What is your favorite novel?

[Snow]

I love Watership Down.

It is about bunnies but it is really sad.
They made a movie about it, which was pretty good but it was far from the brilliance of the novel.

 

[sister herb]

I have read that one. Nice one too but as I read so much it´s too difficult to say what is my favorite. I need to think a little more...

 

[strivingobserver98]

Not sure if it's a novel but I loved "Of Mice and Men" and "Animal Farm". Insightful lessons it teaches you .

 

[Snow]

I have read that one. Nice one too but as I read so much it´s too difficult to say what is my favorite. I need to think a little more...

It is hard to pick.
I just went with the one that comes to my mind and has haunted me a bit, as I watched the movie as a little kid.

Another one that I like, but is really creepy, is The Collector by John Fowles.
It is so well written, seems so authentic that it freaked me out a little bit.

 

[Snow]

Not sure if it's a novel but I loved "Of Mice and Men" and "Animal Farm". Insightful lessons it teaches you .

I enjoyed Of Mice and Men, a whole lot. Also Tortilla Flat and The Pearl. I have been meaning to read the Grapes of Wrath.
Orwell's 1984 is great, and Down and Out in Paris. I have never read Animal Farm - apart from quotes here and there.

 

[Ahmed2014]

I used to love reading 20,000 leagues under the sea

 

[lonewolf007]

off mice and men is so sad and deep.........

 

[czgibson]

Greetings,

I have read hundreds of novels, but none comes close to James Joyce's Ulysses. I first read it when I was eighteen during the summer after I finished my A-levels. It is no exaggeration to say that it's changed the way I read completely.

Parts of Ulysses are very difficult, but the book teaches you how to read itself as you progress through it. Joyce uses a huge variety of styles to convey the experiences of a small number of central characters during one day in Dublin.

If you enjoy a challenging read, and especially if you enjoy beautifully written prose and wordplay, think about giving Ulysses a try. I should also mention that it's perhaps the funniest book I've ever read.

I love Watership Down.

I used to know a lady who worked as an editor at a publishing house. One of the books she edited was Watership Down. She knew Richard Adams well and helped him to produce the final text of the novel.

Peace

 

[Snow]

Greetings,

I have read hundreds of novels, but none comes close to James Joyce's Ulysses. I first read it when I was eighteen during the summer after I finished my A-levels. It is no exaggeration to say that it's changed the way I read completely.

Parts of Ulysses are very difficult, but the book teaches you how to read itself as you progress through it. Joyce uses a huge variety of styles to convey the experiences of a small number of central characters during one day in Dublin.

If you enjoy a challenging read, and especially if you enjoy beautifully written prose and wordplay, think about giving Ulysses a try. I should also mention that it's perhaps the funniest book I've ever read.



I used to know a lady who worked as an editor at a publishing house. One of the books she edited was Watership Down. She knew Richard Adams well and helped him to produce the final text of the novel.

Peace

I've never tried to read Ulysses. I've heard some awful things and some positive things.
I guess I'll have to find out for myself.
Dubliners is one that I did read, though. It was pretty good. Nothing that stuck too much with me.
It is neat that you know a person that edited my favorite book. Richard Adams, judging from his interviews, seems like a great person. Very much a nature lover and protested very harshly when the UK government was about to destroy some of the land that was the inspiration for Watership Down.

He had a hard time getting it published. It was basically a story that he made up on the spot, for his girls, as they were about to go to sleep or as they were getting bored getting to school, as he was driving them.
I think that he got a negative response from every publisher, except one, since the story about rabbits was not for adults and the content of the story of the rabbits was not too fitting for kids. Haha they did not see who could possibly like the story.

 

[Snow]

I used to love reading 20,000 leagues under the sea

Jules was amazing.
I read one that is not too well known. I think it was called Paris in the 20th century. It has been many years since I read it but he envisioned so many things that would later come true.
That was a book that he did not even publish. I think a son of his just found the book in some lost papers.
Not the most entertaining book but it was impressive.

 

[sister herb]

The latest good book I read was "The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared" (Jonas Jonasson). It was real hilarious.

 

[Snow]

The latest good book I read was "The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared" (Jonas Jonasson). It was real hilarious.

The Scandinavians are great at bleak humor.
Elling stands out, in my mind.

 

[MidnightRose]

I found the following work to be a fascinating read. It pulled me into a world of imagination and fantasy.

The title is The One Thousand and One Nights; also known as The Arabian Nights.

 

[Mirza06]

Menace II Society

 

[Snow]

I found the following work to be a fascinating read. It pulled me into a world of imagination and fantasy.

The title is The One Thousand and One Nights; also known as The Arabian Nights.

Great choice.
Richard, the translator had an interesting life.

 

[BeTheChange]

Asalamualykum,

It's been a very very long time since i last read a book.

Unfortunately, i don't have the time for it anymore but the last good books that i read, (& can remember) are;

(Very interesting insight from an ex-detainee).

(AMAZING READ!!)

<< (I think i've read this one. It sounds familiar, if it wasn't this one it was a book very similar to this).

 

[Abz2000]

there are quite a few which i found to be quite entertaining,

The Street Lawyer - by John Grisham
The Partner
A Time To Kill

i'm not promoting Jeffrey Archer's due to the lax lewdness - despite some of them being otherwise well thought out.

edit, as a kid, Franklin w. dixon's hardy boys - Perfect Getaway is a Must read.

Plot summary

From end of*Casefile*#11*--*How can a man steal millions and millions from a company -- and then disappear?
That's what the Hardys have to find out or a friend's father will take the rap. What they discover is the ultimate getaway -- an escape plot that defies imagination. Frank and Joe set off on the same trail, with a breifcase full of hot bills. It leads them to a tropical hideaway.
But as the Hardys learn, this is no paradise.
Can they blow the secret of this escape route? Or will they be blown away themselves?
From back of book*--*It's the ultimate criminal operation. For a huge fee Perfect Getaway Travel, Ltd. will provide a clean escape from the long arm of the law. To crack the ring, Frank and Joe pose as a pair of crooks looking for a safe hideout. But when they finally manage to reach the end of the line, the brother detectives find themselves trapped in a private kingdom. A garden of evil, ruled by a murderous crimelord -- where an exit visa costs a cool five million dollars.

 

[strivingobserver98]

(AMAZING READ!!)

Noughts & Crosses.. quite curious to see what it's about!

What did the book teach you?

 

[Snow]

Is great. I am a sucker for sci-fi, mostly the dark stuff.
Philip K. Dick and William Gibson.

 

[Snow]

Menace II Society

Was there a book?
I remember the movie but maybe I am ignorant.