SHHH!!! Can you read? Want to prove it? Meet fellow book worms and discuss the literary brilliance of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
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what's your favourite book!?

Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:31 pm

mine are:
harrry potter-4
harrry potter-6
harry potter 5
and all of the franny k.stine books!
what about you1 :battar:

Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:37 pm

Rowan of Rin by Emily Rodda
Rowan and the Travellers by Emily Rodda
The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien
Deception Point by Dan Brown

Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:22 pm

All the Harry Potter books.
The Fearless series. (Except for the last book, it was awful.)
Georia Nicolson series.
Princess Diaries.

Thu Jul 21, 2005 4:24 pm

The Chronicles of Narnia
I have them in one big book so I don't have to choose only one of them. I love the way they're written and the mythologies and magics of Narnia.
That said, the recent Harry Potter book was written excellently and I'm also a fan of the His Dark Materials, and Silverwing books.

Thu Jul 21, 2005 6:17 pm

I don't know. Maybe Death and the Penguin.

Thu Jul 21, 2005 6:29 pm

Fantasy: Harry Potter, obviously, runners-up too numerous to keep track of
Sci-fi: Ender's Game, followed by Dune
Graphic Novels: Maus, followed by Spider-Man
Realistic Fiction: Not really into the genre, but when I was, my favorites were Hatchet and Egypt Game
Mysteries: Sherlock Holmes, followed by Sharyn McCrumb's stuff - I loathe Agatha Christie
Classics: Macbeth, distantly followed by Cyrano
Historical Fiction: Lest Darkness Fall (out-of-print, I think), and I haven't read much else
Non-Fiction: Ancient Mysteries, followed by The Code Book

Okay, that's scoured my brains thoroughly enough, I think.

Thu Jul 21, 2005 6:33 pm

Though I love the Harry Potter books, I wouldn't say they were my absolute favourite. My favourites though are the Josephine Bonaparte Trilogy (especially the last book, The Last Great Dance On Earth) all by Sandra Gulland. Also I loved the French Executioner which was by C.Humphreys and The Giver by Lois Lowry, even if the ending was horrible.

Thu Jul 21, 2005 7:00 pm

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy of five (yes, that's what you're supposed to call it)
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
All of the Harry Potters up to book 5 (I didn't get book 6 yet, but hope to soon).

I like a few others, but those are the big three.

Thu Jul 21, 2005 10:50 pm

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series by Douglas Adams
Wicked: The Life And Times Of The Wicked Witch Of The West by Gregory Maguire
Riding In Cars With Boys: Confessions Of A Bad Girl Who Makes Good by Beverly Donofrio
The Rent "Bible"
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

And there's probably others. That's all that pop into my head at the moment.

Fri Jul 22, 2005 12:14 am

hmmm.
Lord of the rings (books 1,2,3,5,6,7) - Proffessor J.R.R. Tolkien
most of book four was unendingly dull, but thats whatchya get with it being frodo and sam wandering around the dead marshes for about eight chapters i suppose, though it did have highlights (the army marching out of Minas Morgul for three days before frodo and sam moved on...)

The chronicles of Narnia: the last battle. - C.S.Lewis
(loved the others, but that one always stuck out in my head more)

The Manifold Series - Stephen Baxter.
dealing with the many implications of the Fermi paradox, these are an engaging (if somtimes confusing) look at the nature of space, time and everything in general.
(the books are; Space. Time. Phase space and Origin. doesnt matter in what order theyre read, other that reccuring characters (all set in alternate universe from eachother) they are totally unconnected.
Origin not being set on earth for most of the book.
Space having stretched across the gulf of time and space (its normal for hundreds of years to have elapsed between chapters)
Time being set. well. across time.
and Phase space being set in a universe that is collapsing at the probable level (just. dont ask)
a very confusing read if your not upto (or even into) edge physics.

Fri Jul 22, 2005 1:08 am

The Harry Potter books. They're really the only books I read anymore. x__x

Fri Jul 22, 2005 4:19 am

Norwegian Wood by Murakami Haruki
Geisha by Liza Dalby (non-fiction)

Those are two of my list toppers. There are many more, but my mind has gone completely blank.

Mon Jul 25, 2005 3:14 am

Harry Potter 1-4.

I hated Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheniox and I haven't finished Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince yet.

I also enjoyed Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Very good book.

Mon Jul 25, 2005 3:47 am

I like The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, Artemis Fowl books by Eion Coffler(I think thats how you spell it) and Harry Potter, book 4 being my favorite out of the series.

Mon Jul 25, 2005 3:06 pm

Harry Potter, His Dark Materials, The Chronicles of Narnia, Artemis Fowl, The Dark Is Rising....I have too many favorites.

I never actually liked LotR, oddly enough....
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