What's your favorite book?

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My favorite books are The Iliad and The Odyssey. Little cheesy, I know, but they are just incredible masterpieces. You can learn so much about humanity in general from these two epics!
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BurningBright wrote:
My favorite books are The Iliad and The Odyssey. Little cheesy, I know, but they are just incredible masterpieces. You can learn so much about humanity in general from these two epics!


You are 14 years old, called it.

My favourite book is presently Charles Bukowski's Ham On Rye, subject to change
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I'm just going to throw a list out there. While some of these I definitely prefer over the others I just want to say all of them.
Ready, set, go:
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
The Gormenghast Series by Mervyn Peake
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Mother Goose nursery rhymes, w/ illustrations by Blanche Fisher Wright
The Complete Verse and other Nonsense by Edward Lear
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

If it isn't clear I'm incredibly partial to the fantastical and atmospheric...same as my taste in music really.
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but I have not read alot so those books might not be very good
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LAPlunderphonixx wrote:
but I have not read alot so those books might not be very good


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The Oddessy was indeed great. My faves are Tarzan of the Apes, Jurassic Park, Catherine Called Birdy, Solestar, and Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.
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JMan wrote:
My faves are Tarzan of the Apes,


Ooh, I'm doing my American Author report on him, I didn't think that was his best but it was very good!

My fave:



Bradbury at his finest was always his short stories, the darker the better. This verges on a more Lovecraft style with more Poe-meets-Rice Burroughs subject matter, all tied together in the neat bow that is Bradbury. Truly brilliant.
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Jackwc wrote:
You are 14 years old, called it.


I'm 18. Wink I'm taking a course on classical literature and we went over those Epic Poems and we are about to being The Aeneid by Virgil. I'm excited, but the life lessons probably will not be as exciting...
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I LOVE epic poems. I've already read, besides Homer's epics, The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Divine Comedy (including Purgatorio and Paradiso). I am still a learner, but I feel like they deal with more humane topics instead of issues that pertain to a certain group of people (obvious example: Dubliners by James Joyce only informs the Irish).
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