Your Favorite Books Of All Time

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe!!!

Not only is the only book to ever make me cry, it gets me EVERY time!

Oh for my list:

1. Robin Hobb's series "The Liveship Traders" and "The Assassins Trilogy"
2. ALL of Raymond E Feists books on Midkemia!!!!!
3. Julian May's "Boreal Moon Tale"
4. Lian Hearn's "Otori" series.
5. Kyle Chan's "Dark Heavens"
6. Ian Irvine
7. Thomas Covenant series
8. Alison Goodman
9. Anne McAffrey
10. EVERYTHING by Anne Bishop
11. Tolkien's books, LOTR, Hobbit, Silmarillion etc.
12. 1984 - George Orwell or something like that
13. Bram Stoker's "Dracula"


Oh, I forgot! best book of ALL time.

"Men are like Bananas: An intimate guide to pleasing a man in any situation."

Oh books I DIDN'T enjoy:

1. The Holy Bible (WHAT A COMPLETE WASTE OF MY LIFE! It was like reading a collection of fantasy short stories from a pre-school class).
2. "Twilight"
3." Harry Potter"
4. Anything by Dan Brown
5. "Wheel of Time" series
6. Anything written by Terry Brooks

 

Can't believe you didn't enjoy anything on your "Didn't enjoy list". Ok, I'll agree with Twilight and Dan Brown. Just what exactly didn't you like about them...

... and I'll try to ignore your jab at the Bible. I might be bi, but I'm still a Christian

 

Err well

1. Skip this one for you
2. I really just LOATHED the way it was written. I read the first book as soon as it came out before anyone had heard of it and considered it written for young children, it had highly 2D characters and a particularly unoriginal plot.

3. I disliked the way they were written, I found that J.K. didn't build a viable world and only introduced aspects of the "magical" world when they were necessary for the progression of the plot, one of my favorite things about reading is witnessing a world being built around you; that just never happened in HP. (Mind you, i LOVE the films).

4. It wasn't so much that I disliked his books (although I think he over embellishes as a writer), I disliked the way he approached what he wrote about and even more so, how he reacted to the worlds reactions.

5. The first book of the Wheel of Time was okay, and the second one readable (think I read up to 9) but each book became progressively similar to the previous and boringly unoriginal.

6. I love children's books and consider myself quite a childish person but Terry Brooks is just a crap writer who seems to write novels designed to entertain illiterate 10 year olds, not to mention completely uninspired.


*EDIT*

I'm so silly! I almost forgot some of my favorite reads of all time!

Wu Cheng'en: Monkey; Journey To The West (Direct translation was best)

and R. A. Salvator's books.

 

-Every book ever written by Amelia Atwater Rhodes (In The Forests of The Night, Demon In My View, Shattered Mirror, Midnight Predeator, Hawksong, Snakecharm, Falcondance, Wolfcry, Wyvernhail and Persistence of Memory)
-The Perks of Being A Wallflower
Harry Potter Series
The Lord of The Rings Trilogy
The Rainbow Boys trilogy by Alex Sanchez,
Blood and Chocolate by Annette Kurtis Klause
Umbrella Academy Volume 1: Apocalypse Suite by Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba [This is a Graphic Novel but whatever the plot is still awesome]
Watchmen

so yeah, I havent read anything new in ages, so my list is a bit short.

 

1. Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.
2. Kate Furnivall's novels.
3. Any crime novel.
4. Anything else that has sex in it.

 

A Walk To Remember
All nd any books by Alex Sanchez (I still need to read Bait tho...)
Twilight Series
Eragon (nd only Eragon. couldnt read Eldest...nor Brisinger...)
Geometry Club
Boy Meets Boy
Prom Mess
there are MANY others that i forgot the titles of...

 

The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck. I really feel like everybody must read that book before they die. Completely captivating and profound novel.

 

The Lord of the Rings, by JRR Tolkein

and The Beligariad series by David Eddings

 

I like your style! Currently rereading those for the third time - up to 'Ship of Destiny' at the moment. Truly a great author.

Other than those (oooh where to start!?):
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
Tigana, A Song for Arbonne, The Lions of Al-Rassan and The Sarantine Mosaic - Guy Gavriel Kay
Holding the Man - Timothy Conigrave
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
The Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Pretty much anything I read as a child

And a billion more.

 

LOTR series FTW. I also love the Gears of War and Mass Effect novels.

 

PHWA!!!

I'm your new best first

Tigana, A Song for Arbonne, The Lions of Al-Rassan and The Sarantine Mosaic - Guy Gavriel Kay

Just finished reading the first two mentioned, Tigana was amazing!

 

Matilda
Heidi
Count of Monte Cristo
Divine Comedy (Yes I are nerd)
Howl's Moving Castle
Eragon
Brisingr
Moby Dick
Sherlock Holmes
Good Omens

 

Yay, another Kay fan! He's probably one of my favourite authors of all time, but it's surprisingly hard to find other fans...read The Lions of Al-Rassan, it's amazing!