What are some of your favorite books and why?

Side note: Why dont book threads ever succeed on these forums? It seems like we have a decent size group of intelligent people who post here.

My two favorite books of all time are…

Two super easy reads which is always a plus for people like me who tend to “hate reading”.

Don’t you people read? Damn you people! Go back to your shanties.

Stop bloody hectoring people, for Christ’s sake!

Reading is overrated.

I had to join an entirely new forum because appearently no one reads books here.

[size=150]Where The Wild Things Are[/size]. Best. Book. Ever.

I enjoy reading encyclopedias and the Oxford English Dictionary the most - concise reading matter, I guess, as I abhor rambling and other people’s cluttered thoughts.

Right now, I’m starting on the Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy:

Nice! I bought that my cousin recently. I hope she can read…the pictures are good too though, and thats all that matters really.

Don’t hold his craziness against him, dude can write. Lots of good stuff going on, the tension between the ancient and the modern, physical vs. mental deformity, duty vs. freedom . . . great stuff.

I also like the Great Gatsby. A lot of the same issues, actually. New money vs. old money, internal vs. external values, yada yada. I get something new from it each time I read it.

“The Prophet” By kahlil Gibran.

I like this book for refering to god without being religious, for being my favorite philosophical poetry, and for being so wise beyond its time

To me, this book is a poetic iteration of the silent conclusions i have always held in my heart.

It’s free online as an ebook. just google it with “online” in the title.

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to name our favorite books is relatively easy, but to explain why we prefer them…

you shjould check out the prophet, it’s not overly long.

you being our resident poet, you might appreciate it more than myself.

wolf.mind.net/library/eastern/pr … rindex.htm

you should be able to select chapters and view it all online there, if you’re interested

I’m your resident poet? :-k :-k

lol, i got you confused with rainey i think…

but i see you in creative writing don’t I?

I’m bad with names sometimes, and changing pictures might be what’s confusing me.

I see it, Rainey’s avatar is very similar to mine.

The Giver…yeah, it’s for fifth graders, but seriously good book. I liked it because it questions what the cost is of giving up individuality for the sake of equality.

One of my favorites

Whats it about? Why damn it why?!

I just bought this book because I like appearing smart to strangers who see me reading…

And because I liked the Red Queen so much.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas