My favorite book of all time would have to either be...Eragon/Eldest...or...Lord of the Rings....

Feed....M.T. Anderson

Harper....To Kill A Mockingbird

Also one of my favorite movies

I've never read any of those...but I'm more of a sci-fi/fantasy type.

Battle Royale! BATTLE ROYALE!!!!! Koushun Takami!

Salinger...Catcher in the Rye.

Vonnegut........Slapstick

Finding Joe..Andrew Masters

Only good pommy thing besides Monty Python.

The only books i read for fun are ANIMORPHS, by K.a applegate. Its purty good.

Aldous Huxley - Brave New World

Harvest Home.....Thomas Tryon

And I'll pretend I didn't hear that, Ben! Racist twat.

life of pi - yann martel

Quoted from bert Salinger...Catcher in the Rye.

Thats one of my favorites as well.

Quoted Text And I'll pretend I didn't hear that, Ben! Racist twat.

WHo won the ashes, may I ask?

my pops made me read a lot as a little kid.  but my favorite would have to be the classic love story portrayed in the notebook.  i read it before the film and actually got a few people to do the same.  anyone agree with me?

I never saw or read The Notebook. It never really interested me, but I, like I've said before(I think), am more of a sci-fi/fantasy person.

its all good.  i only read and watched it because i relate in certain ways to it.

you all have to read East of Eden

Whats it about? What genre is it in?

its about two families.  one east coast and one west coast.  its pretty weird.  but it tells a disturbing story.  you wont be able to put it down.  That is, assuming, this is the type of thing you like to read.  If you're into science fiction- you should read those video games books.  like resident evil.  couldn't really put that one down believe it or not lolol.  But... east of eden doesn't do the title justice

I'll be sure to check it out when I get done with the one I'm reading at the moment.

I can't pick a single favorite book, but I can pick a "quadrilogy".

James Ellroy's "LA Quadrilogy" -- The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential and White Jazz.  Of the four, White Jazz is my favorite.  Very clipped, terse and gripping, more violent than the others but just as complex and serpentine.  Anyone who's not read these books is missing out on some of the best crime stories out there, better (in my opinion) than anything Chandler ever did.

Stephen King's "IT" and "Desperation" - I have to re-read both of these again soon.

Quoted from Andy Petrou Stephen King's "IT" and "Desperation" - I have to re-read both of these again soon.

I'm getting ready to read "Cell" by Steven King. It'll be my first King book I've ever read.

Us!

us?

England won the bloomin ashes.

My two favorite novels are "American Psycho" by Bret Easton Ellis and "The Toy Collector" by James Gunn.  Both are very similar in style and tone.  My two favorite graphic novels are "Batman: Long Halloween" by Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale and "Teenagers From Mars" by Rick Spears & Rob G.  "Long Halloween" is where "Batman Begins" got much of its plot and characters and "Teenagers From Mars" is, I believe, my un-official autobiography... I'm pretty sure Rick Spears has probably been following me around since I was 16 with a notepad and pen.

I would have to say Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. The best fairy tale turned novella I've ever read and that includes Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Jonathan Stroud, Salvatore, and Ray Bradbury.

I'm fond of the Chronicles of Thomas Convenant by Stephen Donaldson as well as Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien. I know LOTR got a lot of instant "fans" but we'll see who hangs on through the long haul. I've also enjoyed the Left Behind series as well as a wealth of Stephen King and Dean Koontz.

Lord of the FLIES!!!!!

when's THAT going to be a movie?????

Quoted from SwapJack Lord of the FLIES!!!!! when's THAT going to be a movie?????

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100054/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057261/

Check your local video store or Netflix.

A Clockwork Orange!

Curse =]

My favorite book of all time would have to be....

The Shining!!!

Sawyer, really? The Shining? I had you figured for a Danielle Steele kind of guy with that avatar.   :P

1- Devil At My Heels, the Louis Zamperini story.

2- Ian McEwan's collection of shorts: "In Between the Sheets and Other Stories."  And "First Love, Last Rites."  This author was among my first inspirations to write short fiction. Memorable stories include "Reflections of a Kept Ape," "Solid Geometry" and "Dead As They Come."  Mesmerizing.  Disturbing.

I don't read novels.

Different Seasons by Stephen king

:P :P :P To you George...

;D

The Shining is creepy on so many levels...

The movie was good too, but I just chuckled when Jack went durr durr durrrrr... I think I have the Shining...

Today on my way home from some swimming I was thinking about coming around the bend in my neighborhood, and hitting a girl and her dog. As soon as I turned there was a girl there with a dog!!!

Luckilly I hit the breaks in time... Phew...

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. Nothing's better than a good old western.

Quoted from James Fields Today on my way home from some swimming I was thinking about coming around the bend in my neighborhood, and hitting a girl and her dog. As soon as I turned there was a girl there with a dog!!! Luckilly I hit the breaks in time... Phew...

