Whats your favourite book and why?

[Thumpalumpacus]

The Stand as well, with its theme of loss and redemption, is great too, for my money.

I don't know what King had in mind with that one, but it's a little bit too god interventionist for my liking. Something Drippy could have dreamed up in his more lucid moments, since it's still King, but still too much.

I didn't have a problem with the theistic elements, myself. The theme of loss and redemption was borne, to my eyes, in the loss of civilization itself, and I read the theistic elements as an organizing frame, rather than central message.