Favorite book/author/genre

[The Black Rabbit]

Hey, FIRST THREAD! WOOT! Anyway, i want to know what's your favorite book, author, or genre of book. (If it's your favorite book, give a little run down of it)

I'll start. My favorite (if you haven't figured it out from my name) is Watership down by Richard Adams. It is a true epic, with a dangerous quest to find a new home, and encountering the unknown along the way. Read it if you haven't yet, and if you never put it down!

[Leif]

My all time favorite book is American Gods by Neil Gaiman. I've read it at least once a year for the last 10 years. It tells the story of a man named Shadow, an ex con who gets caught up in a war between the Gods of old and the new Gods of America. I highly recommend it. One of my favorite parts is when one character asks another something and she replies with what is now known as her "I Believe" speech.

I can believe things that are true and I can believe things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and Marilyn Monroe and the Beatles and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen–I believe that people are perfectible, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones who look like wrinkledy lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women. I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone's ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline of good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state. I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste. I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common cold like the Martians in War of The Worlds. I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman. I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumblebee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself. I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck. I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too. I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies too. I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.

I love pretty much everything by Neil Gaiman. I also love H.P. Lovecraft, Chuck Palahniuk and I also love compilations of short horror stories (far to many for me to list).

[Bi As A Kite]

Stephen King and Ben Elton are my fave authors. Could do with brancing out a little though. Dreamcatcher, Christine, IT, The Stand, and Hearts In Atlantis are amazsing.

[heatqueen]

Harry Potter. Need I say more?

[mischa91]

I really love the classics. I think my favourite book (aside from the Harry Potter series) is Pride and Prejudice.

[Rinto]

Hehe I like the classics^^ I like Wizard of Oz. I don't really have any favorite author. But my favorite genres are drama, romance, fantasy, young teen, mature?, psychological and a little bit of mystery. I hate horror, suspense and just a wee bit of action.

[maverick]

Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Ben Bova, Poppy Z. Brite, Ernest Hemingway.

I like horror, fantasy, and science fiction. But I'm partial to literary classics too, just because that's my field of study.

[BeautifulStranger]

Anne Rice and Stephen King... They're two of the only authors I follow religiously.

Bookwise, I'm in love with 'Life of Pie' and 'Lolita'.
I'm also super engrossed with 'Butcher, Baker' which is a dramatic retelling of a serial rapist-murderer in Alaska.

Like, it's legit awesome.

This man owned a bakery in Anchorage and he would pick up prostitutes, fly them out to the tundra and murder them.
My aunt used to go to his bakery... Haha

As for genres, I'm a sucker for celebrity autobiographies...
Nene Leakes, Kristin Chenoweth, Carol Channing, Kathy Griffin... I love that stuff

[DefineNormal]

Cassandra Claire is the only author who I stalk. My favourite book series- excluding HP- is written by her: The Mortal Instruments. I read it last year and now have another unhealthy obsession. It's epic.

I also like Skulduggery Pleasant, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Cold Comfort Farm, and way too many others to mention.

Genres would have to be YA-fantasy-romance because I'm still immature ;D

[Veronica]

Genre: I prefer fantasy and sci-fi. But I also used to read a lot of crime. But as with movies, all genres go. From mindless action to sobby romance.

Authors: I like Terry Pratchett, Richard Morgan and Alastair Reynolds. I've got a lot of Asimov on my reading list too.

I also enjoyed the two first books of the Song of Ice and Fire series. Heard they get bad from book 3-4 onwards.

I just realised most books I read are written by men! Any suggestions to other authors?
I used to read a lot of Agatha Christie though ...

[Artemicion]

Robert Jordan - Wheel of Time series
JK Rowling - Harry Potter series
Anne Bishop - Black Jewels Trilogy
Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman - Dragonlance series & the Deathgate Cycle
Mercedes Lackey - Obsidian Mountain Trilogy
Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl Series

Yep...im such a fantasy person...:P

[Allegro molto]

This is going to sound stupid, but I prefer the stuff you have to read in high school. Jane Eyre, A Separate Peace, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Scarlet Letter.... I loved them all.

[Quid Est]

My favorite genre is fantasy, a little bit of sci-fi is okay, and just a smidgen of romance.

The Redwall series are my absolute fovorite books.

Trudi Cannavan, Tad Williams, Terry Brooks, and Cassandra Claire.

[thedreamwatch]

My favorite book of all time is Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey. It's the book that I wish I could forget so I could read it all again for the first time, in the same state of wonder.

Jacqueline Carey, Juliet Marillier, J.K. Rowling, some Orson Scott Card, Lemony Snicket...

I'm big on epic fantasy and some sci fi, but I'm picky more picky about my sci fi. At any rate, I don't really like to read all that much stuff that could actually happen. I prefer new worlds when I read.

[Nazo]

Favorite book of all time is Brave Story by Miyuki Miyabe.

Authors:
Miyuki Miyabe
Stephen King
J.D. Salinger
J.K. Rowling
Phillip Pullman
T.A. Barron
Orson Scott Card

[Veronica]

Originally Posted by thedreamwatch

My favorite book of all time is Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey. It's the book that I wish I could forget so I could read it all again for the first time, in the same state of wonder.

Heard of it, but never read it. I assume you can recommend it?

I need more fantasy or sci-fi on my reading list. I'm running out of books from my favourite authors.

[Kidd]

I have two favorites that I love equally....

First, there's Party Monster written by James St. James which is a true story detailing the rise and fall of the Club Kids during the late 1980's and early 1990's. The book mostly talks about James' turbulent friendship with Michael Alig, before and after he murdered their drug dealer, and the Club Kid's various drug addictions. I can't recommend it enough.

Secondly, is The Mists of Avalon written by Marion Zimmer Bradley. It's a retelling of the King Arthur legend from the women's point of view. It seriously is the most detailed and intricate book that I have ever read, period. All of the characters and their relationships with each other are three-dimensional. I guess the themes in this one would be; religion, power, sexuality, greed, corruption, and magic, and love. It's really good too but it's way longer than the average novel. It's almost 1,000 pages long.

[Callie]

Originally Posted by heatqueen

Harry Potter. Need I say more?

This.

[Dominoflare]

Stephen king,
R.L Stine,
James patterson,
J.K rowling,
Anthony horowitz,
Eoin colfer,
Rick riordan

[Gay Boi]

Family Album by Danielle Steel. The main character of the book has a gay son.