Yeah, only write about it. Most of us freaks write so we don't actually do the things we write about. No actually hitting the girl and her dog. But maybe it would make a good script...

I haven't had a lot of time for reading for the past few month or two. I think when I get done with all of the scripts for this summer, I'm going to sit down and dive into Tolkien...maybe I'll read The Lord of the Rings again...

-Chris

I took this reading class last year and read a few of the classics. I don't have a favorite book but the ones that really stuck in my mind this year were The Great Gatsby and The Scarlet Pimpernel. Wonderful stuff.

White Jazz, by James Ellroy.  A gripping finale to his "L.A. Quartet" series of books (including The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere and L.A. Confidential) told in a very clipped and terse manner.  Very complex, violent and absorbing; I've read it six times already and each and every time, once I started I could not put it down.

This book had a big influence on me and anytime I write a cop thriller, I've got this book in the back of my mind.

Dan Brown's Digital Fortress has to be my favourate. I haven't read the Da Vinci Code but after seeing the film, i dont know if i want to read the book.

Quoted from Shepard Dan Brown's Digital Fortress has to be my favourate.

No offence, but if this is the best book you've read, you really need to read more.

Ann Rice: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, Queen of the Damned, And blood Canticle.

I have read lots of books by S.d. Perry. The Resident Evil Nemisis book is a good read. Zero Hour was the newest book I added to my Resident Evil collection a few weeks ago. Still to read that one.

Favorite books:

Resident Evil Nemisis (S.d. perry)
Resident Evil - Zero Hour (S.d. Perry)
Caliban Cove (S.d. Perry)
The Umbrella Conspiracy (S.d Perry)
   The rest of this collection I still have to find. LOL!!

Interview with the Vampire (Ann Rice)
The Vampire Lestat (Ann Rice)
Queen of the damned (Ann Rice)
Blood Canticle (Ann Rice)

Alex Ross: The Terminator, Burning Earth
The Crow: The story Behind the Film (Bridget Baiss)

IMO, Digital Fortress was good but nothing will top Angels & Demons when it comes to Dan Brown.

The Giver - Lois Lowry
V for Vendetta - Alan Moore
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

And not one of my favorites but a milestone in my life would be Roots by Alex Haley.  Longest book by far I have ever read and probably will ever read.  It took me five years to finish that book.  It had to be like 1500 pages long.  Good story, but just way too long.  

Phantom by Susan Kay
and
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Lovecraft's complete work

Michel 8)

Do comics count?

I like Sin City comics...

If it has to be an actual book/novel type then...

Most of Stephen Kings, they're awesome

Audrey Rose by Frank De Felitta

I read this when I was quite young and it left an impression.  Very creepy.  The movie wasn't bad either.  To Kill a Mockingbird may be the best and only example I can think of where the movie actually lived up to the source material.

I'm in love with any book out of the Necroscope Saga by Brian Lumley.

Quoted from guyjackson The Giver - Lois Lowry V for Vendetta - Alan Moore The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown And not one of my favorites but a milestone in my life would be Roots by Alex Haley.  Longest book by far I have ever read and probably will ever read.  It took me five years to finish that book.  It had to be like 1500 pages long.  Good story, but just way too long.

I loved The Giver. I read it in the 6th grade as a class-read, you know? And I just kept thinking about it again and again until I bought it for myself a few weeks ago and read it again. That book just sticks with you.

I bought a lot of classics recently. Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion by Jane Austen, Treasure Island, The Scarlet Pimpernel as well as 1984. I can't stop reading 1984, that book pulls you right in.

I just bought "The Golden Compass" which is first in the "His Dark Materials" trilogy by Philip Pullman and I'm liking it so far. It's great.

-Chris

All the KISS Comics, KISS: Behind the Mask, Communist Manifesto, The Theif Lord. A few more i forget.

Ihave always loved anything by Edgar Allan Poe, Dean Koontz, H.P. Lovecraft, and Stephen King. Just anything by any of them. I can't really pick a favorite.

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K.Le Guin

A science fiction novel which tells the story of Winter, an Earth-like planet where the weather conditions are semi-arctic and the inhabitants are all of the same sex, which is invited to join a coalition of planets.

and I'm not a big science fiction fan.

this book is pure class - amazing characters, great depth...just WOW!

Quoted from Impulse I can't stop reading 1984, that book pulls you right in.

I can't disagree with you here. I read 1984 as pedagogic curriculum piece and I lost the top part of my head. Never recovered from it, even after having read Animal Farm, this had a similar impact.

Germinal by Emile Zola is an outstanding piece of literature. The first to capture a verisimilitude or a representation of a documentary style of reality in the characters and story being rooted in a tale of workers verses capitalists and nature verses nurture. French miners working in terrible poorly paid conditions in the coal mines. A masterpeice..

