favorite book of all time

[Templetroll]

Alice in Wonderland. Great when I was a kid and has stayed great as I got older. I hope it stays great once I mature....

My favorite character when I was a kid was the Cheshire Cat, now it is the White Knight in Through the Looking-Glass.

 

[amethal]

It depends on how I am feeling at any given moment, so I normally just say Lord of the Rings. I can't imagine what my life would have been like had that book not been written.

However, since thats the mood I'm in and nobody else has mentioned it, my favourite fantasy book at midnight on 1 October 2005 is Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay.

 

[Vigilance]

HMS Surprise by Patrick O'Brian.

 

[Thanee]

Amber Chronicles. And LotR. And SoIaF.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Digital M@]

I have to think of books by Genre because each has such different targets. i think I have forgotten more book titles than i remember and so many of them excellent. As far as fantasy books go I have to go with the Magician series as they started the flame for me. The Chronicles of Amber are a close second, but Zelaney has to be one of my favorite authors, except for Lord of Lights, I don't know why, I could never get into that book and it is acclaimed as one of his best.

 

[Psychic Warrior]

Memory, by Lois McMaster Bujold, but you need to read the previous books in the Miles Vorkosigan series to get the full impact.

Very powerful book - holds the most major changes to a title character I have ever seen.

I would, if pressed, probably go with Lord of the Rings but there are a couple of other (all by the same author) I really love. Space Viking, Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen, and Little Fuzzy all by H. Beam Piper top my list of all time favourite books. They were written over 40 years ago and still have a sense of wonderment to them.

 

[danbuter]

I have a couple, depending on mood/genre:

Journey to the East - Hermann Hesse
Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay
Deed of Paksennarion - Elizabeth Moon

 

[shaylon]

Impossible to pick only one.

The Dragonlance Legends Series. Loved them as a kid, reread them when the annotated book came out and loved them all over again.

The Wheel of Time. The first 5, maybe 6 books, were awesome. The later in the series the more it seems like they are dragging their feet but it was a good series overall.

LoTRs. Great series. Absolutely great.

Hard to pick just one of those. There are a lot of great novels I have read. Of course there have been a ton of terrible ones as well.

-Shay

 

[Fargoth]

Like others pinpointing a single one is near impossible. My favorites are:

Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series by Tad Williams
Deed of Paksennarion by Elizabeth Moon
Black Company series by Glen Cook

 

[CCamfield]

This is one of those questions that really hurts my head. I find it impossible to pick.

The very short list would be:

The Iliad
first Amber series (or Lord of Light... hm...)
Bridge of Birds, by Barry Hughart