What is your favourite book, and who is the author?

Question

Please tell me the plot of the book, and how often you read. Thanks :)

Answer 1

My hands down favorite book is Jumper by Steven Gould. First I'm going to tell you that it's only partially similar to the movie (Many details were changed since they combined two of the jumper series books to make the movie). It's also far better than the movie.

Okay, it's about Davy, who has an abusive father and a mother that left while he was a child. He finds out he can "jump" (That's what Gould refers to as teleporting) and runs away to New York city where he tries to find others like him. Throughout the story he falls in love, runs from the government, and, during the second half of the book, goes on a quest for revenge.

It's amazing how deep Gould gets into the human psyche as he shows how emotionally unstable Davy is and how he copes. Overall it is an amazing story.

Answer 2

My favourite book is, and will always be, The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger.

It's about a boy who doesn't want to grow up, and the story tells of his experiences over a brief amount of time between when he is expelled from his school and when he gets back home.

I don't really read that often, although I wish I read more. I guess I read about a book a month.

Answer 3

The Stand by Stephen King - I have read this nearly every year since it came out in late 70's early 80's. Its about a super flu that kills 98% of the population and its fantastic.

Lots of great charactors, both good and evil.

Answer 4

i have 3 fave books

twilight by stephenie meyer

harry potter by jk rowling

noughts and crosses by malorie blackman

Answer 5

the whole twilight series by stephenie meyer (kind of a teen romance book about a vampire and a human)

angels and demons and the da vinci code by dan brown (can really describe the plot that well with out giving some key parts away but i love  them to DEATH!)

i read alot! over teh summer..when i have more free time than i usually do, i read up to two novels a day...no joke.



:)

  

Answer 6

my favorite book is Invisible by Pete Hautman. It is about this teenager who is mentally disturbed, killed his younger brother, and still thinks his best friend is alive. It's short, but I have read it over 50 times. I would suggest reading it.

Good Question by the way!

Answer 7

"The Stranger" by Albert Camus

Answer 8

Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle and The  Green Mile by Steven King. Sherlock has many different stories all tied together in a sort of time-line. And to tell you the plot of The Green Mile would spoil the story for you.

Answer 9

Jane Eyre..by Charlotte Bronte

A girl who grows up in an orphanage becomes a governess in England.

I read every chance I can get.

Answer 10

The book is called A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray. It's about the girl who lives in Victorican England. She has magical powers, is prone to visions and can enter a magical world. It's really good! I am ALWAYS reading, I never don't have a book to read. Hope this was helpful

Answer 11

I Got SOOO Many favorite books!

1. Nought and Crosses By Malorie Blackman:

Its about two Best friends (Sephy and Callum) who Grew up in a world full of racism. Sephy was rich, and her dad was the president. Her dad hated Callum because he was not the same race as them. Callum and Sephy fell in love with each other, and are trying to be together.. Just read it! Its really good..  

2.Heaven By V.C Andrews:

Basically Heaven is a poor girl and her dad hates her. She tries to win his love but she can't. He blames her for the death of her mum whom he loved so much. Heaven has to look after her step brothers and sisters, when her step-mother leaves them. They become really poor until their father comes back and sells them all to rich families. Heaven is separated from her brothers and sisters, and tries to get them back together...

3.Twilight by Stephenie meyer

Well you should know what this is about! xD lol a girl who falls in love with a vampire.. and blah blah blah

Am not bothetred writing the plot for the rest of my favorite books (sorry) But they are:

-The last vampire by Christopher Pike

-Love and a promise By Lyn Andrews *Its really good*

And many more! xD I read them like all the time! When there is nothing to do, i read them.

Answer 12

breaking dawn by SM

Answer 13

Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell

Answer 14

I have a bunch of favorites... so many I can't decide, but right now my favorite is:

"The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things" by JT LeRoy.

Here's what the back says:

It's about a boy, named Jeremiah, who is on the run from everything with his barely old enough mother, Sarah. Sometimes he dresses up as a girl, and he wants his mother's approval as well as her slaps and harsh words. It deals with s*x, prostitution, child abuse, molestation, religion, and everything in between.

Answer 15

Probably "Crime and Punishment" by Dostoyevsky. It's about a young student named Raskolnikov who commits a terrible crime in order to determine if he is strong enough to be one of the "Great Men" of history, who are above common morality and the constraints of society. He must then deal with the crushing guilt of what he has done as it destroys him from the inside. The name of the novel takes on new meaning after you read it.

I read endlessly - never without a book. After all, whoever reads the most books wins.

Answer 16

I'd say my favourite book is probably 'Slaughterhouse-Five' by Kurt Vonnegut. (It's about time I picked a favourite!) It's a razor-sharp, hilarious anti-war novel which is both absurd and powerfully tragic.

Here's how it (arguably) opens:

"Listen:

Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

Billy has gone to sleep a senile widower and awakened on his wedding day. He has walked through a door in 1955 and come out another one in 1941. He has gone back through that door to find himself in 1963. He has seen his birth and death many times, and pays random visits to all the events in between.

He says.

Billy is spastic in time, has no control over where he is going next, and the trips aren't necessarily fun. He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he is never sure which part of his life he is going to have to act in next."

This is perhaps all you need to know about the story. You can tell just how absurdly brilliant and hilarious its going to be. What you can't tell from this, however, is how deeply-rooted in reality it actually is.

It draws on Vonnegut's experience as a WWII American prisoner of war who - by an incredible stroke of fortune - survived the fire-bombing of Dresden. (The fire-bombing was an utter massacre,  killing a horrific 135,000 people -- compared to the 71,379 killed by the nuke dropped on Hiroshima). It took more than 20 years for Vonnegut to capture his experience into writing, saying "there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again".

I only stumbled across it two or three years ago, but I've read it many times. (I read a lot, getting through a book every week or so, and always have one in a handy pocket.) I'll probably continue to read it about once a year, for there are always day-to-day things that remind me of it (read it - you'll see what I mean), and I was actually lectured on it at uni last semester (to my childish glee), and so had the excuse to read it a few times more.

So it goes.

Answer 17

My favorite book of all time is Pay it Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde.

It is the story of a boy who is given the assignment "change the world for the better and tell how you did it". You can not help but be inspired after reading this book.

I read about 200 books a year, so reading is a daily activity for me.  

Answer 18

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

It's about a girl who hires a lawyer because she wants emancipation from her parents. She was a born to be a living donor towards her sister who has leukemia. It's really sad towards the end. I really recommend it.

Answer 19

I have momentary favorites. Right now it's The Named by Mariannce Curley. It's about a group of people who travel into the past to make sure it happens the right way so that the future and present aren't affected in a terrible way. The Goddess of Chaos, from Greek myths, wants to rule the world so she's the one destroying the past.

Right now I'm waiting for the second, which is slow on getting here. I've only read it once. Actually, I finished it two days ago. I only read my books once even if they are my favorites.

Edit: And I agree about Noughts and Crosses. It was a sad book and one of the best I've ever read.

Answer 20

I bet everyone here is going to say Twatlight.

I mean Twilight.