Favorite book of all time
By deodavid
@deodavid (4150)
Philippines
April 12, 2012 11:04pm CST
My favorite book of all time is White Fang don't know the author but i guess he is famous anyway it was a small book and i think the only novel that i have read
really and understood fully almost the other two that I have read before anyway i would like to know yours what is your most favored book ever, something
that you will read over again and never get tired of.
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15 responses
@allyoftherain (7208)
• United States
18 Apr 12
Don't make me pick. I've read so many books that I utterly adore, and I don't think that I could choose just one as my favorite book. If I had to pick one, then I think I'd be debating between one of the Chronicles of Narnia books by C.S. Lewis (probably Horse and His Boy), The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle, or The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge. There are probably more that would fight for the title in my head, but those are the ones I can name off the top of my head.
Maybe I'm still looking for my favorite book. It would probably be high fantasy and it would need to have at least one unicorn in it.
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@Jezebella (1446)
• United States
18 Apr 12
I was just thinking the same thing! I read so much amd find so many amazing novels that I cannot simply puck just one as a favorite. I keep readin The Alchemist, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, the Dragonlance Triology. I rwad so many genre of books and have favorites ong them but its too hard to pick one as my all time favorite book. Its like picking a faborite child.
@SinfulRose (3527)
• Davao, Philippines
18 Apr 12
I agree. Really hard to pick if you like many kinds of books in different genres like horror, time travel, romance, comedy, fantasy, super-natural, action, suspense and even the ones where you can even be the detective.
Tsk! Well, I know I like vampire stories (nope, not the twilight series and those new stories that came out). I like the light humor of other stories too. I also like historical where there are knights, castles, and men in distress...(...wait...that's supposed to be "damsel in distress")...Well, anyways, there's a lot. It's just difficult to pick one out of those categories.
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@allyoftherain (7208)
• United States
18 Apr 12
Jezebella, I would have said the same thing... like picking a favorite child. Except I don't have any children, so I don't know what it's like to try and pick a favorite. I imagine it's like trying to pick a favorite book!
SinfulRose, I certainly know my favorite genre, high fantasy, but among the high fantasy books I read I have trouble picking a favorite. If I couldn't even pick a favorite genre, I imagine I'd have even more trouble.
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@SinfulRose (3527)
• Davao, Philippines
18 Apr 12
I once bought a White Fang and gave it to my brother...or was it my sister?.. I doubt, though, if they had read the story. I know I didn't but I think it would entertain them at the time.
Now that I also think of it, I never had any favorite book. I never thought to have a favorite from the hundreds of books we have here at home. (They're my mom's collection starting when she was still in high school. So you can just imagine how many of them she had collected already.) Anyways, if we're talking about computers, I could have given you a brand. But since it's a book, I think I still have to find it.
I know! I can just share to you a certain book in my school library that I frequent very much. It's a book composed of 1000 stories and other literature that you can say would be my favorite in all those books I found there. I searched the net for the title because I forgot--but here it is "1000 stories You Can Use". It's a very good book full of lessons in life, moral values and is a good reminder of what we usually forget as a human being. It's a very entertaining book especially in days where you feel like you're knee deep on problems. I guess it's this book that helped me maintain my sanity in college too.
Hope this share can help people out there who are going depressed, hopeless and alone. Have a nice day and Happy MyLotting!
@SinfulRose (3527)
• Davao, Philippines
19 Apr 12
You created a list? Wow, you must be one avid reader if you plan to buy those and read them one by one.
Well, I have to admit, I had made quite a list in the past too. But it's a list online and filled with titles of Manga instead of novels. And I forgot about it until now.
Well, I better visit that site sometime in the future to unwind. Have a nice day!
@deodavid (4150)
• Philippines
19 Apr 12
Hey there sinful rose,
Am not an avid reader but i promised myself that i will be before i get too old and not be able to see the books, I just think that if i do get to read i will lessen my time on TV and at the same time enhance my knowledge they say that reading can help you become more brighter.
@deodavid (4150)
• Philippines
19 Apr 12
Hi there sinful rose,
Wow thanks for that i will surely look into it one of these days i have a list were in all the nice books that were suggested to me were compiled so when i do get the money i can buy them one read at a time , thanks a lot you are very informative.
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@lynboobsy11 (11343)
• Philippines
13 Apr 12
The book of "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne I never get tired of reading it since I learn more and more by reading it. It almost guide me to be positive always. I wish to have the second book, unluckily I never read it.
@deodavid (4150)
• Philippines
16 Apr 12
Hi lyn,
I hope that someday you will get to read your book i think it must be great and enjoyable for you that is why you never get tired of it, for me my favorite book is nice and i have read it twice but will be long till i would want to read it again.
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@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
13 Apr 12
It's funny you should mention that book. I had it for free on my tablet but deleted it off. I am not sure of the author.
My favorite book is True Betrayals by Nora Roberts it's a favorite read that I enjoy reading after I've forgotten most of the book.
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@SinfulRose (3527)
• Davao, Philippines
18 Apr 12
Well, have you read the book "Rich Dad Poor Dad"?
It's not a favorite but it's a very good eye opener for someone who lived frugally all their lives and seeing that they can easily change their life just by changing how they normally think about money and all.
I guess it's that book that changed me my view of life, the society and my view of myself. I once thought that I would have to suffer under an employer just to earn money to live on but not getting into old age because I'll die due to my frail body while still reaching my 30s... (Yeah, I'm that sick in body. I hope not sick in the head too.) I guess I'm happy I got to read this one and thankful for the author, Mr. Robert Kiyosaki, for writing such a good book because I was given a chance to change my fate, the one I just mentioned, to something where I can live my dreams on.
