What're your favorite (and least favorite) books?

[thirtythree]

Inspired by this thread.

Off the top of my head, mine are:
A Tale of Two Cities
Brave New World
The Catcher in the Rye
Ender's Game
Ethan Frome
Franny and Zooey
Invisible Man
The Stranger



The book I most dislike is The Perks of Being a Wallflower :thumbsdown: A lot of people my age like to rave about how good it is.

 

[astralusion]

the sparrow
from kiddy days: the mossflower series, the earthsea cycle..others i'll think of later

 

[junkerman123]

Favorites:

The Westing House
The Great Gatsby
Ethan Frome
LoTR

Most hated book EVER: Wuthering Heights GOD IT SUCKED

 

[Goosemaster]

I am reading The brothers karamazov


The first page was great.

"sponge" ha!

 

[Forsythe]

Satanic Verses
HHGG
Don Quijote

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: junkerman123
Most hated book EVER: Wuthering Heights GOD IT SUCKED

Yeah....pretty brutal

 

[cKGunslinger]

You have good taste

Good books:

Brave New World
1984
Catcher in the Rye
Dark Tower (series)
The Talisman
Charlotte's Web
Paradise Lost
LotR
The Illiad
Miss Pickerell (series - children)
Chronicles of Narnia (series)
A Wrinkle in Time
Screwtape Letters


Books I dislike:

Many of the crappy Dean Koontz ones
Jane Eyre
Great Expectations

 

[amoeba]

Crime and Punishment
Brothers Karamazov
The Castle
The Great Gatsby
Animal Farm

 

[kogase]

Don Quixote, The Divine Comedy, The Painted Bird, various Knights of The Round Table tales, The Odyssey, A People's History of the United States... all that come to mind right at the moment.

 

[Fritzo]

Favorite book is Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Least favorite book is A Pictorial Guide to Venereal Diseases

 

[Goosemaster]

With the exception of a few books your tastes are fvking dark people

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
With the exception of a few books your tastes are fvking dark people

You were expecting more Curious George titles from this crowd?

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
With the exception of a few books your tastes are fvking dark people

You were expecting more Curious George titles from this crowd?

*looks at his own collection*


I guess we all like the dark ones for the drama...I was just upbeat today and just came to that seemingly obvious realization

 

[junkerman123]

lotr isn't dark, and people like it

 

[thirtythree]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
With the exception of a few books your tastes are fvking dark people

You were expecting more Curious George titles from this crowd?

*looks at his own collection*


I guess we all like the dark ones for the drama...I was just upbeat today and just came to that seemingly obvious realization

Which do you consider "dark"?

 

[nakedfrog]

Favorites:
Time Enough for Love
Number of the Beast
HHGTTG

Least favorites:
Hm... none come to mind, I guess they must have been forgettable.
Although I must say I found Catcher in the Rye underwhelming, but that's not to say I didn't like it.

 

[habib89]

um... favorite's gotta be harry potter series.. i like the easy reading, and i'm a kid at heart..

least favorite: beloved.. hated reading that book in high school..

obviously i don't like serious topics..

 

[chowmein]

my first favorite was: Where the Red Fern Grows

now i have too many to count

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Favorites: Too many to mention

Least Favorites: Anything by James Joyce. To all of you youngsters who still have yet to get to high school where you'll be forced to read "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" , "Ulysses" or "Finnegan's Wake", be afraid. Be very afraid.

 

[thirtythree]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Favorites: Too many to mention

Least Favorites: Anything by James Joyce. To all of you youngsters who still have yet to get to high school where you'll be forced to read "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" , "Ulysses" or "Finnegan's Wake", be afraid. Be very afraid.

I started Ulysses but never finished it. Some people seem to like Joyce though. I haven't read enough to have an opinion.

 

[Uppsala9496]

Too many books to list out the ones I like.

What I disliked was the Thomas Covenant series. Made it through the first book and about 100 pages into the second and then had to stop. I'd burn them if it wouldn't make me feel like a Nazi. Worst series of books EVER! So bad that I tried giving them to my library and they would take them.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Godfather of the Kremlin
Rich Dad/Poor Dad
Elegant Universe
Bringing Down the House

Anything by Michael Lewis