What's the title of your favourite book?

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Stampy's Lovely World Book

Mine is A Light In The Attic by the late Shel Silverstein.

of the more recent favorites
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff

Mine is probably "Somebody else's kids" by Torey Hayden. "Just another kid" by the same author is rather interesting, too.

one of the recent favs; The Prague Cemetery by Eco
or
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang, or Demon Box by Ken Kesey,
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz, or Riding the Iron Rooster by Paul Theroux

Republic l by Plato.

It's a tie between 'No One Belongs Here More Than You' (Miranda July) and 'The Illumination' (Kevin Brockmeier).

A Clockwaork Orange by Anthony burgess

"wasted"



hornbacher.

The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon.

My two favourite books are the same as the two movies I chose for the favourite movie thread. "The Shining" by Stephen King and "The Haunting Of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson. I can't give reasons why though. Some things just give me an enjoyable feeling when I watch/read/play/look at/listen to them and I can't quite put my finger on what it is.

I also love "Junk" by Melvin Burgess and "The Hahnemann Sequela" by Harold King.

The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky

I really enjoyed The Giver. It's a book for children that deals with serious themes of futuristic utopia, population management, and euthanasia. The Giver is the individual assigned to be permitted to understand pain and suffering, but also great excitement and pleasure. The Giver is in a way responsible to keep the lessons of the past alive, bearing the burden of knowledge so that society may exist in its supposed perfection where no one experiences negativity or even sees color. The color thing is obviously playing on the blandness of this utopia.

Going on what others have said, I also really enjoyed Ender's Game/Speaker and read that entire series. He also wrote a very interesting series called the Homecoming saga which I would definitely recommend.

My favorite books are The Secret History , Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Parrot in the Oven, and The Outsiders. I read a lot. Most people don't know that though.

well.......just searching, oho wiped away from the net/wiki (last week i saw that still around, wth)
the pbl of making wiki a public service controlled activity
imagine all these years wiki begged for your money? to give it to the government and international conformity to americanising overlords


when i was younger those were percieved as 'bad' books too, for some leftists reasons, how's making fun of establishment then not anti-establisment, ah the logic of humor and satire is too refined to the flat-earthers of equity

books https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1 ... en_Toonder

Bommel! Het is stuitend waar het grauw zich mee vermaakt tegenwoordig. Pijpleiders en denktanks, het is werkelijk ronduit affreus te noemen! (tr/ Bommel! It is shocking how the masses are having fun these days. Pipelines and think tanks, it is really downright affair!)

more other books:
under the volcano
a fine balance
the general in his labyrinth
three swans, daughters of china
the prague cementary

quote again, heheh
“We zullen zien', hernam de ander droogjes. Hij stak zijn paraplu omhoog en op dit gebaar traden vanachter de pilaren een paar gespierde figuren te voorschijn. Ze droegen leren jasjes en vechtpetten, en ook overigens zagen ze er uit als strijders voor een mooi ideaal.”
― Marten Toonder, Had ik maar beter geluisterd
"We'll see," the other man said. He raised his umbrella and a few muscular figures emerged from behind the pillars. They wore leather jackets and combat caps, and by the way, they looked like fighters for a beautiful ideal. ”
- Marten Toonder, I wish I had listened