Favorite/Least Favorite Book and Why

[Tommy]

Same rules as the other ones.

Favorite: The LOTR Trilogy/ The Outsiders

Least Favorite: The Yearling

[Sai]

Fav=The Count of Monte Cristo, Pride and Prejudice, Dracula, and HP (sorry that was alot)

Least Fav=some sort of textbook if that counts. If not, I have no idea.

[Radical Dreamer]

My goodness, that's what, 15 now? XD

Anyways, favorite book...Well, I have a new one. Dragonspell. An absolutely wonderful Christian allegory, set in a fantasy world (like LOTR or Narnia). It's a great series!

Also, I love the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Return of the King is my favorite, of the three. The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is a fantastic book, too.

Least favorite is Great Expectations. Because I just hate it, that's why. XD

[Tommy]

No, 7 I think.

Consider this a "Tom Dincht Thread Series".

[Puguni]

I distinctly remember an extensive Least Favorite Book thread.

Meh, whatever. Piers Anthony's books don't curry much favor with me.

[Technomancer]

Favourite: 'Cosmos' by Carl Sagan
This book (as well as the television series) has had a tremendous influence on me since I was very young. Better than anything else this book explains the absolute wonderment of science and its place in the human spirit.


Leasy Favourite: 'Left Behind' by Jenkins & LaHaye
I read this out of curiousity, so that I could see what all the fuss was about. I would probably be hard put find a book more poorly written than this one. Excreble prose, wooden characters, and utterly illogical behaviour (by our powers combined!) contrive to make for a truly awful excuse for a novel.

[MomoAdachi]

I'll stick with just fiction, and not count book series from TV shows, etc.

Favorites:
Alice books by Lewis Carrol
Replica series by Marilyn Kaye
Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot
All-American Girl by Meg Cabot
Are You There God? It's Me Margaret by Judy Blume
Deenie by Judy Blume
The Sea Fairies by L. Frank Baum
Sweet Valley High series by Francine Pascal
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Elsie Dinsmore by Martha Finley
A Life Of Faith series
American Girls Collection, especially Kit, Felicity, Samantha, and Addy
Generation Girl series
History Mysteries series

Least Favorites:
How To Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Maniac McGee by Myrna Peters
The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis(sorry, all you Narnia/Lewis fans!)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Bridge To Terebithia by Katherine Paterson(sp?)
Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford
Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye(no offense, any LB fans!)
Aquamarine by Alice Hoffman

[Linksquest]

Favorite: ANNE of GREEN GABLES by L.M. Montgomery (because it's such a timeless tale and a very touching and real one at that. I have so many similarities in character to Anne... it's crazy!) and THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES by Ray Bradbury (Such awesome writing and unique ideas!)

I also love the Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis.

Other favorites include: The Giver, Gathering Blue, Messenger, A Series of Unfortunate Events, and Tuck Everlasting.

Least Favorite: As I lay Dying by William Faulkner (I felt like I was dying when I read it! XP)

[Radical Dreamer]

Favorite: ANNE of GREEN GABLES by L.M. Montgomery (because it's such a timeless tale and a very touching and real one at that. I have so many similarities in character to Anne... it's crazy!)

Haha, I read the first book in this series and liked it quite a bit (Anne is a red-head like me! ), but I couldn't handle the rest of them (Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, etc.). I haven't touched them since...XD]Other favorites include: The Giver, Gathering Blue, Messenger,
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ASDF LOVE. The Giver and Gathering Blue are two of my favorites! I have yet to read Messenger, though it's been sitting on my bookshelf for several months now. Still have to finish DragonQuest! But yes, those books are incredible; Lois Lowry is an awesome writer. Number the Stars, another book she wrote (about WWII and the Holocaust), is also quite good.

[Linksquest]

[quote="Radical Dreamer"]Haha, I read the first book in this series and liked it quite a bit (Anne is a red-head like me! ), but I couldn't handle the rest of them (Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, etc.). I haven't touched them since...XD]

I got all the way through half of book 7: Rainbow Valley. I'm gonna start reading the series all over again to get the whole effect sometime this summer. When I read through them I really got the sensation that I was growing up with Anne. L.M. Montgomery is a very good writer. She wrote a lot of awesome poetry as well. I recently purchased The Chronicles of Avonlea, the Further Chronicles of Avonolea, and Christmas with Anne as well as a stand-alone novel by L.M. Montgomery called The Blue Castle which I thought looked preety good. I still haven't read any of them yet, hehe. *Summer reading list grows larger*

[quote="Radical Dreamer"]
ASDF LOVE. The Giver and Gathering Blue are two of my favorites! I have yet to read Messenger, though it's been sitting on my bookshelf for several months now. Still have to finish DragonQuest! But yes, those books are incredible]

Messenger was REALLY good. I won't spoil it for you, but I'll just say that it answers some questions and ties up some loose ends from both the Giver and Gathering Blue. I haven't read Number the Stars, but I have heard it is awesome and it's on my TO-READ list.