Quoted from Kevan I can't disagree with you here. I read 1984 as pedagogic curriculum piece and I lost the top part of my head. Never recovered from it, even after having read Animal Farm, this had a similar impact.

Those who liked 1984...can I recommend Feed?  It is along a similair vein and is my alltime favorite book, even outing 1984 and Farenheidt 451 as close seconds.

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris. Man was a genius.

Other books of note include Angels & Demons, anything by Matthew Reilly and everything else Thomas Harris has ever written.


Cheers, Chism.

favorite book: Angel's Ashes -- as hilarious as it is sad.

Q & A by Vikas Swarup. By the end of the book i was in the most happiest mood.

Fragments of Memory, by Hanna Mina.

Mystic River - Dennis Lehane

Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane

Gone Baby Gone - Dennis Lehane

Darkness Take My Hand - Dennis Lehane

My favourite book is:
Brother In The Land   by Robert Swindells.

Also worthy of a mention, I don't know if you guys have ever read it but it's called Traumnovelle (English: Dream Story) by Arthur Schnitzler. It was the inspiration for Kubrick's absolutely brilliant Eyes Wide Shut. I'm not sure if it qualifies as a book or not, the version I've got is only like 100 pages, but it's still really good. Not my absolute favourite, but definitely up there.


Cheers, Chismeister.

Too many favourites! So, here is a list of a few books I've truly enjoyed.

The Gas - Charles Platt
Stranger In a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
Time Enough for Love - Robert Heinlein
Number of the Beast - Robert Heinlein
Second Foundation - Isaac Asimov
Childhoods End - Arthur C Clark
Ringworld - Larry Niven
The Sirens of Titan - by Kurt Vonnegut  
The Shining - Stephen King
The Amityville Horror - Jay Anson  
The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
The Store - Bentley Little  
The Agony and the Ecstasy - Irving Stone  
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling  (OK. It's a guilty pleasure)
    

I forgot "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint Exupery

the book where you can find the true meaning of life.

Michel 8)

either Of Mice and Men or Lord Of The Rings:Return Of Thr King

Ender's Game is my favorite book

Ann Rice,

Interview with the Vampire, the Vampire Lestat, and Queen of the damned... Also the blood canticle!!

Wow, reading about all these books just make me want to take a trip to my town's library, but i lost my card so i can't,  crap!!!

I've read all the books that i own, I'm just curious has anyone else read Shockwave by Clive Cussler?

The Bible,

The best work of fiction ever Hands down!

Great words to live by but...

--Kotton

Quoted from Kotton The Bible, The best work of fiction ever Hands down! Great words to live by but... --Kotton

Meh, too much deus ex machina in it.

Quoted from silent0saint I've read all the books that i own, I'm just curious has anyone else read Shockwave by Clive Cussler?

I have all his book I believe. A bit of a fan actually. Especially the vintage ones and before he started co-writing.

I even have a signed first edition of Mediterranean Caper. I bought it on e-bay for $.98. Obviously an estate sale where the seller did not know the true value.

I'm sure I've read Shockwave, but I would have to check to refresh my memory since his written soooo many books.

Pia

Quoted from Combichrist Ann Rice, Interview with the Vampire, the Vampire Lestat, and Queen of the damned... Also the blood canticle!!

I met with this lady. She's very cool, and talented.

Frank Herbert's Dune.

I haven't read anything that even comes close Herbert's way of telling a story. The way he weaves and stretches a story is unbelievable and his use of prose is second to none imo.  

James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (As well as anything else by him)

and also...F. Scott Fitzgerald - This Side of Paradise; Leo Tolstoy - The Kreutzer Sonata; Dante's Inferno; and Jack Kerouac - On the Road.

This list could go on for pages.  One of the downfalls of working at the library is I read too much.

-Pat

William Golding - Lord of the Flies
Stephen King - Long Walk
Stephen King - Different Seasons
Lorenzo Carcaterra - Sleepers
J.D. Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
John Wyndham - The Chrysalids
William Shakespeare - Titus Andronicus

these are the ones I really love :)

I love old literature...

Anything written by John Steinbeck
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Brothers Karamazov
Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island
HG Wells - War of The Worlds
William Golding - Lord of The Flies
Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince
Stephen King - The Stand
Sun Tzu - The Art of War

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck.

They made us read it in school, It really left an impression on me but over the years I forgot all about it. A few years ago me and wife no.1 went on a road trip around California and ended up in Monterey for a couple of nights, I never realized that I was in Steinbeck country. I ended up coming out of a book shop with a copy of this book and sat in a bar on Cannery Row and read it again for the first time in 15 years, I got a few funny looks as I was sat there crying my eyes out! It still makes me cry every time I read it.

I know that Gary Sinise made it into a movie - which is not too bad really, But I would love to see someone remake it in a modern setting - that I think could work really well.

