What's your favourite book?

[Teasel]

And what do you love about it?
Thanks

 

[Clinging on]

And what do you love about it?
Thanks

At 40 years old im sorry to say but I've never read a book.

 

[Teasel]

im sorry to say but I've never read a book.

Fair enough. No desire to?

 

[Clinging on]

Fair enough. No desire to?

No concentraion levels

 

[Teasel]

Can understand that. I couldn't read for years cause of that.

 

[expectingbetter]

I love the thread!

My favorites would be
1. ''We Children from Bahnhof Zoo'' - Christiane F, a real life story told by a girl who went through hell of narcomania
2. ''Norwegian Wood'' - H. Murakami, a novel filled by all kind of destinies that simply touch the deepest level of my wounded soul
3. ''Millenium'' - Stieg Larson, a trillogy written with extremely developed plot and characters, of whom I relate a lot to the main one Lisbeth Salander

 

[ladee]

"A Cry of Angels" by Jeff Feilds - a coming of age book about an orphan, set in Georgia... a beautiful 'touching your heart' book.
"Lonesome Dove" by L. McMurtry.... have read it many times... the stories and adventures of fictional cowboys.. not my usual genre, but love Augustus McRay...

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

"The Little Match Girl", by Hans Christian Anderson. I dearly loved it from the first time I read it as a child. I guess the dying child inside of me deeply connected to the girl in the book.

I didn't read much throughout my life, either, thanks to short attention span and very little information retention when I did manage to sit through something, hence my graduating school "by the skin of my teeth" as my mom likes to put it.

However, now I'm a book skimming fool (thoroughly reading only the ones that can capture and hold my attention) often visiting the library and continually researching things on the net when I'm at home. I even dust off the encyclopedias on occasion and research the old school way. I really miss the old card catalogues at the library.

Way too many favorites to try to list nowadays as I've found so many helpful/interesting things. Maybe I'm trying to make up for lost time?

 

[Deleted member 28403]

Mort by Terry Pratchet

I've determined it as my favourite book after reading it waaay too many times.

But honestly, it's great humor, and it's a book I've owned for years, and read all my life

 

[Lionheart]

Favorite children's books; Alice In Wonderland, and All Dr. Seuss books.

Favorite adult books;
I'm Okay-You're Okay ~Thomas Harris~
Games People Play ~Eric Berne, MD.~
When Bad Things Happen To Good People ~Harold Kushner~
When Rabbit Howls ~The Troops for Truddi Chase~

These were all practical, informative, fantastical, mind altering, and eye-opening reads, in my humble opinion

 

[Changing4Best]

Any Memoir is OK by me. I love them. My local library gets them in new all the time. I forget the titles, the authors, but what is so inspiring is that these folks make it with some of the most awesome horrid things in their way. Often they are ordinary folks, with extraordinary abilities to overcome impossible odds. Those are the ones I love to read the most. Nothing can beat the TRUTH. It is "stranger than fiction," that saying is so true!

 

[Zach Harris]

Theodore Dreiser - the Thilogy of Desire: "The Financier", "The Titan", "The Stoic". I want to reread it again.