Favourite Book of all time

Enii

My favourite book of all time is "Love Dad" by Evan Hunter. Has anyone read it? Its about a father and the relationship he has with his daughter through the 60's and 70's. Have read other Evan Hunter books (also writes as Ed McBain) but think none are as good as "Love Dad".

almostagassi

the best a man can get by John o'farrell

its about a guy in early thirties., very, very very funny.

check out this extract. http://books.guardian.co.uk/firstchapters/story/0,,385629,00.html

funky penguin

To many to choose from..... but "Thief of Time" by Terry Pratchett always stood high on my list. But "Form Whom the Bell Tolls" Is also a classic.....

RuggieBear

Every Dead Thing by John Connolly

ExOffender

Best single book... impossible impossible! And it depends on my mood, and eh, what I had for breakfast and... well, there's no one answer. Regular top-five entries are (in no particular order) Catcher in the Rye, Ulysses, The Dice Man, The Stars My Destination (Alfred Bester), and Trainspotting. But like I say, ask me tomorrow and it oculd all be different.

funky penguin

Crap, I just remembered all of Roald Dahls stuff aswell.....

It's because of him I read so much today.

Oh! And the Oddessy By Homer

Dooid

My favorite book is 'The Black Dahlia' by James Ellroy; best book I've ever read has to be Ulysses or The Symposium.

dudara

I'm a big Margaret Atwood fan, especially her more science-fiction type books. The handsmaids tale springs to mind. I also love "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, as well as "Tender is the night"

Thomas Hardy wrote some great books, especially "Jude the Obscure"

Science fiction wise "The Stars My destination" by Bester is class, as is "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes and "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card.

Pherekydes

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Read it in one day.

Absolutely fantastic.

Dooid

I agree Dudara The Great Gatsby is a great book. The Double by Dostoyevsky is a good read too and The Plague by Camus.

ronano

The Atrocity exhibition - J.G Ballard (tho i never really liked much else of what he wrote :S)

The Virgin Suicides - Jeffery Euginicide(sp?)

The Quiet American - Graham Greene

Basq

Don't really read much but love all of Roald Dahl's stuff.

Especially: Matilda, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and The Twits.

snakeater

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

eclectichoney

Moon Palace - Paul Auster

supoib prose alongside a fast-paced original offbeat plot. funny, and sad. and lots of parts that sound like my life

MariaRyan

Wuthering Heights - flippin fantastic!

youcancallmeal

Trinity by Leon Uris or else 1984 by George Orwell

growler

Great Apes by Will Self

Good Omens By Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

Magician by Feist

pennylane22

My fav book is A prayer for Owen Meaney by John Irving, another would be Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. The sequel isnt bad either.

doonothing

my favourite i finished just over an hour ago..
perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky, im still riding that post brilliance high...
wow

before that, 'twas the secret history, before that 'twas the dice man, before that 'twas catcher in the rye...

byte

Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh. I have read it many times. Very good, though it did take a while to get used to the Scots-speak!

e. - Matt Beaumont. I found this very good, with a different style of writing (the book wholly consisting of emails).

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besty

snakeater wrote:

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

reading it now.its so ****ed up

Zaph

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

Neuromancer by William Gibson

The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

who007

Man and Boy by Tony Parsons!
Life's highs and lows in a nutshell! :cool:

who007

MariaRyan wrote:

Wuthering Heights - flippin fantastic!

I concur :cool:

who007

youcancallme>al wrote:

Trinity by Leon Uris or else 1984 by George Orwell

ahhh... 1984.... brings back memories...

Tony H

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an old one and still one i come back and read again .
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jimi_t

Emmm....
Night Watch - Terry Pratchet
The Salmon of Doubt - Douglas Adams
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

To name but a few... I just can't think @ the moment - You can't just pick one book! Should be like a top five . If I was stuck on a Desert Island it would probably be something like the Lord of the Rings - merely for sheer bulk and imagination

ApeXaviour

Tai-Pan -James Clavell

almostagassi

1984
animal farm

Manach

Offhand, top 3:
The Man who was Thursday- Chesterton
Good Omens - Pratchett and Gaiman
Inferno - Niven and Pournelle

theCzar

ApeXaviour wrote:

Tai-Pan -James Clavell

Great Book, i was thinking what was mine as i read the above, but then i remembered Clavell.

my favourite of his is probably King Rat, or Shogun.

Couple of great comedy ones, Catch 22, Hitchhikers Guide, I couldn't pick a Terry Pratchett, but probably one of hte Sam Vimes saga...

Dar

It has to be Catch-22. Suprised noone else had mentioned it

theCzar

Dar wrote:

It has to be Catch-22. Suprised noone else had mentioned it

lol, one post above you...

golfgirl

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

Do not bother with the films, they're crap, the book is a masterpiece.

Dublin's Finest

who007 wrote:

ahhh... 1984.... brings back memories...

I remember it like it was twenty-one years ago...

besty

twits, or fantastic mr. fox - anything by roald dahl really

technobob

so so so so many to choose from but for probably been one of the hardest books to read but so satisfying when you finish it i think its gonna have to be the illuminati trilogy by robert shea and robert anton wilson

possibly the biggest mindphuck of a book ever in my opinion

jinxycat

ah a great read is "A Child Called It" by david pelzer. very distyrbed book about child abuse which a 5yr old(iirc) got abused by his mum, very disturbing just.

simu

May well end up being Proust's In Search of Lost Time - I'm reading it at the moment and it is amazing!

Nimrod's Son

1984, Catch 22, Guards Guards! (Pratchett), A Clockwork Orange, Fight Club, To Kill A Mockingbird, Watership Down, Hitchhiker's Guide..., Legend (David Gemmell), Lord of The Flies,.... all great reads. Know there's more but that's all I can think of for now.

Anton17

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Originally Posted by snakeater
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis



reading it now.its so ****ed up

Make sure to check out Glamorama, It's my favourite book ever. Victor is an even better character than Pat Bateman.

Other favourites are The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides,
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The catcher in the Rye by Sallinger

TheMascaraSnake

Ulysses, the Great Gatsby, 1984, my best of Jeeves and wooster anthology, the King James Bible, herodotus' Histories, Notes from the underground.

Doper Than U

One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka.
Pride and Prejudice will always remain a firm favourite.

Geranium

Perfume - Patrick Suskind.
Amazing.