Favorite book

[Mitchell Strong]

On 3/24/2021 at 3:30 PM, StrokerAce said:

so so many...

my 8th grader just finished reading To Kill a Mockingbird - he didn't like it but it is one of my all time favorites.... high schooler is reading The Catcher in the Rye - another classic

One of the funniest I've ever read is A Walk in the woods - the movie did not do it justice.

My favorite genre is nonfiction and there are so many incredible stories out there - Unbroken is absolutely incredible...hard to believe it was even real. 
Alive and Into Thin Air were both stunning as well.

I suppose I could go on and on. I'll have to come back and edit as I recall more.

What can I say, I just love To Kill a Mockingbird, I probably read this book a hundred times in my life, and every time it feels different with age, because I begin to understand it differently, this is an incredible book. This interested me so much that I read many other literature related to To Kill a Mockingbird, such as various articles, essays, and so on. And even that's not all, I started writing essays myself and have been writing about various books for a long time, but of course it was the essay on To Kill a Mockingbird that I wrote most of all, examples of my ready-made and absolutely free works you can find on my website, I am sure that it will be useful for you. By far this is my favorite book that touched me to the core.

Edited October 6, 2021 by Mitchell Strong

[sirchunksalot]

On 3/25/2021 at 7:04 AM, ncwoz said:

I really enjoyed the Mistborn series.

I've got to agree here, I'm a huge Sanderson fan and while he was chosen to finish off The Wheel of Time and has a lot of other great works, Mistborn is my favorite. 

[ncwoz]

56 minutes ago, sirchunksalot said:

I've got to agree here, I'm a huge Sanderson fan and while he was chosen to finish off The Wheel of Time and has a lot of other great works, Mistborn is my favorite. 

Mistborn has been my only Sanderson exposure so far, but it has me intrigued about starting up some of his other works as well. My only complaint is the guy has so many different projects going on, none of them are complete!

He does seem to be an absolute workhorse though. Once he gets a few of his other series further along I plan on giving them a try. Any particular ones you'd recommend I start with?

[sirchunksalot]

1 hour ago, ncwoz said:

Mistborn has been my only Sanderson exposure so far, but it has me intrigued about starting up some of his other works as well. My only complaint is the guy has so many different projects going on, none of them are complete!

He does seem to be an absolute workhorse though. Once he gets a few of his other series further along I plan on giving them a try. Any particular ones you'd recommend I start with?

I would recommend the Wax and Wayne series, it's set in the world of Mistborn about 200 years after The Hero of Ages. The books are The Alloy of Law, Shadows of Self, and The Bands of Mourning. 

The Stormlight Archive is extremely good, but it's going to be a long series. If you decide to try it out, I'd recommend reading Warbreaker as you won't get some of the references in the series. 

He's also written a young adult series, the Reckoners that I love. The first book in that series is Steelheart. They're all very good. 

[MNUte]

Probably cheating by giving a series, but the Empire of Man series by David Weber and John Ringo. Really fun way to combine a futuristic sci-fi and military fiction book while still having fun dropping easter eggs throughout. 

[Madeleine Baker]

 Dan Brown, any I love all the books by this author. I started reading it at school. I was advised to read more to improve my writing skills. But it did not help. By the way, maybe someone will be useful https://www.topwritersreview.com/reviews/classyessay/. Thanks to them, I avoided writing hateful essays and always received excellent marks for them. Also, all tasks were completed very quickly

Edited October 16, 2021 by Madeleine Baker

[Jasper Bryant]

I am currently reading Les Misérables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo. This is one of the largest and one of the most incredibly deep and interesting books I have read. I have read half of the book, but I am already convinced that it will become one of my favorite stories for my whole life. I recently read a few articles on https://studydriver.com/romeo-and-juliet/ about one of my favourite tragedies in history and decided to reread Romeo and Juliet.

Edited March 30, 2022 by Jasper Bryant

[katana29]

 Deception Point is a suspense novel by American author Dan Brown. It was first published in the United States in 2001. One of my favorite books 

[berkeleybob]

For golf: Zen Golf  by Joseph Parent

Lately: The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

In my 20s: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera

A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

In my 30s: Treason’s Harbor (really all of the Maturin-Aubrey series) by Patrick O’Brian

In my 40s: World Without End by Ken Follett

[DriverBreaker]

On 1/3/2019 at 9:54 AM, russtopherb said:

Tough to pick just one, I’d have to go with Wizard and Glass by Stephen King. The Stand is right behind it.


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The whole Dark Tower series is my favorite!

[ejgaudette]

3 minutes ago, GolfSpy_CS said:

The whole Dark Tower series is my favorite!

Yes I finished the whole series up last year, though not the Wind Through the Key Hole and a reading The Stand now. The series has opened all the cross book references which I have enjoyed. Heck even one of his more thriller novels 11/22/1963 has a connection to It. I love how this series lays out how they can all connect on top of the epic that it already is.

[DriverBreaker]

4 hours ago, ejgaudette said:

Yes I finished the whole series up last year, though not the Wind Through the Key Hole and a reading The Stand now. The series has opened all the cross book references which I have enjoyed. Heck even one of his more thriller novels 11/22/1963 has a connection to It. I love how this series lays out how they can all connect on top of the epic that it already is.

