Your Favorite Book.

[TankCopter]

Evil Genius - Catherine Jinks
The Reformed Vampire Support Group - Catherine Jinks
Maus - Art Spiegelmann (sp?)
Skulduggery Pleasant - Derek Landy
The Extraordinary and Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle - Catherine Webb
The Doomsday Machine - Catherine Webb

The list goes on, I read too much to just pick one book. I just have a bunch of books I can reread endlessly without being bored.

 

[Vacancie]

For those who love sci-fi(and even those who don't)
The Night's Dawn Trilogy, by Peter F Hamilton
The Commonwealth Saga, by Peter F Hamilton
They're both Epic stories set with lots of characters and many locations
For a stand-alone book, read Hamilton's Fallen Dragon

and you gotta love the satirical fantasy of
Terry Pratchett's Discworld series

 

[megapenguinx]

The Natural by Bernard Malamud

 

[AkJay]

well, a few of my personal favourites are:
Fight Club
The Road
Dexter series
Sit Down and Shut Up

 

[barryween]

Snuff by Chuck EDIT: Palahniuk (Thanks for the help in spelling his name, Undercover) an awesome (and sick) book written in a unique style by the guy that wrote "Fight Club"

"Chuck Palahniuk"

-You're welcome. And yes, it is an awesome (and sick) book, but then so is everything Palahniuk writes...

If you like his style you'd probably like Christopher Moore, I read his book "Lamb" which is about Jesus' (Actually in the book they call him Joshua, or just 'Josh')life before he was 30, as told by his resurrected friend Bif. That's right, I said Bif. Now, I am NOT a religious person by any stretch, but this book was HILARIOUS, as it deals with things like harlots, the abominable snowman, kung-fu, more harlots and the world's first cappuccino. There's a part where Josh has had it with all of humanity's bullshit and goes up on a mountain to talk to his dad. He comes back down and Bif asks what pop had to say. "Fuck 'em," ...spoke the messiah.

Holy shit, so far I've read just about everything you guys have posted. MAN you all have good taste!

Thanks. i really have to check that book out. And if you like Snuff, I read some story he wrote (forgot where, it was some magazine) called Guts. It is quite gross.

 

[Undercover]

Without question, ANIMAL FARM, the detailed look at communism and how it is born of the innocent idea of creating a utopia where all are equal to succumbing to greed, a lust for power, laziness or any of the negative sides of humanity kept me hooked from start to end and the way George Orwell reflects the world's most infamous leaders in their animal counter parts I thought was absolute genius. Also (spoiler) when the farm animals look through the window to find the corrupt pigs (the leaders of their communist world) living in luxury with the humans while the other animals (workers) were treated like filth despite sacrificing so much for their dream utopia represented perfectly the transition from cruel capitalist society to communist society with the potential for greatness into a dictatorship and this completed cycle showing the evoltion and devoltion of extreme governments had a bitter result to it and that was that the animals on the farm (who you really do fall in love with over the coarse of the book) went through so much suffering and hardships for their dream only to come to the crushing realisation that all of it was meaningless.

I'll end with an unforgettable line from the book which has stayed with me ever since I read it and which sums up perfectly how communism fails as corruption sets in.

"All animals are equal. But some are more equal than others"

You're right on the nose with that one, the whole book was a loose retelling of the russian revolution, with the romanovs et. al. The crow character was TOTALLY based on Rasputin, that filthy, lying sack of unwashed feet. Four legs gooooood, two legs baaaad

 

[SlickShot]

American Gods.

 

[Georg8]

The Original Dracula by Bram Stoker

 

[War Penguin]

Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut

 

[masher]

Anything by R.A. Salvatore - primly The Forgotten Realms - and Brian Jacques - Yes that means Redwall. Ah! And Douglas Adams, gotta love the Guide.

 

[lostclause]

As an Alan Moore fan I can't pass up the oppurtunity to recommend V for Vendetta and Watchmen.
Otherwise The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothless (I know that's not spelt right) and the Bartimeus trilogy by Jonathon Stroud are good fantasy books.
Also a good WW2 book is Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernes (sp is wrong again I think), very emotional.

 

[azurawolf]

Without question, ANIMAL FARM, the detailed look at communism and how it is born of the innocent idea of creating a utopia where all are equal to succumbing to greed, a lust for power, laziness or any of the negative sides of humanity kept me hooked from start to end and the way George Orwell reflects the world's most infamous leaders in their animal counter parts I thought was absolute genius. Also (spoiler) when the farm animals look through the window to find the corrupt pigs (the leaders of their communist world) living in luxury with the humans while the other animals (workers) were treated like filth despite sacrificing so much for their dream utopia represented perfectly the transition from cruel capitalist society to communist society with the potential for greatness into a dictatorship and this completed cycle showing the evoltion and devoltion of extreme governments had a bitter result to it and that was that the animals on the farm (who you really do fall in love with over the coarse of the book) went through so much suffering and hardships for their dream only to come to the crushing realisation that all of it was meaningless.

I'll end with an unforgettable line from the book which has stayed with me ever since I read it and which sums up perfectly how communism fails as corruption sets in.

"All animals are equal. But some are more equal than others"

I completely and utterly agree with all of the above!

Bitten by Kelly Armstrong
Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause (1 MILLION TIMES BETTER THEN THE MOVIE!)
I am obsessed with werewolves and I critique werewolf movies/books a lot so it takes a lot for a werewolf movie/book to make me love it. These two books succeeded. I love them both so much.

I also love the House of Night series. They are an original vampire boarding school books. The first one is called Marked. They are interesting.

I also enjoyed The Sight by David Clement-Davies. It is an interesting fantasy book about wolves. I love the fact that they believe that if a wolf is to drown, they won't go to the afterlife. I have never heard that before and it is interesting to go inside their beliefs.

 

[ragamuffingirl]

The Stand- Stephen King

Oryx and Crake
Cat's Eye
The Handmaid's Tale all three by Margaret Atwood

 

[ragamuffingirl]

I love The Stolen Child and The Sandman.

this is a hard question and i don't think i can say whats my favorite because i like so many but here's 5 in no order.

1. the stolen child by Keith Donahue
2. breakfast of champions by Kurt Vonnegut
3. The butcher by Mr. Iforgetwho
4. all of the sandman by Neil Gaiman
5. the jungle books by Rudyard Kipling

 

[Lord Beautiful]

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss wins this one. The story is fantastic and Rothfuss's writing style is almost flawless.

 

[spikespiegel]

R.A.Salvatore: The legend of Drizzt saga.

 

[Andalusa]

I'd probably have to take it from the Belgariad/Malloreon books. It's hard to narrow it down, though...

For sake of argument, I'll go with Polgara the Sorceress. It was a toss-up between that and Belgarath the Sorcerer; they're shining examples of David and Leigh Eddings' talent at characterization and dialogue, and they star two of the greatest characters in fantasy.

I am going to agree.
They are my favourite series and I don't think I can pick a favourite out of the lot.

 

[Nemorov]

Oh, hard choice... erm, 'The Master and Margarita' by Mikhail Bulgakov was fantastic. I also feel this way about 'Imagica' by Clive Barker, which surprised the HELL out of me. So much so that I tried to read some of his other stuff... -_-