Whats Your Favourite Book

mostly read biographies, former footballer Paul Mcgrath's was a good one.

Bosse23 Wrote:No, my bro is the reader and after he moved he left me with a huge amount of books, Fleming, Dickens, Shakespeare, Kootz, Patterson and usually when he is done with a book he just sends it to me, must be trying to educate me or something.

Well, if you get the chance read the Fleming books. They're pretty short and easy to read and are also extremely well written.

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morphmonk Wrote:Just about anything by Stephen King.

But reading Needful Things, The Shining and Christine (and others i can't think of right now) after watching the movies makes reading or watching either more thrilling.

That's the right way to do it - watch the TV/film adaptation first as you can translate the imagery to your reading of the book. Its when you read the book first that the film rarely lives up to expectation, partly because you've already created your own images of certain characters in your mind, which of course the visual adaptation can't match.

Never actually thought of it that way, but good point.

I'll have to look for some Ian Fleming see if James Bond is as good in book form.

skateguy Wrote:Well, if you get the chance read the Fleming books. They're pretty short and easy to read and are also extremely well written.

Thats definitely something I plan on doing, I'm a lover of the Bond movies so I'm really interested in seeing how the characters were originally written.

Like most things I'm interested in it changes from week to week, but the best book I've read in a long, long time is The Damned Utd by David Peace. It is without doubt the best football novel ever written, and also one of the most compelling studies of paranoia and obsession ever committed to paper.

Also to everyone reading Stephen King, can I recommend Graham Masterton's horror novels? He's one of the most under rated tellers of scary stories out there.

Anything by Clive Cussler! After I read Raise the Titanic, I was convinced that I could live an exciting life as an oceanographer.

Still read his books now, but just for the pure "escape-ism" factor.

The Last Nazi is a really good book. It isn't a Nazi propaganda book, haha I know what you were thinking, it is about a group of people hunting down the last of the Nazi monsters, people reminiscent of Mengala (sp?).

My favourite book though is probably Sleepers, the movie was good but the book was perfect, I was nearly crying while I was reading because of what scum there is in this world and the shit those poor kids went through. Couldn't cry though because I was reading it at work lol.

Also if graphic novels count, which they totally should, there is:
V for Vendetta
Watchmen
The Killing Joke
Any Punisher Max title
Y The Last Man (All 10)
The Death of Captain America
Ultimates 2

English Gothic by Jonathan Rigby

Its a history of British Horror movies, a fascinating book if like me you're a huge fan of brit horror films.

Not sure I can pick out a single favourite as it depends on my mood
PTerry is always a good bet though and if you add to the mix a bit of extra material to make you think then the Science of Discworld set of books are funny whilst making you ponder over stuff you don't think about everyday. Add to the fact they keep things down to earth for the layman and itmeans whilst it engages you to think you don't have to think to hard to enjoy it if you don't want to
Got to say I've got a soft spot for David/Leigh Eddings as well and if I feel like something a little more challenging then a bit of Umberto Eco but got to admit most of my reading lately has been ad-hoc on demand reference material
Oh and as for the mention of Shakespeare, always a good read. I got soooo turned off by it at school having to study The Scottish Play but got reintroduced in my mid twenties, initially via watching a few theatre productions and even a ballet and it is oh so different reading it for pleasure.

I've read lots of books (honest!)
Three i could re-read again and again:

On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Wonderland Avenue by Danny Sugerman