Wind through the keyhole is fun.  Definitely add it to the list!

[ejgaudette]

12 hours ago, GolfSpy_CS said:

Wind through the keyhole is fun.  Definitely add it to the list!

It is just took a bit of break after basically reading the first 7 in a row. It will likely be the next on the list after I get through the Stand, though I still have about 700 pages left in that.

[DriverBreaker]

48 minutes ago, ejgaudette said:

It is just took a bit of break after basically reading the first 7 in a row. It will likely be the next on the list after I get through the Stand, though I still have about 700 pages left in that.

I read all 8 in a very short span as well.  Once the ball got rolling I couldn’t get off!

[hohjoe]

I don't have a favorite book or author. I do read quite a bit, more that I watch TV.

 

I do have authors I follow:

John Sandford

CJ Box

Michael Connelly

Nick Petrie

Carl Hiaasen

Lee Child

Paul Doiron

Alice Henderson

Robert Crais

John Grisham

Ace Atkins

Dennis Lehane

[Cloud Kray]

My favorite book is Animal Farm by George Orwell. It's like a political satire about the USSR. In this book animals want to create a farm where animals will be free and happy without farmers. I’ve read it a few times, but when I had a task at uni to write an essay about it, I failed. So, I had to ask to write my assignment for me. I got a good grade and still like this book. It's like a memory, nothing special. Anyway, the book is awesome! 
 

P.S. Napoleon is awful

Edited June 13, 2022 by Cloud Kray

[tommc23]

54 minutes ago, Cloud Kray said:

My favourite book is Animal Farm by George Orwell. It`s like a political satire about USSR. In this book animals want to create a farm where animals will be free and happy without farmers.  

P.S. Napoleon is awful

Orwell is a great writer I enjoyed multiple books he did. Animal farm is interesting especially with how the pigs manipulate everyone.

[MichaelMueller]

I like a lot of books, but I think 1984 is the one I liked the most. 

[Cloud Kray]

8 minutes ago, MichaelMueller said:

I like a lot of books, but I think 1984 is the one I liked the most. 

Also good choce! 

[tommc23]

3 hours ago, Marty21 said:

just started reading  this book

1984 is a great book

[silver & black]

My all time favorite book/s is the 'Wheel of Time' series by Robert Jordan. Two others are 'The Belgarian' by David Eddings and 'The chronicles of Thomas Convenent' by Stephen R. Donaldson.... both are series.

Edited September 28, 2022 by silver & black
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[sirchunksalot]

41 minutes ago, silver & black said:

My all time favorite book/s is the 'Wheel of Time' series by Robert Jordan. Two others are 'The Belgarian' by David Eddings and 'The chronicles of Thomas Convenent' by Stephen R. Donaldson.... both are series.

The Wheel of Time is a wonderful series. I've been working on a re-read of it for a couple of months and always enjoy the way Jordan brings his world to life. Plus, Mat Cauthon is one of my favorite literary characters. He becomes so good after his two trips through the twisted stone doorways. 

[bens197]

In the last 3 years since this topic was introduced I’ve been reading a lot. There were several that hit me right in the feels and I’ll be reading again…

 

Think Again, Adam Grant

Ego is the Enemy, Ryan Holiday

Principles, Ray Dalio

 

I just received Ryan’s latest Discipline is Destiny in the mail last week. I browsed the first few chapters and I’m excited to start it once I finish what I’m reading now. 

[tommc23]

1 hour ago, bens197 said:

In the last 3 years since this topic was introduced I’ve been reading a lot. There were several that hit me right in the feels and I’ll be reading again…

 

Think Again, Adam Grant

Ego is the Enemy, Ryan Holiday

Principles, Ray Dalio

 

I just received Ryan’s latest Discipline is Destiny in the mail last week. I browsed the first few chapters and I’m excited to start it once I finish what I’m reading now. 

Definitely some luey reading going on right there

[David Leighton Reid]

I love to read and have several favorites.  Like some others have already posted, Tolkien's The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings; 11/22/63 by Steven King; The Davinci Code by Dan Brown; The General's Daughter by Nelson Demille; Without Remorse by Tom Clancy; The Legend of Huma by Richard Knaak; and The Last Kingdom series by Bernard Cornwell.  

Edited September 30, 2022 by David Leighton Reid

[ED13]

Joseph Heller Catch-22 is my favourite book.  One rainy weekend I read the book on Saturday and read it again on Sunday.  Every time I read this book I notice a new things I missed previously.

 

[RobertSmith]

I love "The Canterbury Tales" - here social satire is the main theme. I have learned that love conquers all and that is enough for me. Recommending.
I also have a favorite poem which is "Beowulf". After the first reading, I did not fully understand the themes, but I checked https://graduateway.com/essay-examples/beowulf/ and realized more deeply the importance of courage, honor and loyalty. These important values are my priorities in life and maybe that is why I am so passionate about this written masterpiece. Via the essay examples about "Beowulf", I got that it has an interesting topic by itself. What I understood and concluded is that a good work always emphasizes some morals.

Edited December 19, 2022 by RobertSmith

[Ajactonbson]

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Edited November 1, 2023 by Ajactonbson