What's your favourite book?

[smileygirl]

Hey guys :) i'm just curious to know what your fave book is, mine's 'to kill a mockingbird' by Harper Lee, but i got into a heated discussion with a girl who thought that it was poo and she said i should read Wthe bridges of madison county' or something like that... surely someones got to agree with me!

[Dave Potts]

I have fond memories from my youth of a novel by Eric Malpass entitled "Mornings At Seven". Haven't read 'Bridges' but I also loved TKM, although it's been many, many years since I read it (or watched the film). "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" was another favourite of mine from childhood. Wish I had more time to read books these days...

[rinkytink]

Hey Smileygirl....To Kill a Mockingburd is my favorite book too. Have you also seen the film - it's superb !!!

[rinkytink]

Actually I want to call my first born girl Scout....but the missus won't have a bar of it !!!

[apricot]

To kill a mockinbird is my number 2 favourite. My all time favourite is The Tin Drum by Gunther Grass which is also written from the perspective of a child. It is the only book I have read many times and each time I read it I find something different in it. I do appreciate that it is bizarre in places and probably not to everyones taste.

[kags]

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Hardy is my favourite, but TKAM would certainly be in my top 5. Do you think we all like it so much because it reminds us of our innocent childhoods? Usually my 2nd favourite book is the one I have just finished - at the moment that's Lucky by Alice Sebold. I haven't read The Bridges of Maddison County, but I have seen the film and I cried so much I had big red rings round my eyes next morning - recommended viewing for a girls night in with much wine and chocolate.

[sft42]

It's ok....if we are talking about childhood/school books then I would opt for Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.

In modern books I would go for The Stand by Stephen King and perhaps Wasp Factory by Iain Banks.

[Janetex]

i could never live without my complete works of Oscar Wildywild. The Stand i consider the modern classic, a stunner. TKAM is a fave too. Then there's my Oxford dictionary and book of phrases that i also hold close to my chest. All else i could probably live without, maybe, perhaps, well possibly, but, then again......However, if I could always have my mother and aunt nearby, I should never need a book of any kind. I must now go and contemplate being stranded ona deserted island with them.

[Squirrel]

Well, I haven't read a lot by any means, and I haven't even heard of some of the titles people are discussing here. Of what I have read, I tend to prefer the happy, exciting or funny books rather than the morbid, depressing or educational ones. Not that I'm saying To Kill a Mockingbird is poorly written - it's amazingly well written - it's just that I can only handle one book that is based on sadness or coming-to-terms-with-tragedy for every nine or ten happy, funny books. Recently, I have found the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman to be brilliant. It will definitely become one of my favourites.

[rarll]

Has to be Maribu Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh

[Kit]

Pride and Prejudice. Not my kind of thing usually, and I'd always fought shy of it, thinking ugh, ghastly old fashioned stuff. Then, egged on by Colin Firth (not literally, more's the pity) I actually read it. And was on the edge of my seat - it is just so well written. Having said all that, my second favourite is "Reaper Man," Terry Pratchett and after that anything by Isaac Asimov. (Read TKAM at school, along with other worthy contenders such as Catcher in the Rye, Cider with Rosie and Lord of the Flies, and to be honest don't really want to read any of them again.) School also put me off Tess, that and the fact that it was written as a serial so every chapter ends with a cliffhanger, which got me down after a while.

[jjf2003]

Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell. As relevant today as when it was first written.

[thewillow]

During adolesence, it was probably Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five. Now, perhaps Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, Solomon Gursky was Here by Mordecai Richler. Another much ignored writer is the late Robertson Davies - his Deptford Trilogy and Salterton Trilogy are fantastic reads.