Favourite Book?

[MFDC12]

Right now, my favorite book is “The Talisman” by Stephen King/Peter Straub. Surprisingly it’s a fantasy book that actually works for me.

 

[mlemm]

a fun book that I like, not my FAVORITE but it's in my top list of fun books to read is THE MAN WHO NEVER MISSED a military-science-fiction-spiritual-martial-arts-political-revolutionary pulp novel from the 80s. Some may already know it since it was written by the guy who wrote STAR WARS SHADOWS OF THE EMPIRE as well as ALIENS: Earth Hive with two other ALIENS books in that trilogy, and an ALIENS vs PREDATOR novel or two.

I've read it at least three dozen times over the years, there's also a handful of books that were written in the early 90s that follow up with characters from it. it's not the GREATEST book by any means and the sex scenes are awkward to read as an adult but it is a ridiculously readable and entertaining book if it seems even remotely interesting. I fully recommend it for anyone into military science fiction about a spiritual and political revolutionary.

 

[mrgone]

It's a tie between
Nigel Findley - House of the Sun (Shadowrun)
Timothy Zahn - heir to the empire (Star wars)

 

[anhd389]

Harry Potter

 

[anindividual]

This is really tough to choose, but at the moment probably Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (I like a lot of Vonnegut’s early stuff). Also virtually anything by Kazuo Ishiguro and especially Never Let Me Go.

 

[x65943]

This is really tough to choose, but at the moment probably Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (I like a lot of Vonnegut’s early stuff). Also virtually anything by Kazuo Ishiguro and especially Never Let Me Go.

Sirens is such a good book

The scenes on Titan with the blue birds still cross my mind from time to time, lots of rich imagery

Mercury is especially on my mind

The last 1/5 of that book in my opinion really take off

 

[Chary]

Tough question.

The Folk of the Fringe and Enders Game by Orson Scott Card always stuck with me. Post apocalyptic stories always catch my attention, and it reads so weird and haunting and interestingly. Enders Game is just a great scifi book with good world building.

The Way of Kings is an insane read at over 1,000 pages, but it's a fantasy epic that absolutely crushes any other modern fantasy.

The Secret of NIMH I want to include because it's directed at children, but handles some grim topics and is a really standout way to introduce younger audiences to darker themes in their media. Not over the top dark terrible things, but just content that feels like it treats children like people, giving them important lessons without baby gloves.

Slaughterhouse Five is another one I really like. Dark humor, scathing political commentary, irreverent, it just really goes for it.

 

[x65943]

Wow lots of love for Vonnegut today

May I suggest you all read @mthrnite - it's one of Vonnegut's absolute best if not THE best

 

[anindividual]

Mother Night is definitely excellent. I also really like God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. You really can’t go wrong with any of Vonnegut’s early works.

 

[Deleted member 725709]

Everything's eventual: 14 dark tales by Stephen King.
i may be cheating as it is a collection of short stories, but damn there are some gems in there. And the upside to short stories is that they're lean (no fluff). Most of them anyways.

 

[tracom]

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

 

[UnderJinx]

The Dark Tower by Stephen King, though the fourth book got rather tough when over 100 pages
is about Rolands love for Susan Delgado, so i skipped that part

The ringworld books by Larry Niven brought me lots of joy under my living room light

 

[godlakitu]

It has to be Sherlock Holmes stuff, there is something magical about his smugness

 

[Smoker1]

 

[shadowflare7799]

Too many to name. Quite a few tom clancy novels I liked one of my favorites being rainbow six.

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I also need to finish the scarlet gospels by clive barker

 

[kifan]

x-men comic books

 

[gtawhitetank]

Of all time - has to be Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen. I'm a softy at heart!
Was read to me as a child and never left me

 

[AncientBoi]

Of all time - has to be Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen. I'm a softy at heart!
Was read to me as a child and never left me

If I remember right, I believe I have the eBook.

Good choice nonetheless .

 

[packki]

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

 

[TVL]

I have a hard time choosing one book to be my favorite.

I like Catch 22, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Slaughterhouse five... I mostly read non fiction though, autobiographies is usually what I look for but I don't know what stands out really, because a lot of times it's written by the person (and not a ghostwriter, which in itself can be a bad thing), and they aren't an author so they fall into the trap of trying to sound intellectual and it just gets annoying, but you put up with it because they lived an interesting life.

I also really like The city of my dreams. Which I've only read in Swedish, subject matter might be uninteresting to anyone else, but a very realistic insight into life in the 1600-1900s (it's a series of seven books I think).