I Am Legend - Matheson

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler.

Even if we don't know who killed the driver.  It's one of the few books I've read multiple times and not been disappointed on the next reading.  Though Catch 22 by Joseph Heller is a close second.

Elie Wiesel's Night followed very closely by Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. I also might mention I read Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth just about every year in elementary school.

Really heartening to see some of the classics in there especially Catcher, Mockingbird, Matheson, Steinbeck, Wells, Lord of the Flies, Wyndham.

Allow me to throw The Forever War by Joe Haldeman and The Prestige - Christopher Priest into the pot.

I agree with the poster who said that those of you who mention Dan Brown need to read more books. Dan Brown is a great author to read on holiday on the beach or by the pool. But seriously best book of all time. For me it's Summer fiction at the very worst - no depth, obvious plot, Hollywood ending. Yuk.

Saying that judging by the number of books he has sold I appear to be in a minority. Ha.

Adverbs--Daniel Handler

By the author of "A Series of Unfortunate Events" for a more mature audience.  A work of art. "The Basic Eight" also by him is worth mentioning.

And I have to admit being in the chuck cult:

Rant-Chuck Palahniuk

It will change the way you think about everything.

One of my all time favorites is

Great Expectations
by
Charles Dickens

My four favorites are:

Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien
Timequake - Kurt Vonnegut
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

Can't believe I'm the first to mention Hemingway!

My top three are  The Lord of The Rings - JRR Tolkien

It by Stephen King  and The Stand by Stephen King

Quoted from EBurke73 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. Even if we don't know who killed the driver.  It's one of the few books I've read multiple times and not been disappointed on the next reading.  Though Catch 22 by Joseph Heller is a close second.

And everything else by Raymond Chandler, and Dashiell Hammett.  Oh, and John D. McDonald's Travis McGee books.

I'd probably throw out "Salem's Lot" as my fave.  I've always been a HUGE Stephen King fan, but I think that's the best he did.  Another would have to be "Jaws".  Loved the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, but it was so many years ago that I read them.

Hey Pia, I wasn't too thrilled with Bag.  I thought it really dragged, as did much of King's "later" stuff.  I also loved Hearts.  I remember giving my Dad that book for Christmas, many years ago.  When I was a kid, he always talked about "Bronco Negurski (spelled wrong, I know), and I thought he would really enjoy it.  He reads like literaly 1-2 pages per night before he starts to fall asleep, and he never got through it (he's 84 now!).  Too bad.  I thought the movie was good too, but it sure didn't do the novel justice.

Also, totally LOVED Pet Cemetary!  What a great read!  The movie was a letdown, but in terms of King movies, wasn't horrid either.  The vast majority of his works just don't, or didn't transfer well to film.  It's sad, actually, cause he is, and always will be the true master of the written horror story.

Quoted from Dreamscale "Bronco Negurski (spelled wrong, I know)

Blasphemy!!!!

Bronko Nagurski, Dreamscale.  But it's okay having typos.  We're all human.  :)

It wasn't a typo...I knew it was spelled wrong. I just didn't want to spend the 45 seconds to check it!

Gotta love the brute, though, huh?  I can't tell you how many times I've heard my Pops talk about him.  He loved that guy (easy now...he loved him in a good way...like I love Kurt Warner!).

I gotta add 2 more books here...

The Hobbit is actually what turned me on to Tolkien.  Great, great story and writing.  Also, another King novel that I thought really stood out was Needful Things.  Again, the movie version wasn't good...at all...

1. Golden Compass Series, the movie wasnt great- lousy lyra...
2. Capricornia- like Australia, its awesome

Yes, heart in Atlantis was good.

Anne Karenine (Leo Tolstoi)

Os Maias (Eça de Queiróz)

Memorial do Convento (José Saramago)

The second and the third are portuguese books, perhaps even translated in English. :)

"Never Let Me Go" by Kazou Ishiguro.  That book is so moving and atmospheric.  And luckily, some people had the good sense to turn it into a film.  With Carey Mulligan in it.  Wooo!

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

His other five novels are excellent too.

As per Col. proves he's a man of taste. 1984 is grim but gripping.

Personally I prefer Animal Farm these days as I read Winston Smith and Julia and O'Brien about ten times when I were lad.

Just reading Stephen Fry's Chronicles. Have to say I preferred the first part of his autobiography, Moab Is My Washpot. Part Two is too much about bleeding sweets and being very childish. Something I obviously never dabble in myself. He has a certain style that is as unmistakeable as A Stones or Queen record.

His best though was The Stars' Tennis Balls. Keryiste, I even managed to put the funny comma in the right spot. The fact the book is in front of me is irrevelant, officer.

Have a good day, y'all.

R xo

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Rabbit, Run by John Updike. A simple, sad story told in a very complex, layered way.