favourite book

[2nosey]

what is your favourite book and what do you like about it? people of AB.

[ezapf]

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It forces the reader think about his own sensitivity to other people and other cultures.

[FP]

Jane Eyre.  Have loved it since I was a child and have read it over and over again.  It's just a story that sets my imagination going.

 

Also, Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier) comes a close second.

[ChocClare]

I saw this question and a number of books came to mind - but three of them had already been posted! Great minds think alike, eh? So, leaving aside the answers already snagged by ezapf and fakeplastic: I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith I have loved for years - since long before the vastly inferior film came out - mainly because she does indeed "capture" what life was like from the point of view of a penniless, romantic teenager in the '30s, stuck in a remote castle surrounded by mud with no hope of escape, and manages to be both funny and heart-rending at the same time. It also has a great opening line: "I write this sitting in the kitchen sink". Wonderful stuff! Also, if I ever need cheering up, then Three Men In A Boat (Jerome) and (though not strictly a book) The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde) are guaranteed to make me laugh out loud to the point where my husband thinks I'm having a seizure...

[j2buttonsw]

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov because it is the best book ever written.

[andy hughes]

I adore 'The Mind Parasites' by Colin Wilson. It uses a Lovecraft-esque plot line to advance so intersting ideas about minds and their possible control. I also love the notion of 'invisibility' - not in the sense that someone cannot be seen, onlythat people are aware that someone has walked past, but they would not recognise them if asked. I also love 'Christine' by Stephen King, which avoids a pat 'happy' ending.

[rancy]

Definately Lord of the Rings, all three.  Tolkien is a god of fantasy!

[rancy]

Definately Lord of the Rings, all three.  Tolkien is a god of fantasy!

[smudge]

Fakeplastic - I don't believe it. I was just about to post Rebecca & Jane Eyre.

 

Also, Bad Blood by Lorna Sage & Twopence to Cross the Mersey by Helen Forrester.

 

Apart from loving the books & films, I listen to lots of audio tapes, which help me off to sleep - Rebecca being my favourite. They all get my imagination going too & I am right there in the plays!

[bernardo]

Fiction: "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell because it is a very accurate (and in some ways prescient) analysis of the workings and psychology of totalitarian regimes.

 

Factual (prose): "Selected Works" by Enver Hoxha [the Stalinist dictator of Albania 1944 to 1985], volume 4 (1966 to 1975) [bought from the John Buckle [John Buckle was the founding member of the RCPBML [The Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist)]] bookshop]

 

Factual (reference): Whichever is the most recent edition of The Times Guide to the House of Commons

[nicola_red]

ezapf, I like To Kill A Mockingbird so much I took the author's name!

[fathead]

I only read To Kill a mockingbird earlier this year and couldn't put it down. My favourite has to Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer - I've read it 4 times. I have just finished buying the full set of Famous Five books on ebay - they are still as good as when I was 10 years old