Favourite Book

[Dr Nowt]

Papillon, My Fight for Irish Freedom, Rebel Hearts The Killing Zone and Bravo Two Zero.

 

In that order.

 

Not a fan of fictional books really.

 

Which actually improves with every read.

[Bjornebye]

Which actually improves with every read.

 

It's class mate. Immediate Action is good too but Bravo Two Zero is a book that can be read once a year easily.

[Dr Nowt]

One of :

 

Filth by Irvine Welsh

 

A Prayer For Owen Meaney by John Irving

 

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

 

Carvalho knows.

 

Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut.

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Kesey.

A Confederacy Of Dunces by Kennedy Toole.

Ham On Rye by Bukowski.

Brave New World Revisited by Huxley.

Roundabouts of Great Britain by Beresford.

[setreal]

It's really hard to pick one for me, so I went by country:

 

British: Middlemarch - George Eliot

French: A la recherche du temps perdu - Marcel Proust

Russian: Voyna I mir (War + Peace) - Tolstoy

German: Der Zauberberg - Thomas Mann

US: Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller

Spanish: Don Quijote - Cervantes

[jonnybastard]

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell, should be compulsory reading in schools. Life changing would be an exaggeration, but it certainly changes the way you look at life.

[Dr Nowt]

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell, should be compulsory reading in schools. Life changing would be an exaggeration, but it certainly changes the way you look at life.

 

Been meaning to read it for years, this has spurred me into ordering it today for the princely sum of £2.

 

Obviously if it isn't to my liking I shall hunt you like the T-1000 until the end of days.

[Byrnie]

To Kill A Mockingbird is the best book I've ever read. Read it once a year.

 

Mine too. Excellent book.

[Carvalho Diablo]

Been meaning to read it for years' date=' this has spurred me into ordering it today for the princely sum of £2.

 

Obviously if it isn't to my liking I shall hunt you like the T-1000 until the end of days.[/quote']

 

It's a great book.

[Carvalho Diablo]

good choices - I have signed copies of both 'Filth' and 'Porno'. A friend of mine knows Irvine Welsh quite well, and knew I was a fan.

 

The film of Filth is out in September. James McAvoy as DS Robertson.

 

Should be interesting.

[Flying Pig]

Bought yesterday and already over 115 pages in; The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham is very good. I was expecting a typical sci-fi novel of fighting big verocious cacti with lasers but it's far deeper and intereting than that. I still expect the cacti war in the latter stages of the book but up to now its just scary words......

[Son of L8]

Good to see Vonnegut getting some respect on here. I'm never able to pick a "favourite book" as I judge and value works differently based on where I am intellectually and creatively myself, but Vonnegut would get one into my top five at any given time. Today, it'd be Breakfast of Champions, which is a work of sheer mad genius. More often I'd pick Cat's Cradle.

 

I re-read Tolstoy's Hadji Murat recently, and I might call that my favourite book right now. A truly sublime story, perfect in conception and execution.

[Carvalho Diablo]

Bokonon kicks ass.

[Dr Nowt]

I'm a Kilgore Trout man myself.

 

And the opening chapter to Breakfast Of Champions is a thing of true beauty.

[Lee909]

In order

Having been required to resign from the Leicester City Constabulary for the heinous crime of 'gross impertinence to a member of the public', the author crossed the road to the Army Recruiting Office and enlisted into the Royal Military Police. It was a decision that, despite the odd knock back, he was never to regret.

The volumes recount the adventures, mishaps, misdeeds and observations of a character of some notoriety, charting his journey from the NAAFI canteen to the Officer's Mess via Germany, the UK, Malta, Cyprus, Northern Ireland and the Far East. The tongue in cheek tales are told in a ribald, sometimes bawdy, occasionally cruel and unfailingly irreverent fashion that befit a person with a chip on both shoulders. Described by one officer as 'arrogant, selfish, self-centred and pig headed', he never discovered any reason to change.

One of the funniest things i have ever read.

 

 

 

Couldn't put it down,absolutely horrific in places

 

 

 

Legend by David Gemmell

[Pidge]

The Idiot always comes to mind for me...

[Robbo29]

The more i think of it the more come to mind:

Stephen KingThe Stand

Robert Ludlum'Salems Lot

The Chancellor Manuscript

[Robbo29]

fucked that up, hats what happens when you thick like me and try to use bold when you have finished typing!

Stephen King was The Stand and 'Salems Lot

Ludlum was The Chancellor Manuscript and The Matarese Circle,

cant believe i missed Puzo's The Godfather either.

Lets be honest chaps, you cannot have just one favourite book!

[Paul]

I wouldn't say I had a favourite book. However, going solely by the criterion of most multiple reads:

1. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

2. Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham

3. Northern Lights - Philip Pullman

[Pidge]

Well if that's the criterion then 'Where the Wild Things Are'.

[zigackly]

Totally forgot 1984 - read that a few times.

 

Four legs good, two legs baaaaad.

 

That's Animal Farm.

 

I wouldn't say I have a favourite book. I've read thousands, many more than once.

[Razoray]

The Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela - a monster of a book

[Flying Pig]

'I never touched them' by P. Aki is gonna be a classic.

[VladimirIlyich]

Used to read a few Vietnam war books a few years back and I thought Chickenhawk by Robert Mason and A Rumour of War by somebody whose name i cant remember were the pick for me. Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is absolutely brilliant reading too. Donnie Brasco the novel is miles ahead of the film too.

[Bobby Hundreds]

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell, should be compulsory reading in schools. Life changing would be an exaggeration, but it certainly changes the way you look at life.

 

Just ordered this on my kindle, its free on the kindle too. Read after I've finished this first jack reacher book, I watched the film last night and actually enjoyed it so thought I'd give the book a read, obvously very low brow for this thread.

[Remmie]

I can't say I've read that many books, love reading but just never find time for it. So it may reflect in my answer but I'll be virtually the only one to only plump for just one, as clearly stated in the thread title; The Dice Man by Lucius Rhineheart. Was a recommendation from the GF as well.