Books

[wook77]

If you could pick one book, no matter how fluff or trash or random or scientific or educational or romantic or schmoopy - what would that book be and why?

It can be part of a series. It can be a book that's out of print. It can be a book with a movie based on it. It can be a child's book. It can be a book about serial killers. It can be raunchy poetry. It can be about string theory. It can be het. It can be gen. It can be slash.

It just has to be a real favorite book. Don't post what you think everyone else wants to read or what you think will impress other people. Post what the one book that you love and adore more than any other is. If it's a Nora Roberts book or a biography on Kennedy, I don't care.

What's the one book that you would rec to the heavens and beyond?

(It can even be more than one book)

Comments

[megan-sage.livejournal.com]

Almost Like Being In Love by Steve Kluger.

A love story about two boys who fall in love in high school only to part for twenty years; it'll make you grin like you've won the lottery and laugh until your sides ache. Easily my favorite book. I can pick it up any day of the week, flip to a page and start to read and know exactly what's happening and why. In fact, I recommend you read it yourself.

[cornmouse.livejournal.com]

I don't really rec my favourite book because I love it for very intense personal reasons, but my favourite book of all time is The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle. That book will be, for the rest of my life, at the top of my list. Every time. I don't rec it because I don't love it for it's lyrical writing, hidden meaning, or lovely story; I love it because I love it.

[yaycoffee.livejournal.com]

I can't choose only one. I will give three. Is that ok?

1. Till We Have Faces -- C.S. Lewis
2. About a Boy -- Nick Hornby
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban -- J.K. Rowling

[midnitemaraud-r.livejournal.com]

Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons. I love lots of books for lots of different reasons, but these are far and away my favorites. Epic, creative, and intelligent literary science fiction and a whole lot more. And John Keats. ♥

[jean-c-pepper.livejournal.com]

The Feast of All Saints by Anne Rice.

[niennah.livejournal.com]

The book I always rec is Provinces of Night by William Gay. The prose is utterly perfect and I am in love with one of the main characters. I found it on a bargain table in a bookshop and bought it because I loved the blue colour of its cover. Then I read it, and after that I bought it for all my friends, too. :)

I also love Fateless by Imre Kertesz (another one I bought for friends), The Red Tent by Anita Diamant, and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen. I rec them all.

[lurkitty.livejournal.com]

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. This is the one that I've actually worn out the first copy rereading and am now on my second copy.

[lurkitty.livejournal.com]

Have you met Peter? He is a very sweet and kind man.

[abigail89.livejournal.com]

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Gets me every time.

[true-masquerade.livejournal.com]

I would rec Song of the Lioness Quartet by Tamora Pierce (also called the Alanna series) to all and sundry :-) But I mostly don't, partly because it's fantasy-ish, but mostly because it's Young Adult.

But I love it. I've loved it since I was 13 and I still reread it now (in my twenties) and love it. It's got magic and action and knights and evil heirs to the throne and secrets. And it's got Alanna who is my favourite protagonist ever - smart, tough,loyal, awesomely stubborn and independent.

[froggie.livejournal.com]

"The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster

My favorite book as a kid, and even now it's still an existential trip/joy.

And recently, Haruki Murakami's "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" and "After Dark"

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle. My love for this book cannot be measured.

[katmarajade.livejournal.com]

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire-- it's not everyone's fav HP book, but it has always been mine. I won't get into my rant about why this book is so powerful, but it's the only HP book that made me cry and it's just so amazing. I just reread it again because my slashfest piece takes place during it and, as usual, I ended up clutching the book to my chest after I finished it, partly crying and partly just awed by the entire story.

My fav book of all time though is probably Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. He's my fav author and there is so much to this book. Every time I read it I find more and it's so far ahead of its time and just hits me liekwoah every single time. I love it beyond description and have, quite literally, bought over a dozen copies that I've given out as gifts. It's my fav.

[tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com]

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YES! Best book! I read it again like every other year and still adore it!!

[tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com]

The book I've recced more then any other in that last couple years is a book I discovered in an English class and it just surprised me just how much I adored it and how amazing it was because it was in a genre I don't normally read: sci-fi. "The Sparrow" by Mary Doria Russell. OMG! It's spectacular and I loved every page of it, even the ones, ESPECIALLY the ones that ripped my heart out.

Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath and S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders pretty much tie for my favorite books of all time.

P.S. What's yours?

[midnight-birth.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I have so many!! I always have such a difficulty choosing, but...

Gone with the Wind is one of my absolute favourite books. This book just has.. everything. Everything I've ever looked for out of a book, it's got it. Not to mention the main heroine is the one of the only fictional characters to date I was able to relate to almost completely.

The books that come close second are Harry Potters, Chronicles of Narnia, The Once and Future King (another book that has not only everything, but every imaginable genre), and Neverending Story.

LoL I would pay people to read those books. ;)

[zephre.livejournal.com]

Sati, by Christopher Pike, a book that changed my worldview.

with extra bonus of The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, but I practically have that one memorized so I could likely do without the book (of which I have four copies).

[zephre.livejournal.com]

I love this book, too - it's so wonderful, beyond explanations. It has to be experienced. :D

[emiime.livejournal.com]

No book has ever touched me or moved me as this one has. I got a tattoo dedicated to it, for God's sake. I am changed by this book.

[girlofavalon.livejournal.com]

What about Pride and Prejudice? Love it!

And On the Road, by Jack Kerouac?

Great reads!

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Oh man. Totally buying that. It sounds amazing.

Thanks for the rec!

Have you read Caught Running by Madeleine Urban? It's a fantastic book with guys that didn't get along in high school all that much but then they have to work together like 10 or so years later and end up having an affair and falling in love. It's a brilliant read.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Those are exactly the sorts of books I'm looking for! I really have to read this one, now! Thanks <3

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Three is perfectly fine! I'll have to check out the first one. I did enjoy About a Boy and Prisoner of Azkaban is the second most favorite HP book for me.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Are these hardcore science fiction? Like old school scifi?

John Keats is lovely. I adore reading him.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, I'll have to check it out. Thanks!