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~My Personal Masquerade~ Vice Captain
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 Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 5:17 pm
I'm just kind of curious to see what books everyone else likes.
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Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 2:27 pm
I can't pick just one favourite (sorry, I'm British so you get the British spelling). It's between three titles:
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
and Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes.
They're all really inspiring books!
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Vogue Muffin___x Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 1:08 pm
It's very hard to narow it down to one book, but science fiction has been my favorite genre since I was very young. Have Space Suit - Will Travel is a young adult book about a boy (18 years old) who wins a space suit in a contest. He is wearing it when he gets kidnapped by some violent aliens who mean to destroy Earth. I think I read this book for the first time when I was 8 or so, and I still love it. I literally grew up with Heinlein's books...he wrote a dozen YA books, but also wrote adult SF classics like Stranger in a Strange Land and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Heinlein is definitely my favorite author. Besides fiction, he was a fiercely patriotic man, and wrote a number of nonfiction articles, some of which have helped shape my real political views.
Despite Heinlein's brilliance (I have read 39 of his books, and enjoyed them all) I have long considered my single favorite book to be Dune by Frank Herbert. It is a long, complex science fiction novel that I first read as a senior in high school (when I was 17 or 18 ). It has a truly imaginative background, as well as great characters and writing. I have read a few other of Herbert's books, and sadly none have come close to the genius of Dune, so overall I don't consider him my favorite author over Heinlein.
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Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 7:31 pm
I can't really just narrow it down to just one book but i have two top ones. they are:
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn
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Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 2:47 pm
To Reign in Hell by Steven Brust and The Lies of Locke Lomara by Scott Lynch are my top two right now.
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Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 6:20 pm
I think my fave book is one of these:
Elsewhere by Gabrille Zevin
Airhead by Meg Cabot
The Hunger Games by ?
Read any of these?
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Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 10:45 am
The Catches in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (then the two books after that in the Vampire Chronicles), The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (I just read that and couldn't put it down) and a few more... smile
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