For me, it's Moby Dick (1851) and Les Miserables (1862).
I like the classics.
For me, it's Moby Dick (1851) and Les Miserables (1862).
I like the classics.
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Around the World in 80 Days
Magic Tree House series
Goosebumps series
Series of Unfortunate Events series (film adaptation was horrible)
Journey to the Center of the Earth I was actually reading in third grade and the teacher saw how much it intrigued me, and when he realized I wouldn't finish it before summer vacation, he gifted it to me. I still have it. I never thought a book could have such an impact on my life.
The original 1950s film adaptation was brilliant, but we do not speak of the Brenden Frasier one.
The Around the World in 80 Days with Jackie Chan was hilarious, albeit strayed far from the original.
I fucking LOVE Jules Verne! Mysterious Island. They're the only none series books I ever really got into. I never could finish 20,000 Leagues. I don't read at all anymore, but maybe I should get the other Vernes novels. The balloon one sounds interesting. Don't care much for the moon one. Yeah, I think I'll get the balloon one.
20.000 Leagues is I think his literary culmination. There is so much story in this book.
Insider tip: Godfrey Morgan: A Californian Mystery. Jule Verne‘s own Robinson story.
I totally forgot Robinson Corusoe and The Time Machine and Treasure Island. I read these books ages ago. "The Time Machine" is definitely in my top favorites too
Les Miserable was good, but too long for me to want to read it regularly. I might read it once more before I die, lol. It was pretty good.
Cryptonomicon is my favorite book by my favorite author, Neal Stephenson. I'm also quite a fan of Snowcrash, Anathem, Reamde, and The Diamond Age.
Accelerando by Charles Stross had a lot of very interesting ideas about what post-humanity could look like.
The Expanse (series) by James Corey
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
A Little Life by Hanya Yanajihara
The Game of Thrones (series) by George Martin, but I am on a strike until he finishes the series. I stopped after book three when I realized it wasn't done.
The Lord of the Ring (series) by J. R. Tolkien
I realize a lot of these choices are mainstream typical, but also there's a reason they are. But I do want to add that there are a lot of popular books that I thought were rubbish. Dan Brown's NYT top sellers are a great example. They are pulp fiction, fast paced, but essentially vapid, and only suitable for middle school/high school.
The Manual of the Warrior of Light by Paulo Coehlo (I like a lot of his books)
Noam Chomsky (author) - a lot of his "books" are simply transcription of his conversations with interviewers.
9 Princes in Amber (series) by Roger Zelazny
William Gibson (author) - Mona Lisa Overdrive, The Peripheral, and All Tomorrow's Parties, a few of his many excellent books
Robert Heinlen (author) - Starship Troopers and A Stranger in a Strange Land, amongst several others
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Kurt Vonnegut (author) - I friggin' LOVE this guy. Prolific, but hard to go wrong with anything he wrote.
Tom Robbins (author) - another one who never fails to please.
I could go on, but I won't for now. I have an appointment :)
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I really love Pride and Prejudice. It is probably my favorite book of all time. I like the tv show and movie adaptations for it too for the most part and think different adaptations are stronger in some areas than others with bringing the characters and story to life. I also just enjoy Orson Scott Card books in general (Ender’s Shadow was great), Lord of the Rings, IT, Pachinko, and a ton of others. As far as movie adaptions go I think LOTR did well with it mostly cause it cut out my least favorite parts of the first book in particular but the newer True Grit was a really good adaption that felt like they followed the book perfectly and then Memoirs of a Geisha did well too
i had to read pride and prejudice at school is was absolute torture so im glad someone liked it.
Which reminds me - war and peace- which i actually read coz it has a reputation as a masterpiece and i was pretentious enough in my youth to do so.
it was absolute drivel. With the literary worth of a rv soap opera. But whty would i know.
nowadays i love streaming movies and cricket. Reading requires effort but if i want to read ill read a wilbur smith book
Yeah I love 💕 those and what @Simslover92 said Jane Eyre plus “The Old Man and the Sea” don’t forget to read the Bible too
Old Man And The Sea was good too.
I thought there were too many parts of the Bible that really drug on and were boring. There are definitely some good books and chapters in there, it just depends on which author wrote them. I like the parts written by Moses, David, and John the best. Some of those other fellas could take a writing course on how to not bore someone to death, and a few of them also don't write very believably. I don't mind the fiction, as long as it's interesting.
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Moby Dick? It was torture for me to read that. I would have stopped 50 times if I were a quitter. I wanted to finish it though. It took me 4 months to read that because I could only bear a few pages at a time.
I didn't ever think I'd run into someone who had that as their favorite.
1/3 of the book, the part that actually detailed the story of the hunt for the whale was ok, it was the other 2/3's where Herman went on all of these endless tangents about 20 other topics that wore me out and lost me.
Anyway, back to the question, my favorite books?
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen), Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë), Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens), The Talisman (Stephen King/Peter Straub, Ghost Story (Peter Straub), Without Remorse (Tom Clancy), Velocity (Dean Koontz), The Analyst (John Katzenbach), Six Years (Harlen Coben), The Girl on the Train (Paula Hawkins), The Last Juror (John Grisham), Airframe (Michael Crichton).
Dang I forgot I read so much Koontz and King as a youth. And horror isn't even a favorite genre of mine, but I just loved finding something I hadn't read by them. I was thrilled to discover "The Bachman Books"
For the sake of all living things - first time I read a book and had feelings... of despair and connect with others pain. This book about the killing fields.
When Rabbit Howls - True story of Trudy Chase... I could tune into the suffering of a child when for me, I was quite shut down from early life and being a sensitive kid.
... not sure on others, more fact than fiction.
