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Favourite Piece(s) of Literature/Favourite Book(s)

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ChrisRedfield1994

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Self explanatory.
What are among your favourite pieces literature, or rather simply, your favourite books?
Can be anything from 'The Divine Comedy' right up to 'The Cole Protocol'.
Discuss, compare, debate!
Personally, mine are as follows:
The Divine Comedy, by Dante Allegheri
Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
Crusade, by Robyn Young
 
I'm going to be honest, I absolutely hated reading "Of Mice and Men" back in school. Maybe it was because I found reading it tedious and non-challenging or maybe it was the fact that it was read to my class like we were in fifth grade instead of sophomores in high school. Whatever it was, I couldn't wait for the book to be over. (It wasn't quite as bad as how I felt when I read "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" but it was close...)

As for my favorites...

The Cask of Amontillado and The Raven - Edgar Allen Poe
Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Iliad and The Odyssey - both credited to Homer (Though I prefer the Iliad.)
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Night - Elie Wiesel
Norse Code - Greg Van Eekhout
The Firebrand - Marion Zimmer Bradley

And while I'm not entirely finished with it, I am very much enjoying the Poetic Edda.
 
Magnolia Grandiflora said:
I'm going to be honest, I absolutely hated reading "Of Mice and Men" back in school. Maybe it was because I found reading it tedious and non-challenging or maybe it was the fact that it was read to my class like we were in fifth grade instead of sophomores in high school. Whatever it was, I couldn't wait for the book to be over. (It wasn't quite as bad as how I felt when I read "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" but it was close...)

As for my favorites...

The Cask of Amontillado and The Raven - Edgar Allen Poe
Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Iliad and The Odyssey - both credited to Homer
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Night - Elie Wiesel
Norse Code - Greg Van Eekhout
The Firebrand - Marion Zimmer Bradley
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I can see what you mean about Of Mice and Men. It did have an air of simplicity, and also being quite unchallenging. But when one reads the book from how we read it, on a level where we studied the symbolism behind events, Steinbeck's method of writing and the context, it soon becomes a different book.
But I accept what you mean about it!
I couldn't get into The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. For me there was way too much dialogue, and that's just in one flashback.
 
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo... I can honestly tell you that the only reason I tortured myself enough to finish reading it was because I wanted to know what happened to Harriet and even that was unsatisfying! In fact the only good thing to say about it was that the mystery was compelling...at least until you found out what really happened.

I understand your argument about Of Mice and Men, especially with the symbolism - which was a big part of the reason we read it, everything sophomore year had to do with symbolism and "looking underneath the surface" and what not - but I found the symbolism in Lord of the Flies, and other novels I read for school, much more compelling. *shrugs* I'm not sure if my distaste for the book had anything to do with the writing or the subject or anything it just didn't hold my interest very well.
 
ere Stuarts once in glory reigned,
And laws for Scotland's weal ordained;
But now unroof'd their palace stands,
Their sceptre's sway'd by other hands;
Fallen indeed, and to the earth
Whence groveling reptiles take their birth.
The injured Stuart line is gone,
A race outlandish fills their throne;
An idiot race, to honour lost;
Who know them best despise them most.
 
OOOH! This is a good thread. I love reading. :D
Here's my favorites:
-Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
-The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
(And heres when things start getting messy.)
In no particular order;
-We the Living and The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
-Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
-Julius Caesar and Twelfth Night by Shakespeare
-Ice Hunt by James Rollins
-Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

There are others, but I hate listing stuff, so :p
 
David Clement - Fire Bringer
Erin Hunter - Warrior Cats
Max Brooks - The Zombie Survival Guide
Hino Matsuri - Vampire Knight

That's it :] I'm not really a bookwurm :{
 
Angels & Demons (Dan Brown)
The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
Little House on the Prairie (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
The Grail Conspiracy (Lynn Sholes and Joe Moore)
The Stand (Steven King)
The Lord of the Rings trilogy (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)

I'm not much of a reader either lol.
 
Freedom from the Known - J. Krishnamurti

Jesus Calls - Sarah Young

Save Me From Myself/Stronger - Brian "Head" Welch

Dark night of the Soul - Saint John of the Cross

The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
 
Man...now here is a killer thread...I love reading...

The Dresden Files(Entire Series)- Jim Butcher
The Icewind Dale Trilogy- R.A. Salvator
Tell Tale Heart- E.A. Poe
Falling Up(A book of poems for children)- Shel Silverstien...i know it's a kid book...but it above ALL other books has inspired my writing...
 
My absolute favourite book is Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. After that,
Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm by George Orwell.
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Julius Caesar - Shakespeare
Evidence of Blood, Places in the Dark and Instruments of Night by Thomas H. Cook
Two Treatises of Government - John Locke
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality and on the Social Contract - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Antigone - Sophocles
And I'm going to be a geek and say the Canadian Constitution.
 
Freedom From The Known - Jiddu Krishnamurti
SAS Survival Guide -(can't remember author)
Don't Stand too Close to a Naked Man - Tim Allen

I also love small facts,trivia and some astronomy books lol

Silverback said:
Freedom from the Known - J. Krishnamurti

The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
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Krishnamurti is my favorite.Echkart Tolle were the first books i ever read
 
I quite enjoyed Sign of the Beaver, and Touching Spirit Bear. I also like 20,000 leagues under the sea, and Moby Dick.
But my favorites were Steve Alten's MEG series, and Steve Alten's The Loch.
 
Hoady said:
Freedom From The Known - Jiddu Krishnamurti
SAS Survival Guide -(can't remember author)
Don't Stand too Close to a Naked Man - Tim Allen

I also love small facts,trivia and some astronomy books lol

Krishnamurti is my favorite.Echkart Tolle were the first books i ever read
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Nice! The book arrived only yesterday in the mail. He seems a really wise man and hopefully we'll be able to make a spiritual change within and alter our lives for the best.
 
Sookie Stackhouse (Southern Vampire) Series by Charlaine Harris
Before I Die by Jenny Downham

And that's about it :p
 
Silverback said:
Nice! The book arrived only yesterday in the mail. He seems a really wise man and hopefully we'll be able to make a spiritual change within and alter our lives for the best.
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I like how he can't provide any answers or gives you material to invest in.It can only be pointed at,the only valuable content is what you can find for yourself.
 
I have another favourite: Halo from Alexander Adornetto.

Don't really like this kind of books, it's too 'mysterious-girl-meets-perfect-boy-and-get-perfect-love-while-it's-forbidden-to-love-each-other-because-of-the-most-pointless-reasons-ever'-kind of book. And I'm kind of confessed by my friends to read it. However, I really, but really like it <33
 
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