Now I'm an avid reader I get through about four or five books a month and I alway felt its a great talking point for girl and the like. If I had the money I would most definitely be able to spend a full day sitting in a cafe reading a book and drinking coffee and I would love it if I could find a bookshop/cafe near me but anyway back to the point. I have two questions for you, by the way this isn't just for girls its for everyone but more interested in girls.

The First question, What is your favorite genre?

The second question is, What is your favorite book of all time,

The answer for the first is fantasy and the answer for the second for me has to be lord of the rings, such a classic.

 

okay, you caught my weakness for books, so i'll respond.

1. Urban Fantasy
2. The Giver

 

My favorite genre is Science Fiction, and I can't pick a favorite book. Both Heinlein and Asimov wrote whole series that could possibly qualify. If I must pick a favorite single book it is not SF per se, but a Science Fantasy Collection, Bradbury's Martian Chronicles.

 

Are you referring to them there books?

 

Please TG;

There actually are people who can't distinguish between there and their. There are also people like me, who know the difference, but can still type the wrong word.

 

i noticed..and decided to ignore the mistype. We all knew what they meant.

 

but you have to admit that it's kinda funny that he made a spelling error in a thread about being an avid reader

 

I like fiction and erotica, and it's fortunate that I can often satisfy my need for both within the covers of a single book.

Within the fiction category, I like historical novels and period pieces (novels set in a historical context). I like a certain amount of romance, but I can't stand "romance novels". And if we're going to have sex, for heaven's sake let's have REAL sex, and not the bodice-ripping, breast-heaving "throbbing manhood" variety you find in books like that.

I generally say that my favorite novel is To Kill a Mockingbird, maybe because it was my first encounter with a book that really moved me. But nowadays I find it very difficult to narrow the list down to one. For example, I really like the novels of Larry McMurtry, because he has a tendency to create strong and interesting female characters. I'm also a big fan of Barbara Kingsolver.

 

I mentioned above that my favorite category is SF, but my favorite book,Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles,is more of a fantasy, though with SF elements. My wife introduced me to the fiction of Andrew Greeley, usually considered to be erotic women's fiction, and he became another favorite, though I sometimes got annoyed with his too pat endings.

 

true...very true

 

I'm also dyslexic and your insensitive comments are going to stunt my fragile confidence and cause me to become a recluse....

On a more interesting note

Ive never heard of Urban fantasy or The Giver, What is Urban fantasy lol?

 

Shunned by society, you'll give up on human companionship altogether, finding animals less judgmental and therefore more companionable than people, and finally leading you to take the only job with which you'll feel comfortable: as the gamekeeper for a school of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

You have my sympathy, my friend.

 

i love the lord of the rings too! tried reading the books but only got through 3 of them out of 4. meaning i read the hobbit but not return of the king.

favourite genre: fiction
favourite book of all time: hard to choose. probably cold mountain by charles frazier.

 

Favorite genre - mystery
Favorite book of all time: really hard to say - anyone of Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpett series

 

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

 

1. Detailed Sexy Erotica
2.My Current Book

 

Hard sci-fi. None of this laser-rifle crap, hard sci-fi. Stuff like Asimov, Lem, PKDick, Gibson, Stephenson. The sort of stuff that's more interested in the social fabric of future societies in a disfunctional utopia than in loonies in robes fighting clones.

Oh, and period stuff, but dear God, most of it is so fucking clichéd as to be completely ridiculous.

Favourite book? Impossible. Absolutely impossible. But J. G. Ballard's The Drowned World was definitely an unexpected pleasure. Really wonderful, and very thought-provoking.

 

Agree on Philip K. Dick.

I've read a lot of Ballard, and my favourite is "The unlimited dream company."

I'd add Kurt Vonnegut, especially "Slaughterhouse 5" and "Player Piano."

 

Science fiction and historical novels.

I love the Sharpe books, although they are basically a fairly historically accurate boys own adventure series.

I love Ender's Game and the questions it asks about humanity's place in the universe and what it takes to keep it.

I've also been very impressed by Kim Stanley Robinson. Couldn't get into the Orange County books, but other than that I've liked all of his that I've read.

 

they like the pictures