What's YOUR most favorite book you've ever read? List ONE ONLY TITLE per post please

Is that with the panda on the cover?

Closer to two men by my estimates.

Sorry, but that's funny. :)

"Derp" by Derpy McDerpster

It's a must read. Enjoy!

Yes

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt: by Beth Hoffman

Twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt is in trouble. For years, she has been the caretaker of her mother, Camille, the town’s tiara-wearing, lipstick-smeared laughingstock, a woman who is trapped in her long-ago moment of glory as the 1951 Vidalia Onion Queen of Georgia. When tragedy strikes, Tootie Caldwell, CeeCee’s long-lost great-aunt, comes to the rescue and whisks her away to Savannah. There, CeeCee is catapulted into a perfumed world of prosperity and Southern eccentricity—one that appears to be run entirely by strong, wacky women. From the exotic Miz Thelma Rae Goodpepper, who bathes in her backyard bathtub and uses garden slugs as her secret weapons; to Tootie's all-knowing housekeeper, Oletta Jones; to Violene Hobbs, who entertains a local police officer in her canary-yellow peignoir, the women of Gaston Street keep CeeCee entertained and enthralled for an entire summer.

The Left Behind Collection
by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins

An airborne Boeing 747 is headed to London when, without any warning, passengers mysteriously disappear from their seats. Terror and chaos slowly spread not only through the plane but also worldwide as unusual events continue to unfold. For those who have been left behind, the apocalypse has just begun.

Salem's Lot. Stephen King. Vampires try to take over a small New England town.

The best vampire novel since Dracula and please don't read the romantic claptrap passing for vampire novels these days.

Its about f'ing time some writer put some teeth back on the vampire.

Interesting. I tried to read it, but found the opening to be...over wrought doesn't begin to describe how badly it is written.

Wow, this is a wonderful thread OP!

I love to read and would never be able to pick only one book as my favorite
because as I grow, I change but along the way some books have stayed among my favorites. Many have already been mentioned.

Richard Bach's "illusions" was fabulous.
Jane Robert's "Nature of Personal Reality" changed my life in some ways.
At different times I have thrilled over Tom Robbin's books and did love " Skinny legs and All".
"The Pliocene saga" by Julian May and the Perelandra Series by C.S. Lewis were my favorite science fiction.
"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" is top notch.

But one of the funniest books I have ever read is called " Handling Sin"
by Michael Malone. At the time I really needed to laugh and this book did the trick and still does. Go read the first review on Amazon as he sums it up for me. Will not disappoint.

DragonLance series

all of them by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

The cow jumped over the moon.

I mean dude, a cow, jumped over the moon.

VALIS by Philip K Dick.

Too many of them to pick any particular one, really.

But Tor Nørretranders' work, especially 'The User Illusion'
seems to resurface in my mind every now and then - many
years after reading. All of it struck me as very profound
commentary to what I needed to re-remember at the time...umh,
so to speak. The good Mr Nørretranders sort of verbalizes
the intuitive clarity that might hit a pothead like yours
truly once in a cool while.

Like after a good surprise-

...or without it.



(Not saying he is not 10 times smarter than I.)

Bloody good reads, all of his books.

great to see some other WOT fans here

Uhmm idk what happened Up there last post stupid phone

1) Invasion Occupation Awakening by Haitham Alsarraf

I've been stationed here for a while and just came across this book by pure accident. It's a collection of short stories about the first Gulf War in Kuwait. The writer does not only retell first hand experiences through fictional prose, but he instills poetic prose to universalize the characters (hence awakening) in philosophical ways such as hope in hopelessness, and fearlessness in death. Some chapters are generic in plot, but the 3rd person omniscient narrator easily enriches throughout. I'm surprised this hasn't been exposed to the west more. Just my 2 cents.

[link to www.amazon.com]

Is the movie as good?

Geek Love
I laughed I cried I threw up a little in my mouth......
Great book

*cue the pseudointellectuals*

Little, Big
By John Crowley

Here is the amazon review:

John Crowley's masterful Little, Big is the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewood; not found on any map to marry Daily Alice Drinkawater, as was prophesied. It is the story of four generations of a singular family, living in a house that is many houses on the magical border of an otherworld. It is a story of fantastic love and heartrending loss; of impossible things and unshakable destinies; and of the great Tale that envelops us all. It is a wonder.

[link to www.amazon.com]

This is a beautifully, and strangly, written novel.
John Crowley somehow makes the unreal seem perfectly acceptable.

Smokey (who begins the story) is so anonymous and forgetable that people actually sit on top of him on busses without realising it.

Violet Bramble (the matriarch, yet she is always child-like) teaches her children, above all else, how to forget.

However, Ariel Hawksquill is a master of The Magical Art of Memory.

Grandfather Trout (yes, he is a fish, sort of) gives advice such as "The things that make us happy make us wise".

Auberon wonders what kind of a family could just lose a child?
But then he remembers the Real Lilac, the Fake Lilac and the Imaginary Lilac.


Here is an interestin take on it:
Liminal Places and Liminal States in John Crowley’s Little, Big, by Bernadette Lynn Bosky
[link to www.nyrsf.com]

Thank you, Anon! I love this kind of stuff. I'll be sure to check this out.

I think you would like The First Law series - a fantasy series written by Joe Abercrombie. In exchange, I will check out the Master and Commander series

"The trilogy is set in an epic fantasy world at war, reminiscent of medieval-era Europe and the greater Mediterranean world."

[link to en.m.wikipedia.org]
[link to www.amazon.com]

Note to all Amazon shoppers: please use smile.amazon.com when you purchase. Whenever you buy, a percentage can go to your favorite charity. Even local charities, such as your town's animal shelter.

BLACK IS WHITE: My Experience as Jesuit Priest
by
Michael Matthew Casey

Just recently September 26th, 2014, a paedophile catholic bishop was arrested for child pornography. This makes Michael Matthew Caseys autobiographical book regarding his experiences when he joined the Jesuits at 18 and finally left 18 years later after struggling with the inconsistencies and inequities he found in the order. He came up in the Jesuits at the same time as paedophiles like
Josef Wesolowski and describes how paedophiles like this bishop caused bankruptcies of church provinces in the northwest for their activities. In addition, he describes how the church facilitated these individuals. Black is White is a self-published book on Amazon:
[link to www.amazon.com]

If you've ever wondered how this could happen in institutions cherishing holiness then this is a must read. Michael Casey is straight and now a grandfather of 5 but spent his early years struggling to resolve the inconsistencies he found in the order with reality.

Living Living Learning by Leo Buscaglia.

it helped me and others in times of crises and depression.

He's on youtube also. A Professor that taught in Love!
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reviews
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edit: Living, Loving, Learning!

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A Deepness In The Sky
By: Vernor Vinge


Fantastic sci-fi written by one of the leading thinkers on the technological singularity. I love this one and have read it many times. Some of the things he comes up with (like the localizer net) are just insane to consider given what they're capable of and in the not too distant future. This book is set many thousands of years in the future and is full of mind twisting technology and situations.

Go to Amazon and check it out. If you enjoy sci-fi, this one will surely be a cherished keeper.

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As a young man id have to say Danny and the Champion of the World.

By Roald Dahl

One of my favorites as well.