favourite books?

[Bunnylingus]

Well? And why?

For me, its Fried Green Tomatoes, The Amber Spyglass, The last Family in England, The Curious Incident of the Dog and The Night-time and all of the Narnia books.

The Narnia books just remind me of being a kid, if you ignore the religious connatations, theyre still great fun to read.

Fried Green Tomatoes is just beautiful, so many different stories, so many different endings. I cried at it, and i dont tend to cry at books.


The Last Family in England was amazing, its written from the dogs point of view, and had me in tear as well.

All of His Dark Materials was amazing but I'll say the Amber Spyglass because its one of the few final parts of a series of books that actually did it for me, and ended the way it should.

Curious incident was just fun to read. Simply and brilliantly written, and the kind of book you can read countless times.

[Vonnie]

I love the Chronicles of Narnia, I keep meaning to read them to Findlay but I haven't got through the Roald Dahl titles I bought. My personal favourite was always The Crow Road by Ian Banks but it's closely tied now with Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides.

[Bunnylingus]

ah, add Espedair Street to mine, banks is genius.

Oh, and Matilda

[*blaine*]

life of pi by yann martel i must have read that book at least 5 times this year

[Vonnie]

Originally Posted by Bunnylingus

ah, add Espedair Street to mine, banks is genius.

Oh, and Matilda

Matilda? The Witches is clearly the best Dahl book, closely followed by the BFG

[Kath]

Mine are:

Douglas Coupland - Girlfriend in a Coma
and
Robert Harris - Fatherland

[Campestral]

i don't read much at all but the best i would say is les miserables which had me crying and laughing and getting all philosophical, and 2nd best is 'how late it was, how late' by james kelman an unbelievable piece of writing. oh yeah and 'the little prince'! brilliant short story.

couple weeks ago i read 'the wasp factory' and it was alright, a bit crazy

[endless psych]

In no particular order.

The use of weapons - Iain M. Banks :- In which Banks creates something that actually makes the culture seem interesting

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch :- Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Just a greatly written book full of lines - that for me - define the human condition perfectly.

Generation X - Douglas Coupland :- Resonated a lot when I was working in RHelL.

Lanark - Alistair Gray :- I just like it.

catch 22 - Josepth Heller :- Seems a bit obvious to include it - but it is that good. (Something happened is also good - but a harder read)

[StuntGirl]

Originally Posted by endless psych

Generation X - Douglas Coupland :- Resonated a lot when I was working in RHelL.

You thought so too? Every bit of it seemed relevant when I was in call centre drudgery.

Sophie's World-I forget who wrtoe this, but I love it immensely. I frst read it when I was about 15 ish and spent the rest of my teenage 'goth' years pondering the nature of my existence.

How the Dead Live- Will Self. I just like the idea that the afterlife is just as miserable and mundane as this life. the book starts off quite funny, and ends up being really sad. You feel quite sorry for the old bitch in the end.

Super Cannes- JG Ballard. Stressed out execs going psycho to stop themselves from getting colds, running child porno rings, dealing drugs, vast amounts of violence, a protagonist that your not 100% sure about because he goes thru a massive section of the book thinking he's a paedophile. Brilliant disposable reading.

[sylvianorth]

Mines are pretty much the books you can pick up in Fopp for £3.

The Catcher in the Rye
The Amber Spyglass
Harry Potter books 4-6
Maus (EVERYONE should read this)
Jane Eyre

and I'm currently tearing through "Zeno's Conscience" which is awesome.

[spoonie]

i read a lot as a child and then had about 25 years off and i've only just got back into it over the last 6 months. am reading a lot at the moment. just finished catch 22 which is excellent, the curious incident of the dog and the night time is excellent too and i'm currently reading fear and loathing in LV which is great so far. bought 7 books on friday and another three today and wuite a few of them have been mentioned here so i look forward to them.

but...my favourite books are still:

the lost world - michael crichton (it's just ace!)
sunset song - lewis grassic gibbon (paints the perfect picture of the mearns where i grew up and is a great story)

/x

[poprock]

Originally Posted by StuntGirl

Super Cannes- JG Ballard … Brilliant disposable reading.

I really hated that book. Straight to the charity shop it went!

[Campestral]

Originally Posted by endless psych

catch 22 - Josepth Heller :- Seems a bit obvious to include it - but it is that good. (Something happened is also good - but a harder read)

oh man how could i forget that book!!! it's amazing! one of the funniest books i imagine that's ever been written how he manages to twist and turn every situation into a 'catch 22'

[*blaine*]

Originally Posted by sylvianorth

The Catcher in the Rye

i really didnt like that book, i found it hard to read asi felt there wasnt really a ppoint to it at all

[Charlie Parker]

CS Lewis