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Favourite Book?

Favourite Book?

  • The Bible

    Votes: 5 9.4%
  • The Phone Book

    Votes: 1 1.9%
  • Tony Book

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Qu'ran

    Votes: 2 3.8%
  • The Quotations from Chairman Mao

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Lord of the Rings

    Votes: 8 15.1%
  • Harry Potter

    Votes: 2 3.8%
  • The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

    Votes: 2 3.8%
  • 50 Shades of Gray

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Da Vinci Code

    Votes: 1 1.9%
  • Black Beauty

    Votes: 1 1.9%
  • The Giant Turnip

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Watership Down

    Votes: 1 1.9%
  • To Kill a Mockingbird

    Votes: 5 9.4%
  • 1984

    Votes: 15 28.3%
  • The Hunger Games

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Guinness World Records

    Votes: 1 1.9%
  • Match: The Annual

    Votes: 2 3.8%
  • The Dictionary

    Votes: 1 1.9%
  • Joy of Sex

    Votes: 1 1.9%
  • Bravo Two Zero

    Votes: 1 1.9%
  • Fan Dabi Dozie: The Essential Krankies

    Votes: 1 1.9%
  • Rags to Richie: The Shane Ritchie Story

    Votes: 2 3.8%
  • Scouting for Boys

    Votes: 1 1.9%

  • Total voters
    53


crodonilson

He/Him
Jan 17, 2005
13,488
Lyme Regis
To celebrate World Book Day what is NSC's collective favourite book?
 


Daffy Duck

Stop bloody moaning!
Nov 7, 2009
3,824
GOSBTS
Mine is The Stand by Stephen King.

Never get tired of reading it about every 5 years or so. Each time is like reading it for the first time.
 


Gwylan

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
31,325
Uffern
Ulysses

Read it every ten years or so and still find new things in it
 


madinthehead

I have changed this
Jan 22, 2009
1,751
Oberursel, Germany
Mine is The Stand by Stephen King.

Never get tired of reading it about every 5 years or so. Each time is like reading it for the first time.

Was about to post exactly the same... It is so complex ( I have the extended edition) that, if you read it again, you do notice new things and remember parts you had forgotten..

As that one has been taken , I will offer up The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield which I have also read several times, as it is considerably shorter than the Stand. I find it quite a nice philosophy to take into every day life encompassed in a good read..
 














Gwylan

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
31,325
Uffern
Is it every 10 years, as that's how long it takes to read it...!? :wink:

A bit like painting the Forth rail bridge, it never ends.

Not really. It's not that big a book to get through. It took me about three months to finish War and Peace, that was a tough read

I've never tackled Finnegans Wake though - that looks too daunting
 








SeagullinExile

Well-known member
Sep 10, 2010
5,674
London
Marching Powder - Rusty Young
 


Bombadier Botty

Complete Twaddle
Jun 2, 2008
3,258
I always thought WBD was about fiction, not non-fiction, but if we're being non-puritanical about it:

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer (non-fiction)
American Psycho - Brett EE (fiction)
 






Herne Hill Seagull

Well-known member
Jul 10, 2003
2,976
Galicia
Making us murder our darlings and choose only one? Very difficult. Always used to be The Catcher in the Rye, but lately the imperious Carlos Ruis Zafon has trumped even the great Salinger. So The Shadow of the Wind for me.
 


narly101

Well-known member
Feb 16, 2009
2,683
London
Mine is The Stand by Stephen King.

Never get tired of reading it about every 5 years or so. Each time is like reading it for the first time.

The extended version is incredible - just shy of 1400 pages I think if I'm not mistaken
 


narly101

Well-known member
Feb 16, 2009
2,683
London
Also if you're lumping Lord of the Rings in (as a trilogy), then it's surpassed by Stephen Donaldson's The Gap Series.
 








brakespear

Doctor Worm
Feb 24, 2009
12,326
Sleeping on the roof
Fiction: 'The Once and Future King' by TH White (honourable mention for 'Moominland Midwinter' by Tove Jansson. I don't rally like 'adult' fiction much :)
Non-fiction: 'The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid' by Bill Bryson

If I had to choose a favourite it would be the Bill Bryson book probably, it's lovely to read.
 



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