Favorite Book.

What is your favorite book and why?

Mine is Flipped. I loved it because it reminded me of some familiar situations.

 

where's waldo?

the yellow one

 

Fiction- "Eragon" and "The Hobbit". Those books feed my soul.

Non fiction- "The Book on the Taboo Against Who You Are" by Alan Watts. That book fixed my soul.

 

Probably Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes for it's technical beauty, humor, poignancy and extremely well used symbolism, metaphor and creation of emotional atmosphere, and just sheer genius.
Or Puttering About In a Small Land by Philip K Dick also for beauty, poignancy, symbolism and creation of emotional/human atmosphere, but also for it's extreme realism and humanity.
These are the two books I find to be the best portrait of the human struggle.

 

phillip k dick is so-so, but not bad. i will say that i thoroughly enjoyed "do androids dream of electric sheep?" and think it's a better book than blade runner is a movie.

 

Crime and Punishment
Master and Marguerite
The Vizier's Elephant

 

A Separate Reality- Carlos Castaneda

 

Ohh, non-fiction:
60 Minutes Over Tokyo - what a great story of war and survival - paints so epicly so many truths about the nature of humans and war without any embellishment or extra push by the author.
Read it at a school library, haven't found it since. I think I'm about to go to my old middle school and high school looking for it when school opens again.

 

I don't know which I prefer - Puttering About in a Small Land is one of his post-humously published non-sci-fi, which really, I find even better than his sci-fi. If you want to read great sci-fi by him, I suggest Maze of Death or The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch or even Dr. Bloodmoney.

 

the three stigmata of palmer eldritch was okay, but i definitely preferred do androids dream of electric sheep

i have some issues with him, but he's, if nothing else, and interesting character. batshit crazy.

 

Batshit crazy - how so?

 

Eat Pray Love.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_K_Dick#Mental_health

 

Ah, well Puttering About is one of the novels he wrote before all that, and I've always found it extremely rational
I've noticed hints of a tortured mind in his work, but damn =P

 

fahrenheit 451 and the series His Dark Materials (golden compss[northern lights]/the subtle knfie, and the amber sypglass) soo good!

 

Hi,

I thought about putting this on my Books2Read-List for some time now. Is it hard work to go through the book? In my opinion 'On the road' was an easy one, Goethe is mostly medium and Gottfried Benn is, uhm, advanced. How does Dostojewski relates (in terms of readability) to them?

Regards
Gyro

 

Dune by Frank Herbert
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune
God Emperor of Dune
Heretics of Dune
Chapterhouse: Dune
Dune: House Atreides by Brian Herbert (His Son)
Dune: House Harkonnen
Dune: House Corrino
Dune: The Butlerian Jihad
Dune: The Machine Crusade
Dune: The Battle for Corrin
Hunters of Dune
Sandworms of Dune
Paul of Dune

The greatest sci-fi epic of all=time :cheers2:


Hotwater

 

I have several favorite books and they are all above your reading level.

I like Janja's list though.

 

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller is the most hilarious and well-written anything that i've ever experienced. I like most of his other books, and most of Kurt Vonnegut's stuff. Jeffrey Archer's First Among Equals is fucking amazing too. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is out of this world as well.

 

I forgot to add Bible.