest assertion made in this look at history is that the Great War was Wilson's excuse to destroy all proponents of reform... permanently.Frank Herbert, Dune. A political drama that pits Renaissance-type societies against each other in the far future. The book makes consequential scenes that were considered unimportant in the movies, and does a good job of bringing a sort of romance to a distant age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lencemark Posted June 18, 2010 Report Share Posted June 18, 2010 It's constantly changing. Right now, it's probably The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I've spent the day reading and analyzing it for fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ミ★ρяαѕαηтн★™ Posted August 3, 2010 Report Share Posted August 3, 2010 harry potter and the of the order of phoenix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redprophet19 Posted August 3, 2010 Report Share Posted August 3, 2010 I'd have to Say the Classical Liteture is where its at. My favs are Hamlet, Iliad, Divine Comady and such Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renzourin Posted August 3, 2010 Report Share Posted August 3, 2010 Dune by Frank herbert one of the best sci fi books in existence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PreacherMan89 Posted August 3, 2010 Report Share Posted August 3, 2010 My favorite book is Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke. He is the best sci-fi writer ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
love=su Posted August 5, 2010 Report Share Posted August 5, 2010 My favorite book is The Body Finder.I just liked how the other made its characters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovecookie Posted August 14, 2010 Report Share Posted August 14, 2010 My favorites would include I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak, After Dark by Haruki Murakami, and Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho. These things constantly change though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cortanovacki Posted August 14, 2010 Report Share Posted August 14, 2010 Terry Pratchett Guards! Guards! , Lords and Ladies, Men at Arms George R. R. Martin A Song of Ice and Fire series J. R. R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuzon Fire Posted August 14, 2010 Report Share Posted August 14, 2010 Yeah I'm with the guy who said classic literature. Though I do prefer Macbeth over Hamlet...And of course The Castle by Kafka and Watership Down by... Richard Adams? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluenoser Posted August 20, 2010 Report Share Posted August 20, 2010 The Honor Harrington series by David Weber, it is IMHO a brilliant piece of writing. It is basically a fusion of Horatio Nelson's time and military crossed with CS Forrester's Horatio Hornblower series for both characters and cultures involved, especially in the early books the political environment is very much like western Europe from right before the Reign of Terror in France through the Napoleonic wars, but also the military aspects follows the evolution in military technology that happened from before WWI through to WWII, set 2000 years in the future from now with a female lead the equal of any Navy Captain fictional or historical. Before I encountered this series when it first started I would have said the Amber series by Roger Zelazny, and possibly Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress for single shot title as favourite.My fictional preferences tend to be in Science Fiction and Fantasy, military (Naval mainly) and espionage/political/mysteries, although this last grouping is a minor area compared to the first two. My non-fiction tastes tend to be far more eclectic ranging from hard sciences to history to current events/politics etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiettyper Posted August 20, 2010 Report Share Posted August 20, 2010 My favorite books would have to be the Harry Potter- J.K Rowling series and Anthony Horowitz books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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