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adie asked in Arts & HumanitiesBooks & Authors · 1 decade ago

What is your favorite book of all time and why?

My favorites are Jane Eyre because it is fantastically well written and the language is so rich and the book thief which is absolutely beautiful, it had me in tears for the whole second half.

So how about you guys? What books do you love and would recommend to others and why?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I love Jane Eyre by the way, good choice.

    I can't choose between three books that are all my favorites. They are all very different and came in at different times in my life that are memorable to me.

    Lolita is one of my favorites, because the prose is beautiful and Nabokov was able to bring such a controversial topic and make it beautiful. You find yourself cheering for a pedophile, so it makes you think. It's a wonderful story that if written by anyone else would have been terrible. He was the first to bring a subject like that and make it tasteful. And I don't believe the movies gave it any sort of justice.

    The Bell Jar is another favorite. When I read it I was going through some of the problems the main character (and Plath) went through in the story. I could relate to it really well. I don't read it as much because it can be a depressing read, but at the time it fit my mood.

    The Unbearable Lightness of Being is my other favorite. I love how all the character's lives mingle together, I love how it poses all these questions about existence. They had interesting lives and I intend to read it again. I have only read it once; the above mentioned books have read at least seven or eight times. The Unbearable Lightness of Being was somewhat difficult when I read it a couple years ago, so I need to re-read it again to fully grasp it. But it is a wonderful book. And I recommend all three if you haven't already read them.

  • 1 decade ago

    My favorite book is : El amor en el tiempo del

    " - Love in the time of cholera - by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

    This book is more than an unusual love story it is an Ode to life itself.

    People surviving anything and everything because love and life are such a force that nothing can destroy them.

    The first time an author has achieved and come up with a love story that brings two people together in their old age. There is no place for their love in the world so they travel up and down the big river on a boat with the cholera flag showing so that nobody will come to disturb them.

    At one moment when Florentino is still a young boy and cries and suffers because of his love for Fermina, his mother comes to him and says: My boy now that you are young enjoy your suffering for love's sake,drown yourself in this pain because this glory will not last for ever., only youth can give it to you.

    Source(s): Mine I have read this book 4 times in Spanish and hope to read it as many times ot more.
  • 1 decade ago

    The Princess Bride by William Goldman is definitely in my top ten. It's satire, it makes fun of the typical couples in love stories. It's well-written, it has action and adventure, and the humour's not in-your-face - it's subtle.

    Another favourite of mine is Looking for Alaska by John Green. It's YA, but it's not just another teen love story. It's thought-provoking - it makes you think about things, it deals with some of the things teens go through, and it still manages to be funny at times. I could really relate with the main character, even though he's a guy and I'm a girl, and I was in tears in the last part.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I love A Great and Terrible Beauty series. They are awesome!

    And a few others: Harry Potter, Sloppy Firsts, Wicked Lovely.

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  • 1 decade ago

    a wrinkle in time Madeline L'Engle

    a little princess Frances Hodgsen Burnette

    inkheart Cornelia Funke

    peter pan J.M Barrie

    The BFG Dauhl

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I always recommend The Mortal Instruments series to any Fantasy lover.

    I think the reason I loved it so much was because it was so believable, and that's hard to come across in a Fantasy novel.

    It has it all, it's action-packed, it has a little romance and it has great suspense!

    :)

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    i luv to read books and all thye books i have read are just amazing some not as good as the others i read My sisters keeper. it was a good book becuase if you look at the storyline it can really happen to a family and you start thinking of what you just read. the other book i liked to read was A Long Way Gone it was so sad and amazing usually when i finish a book the question i always ask myself is whats next its hard looking for a good book

  • 1 decade ago

    My favorite book is where the red ferns grow and because its a good book i have no clue why its just s good story ; )

  • 1 decade ago

    Lord of the Flies

    I think it is important for people to know what happens when people stop being polite.

  • I don't know yet. I still have more books to read throughout my life time, and this is just the beginning of it.

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