Favourite Book?

[crodonilson]

To celebrate World Book Day what is NSC's collective favourite book?

 

[Daffy Duck]

Mine is The Stand by Stephen King.

Never get tired of reading it about every 5 years or so. Each time is like reading it for the first time.

 

[Gwylan]

Ulysses

Read it every ten years or so and still find new things in it

 

[madinthehead]

Mine is The Stand by Stephen King.

Never get tired of reading it about every 5 years or so. Each time is like reading it for the first time.

Was about to post exactly the same... It is so complex ( I have the extended edition) that, if you read it again, you do notice new things and remember parts you had forgotten..

As that one has been taken , I will offer up The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield which I have also read several times, as it is considerably shorter than the Stand. I find it quite a nice philosophy to take into every day life encompassed in a good read..

 

[AmexRuislip]

The Rats - James Herbert

 

[Don Quixote]

The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe.

 

[DFL JCL]

The Scheme for full employment - Magnus Mills

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

Ulysses

Read it every ten years or so and still find new things in it

Is it every 10 years, as that's how long it takes to read it...!?

A bit like painting the Forth rail bridge, it never ends.

 

[Gwylan]

Is it every 10 years, as that's how long it takes to read it...!?

A bit like painting the Forth rail bridge, it never ends.

Not really. It's not that big a book to get through. It took me about three months to finish War and Peace, that was a tough read

I've never tackled Finnegans Wake though - that looks too daunting

 

[Prince Monolulu]

The Daily Mirror Book of Facts

 

[Wilko]

Out of that lot it is 1984.

 

[SeagullinExile]

Marching Powder - Rusty Young

 

[Bombadier Botty]

I always thought WBD was about fiction, not non-fiction, but if we're being non-puritanical about it:

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer (non-fiction)
American Psycho - Brett EE (fiction)

 

[BBassic]

None of those choices.

Mine is The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier.

Read it as a kid when I was laid up with a kidney problem. Mum came back from the library with a stack of books and I only ever read that. Over and over.

 

[Herne Hill Seagull]

Making us murder our darlings and choose only one? Very difficult. Always used to be The Catcher in the Rye, but lately the imperious Carlos Ruis Zafon has trumped even the great Salinger. So The Shadow of the Wind for me.

 

[narly101]

Mine is The Stand by Stephen King.

Never get tired of reading it about every 5 years or so. Each time is like reading it for the first time.

The extended version is incredible - just shy of 1400 pages I think if I'm not mistaken

 

[narly101]

Also if you're lumping Lord of the Rings in (as a trilogy), then it's surpassed by Stephen Donaldson's The Gap Series.

 

[studio150]

The Dog that dug by Jonathan Long

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Sadly you left out this gem :

Ruel Fox by Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn

http://www.abebooks.co.uk/9785511385730/Ruel-Fox-5511385735/plp

 

[brakespear]

Fiction: 'The Once and Future King' by TH White (honourable mention for 'Moominland Midwinter' by Tove Jansson. I don't rally like 'adult' fiction much
Non-fiction: 'The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid' by Bill Bryson

If I had to choose a favourite it would be the Bill Bryson book probably, it's lovely to read.