Favorite Book

[P3RG4R3C]

I see that here are a lot of threads on something favorite, so I decided to make a ''Favorite Book'' thread.

I have found only one book related thread but it's almost 1.5 years old.

So, my favorite books are:

• Congo by Michael Crichton
• Jurrasic Park by the same author
• The Sphere also by Michael Crichton
• All of Agatha Christie's books (the thrillers)
• Most of WW2 novels
• Most of sci-fi

I could go on and on. I would list more of them if I would know english titles.

[spi-ti-tout]

Tom Clancy's books are amazing, stuff you never knew before springs out to you like you've know it for your whole life with a bit of surprise. Nice political history in there.
Agathat Chritie's good aswell. Female writer, described as the 'Queen of Crime(Solving)'. She used to write suspence and then shifted to romance in the last 10 years of her life I think. Anyways, don't read the latter, never read them myself and never plan to do so. She has 4 characters, Hercule Poirot, Mrs Something(?), and Mr and Mrs Beresford, the ones I like the best. Political history in there too.

They aren't my favorites however, just books I'd describe as a good read. I'll say more later. I still have to find a 'favorite' book

[CdocZ]

Tom Clancy and Robert Ludlum. Easily my favorite authors.

[P3RG4R3C]

Yes, I thought of the thrillers, not the romances.

One of my favorite books is also on the subject of the Cold War. It's called Hostile Waters or something similar.

The cold war was nearly over by 1986, yet under the sea the deadly game of hide-and-seek played by Soviet and American submarines continued unabated. Off the east coast of America, an aging Soviet ballistic missile sub, a "boomer," suffered a crippling accident, coming within moments of a nuclear meltdown. Had her reactors exploded, the radioactivity released into the Gulf Stream would have dwarfed the Chernobyl disaster. This is the gripping, true story of the young Soviet sailors who fought to save their submarine, risking fire, smoke, poison gas, and intense radioactivity. Their secret struggle and sacrifice saved the American coast from nuclear catastrophe. Told in the words of the survivors, it is a story never before revealed outside the submarine community.

[derekthetree]

my favourite

The Mote in Gods Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. amazing

i also really like terry prachett, comedy writing at its best

[Rockefella]

I don't read too often.

[Manik]

I mostly red shorter books, but a week ago I just finished the first book of Lord of the Rings. It wasn't the best book I had ever read but it was none the less. I personally don't have a favourite book.

I usually read books on cars, I picked up this book about a month ago called Sportscar Car Cronicle. Greatest car book I had ever read, it had detials on sportscars throughout the years.

And during some of my free time I read magazines, mostly Road and Track, Evo and sometimes Car and Driver.

[spi-ti-tout]

Have any of you ever heard of 'The Pilots Wife'?
A good thriller that has different paces through-out the books and connects everywhere. A read for 'mature' people


For younger readers, Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.
"Time is running out for Mrs Frisby. She must move her family of mice before the farmer destroys their home. But her youngest son is ill she is convinced he won't survive the move.

Help comes in the unexpected form of some super-intelligent rats, and little by little Mrs Frisby learns the rats extraordinary secrets"
What makes this an interesting read for young'uns is the fact that Mrs Frisby is a widow but she doesn't know what happened to her husband. So theres a lot of mystery in here too.

[tallguynate]

Sphere is one of my favorites. I also enjoy the Hitchhiker's series, any history books, and I quite like A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

[derekthetree]

I mostly red shorter books, but a week ago I just finished the first book of Lord of the Rings. It wasn't the best book I had ever read but it was none the less. I personally don't have a favourite book.

I usually read books on cars, I picked up this book about a month ago called Sportscar Car Cronicle. Greatest car book I had ever read, it had detials on sportscars throughout the years.

And during some of my free time I read magazines, mostly Road and Track, Evo and sometimes Car and Driver.

you mean the fellowship? if so well done. the beginning is so boring and long winded i've never finished it.

[blackcat77]

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Pet Sematary by Steven King
Carrie by Steven King
Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
1984 by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell

I could go on and on. My parents instilled a love of reading and it's carried on to this day.

"Stranger" and "1984" are two books which completely changed my life, the former giving me a whole new perception on the human race as a species and the latter forever changing my view of the relationship between government and the people.

[blackcat77]

Tom Clancy and Robert Ludlum. Easily my favorite authors.

"Red Storm Rising" was an amazing book. It's fantastic how he can keep so many different plotlines going at the same time and still hold the reader's interest.

[car_fiend]

Stephen King books, and Simon Clark books. i love reading long books with a lot of stuff happening. For me, its a good time-passer.

[Quiggs]

I don't read too often.

Why read when all the good books are made into movies anyway?

I don't even remember the last book I read. Sparknotes.com > all...

[Rockefella]

Why read when all the good books are made into movies anyway?

I don't even remember the last book I read. Sparknotes.com > all...

Amen.