Favourite Book?

[Notters]

1984 is brilliant, failing that something from Thomas Hardy. Tess of the D'Ubervilles or the Mayor of Casterbridge.

 

[JCL666]

It used to be Catch-22 Joseph Heller, but that changed after I read The Road by Cormac McCarthy. If you're a father then you should read it.

 

[catfish]

Catch 22 and The Grapes Of Wrath are neck and neck for me.

 

[Count Otto Black]

The Chocolate Hollow Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin

 

[Raskolnikov]

The Outsider - Albert Camus

 

[Gwylan]

The Outsider - Albert Camus

That's not really what someone called Raskolnikov should say

 

[Raskolnikov]

That's not really what someone called Raskolnikov should say

Crime and Punishment is up there, don't you worry!

 

[lawros left foot]

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.

This,a great book, shame his more recent ones are pants

 

[lawros left foot]

A mention for The Excalibur trilogy by Bernard Cornwall.
Technicly a three books, but one story, King Arthur and all that stuff

 

[Daffy Duck]

Another favourite of mine, A Painted House by John Grisham.

It's not his usual thriller-type story, but a fabulous read. I picked it up on a second-hand book stall because I like his books & had never heard of this one before.

 

[SeagullinExile]

'A sale of two Titties'

by the famous Dutch author C. Diikkens

 

[Ameliaance]

The Little Prince - can't recall how many times I read it. Since childhood up to this time.

 

[vegster]

Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall. Spike Milligan.

A marvellous book mixing history,humour and pathos, should be on the school curriculum.

 

[Phat Baz 68]

The Wasp Factory Iain Banks

 

[scooter1]

Powder - Kevin Sampson. However, the film is dreadful

 

[withdeanwombat]

Shawshank Redemption.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

The Dark Materials (trilogy - but it is one story). The opposite of car crime in a multistorey car park

 

[Buzzer]

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..

It goes to show it's all about opinions. I hate not finishing a book even when I don't much like it but I was so annoyed with the Celestine Prophecy that I actually threw it away after just 3 or 4 chapters, something I never do with books.

My favourite books are Joseph Heller's' Catch 22', Le Carre's 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy', Umberto Eco's 'Foucalt's Pendulum' and Mark Twain's 'Adventures of Tom Sawyer'. I go back and re-read all of these regularly. As a kid I used to read anything and everything and particularly liked Professor Branestawm and the Just William books (showing my age here!)

 

[lawros left foot]

The Dark Materials (trilogy - but it is one story). The opposite of car crime in a multistorey car park

Is it multi story crime in a car then?

 

[Barry Izbak]

Build a Bonfire