Whats your favourite book and why?

[Shell B]

Seems like one is making excuses for a horrible writer.

I've always wondered how people can posit that he's a "horrible" writer in the face of his success and obvious skill. Just because you don't like the content does not mean he isn't good at what he does. I'd wager you have a bookshelf full of pretentious tomes you've only half read with an attitude like that.

[Silver]

I'd wager you have a bookshelf full of pretentious tomes you've only half read with an attitude like that.

You lost the wager.

[Shell B]

Whateverist, I think King does deliver deep looks into the human spirit. There's a scene in "Bag of Bones" where the main character is remembering his deceased wife that always make me think of the novel as less of a ghost story and more of a love story between a man and his memories. It was tremendously tender, if lacking in complexity.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Seems like one is making excuses for a horrible writer.

Or, perhaps, reading with a different set of eyes.

His characters are much better-wrought than any I've read of yours ... and people are what makes a story move. Just sayin'.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I'd wager you have a bookshelf full of pretentious tomes you've only half read with an attitude like that.

You lost the wager.

Haven't read them at all then?

No doubt they look smart.

[Silver]

You lost the wager.

Haven't read them at all then?

No doubt they look smart.

Nice try, but you lost as well.

[Minimalist]

Fannie Hill.


(First porn book.)

[Silver]

Fannie Hill.


(First porn book.)

My first porn book was something I got from a store in Dupont Circle.

[ApeNotKillApe]

Herman Melville's Banging on the High Seas was mine.

[TheRealJoeFish]

I just (60 seconds ago) finished the Foundation Trilogy by Asimov, and that's got a solid solid claim to second or third on my list.