What is your favorite book of all-time?
Reading serves many purposes. Whether it be an escape, a tool for learning or a fun hobby. A good book is hard to come across and it takes many reads to find a book that you genuinely love and can read again many times.
Which book is your all-time favorite that you can read multiple times without getting bored of?
Hi @comfortableNight4463 !
"Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card. That book wins, hands down!
@WriteToHeal42 oh wow! What did you mostly love about that book? I would love to read it!
@comfortableNight4463 I fell in love with the characters in the book! Also it's a beautifully told story :)
@WriteToHeal42 Thanks for sharing. Might give it a read. I love when I get book recommendations so thank you!
@comfortableNight4463 You're welcome! 😃
Dark Summer by Lizzy Ford.
@WhiteRoses25 Oh nice. Have to check that out. Thank you!
You’re welcome it’s a series
@WhiteRoses25 Ah yes! What is it that you like the most about this series?
The way the author when I was 22 brought the characters to life even before she was a well known author. I first read it on wattpad. I spoke to the author personally. So it’s kind of intimate to me.
@WhiteRoses25 oh wow. That is amazing that you have a personal bond to the book!
Definitely all the series of The Cemetery of Forgotten Books! Zafon, I'm loving it!
@GMatt Glad to hear! What is your favorite thing about this series?
I love his poetic language and this dark world which allows me to change the environment!
@GMatt Sounds amazing!
"The Call of the Wild" - Jack London
My aunt gave a copy to me at age 12. I read it then, could hardly put it down.
I've (re)read it perhaps 5 times over the span of 50 years since. I find something new each time. An amazing work of fiction.
@usedItUp Awww. It's so endearing that your aunt introduced you to your favorite book. You both must have similar taste. Have you asked her for other book recommendations as well?
@comfortableNight4463
She is long gone.
The volume she gave to me was a nice hardcover edition, and the cost to her was substantial for the time. At this moment I have the realization that I probably never thanked her properly for that gift.
@usedItUp I'm so sorry for your loss. She must have been so great!
@comfortableNight4463
She was the purest, most generous human being I've ever known. In my 60+ years I've never known anyone to compare. She was a little simple, but there was no guile, no deceit within her. She was the person you saw and experienced in her presence, and nothing else.
Of all my many regrets, I wish I could return to the time she was in the world and tell her how much I admire(d) her, from my present perspective, knowing human beings as I do now.
On the other hand, I would not want her to see how embittered and disillusioned I've become. She would not have understood, but it would have grieved her.
As much as anything, I wish I could be like her. Funny, I could never have imagined that then.
That's the problem with being human, you only learn the truly important things late in life when it's mostly too late to act on them.
"The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid" by Bill Bryson.
@Wilkoman Sounds nice. What do you like most about it?
I think it's the funniest of his books, very relatable.
@comfortableNight4463
The Art of War! So many life lessons in there.
@okarina I love self-help books. Might have to read it!
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon!
@saltysummerday What is it that you love about this book?
"It's Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini! TW for psychiatric hospital, depression and suicidal ideation.
It's very funny and honest and fantastic. I loved it growing up and it's still one of my very favorites
@MusicalBug Wow. Sounds like an interesting read!
After Dark by Haruki Murakamk:)
@AfterDark912 I've heard great things about murakami. What makes you love this particular book so much?