Hope you get to read this one. Happy MyLotting! Again...
@SinfulRose (3527)
• Davao, Philippines
19 Apr 12
The book "Rich Dad Poor Dad" really does inspire many people to think of things that was once not thought by the poor and the middle class. It's one of the self-help books that really got me into thinking of what it was I want to do with my life.
At least it gave me hope and the thought "Hey, I can REALLY do change what will happen to me financially." And it's also this book that motivated me to make myself some money even before graduating--saving up to invest and retire young.
I mean, who wouldn't want to retire as young as possible? Or have the "option" to work or not. I find that work/job today have become a necessity for people to live. And that is something I wish to change in my world.
I don't know about you but I know I'm lazy enough that I cannot last long under a certain job--even if I love the job. I'm a person who cannot last long under a routine and is very much likely to jump from one task to another, you see.
@deodavid (4150)
• Philippines
19 Apr 12
Hey me too i mean that is why i have such discussions about working hard and making sure that i get a lot of money investments and business before i am fifty so by that time i can retire be with my kids the whole time and enjoy life because i don't wanna work for too long i wanna enjoy life early on. I hope that i did that when i was elementary.
@deodavid (4150)
• Philippines
19 Apr 12
Sinful rose,
Interesting topic, and from the looks of it must be a life inspiring one about people and how they use money in there lives, i will also put this on my list for future reference, your great thanks for sharing and sinful rose happy lotting to you.
@deodavid (4150)
• Philippines
16 Apr 12
I hope you like it when you read it, it begins kinda morbid then mellows in the end and becomes inspiring , i love that book there was once a fire that broke out here in our apartment and i got my laptop phones and some clothes and this book, i didn't even care to get my diploma and credentials.
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@rmuxagirl (7548)
• United States
25 Apr 12
I dont think I can choose just one book as my favorite of all time. I read so many books through the year that I just fall in love with them. I can say that Paulo Coellho is one of my favorite authors though. I always think and learn something after reading his books.
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
19 Apr 12
hi deodavid I think white Fang was written by Jack London who also wrote the Call of the wild. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is the one I have read over and over and never tired of it. Also the Lord of the R
ngs series they are fantastic. Little Women is another I have read over and over too.I also love Stephen Kings
novels they are totally differeent and made you think and get scared too.deodavid you should read Tolkeins books I think you would love them.
@deodavid (4150)
• Philippines
19 Apr 12
Maybe in the future i've got tons on my list and i think i will only be able to start by next year because my budget and my time is all allotted for already this year but i am looking forward to one book this year and I'll make sure i choose the best one to read. Thanks a lot hatley i have put all the books you mentioned on my list, I love white-fang.
@laken02 (3065)
• United States
15 Apr 12
i dont have a favorite book as im not a big reader, i like self help books and i have a great religious book called vitamin c for the soul it is good.. but not like tv , for tv i have to watch my days of our lives every day ive been hooked since a child watching it with my grandparents, of i love to read those romance books as well.. ,love them..
@Tamosree1993 (1525)
• India
19 Apr 12
Hello friend,
My favorite book is 'Kapalkundala' written by 'Bankim Chandra Chattopadhayay'. It is a very good book. Please read it one time as soon as possible.
Have a nice day.
@sourabharoy1992 (730)
• India
19 Apr 12
hello friend,
oh it is also my favorite book. I like this story so much. do you know there has a bengali movie base on this story?
and we also read 'sagar songome nobokumar' in class nine standerd. and this story was included to our sylabus.
bankim chandra is my one of the favorite writer also. do you know I live in naihati where he was born and spent his childhood? I like him so much.
nice to meet you. have a nice day.
@hockeytbl19 (25)
• United States
13 Apr 12
White Fang is by Jack London, and I love that book. It is one of my favorites, along with Call of the Wild, by the same author. But I also have to say my two favorites are the lovely bones and to kill a mockingbird.
@deodavid (4150)
• Philippines
16 Apr 12
Hi hockey,
Wow i think those books are great i'll just put it on my list so that in the future i can buy them and read them, thanks for the name i already found the old book and knew it , but it was a nice gesture of yours I appreciate it.
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@bubblez9 (14)
• United States
25 Apr 12
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. I just finished reading it yesterday, but as soon as I started reading it, I fell in love with it and couldn't stop reading it, I was so eager to finish it, to find out what happens. It's a series with two other books- Catching Fire, which I started reading today, and Mockingjay.
@PJMingins82 (28)
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2 May 12
My favourite book of all time is Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. In some ways I wish it wasn't because it is a popular answer to this question. However its popularity is simply testament to what a wonderful work of fiction it is.
I have read this book again and again and am always swept away by the passion and wildness of the love between Catherine and Heathcliff.
I find nothing more moving than the fact they were unable to live without each other. The novel is deliciously dark and gothic in style and leaves us with the fitting ending that they walk together still, out on the moors as ghosts.
@autumndreamer (3185)
• Philippines
25 Apr 12
I don't really have a favorite book of all time as I usually read a new book and I always have new favorites. So yeah, I'm not really loyal to just one. I'm like a polygamous book-lover. Anyway, as of now, my favorite is "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green. This book contains so much wisdom and knowledge but not told in a boring way. The story is very heartbreaking and I actually cried so much while reading this book.