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Tough Question: Best book you've ever read!

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Started 2 years ago by Jordan
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Jordan

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I happen to think that this is the toughest question you can ask a good book lover. For this thread, feel free to be a little broad and post a top five, ten, fifty, or hundred.

I'm still thinking about my answer...

Posted 2 years ago #
wyatt

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#1 is Inkheart. #2 is Pearls of Lutra. #3 is Taggerung. That's all for now.

Posted 2 years ago #
Sarah

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Eek! What kind of a question is that?!? I'll just have to post some of my favorite books, because putting them in order of preference is too hard.

-The Gammage Cup
-The Hobbit
-The Chronicles of Narnia
-The Wilderking Trilogy (yay feechiefolk!!)

Posted 2 years ago #
Alassiel

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That is definitely the toughest question ever. I don't know if I could narrow it down enough to even make a list.

Posted 2 years ago #
C Triebold

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I went through all the books i have ever read and picked out ALL of my absolute favorites, 35 books (which is about 9% of all the books I've read total). They are not in any sort of order.

Isle of Swords - Wayne Batson
Isle of Fire - Wayne Batson
The Door Within - Wayne Batson
The Rise of the Wyrm Lord - Wayne Batson
The Final Storm - Wayne Batson
The Dangerous Days of Daniel X - James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge
House of Dark Shadows - Robert Liparulo
Chosen - Ted Dekker
Renegade - Ted Dekker
Hangman's Curse - Frank Peretti
The Door In the Dragon's Throat - Frank Peretti
The Deadly Curse of Toco-Rey - Frank Peretti
The Tombs of Anak - Frank Peretti
Escape from the Island of Aquarius - Frank Peretti
Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code - Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony - Eoin Colfer
Skulduggery Pleasant - Derek Landy
Playing With Fire - Derek Landy
100 Cupboards - N. D. Wilson
Hoot - Carl Hiaasen
Beyond the Reflections' Edge - Bryan Davis
The Bad Beginning - Lemony Snicket
The Reptile Room - Lemony Snicket
The Wide Window - Lemony Snicket
The Ersatz Elevator - Lemony Snicket
The Vile Village - Lemony Snicket
The Hostile Hospital - Lemony Snicket
The Carnivorous Carnival - Lemony Snicket
The Slippery Slope - Lemony Snicket
The Penultimate Peril - Lemony Snicket
Broken Angel - Sigmund Brouwer
Magnus - Sigmund Brouwer
Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson
Holes - Louis Sachar

Posted 2 years ago #
Alyosha

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Les Miserables
The Horse and His Boy and The Magician's Nephew
Enemy Brothers
The Lord of the Rings
The Attolia books especially KoA
I Am David
The Story of the Treasure Seekers
Waking Rose and The Midnight Dancers
Various nonfiction

That about sums it up

Posted 2 years ago #
Alassiel

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Wow, I'm impressed, C Triebold. I should try to narrow it down to a list of absolute favorites, the "take with me to a deserted tropical island" favorites.

Posted 2 years ago #
C Triebold

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Alassiel said:
Wow, I'm impressed, C Triebold.

*bows*

Posted 2 years ago #
Adalin

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Oh wow, this is difficult.
Isle of swords
Isle of fire
The door within trilogy
All the Binding of the blade

There are more but these are the ones that come immediately to mind.

Posted 2 years ago #
Jordan

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Okay, I've thought long enough...

My top books can be determined as the ones with a world deep enough that my brother and I are constantly speculating about nitpicky details. Those would be:

Anything I've read by Bryan Davis.
Tolkien's LOTR and Hobbit.

Nothing else comes to mind right now...

Posted 2 years ago #
Owan

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C Triebold said:
100 Cupboards - N. D. Wilson
Holes - Louis Sachar

Yay! Other than these, which please me quite thoroughly, our tastes are quite different.

The Magician's Nephew, Alyosha? Huh, that's probably my least favorite. I art glad you have seen the wonders of King of Attolia. *is happy, now*

If I defined my favorites the way you do, Jordan, than I'd have to go with the Fairy Tale Novels as an answer.

Posted 2 years ago #
Alyosha

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And PC is my least favourite so we're even. HHB is the best, but MN has a very cool...atmosphere...and the descriptions are beautiful and a good bit happens in our world (turn of the century London, no less) and Digory reminds me of me. That is all. *shrugs*

Eh, what? I've always liked KoA.

I think all of my favourites fall into the nitpickingable category though that's not why I like them. Why that criteria, particularly? *is curious* Would that limit your favourite books to fantasy only or do you ever nitpick historical fiction?

Posted 2 years ago #
Jordan

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I'm a world person. To me a great book is defined by the scope of the worlds. If the author sticks little bitty details all over the place, and then ties them into a backstory or world, I feel a part of it.

Kind of hard to explain, I guess. I could nitpick historical fiction, I suppose. I nitpick history a lot... But mostly fantasy.

Posted 2 years ago #
Owan

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I have the idea that The Magician's Nephew could make a lovely, epochal movie, Alyosha, if done right (not likely) and paired with the right music (possible, I suppose.) Yes, it is lovely. [:D] Digory reminds you of yourself? Interesting, interesting. *has nothing to say about HHB*

Hopefully I'm not mistaken but you did like The Queen best, didn't you?

Posted 2 years ago #