Your Favourite Book of all Time

Jotter

I read allsorts but To kill a mockingbird is a big fav of mine - read it in primary school & loved it, had to do it as part of junior cert english in secondary school & loved it, and came across it about a year ago and read it again and even as an adult I still loved it!! Sign of a good book if ever there was one!!

Captain Corellis Mandolin is another one I really enjoyed!

andrea

Siogfinsceal wrote:

My abs fav is a book my mum got me as child it is called "what katy did"

I remember that, I got that one in a charity shop and read it a number of times. I also got the sequel, "what katy did next". And I seem to remember reading a 3rd one at some point too...

At the minute I'm reading East of Eden and loving it. Recently enjoyed "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "Empress Orchid", which is possibly an even better read.

tSubh Dearg

andrea wrote:

I remember that, I got that one in a charity shop and read it a number of times. I also got the sequel, "what katy did next". And I seem to remember reading a 3rd one at some point too...

The Katy books run; "What Katy Did", "What Katy Did at School" and "What Katy Did Next". I loved them as a child, they were brilliant.

CraggyIslander

As if there werent enough sci-fi books in this threat already:

Philip k Dick - The Man In The High Castle
Philip K Dick - A Scanner Darkly
Philip K Dick - Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
Isaac Asimov - Foundation series (only first 3 books tho, rest is meh)
Isaac Asimov - I Robot
Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistics Detective Agency
Douglas Adams - The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul

Alice Walker - Color Purple
Anything by Elmore Leonard including his westerns, currently reading 'swag'

Most other favs like hthg etc have already been mention

Idgeitman

Fear and loathing in las vegas, Hunter S Thompson

~ Idgeitman

pog it

Dermot Healy:

'A Goat's Song'.

Beautiful.

infinita

My favourite:
Romain Rolland: Jean Christophe

masterpiece

darkflower

When Splendor Falls by Laurie Mc Bain. Got so fascinated by the book that I named my first born from the first born daughter of the Travers family... :rolleyes:

BarneyMac

Legend by David Gemmell....great book

molypiper

Harry Potter by J.K.Rowling...just can't drop the magic of it!:cool:

Flukey

Dracula has got to be one of my favourites.

theCzar

Flukey wrote:

Dracula has got to be one of my favourites.

I was half way through that book, waiting for the correspondence style to stop, and a proper narrative to begin before I realised the the correspondence was the narrative.

Great book, but it's not in top 10. I think I forgot to mention LotR in my previous post, that's also my one favourite book of all time.

Lust4Life

I have many favorites.

One, I stumbled upon at the Library and upon reading found it was the second of two stories - But I am glad I read the second one first...

Clive Barker's The Great and Secret Show (the first one) and Everville (The 2nd).
He paints a very clear picture of the impossible and makes it seem very possible!


Also, I love the series by John R. Powers books

Do Black Patent leather Shoes really reflect Up?
The Last Catholic In America
The Unoriginal Sinner and The Icecream God

L4L

chickenpoo

The Crow Road by Iain Banks is one of my favourites.