Your Favorite Book

What's your favorite book?

Mine are a tie: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. I couldn't possibly choose between the two.

Lolita, Walden, and Hard Times. I couldn't possibly choose between the three.

Fellow Lolita reader.

PS: Your signature makes me happy in all the right ways.

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold is my current favorite and last book I read.
Otherwise, I read a lot of soft core smut novels. AKA Romanc novels. =3

I love soft core smut novels too.

I liked The Lovely Bones. That's one of Huxley's favorite books!

Smut books FTW! The Highlander series is the hottest romance series! <3
The Dark Highlander = <3333333 -purrs-

Hmmm, it's a toughie.

Excession or Use of Weapons, Iain M. Banks

I don't know why everyone is bolding the titles but hey, I can bold.

The Godfather and Fight Club. Oh and L.A. Confidential and obviously The Lord of the Rings is the tits too.

It's because it's cool, Paul. Cool.

I've never gotten around to Fight Club, but I love Chuck Palahniuk.

The Name of the Wind.

I rarely read and when I do, it is fantasy.

I've always loved The Lord of the Rings (The Hobbit included), so that's probably it.

I have a question, Breine, because people who are multilingual fascinate me.

When did you first read LoTR? Did you read it around when you were learning English when you were younger (I'm assuming your household wasn't bilingual with Danish and English and that you learned English at school, correct me if I'm wrong)? LoTR is a pretty difficult book to read even being a native speaker of English, so I'm impressed if you read it before you were like, super fluent like you are now.

Did someone edit my post. I did not use bold.

Bunny wrote:

Did someone edit my post. I did not use bold.

Italics were unhuxceptable.

Rye wrote:

I have a question, Breine, because people who are multilingual fascinate me.

When did you first read LoTR? Did you read it around when you were learning English when you were younger (I'm assuming your household wasn't bilingual with Danish and English and that you learned English at school, correct me if I'm wrong)? LoTR is a pretty difficult book to read even being a native speaker of English, so I'm impressed if you read it before you were like, super fluent like you are now.

Sorry to disappoint you, but I've never read it in English - I'd love to do it one day, though, if I can find an English copy of it.

I have read many other books in English, though

Diary by Palahniuk, Great Expectations by Dickens, Siddhartha, Ender's Game, uhh... I have a lot of reading to do. I have tons of books on my shelf. I'm currently reading Jane Eyre, Choke, and whatever else.

Time for another serious post from me in here!

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley. This book is so good I took his name. (Ironically one of my former names was Iayn, so I can only presume I'm going to move through the authors; Iain, Huxley, Kurt, Adolf...

Anyway yeah. I've got a major hardon for dystopian, especially totalitarian, fiction. So I've gone through the classics, 1984, We, BNW, The Handmaid's Tale, Fahrenheit 451, The Postman, etc. All worthy, in my opinion, but none quite touch the horror of Brave New World.

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Time for another serious post from me in here!

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley. This book is so good I took his name. (Ironically one of my former names was Iayn, so I can only presume I'm going to move through the authors; Iain, Huxley, Kurt, Adolf...

Anyway yeah. I've got a major hardon for dystopian, especially totalitarian, fiction. So I've gone through the classics, 1984, We, BNW, The Handmaid's Tale, Fahrenheit 451, The Postman, etc. All worthy, in my opinion, but none quite touch the horror of Brave New World.

Oh, I'm reading this too. (Brave new world) Oh, and animal farm! You have to read that if you haven't already.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series FTW.

A Song of Ice and Fire is undoubtedly my favorite series.

^ that and Dark Tower for me. I have a severe hard-on for long series of books.

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Oh, I'm reading this too. (Brave new world) Oh, and animal farm! You have to read that if you haven't already.

Yup, I read Animal Farm!

I loves me some Animal Farm. I enjoyed tutoring the girl I tutor about it, but I would get frustrated because she just wouldn't get it. I guess it went over her head.

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand is a favorite of mine, along with:

World War Z
Harry Potter
Memoirs of a Geisha
Most of Haruki Murakami's writing
Just about anything that Augustin Burroughs has written

A Song of Ice and Fire is amazing, agreed. Dunno what my favorite "book" is, but I'm a huge fan of the Torah =DDD

I second Agusten Borroughs. I bought Bert one of his books for V-day (lawl) & he loved it.

Vonnegut is one of my favorite authors, though strangely enough I have never completed a book. Just read fragments of Cat's Cradle, Sirens of Titan, Slaughterhouse Five, etc.

Oh, The Ultimate History of Videogames is amazing too.

Seconded.

And yeah, World War Z is fucking amazing.

A Brave New World