Your Favorite Book(s) of all time

Another Camp Campbell alum. Also the first, and thankfully the last, time I ever saw a banana slug. Very small world.

Favorite book is probably "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera or any early John Irving novels. Very disappointed in his last few.

Has to be Beloved. The most beautiful book I think I've ever read.

In Remembrance of Times Past (in French) by Proust.  Gorgeous prose.

And Silk by Alessandro Baricco

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (French version).  Again, glorious prose and love all the stories interwoven.

In Remembrance of Times Past (in French) by Proust.  Gorgeous prose.

And Silk by Alessandro Baricco

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (French version).  Again, glorious prose and love all the stories interwoven.

V. impressed you have read these in the original French!  I was just thinking of picking up a few of my French novels and seeing how far I get - I think I am getting excited about our trip to Paris in a few weeks!  I don't think I'd be able to do Proust though...I'm too rusty. 

Do Proust one page a day.  He needs to sink in like rum in a cake.  First time I read the whole thing, took me years.  Literally.

I lived in France for 2 years and had to go to lycee there when there was no internet and I was stuck in a tiny village in Alsace w/NO ONE who spoke English (and I sure wasn't going to try to learn German as well).  You learn fast that way!

Start w/Le Petit Prince and stuff like that.  Even some poetry.  Hugo actually wrote loads of lovely poetry in exquisitely simple language, particularly 'Les Contemplations', in honor of his eldest child, who drowned at the age of 21 w/her young husband. My all-time fav is one of his 'Demain, des l'aube', for his daughter.

Yeah I've done a few Queneau novels back in the day but I've got to get back on it.  I wanted to go to college in Paris and was accepted but the dear parents wouldn't allow it.  Too far away.  One of my big regrets in life is not majoring in French in college!

I love Alsace - can't wait to go back again for a visit.

I still can't think of my favorite all time book!  The Giving Tree is one good one though.  I might have to say something like A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth or A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry.

To Sir With Love... my DH bought me this off Leicester Market when we were 'just friends' and i must have read it 10 times. 

To Sir With Love... my DH bought me this off Leicester Market when we were 'just friends' and i must have read it 10 times. 

Oh, I love that too!! It made me want to be a teacher (didn't last, though). Great book.

But now I'll have the song stuck in my head all day. Thanks a lot. 

I dont usually even look at posts like this due to the fact many people just seam to list classics that they feel they should write as a favourite, and the much more popular type books rarely get a mention .  After having a look here though peoples choice seam to be honest with a nice eclectic range so here goes ,

1, Lord of The Rings (I know almost a classic)
2, Bio of a space tyrant series (piers anthony)
3, Incarnations of immortality (piers ANthony again)prob best 7 book series ever written come on hollywood
4, Anything by david gemmell, bill bryson.
5, Gervaisse phin (the dales series about a school inspector all creatures great and small with kids )
6, James herriot books

Ok the more I think about this the more I realise if i love the author I tend to love the books so I should stop as I love a lot of authors and a lot more books.

1. Jane Eyre– Charlotte Bronte
2. Wuthering Heights– Emily Bronte

Most people love one and hate the other, or hate both, but I've met few that actually love both. I like that the authors explore passionate, forbidden love within a hypermoral framework (Jane Eyre) contrasted with an amoral framework (Wuthering Heights).

I read the Incarnations of Immortality series in high school. I loved them, but can't say if I would like them today. I also liked the Mode books by Piers Anthony. Maybe I'll try sci fi again.

I do! I do! I do!  

I enjoy reading suspense books by Iris Johansen.  she really draws you into the storyline early in the book.  I have to say one of my all time favorite book's is The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. 

As a kid, like was mentioned a long while back, I read the Anne of Green Gables series like a maniac.  I also was a big fan of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series. 

Now, probably the only book I can really bring myself to reread over and over again is The Bucanneers by Edith Wharton.  I'm not a big fan of anything else she wrote though, which is odd, I think. 

As I read through this though, I was reminded how much I did enjoy The DaVinci Code and Alison Weir's Six Wives of Henry VIII. and Love in the Time of Cholera, recommended last year to me by dh.

As a kid, like was mentioned a long while back, I read the Anne of Green Gables series like a maniac.  I also was a big fan of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series. 

Now, probably the only book I can really bring myself to reread over and over again is The Bucanneers by Edith Wharton.  I'm not a big fan of anything else she wrote though, which is odd, I think. 

As I read through this though, I was reminded how much I did enjoy The DaVinci Code and Alison Weir's Six Wives of Henry VIII. and Love in the Time of Cholera, recommended last year to me by dh.

I love anything by Alison Weir.  Awesome books!
I also highly recommend anything by Sharon Kay Penman and Margaret George (her latest is Helen of Troy).
Anything by Ayn Rand.  Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
Currently working through Being and Time by Nietsche.  Recommended by DB.  Tough read but very thought provoking.  We have had some great discussions about it.

Alison Weir is a good writer... I've read almost all of her stuff!