Quotations and Literature Forum

Everyone has been talking about their favorite authors, but I was
wondering. . . What is everyone's favorite book?

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"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."~J. R. R. Tolkien

ooh that is a hard one, I read so much it is really hard for me to have a true faveorite, but here are a few of books that really stick out to me.

The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant

The Magus, by John Fowles

Catcher in the Rye, by JD Salinger

Island of the Blue Dolphin, by Scott O'Dell

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Every man carries a circle of hell around his head like a halo. Every man, every man has to go through hell to reach his paradise.
Robert De Niro, Cape Fear

the sound and the fury by faulkner is my favorite. i could go on forever, but for your sake i'll leave it at that haha

-j

I guess it's hard 4 eveyone to pick a favorite! hmmm I have to say The Zahir by Paulo Coelho, The Davinci Code by Dan Brown, and The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Rana

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'One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.'
~Sophocles

i have several favorites but heres the top few that i love:

~the first part last -angela johnson-
~the blue sword -robin mckinley-
~shadow game -christine feehan-
~angel -johanna lindsey-
~the outlaw viking -sandra hill-

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I had some great things and I had some bad things, the best and the worst... in other words I had a life.
~Richard Pryor~

Too many to choose from... lol, but to follow above examples I'll name a few..

To Kill A Mockingbird : Harper Lee
All quiet on the Western Front : Erich Maria Remarque
Dare to Dream : Nora Roberts
The Watchers: Dean Koontz
A Painted House: John Grisham
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Hemmingway
The Great Gatsby : Scott Fitzgerald
The Celestine Prophecy: James Redfield
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen

ok I am going to stop there but the list goes on and on... lol

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"A closed mind errects stubborn barriers, but against such barriers, words are formidable weapons" Brian Herbert, Keven Anderson

I don't think it's possible to have one favoritie book, or at least for me. My list of good books grows so fast I can only keep track of the ones I have read most recently.Here are a few that I would reread...

uglies scott westerfeld
if only it were true marc levy
the da vinci code dan brown
great and terrible beauty libba bray
stravaganza (trilogy) mary hoffman

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Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Mother Teresa

Did you say book--singular? Impossible!
OK, here's the LATEST favorite:

The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert

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cherrypi

"to teach is to learn twice"

Ok, ok, ok, maybe I worded it badly, I was just looking for some good books to read. Believe me, if I asked myself the question I don't think I could come up with a list as short as most people have! Sorry!
~soandso

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"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."~J. R. R. Tolkien

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What is the purpose of life? The answer is perhaps the most profound, enigmatic reason - to live

Well, I think there are differences between gardening and literature. There are differences between art and literature. For instance, a poet must blend colours in to form a whole image. A garden is complete with all the flowers etc.

Mind you, artists do have favourite colours and gardeners will have favourite flowers. So, we can have a favourite book. Just a difficult thing to decide.

I'd probably say that my favourite book would be:

Unto Leviathan by Richard Paul Russo

or

The Man In The Maze by Robert Silverberg

My favorite book is:

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

And if it's in Spanish, I like all Federico García Lorca's work.

Thank you GICampbell, I agree with you completly, what you wrote is exactly what I was thinking.
By the way, I am an (aspiring) artist and my favorite color is blue.

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"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."~J. R. R. Tolkien

yeah, i really like blood wedding, although i s'pose i've never read it as boda de sangre. i don't think i'd be fluid enough in spanish.

-j

[/quote]Thank you GICampbell, I agree with you completly, what you wrote is exactly what I was thinking.
By the way, I am an (aspiring) artist and my favorite color is blue.[/quote]

What kind of paintings do you prefer to do? I detect that possibly oceans and skies going on your favourite colour. But I don't know. I'm not a painter.

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I carry my smile in my pocket
A sight of beauty is opposed
Distorted and mutated faces of God
We paint; we visualize
We prove nothing but lies
You can't reclaim plates of lost souls

from 'Dying Light' by me