What's your favorite book?

@mark98 (567)
China
January 27, 2011 5:33am CST
Any books you would recommend? I just finished the last book for Alyson Noel's Immortal Series, and am looking for some more mysterious/paranormal books.
9 responses
@buggles64 (2709)
• United States
27 Jan 11
Our reading preferences are probably quite different. I enjoy historical romances especially those set in the 1700-1800's. I enjoy reading stories about the Amish as well..Laura Ingall's Wilder was my favorite Author as a child. But to name just one book as my favorite..it would have to be the Bible.
@mark98 (567)
• China
27 Jan 11
"But to name just one book as my favorite... it would have to be the Bible" that's Great.
@didi13 (2926)
• Romania
27 Jul 12
Echoes in memory of the time - Claude Spaak It's a book that focuses on insight, the feeling of guilt and moral duty. Kind of book that brings depth to the surface of the human form of a monologue accusing the self. We can see interpersonal relationships from a different angle, the idea that order is not very common. However being in a landscape of a long historical societies and not just in this, and by their significance.
• United States
31 Jan 11
The House of Night is an amazing series. Its about a girl that finds out she's a vampire & its her life through that and moving to the vampire school the house of night. Its such a good series. A must read!
@stevieboi19 (1419)
1 Feb 11
If you haven't read The Mayor Of Castorbridge by Thomas Hardy although not a mystery or paranormal but is one of my all time favourite books and probably one of the best in literature. I'm sorry to say I can't recommend many paranormal or mystery books but I've got a mystery collection at the minute when I delve into them I'll let you know if there worth a read.
• Canada
4 Feb 11
I already answered slaughterhouse-five to the same question on here, but I don't want to be redundant, so this time I'll go with Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. I'm conflicted: it's haunting, melancholy, ironically humorous swan song to all that is elegant and beautiful and pure in this world. It echoes an eloquent, lucid, and devastatingly satiric paragraphs my firm convicting that true Beauty and Love exist not far from beyond the pale glitter of a heartless, selfish, utterly apathetic and dreary world. It's poetry. It's an ode to the idealism of youth narrated by the voice of a cynical middle-aged man. However, the end irritated me a great deal. Waugh used religion to neatly wrap up the story and, at the end, I felt as if I'd been force-fed C.S. Lewis. How can there not be a God and all that. It's not that I'm against people writing about religion and, especially in fiction, writing stories wherein religion plays a wrole...while I don't accept it, I can identify with the idea that wordly successes and comforts can prove unsatisfying and that people seek some higher meaning or power. But Waugh's God is so vapid and superficial in his ending when he gives Lord Brideshead and upper-class type of salvation that it just makes me think that religion is basically mind vomit.
• Guadeloupe
11 Mar 11
I bought Crime and Punishment when I was 19 and have been reading and rereading it ever since - 34 years ago that was.
@piperu (113)
• Indonesia
28 Jan 11
emmm..I read a lot of books and like a lot of them too :) Right now I enjoy reading Michelle Moran's books. Have you ever read The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare? Maybe you can try that one. Happy reading :)
• Philippines
29 Jan 11
hi there. you could try the works of Stephen King. he's the best writer when it comes to horror, paranormal, or mysterious fictional novels. you could try those, it could be the best option among any others because Stephen King's novels are commonly created as movies upon many requests of his fans. hope my information did help you. good luck, have fun in reading, and see you around!
@shrijsr (574)
• Bangalore, India
27 Jan 11
hey mark, nice to hear you finish the immortal series. I feel quite jealous of you, well, thats because, I still have "The Dark Flame" yet to be read! I am not at all finding any time to read that book. Curiosity hails, but then time prevails! You can go ahead with the twilight series by stephanie mayer and the first book is somewhat kinda Immortals first book, "Evermore", but as the story goes deep, its a completely different subject! Check out!