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I am 21 yrs old, female, and I live in Texas, USA. I think the book that stayed with me was Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce. It was the kind of book that drew you in, and when you finished reading it 4 hours had gone by without you realizing it. The character was completely lovable. I think your characters are one of the most important factors in hooking readers. It is a young adult book and really the book that got me into fantasy when I was 13. I still buy all of her books to this day.

17 years old, I'm female, and Ender's Game.
I'm also big on Terry Pratchett and Tamora Pierce- I just got Terrier as a late birthday present- but Orson Scott Card is my favorite writer ever, period, the end. I was at camp, and we were reading a bunch of books that we were evaluating, and although none of them were bad, and I enjoyed reading them, they meant almost nothing to me. We never actually talked about Ender's Game (no time. crying ), but I was up all night in this cupboard-type thing finishing it, where it was stuffy, because it was late enough that we would have gotten in serious trouble if they'd seen our lights on, and we could hide the lamps in the cupboard thing.
It touched me, I suppose, made me bawl- I'd never loved a book more, and it was at the right time. On the way home we stopped at a bookstore to get the sequel and I found my book was missing- I just about died. We got a new copy, though, and I have all eight of the Ender/Bean series, plus several other books of his.

Oh yeah- PA.

Personally, I liked the Tricksters books better, but... this was only the introduction, after all. Yay, two more books! *dances* I was rather afraid that it was going to stop there when it had nothing in the back of the book... That made me rather angry, quite frankly. xp
I called the Snake in the first hundred pages! ninja Agatha Christie novels, just about anything with a villain, my first guess is always right. Then I second guess myself and I end up getting it wrong and... yeah. So lately even if there's something that goes against logic, I stick to my first reaction. But HA! xd

The only book that I can remember reading more then once is Black Beauty. heart

I've heard good things about that book, but I've never actually read it...

And Garth Nix rocks. I /think/ he's my second favorite writer, but it's hard to choose. sweatdrop

I'm 46 years old and a member of the Gaian Geezers Guild, and live in Anaheim, California--also known as the Tragic Kingdom.
I'm a published roleplaying game designer and have written two professional screenplays, Haight-Ashbury and The Jitters--neither of which will probably see the light of day, since the company for whom I wrote them went out of business without paying me and kept the rights to the screenplays.
I have recently completed my first independent screenplay, a horror film entitled Curse of the Wendigo which is registered with the Writer's Guild West, and my current projects include The Bone Goddess, a horror film satire and The Wasteland, the pilot for a television series which is best described as a dark fantasy western taking place in the Realm of Faerie.

I'm 14 and live in Northwestern Washington. The weather REALLY sucks here. I'm a girl, and my favorite book of all time is called To Say Nothing Of the Dog. I don't exactly know why it's my favorite book, its kinda long and confusing. But I still really like it.