What is your all time favourite book?

magpie nic · What is your all time favourite book?

lots of us love books, but what is your favourite?

I have 2- Twopence to cross the Mersey by Helen Forrester and To Kill a Mockingbird
I loved so many books as a child that I could not choose a favourite childhood one!

Titch

The Wishing Chair series as a child....

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Jayne Eyre

tui

Pride and Prejudice

wotsitagain

Favourite book as a child? - I am David

Favourite book now I is growed up? - I don't know really. I enjoy so many. Ones that made me think for a long time afterwards are Time TRavellers Wife or An Astonishing Splash of Colour.

redbutterfly

What a great idea for a thread!

My favourites are

Wuthering Heights (classic)

Pay it Forward (Catherine Ryan Hyde)...... I love the philosophy behind this book, very inspirational!... would love to see what others think, bought this book for five friends and four of them were very moved.

seren82

My favourite childhood book by miles is The Swish of the Curtain by Pamela Brown.

My favourite adult book is The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

wotton

Snow falling on Cedars
East of the Mountains
Mister God This is Anna and many others.

As a child I read all the books in the childrens section of the village library from Swallows and Amazons to The Chalet School, so long as I was reading I was happy.

pink_monkey

Goodnight Mr Tom and The Railway Children - I have read them over and over again.

mrsbean

An Equal Music by Vikram Seth - the only book that has evermade me go 'Wow - I didn't see that coming' in the middle. I first read it about 15 years ago and still remember now how I felt when reading it.

wicked witch

Don't really have a single favourite, it depends on my mood.
Pride and Predjudice would be one as well as Barchester Towers, I love the cynicsm (can't spell that obviously)
You can't beat a good detective story though.

Andrew Jeffrey

The Bible and 'How To Win Friends and Influence People'.

Tell me more about 'Pay It Forward'. That's the second time I have read about that in a single day. Coincidence, or something we should read?

tui

There has been a film as well as the book. See the website from link.

following is quoted from site
Start a revolution--it begins with you!
The premise of the novel Pay It Forward is one that any person can implement in his or her own life, at any time. It begins with doing a favor for another person-- without any expectation of being paid back. Indeed one would request that the recipient of that favor do the same for someone else: ideally for three other people. The unconditional favors can be large or small. As the fictional 12-year-old Trevor observes, "It doesn't have to be a big thing. It can just seem that way, depending who you do it for."

http://www.payitforwardfoundation.org/educators/index.html

a lovely start to teaching values. Smile

Andrew Jeffrey

Aha! That explains a lot! Thanks so much. A great philosophy of life as well. I will check it out. Is the book better than the film, do you know? Most are but not all. I imagine the book of Shrek, for example, isn't a patch on the film!

tui

I haven't read the book but there are 2 short extracts on the website suitable to read to different aged children as the book is for adults.

queenlit

Almonds and Raisins by Maisie Mosco is a book i really enjoyed reading many years ago.

alaun

As a child I loved a book called The Ghost of Greyweathers. I've never been able to find a copy of it since.

As an adult it's a toss up between Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and Time Traveller's Wife.

Venus

pink_monkey

I usually prefer the book to the film everytime. With two exceptions, The Green Mile by Stephen King was equally brilliant as a book and a film and he Shawshank Redemption was better as a film. Apart from those two it's always the book that wins it for me.

redredrobin

My favourite book is Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier,

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Thats one I really like too rrr - I am a bit of a closet Du Maurier fan and over the years I have read a fair number. I particularly like Jamaica Inn too and her short stories. Although I am a Hitchcock fan - her story is much better than the film.

redredrobin

I've read most of her books. Her short stories are great - full of suspense. A few have been made into films but I very rarely prefer films to books!

thehawk

Jude the Obscure. I know - I must be a depressive.

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I like Hardy too - I think I am a closet pantheist!