Whats your favorite book?

I have to ask alot of people this as an english assignment, so I figured asking here would give me some interesting books.
Mine is always changing; right now It is Be Here Now, but I should be getting a new one soon that could very well beccome my favorite!

 

angels and demons

 

I like many books, but there's one that i can pick up anytime and enjoy and have been able to for 8 years. Machiavelli's The Prince

 

anything by Hesse. Im reading Be Here Now too, its really good.

 

I read way too many books to pick a single favorite.

I enjoy the subject of sociology though. I hate mostly all fiction books, and I read non-fiction mostly all the time. If there is a really cool looking fiction novel, I'll likely read it, but that doesnt happen too often.

I just read the book "Reefer Madness! Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market," by Eric Schlosser, also the author of Fast Food Nation. It was excellent. Schlosser takes the drug war head on, and makes a damn convincing case to legalize marijuana, and stop tagging people who smoke pot as criminals. The first section of the book deals with the impacts of the marijuana trade on our economy, and on how it affects every citizen in this country (whether they smoke pot or not), and the reprocussions for being involved with that trade.

The second section deals with cheap labor (aka illegal immigrants), and how farms out West hire illegal immigrants and pay them next to nothing. Schlosser also examines how this impacts this has on virtually everyone in the country. The final section examines the rise of the pornography industry, what it does to the country, and how that has a deep impact on most all of our lifes.

Great reading, and those three topics will definitely change the way we think about the American Black Market. I would definitely bring it up in English class, and since it deals with several aspects of the black market, they will hardly be able to tag it as another "pothead book."

When you get a chance, definitely read it.

 

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien has always been my favorite long before all the lord of the rings hype and before anyone really knew who tolkien was

 

when they started the movies I lost all interest in Tolkien...growing up I loved the hobbit (and the cartoon version movie). There was another Tolkien book that I liked as much if not more than the Hobbt, but i can't find it around here nor remember the name for the life of me.

 

go with angels and demons!

 

Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and White Fang

 

Was the other book about a dog who met a fairy or something and traveled to the moon? I think I have that book. Maybe i'll look for it sometime and figure out its name.

 

2, both by Upton Sinclair

The Jungle i'll mention 1st since it's a very famous book and often read in 12th grade, anyone remember the nasty descriptions of the food at stores and the meat packing plants?

however good The Jungle is though, "Oil!" is a much better story, I could not put that book down when I was reading it, not that it was that suspenseful, it's just so well written and flows so smoothly. That book is actually being made into a movie called There Will be Blood coming out this december.

 

Unfortunately no. I can't really remember what it was about but I know it wasn't Roverandom, since that wasn't published until 1998, and the book was much older.

 

the silmarillion is the book I was referring to. Originally published 1977.

 

I can't pick a favorite. I love all things Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg. But I just finished reading "The Center Cannot Hold" by Ellen Saks. It was purdy good, but gave me "med student syndrome" and basically convinced me for a few days that I have schizophrenia. Haha

 

I'm gonna have to check that out then

I remeber back in like grade 5 I tried to read it, but it was way over my head compared to the Hobbit, so i'm definatly gonna pick it up next time i'm in a bookstore

 

keep in mind it has been a decade or so since I last read it, so my memory might be slightly tainted

 

I was actually thinking of picking another tolkien book after i was done re-reading the hobbit anyways, so either way i'm sure it's a good choice for my liking

 

I'm reading the 'dark materials' trilogy by philip pullman. I just finished 'the golden compass'. There's a movie coming out in december.

 

I remember Ender's Game, good book..

And I remember the dark materials trilogy also.. Where did the golden compass end? Its been awhile.

 

hmm maybe I should read Enders - I really like phillip K dick - The Divine Invasion - ive read too many books to say a favorite, but this is one I'm really glad stumbled upon.