Whats your favourite book and why?

[TheRealJoeFish]

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Although Lolita is his best known, I think Pale Fire is his magnum opus (if you can handle a novel in the form of a 40-page poem followed by 200 pages of line-by-line footnotes). It is a masterful example of writing on every single level: some books have beautiful diction, sentences and paragraphs, some books have gripping ideas keeping you going well past your bedtime, some books have very important, touching, beautiful themes, some books transcend the form of the novel to comment on the author, the reader, the language and the artistic process... Pale Fire absolutely excels on every single of these levels, with Nabokov demonstrating a virtuosic interplay between the minutia and the thematic, between the simple and the complex.

So yeah......... Pale Fire by Nabokov READ IT FOOLS