Favorite Book?

Last posted Dec 13, 2009 at 04:54PM EST. Added Dec 12, 2009 at 01:01PM EST
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What is your favorite book(s) in the world? The kind of book you would take to a desert island and not read anything else.
My favorite book is either 1984, Siddartha, or Steppenwolf.
EDIT: I also love Cat’s Cradle and Slaughter-House Five.

My absolute favorite? Fahrenheit 451. If I was trapped on a desert island? A really good survival guide.

I’ve wanted to read Fahrenheit 451 for a while now. I read the first like 80 pages and then just never returned to it. Right now, I just finished Brave New World and I am deciding whether to read Great Expectations by Charles Dickens or a collection of a few short stories by Tolstoy.

Everything written by Terry Pratchett.

You should finish it.
I’ve been meaning to read 1984 and Animal Farm. I’ve just been really busy lately, so I haven’t gotten around to it.

Favorite book by his?

@Shadowfury You have to read 1984 and Animal Farm ASAP. George Orwell is like the Kurisowa of dystopian sci-fi, but with a touch of realism. I would recommend reading Animal Farm first to get used to George Orwells’ style, because 1984 is a huge shocker to the person uneducated in the Orwellian arts. Brave New World is like that too, but focuses a lot more on personal issues than the society itself. The society, while it is extremely important to understand to get the book at all, is more of a backdrop than it is in 1984.

Oh, I’ve have been waiting for this thread.

My #1 favourite book.

Honourable mentions

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I forgot:
Everything written by Pierre Desproges as well.

@Joeflims:
Alright, I’ll have to make time for it. Thanks for the recommendations.

@Shadowfury No prob.

@Blubber I want to read that book so badly! I have a long list of books that I want to read, and that’s definetlely one of them. Everybody loves the Big Easy and Ignatius J. Reilly!