Living with your heart wide open - reading now. excellent concise depiction of problems and solutions.
Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
Jules Verne - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
Jules Verne - Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days
Thor Heyerdahl - Expedition Ra (nonfiction)
Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose
JRR Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings
Frank Herbert - Dune
Robert Harris - Enigma
Michael Crichton - Jurassic Park
I was just thinking about Treasure Island this morning. Seems like it might be along the lines of the classics you enjoy.
I have read it as a ten-year-old and enjoyed it. Quite a violent story.
yeah it's been a long time since I read it as a youth as well. I was thinking about "the Black Dot" and what a cool idea that was for a pirate mafia that sent a secret "you're gonna die" message.
In my bookcase i have
a Trilogy " His dark Materials " by Philip Pullman. book titles : The golden compass, the subtle knife, the amber spyglass
Fantastic Beasts by J. K. (Joanne Kathleen) Rowling
I do like fantasy / adventure stories
Short stories and books by Leo Tolstoy. I especially like his books because they feel like where my current society is now especially Anna Karenina. Munshi Premchand's Novels and stories, Saadi and Rumi's books, Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov is also good.
Anna Karenina is on the top of my list. But I got intimidated by the cast of characters. I feel like I will need to take notes to keep everyone straight.
@zeitgeist057 oh yeah thr novel can be convoluting at times
Iliad by Homer
Odyssey by Homer
The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
Art of War by Sun Tzu
Secrets of the Tsil Café by Thomas Fox Averill
Voyage of the Slaves by Brian Jacques
Tao of Jeet Kune Do by Bruce Lee
This is Karate by Masutatsu Oyama
The Rifle by Gary Paulsen
Those are some of my favorite books.
Asimov's Entire Robot/Galactic Empire/Foundation series.
Tolkien's entire saga from The Silmarillion to The Return of the King.
C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia
A Tale of Two Cities
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The Pilgrim's Progress
A Wrinkle in Time
I could go on and on.
I really want to read Foundation. I just got caught up in school and work.
yay asimov, now i am reading his galactic series too. space jumping and visiplates clever.
Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and the Narnia chronicles by CS Lewis have been favourites since I read them as a child and I see new Truths reading them as an adult beyond the stories. I struggled with Dickens as a student but did enjoy the Canterbury Tales in the original Middle English they were written in.
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Not my favorite, BUT TRYING TO READ Ian Rand - Atlas Shrugged, only because of it being a classic also.
I do like Michael Connelly- Fair Warning"
I suppose I do not have a 'favorite of all time"
I thought The Fountainhead was a much more engaging novel, if you wanted to try something else by Rand. I read Atlas Shrugged afterwards, but wasn't as thrilled.
@zeitgeist057 Yes, a friend suggested Fountainhead... Thanks!
Yes, generally movie adaptations are far inferior to the books, the more so the more complex the book is.
There are exceptions, usually for beach-reading types of books like Jaws and The Shining. OK maybe Jaws isn't good for beach reading...
I really liked 1984, which I read a couple years ago. Also Of Mice and Men.
I bought War and Peace but it is kind of intimidating to start..
I liked the Dune trilogy, the Sun Also Rises, and Travels With Charley.
The original book of Charlie and the chocolate factory - where the movie Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory came from with gene wilder 👍🙂
I spent my entire life reading as I am a lifelong social outcast. I've read thousands of books probably.
Harry Potter will always be my favorite. I even re read it sometimes. I've read the series like 15 times now.
@davado88 lol you're such a funny curmudgeon. What, people are lying about their favorite books now? lol I just can't with you XD XD XD
Jane Eyre and Rebecca definitely for me. I like the classics too.
A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey
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The Man Who Touched His Own Heart: True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery by Rob Dunn
To Kill a Mockingbird is my favorite. 2nd is Lord of the Flies.
The movie versions I've seen of both are word for word of books.
The Scholomance trilogy (Novik), The Curse of Challion (Bujold), Sunshine (McKinley), and the Summoners trilogy (Yates).
(I may have spelled authors' names wrong)
My favorite book of all time is probably A Thousand Splendid Suns. It’s been years since I read it and I still think about it all the time, especially with everything happening in Afghanistan right now
Probably, "The Real Animal House" by Chris Miller.
I grew up reading Henry Miller books, weird, I know.
Anything by Don Winslow. If he wrote the phone book it would be interesting
I used to read all the time. I wish i still did but, they got boring, and big. I blame textbooks for that
One's really obvious... my profile name.
I also loved Moby Dick and Mary Shelley's, Frankenstein.
Lord of the Rings. The Long Walk. The Lost Patrol. The Frontiersmen. I have a whole library in my house.
IT, by stephen king and against all enemies by tom clancy
Crime and Punishment
Lord of Light
The Silmarillion
The Demon Princes
The Song of Kali
Postwar
dont have a fave its a puerile question. The black monk sprang to mind though
Watership Down
1984, Fahrenheit 451, I Robot, All of John Grishams work, Child 44, Micheal Crichtons books
1984, the hikers guide to galaxies and kamasutra.
Shakespeare is awesome
I love films and hate books!
I don't read books.
I don't read books,.
I give reason to the world write book on me.
Asterix & Obelix, Tin Tin et Milou, Oui Oui...
Too many to list here.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
no but they COUNTED Electric Sheep when can't sleep.
best is hobbit Tolkien
I love Pretty Women
The adventures of Tom soyer and Huck Finn.
The Star Wars Darth Bane trilogy.
Signs.
I may be wrong.
A Christmas Carol.
In grade school it was Timothy Tuttle lol
The Harry Potter books and The Famous Five
Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy.
Everybody poops.
The holy bible.
not a reader