Favourite books?

[Neversoft]

Norwegian Wood, Sputnik Sweetheart and The Perks of Being a Wallflower. I like romances and dramas. Haruki Murakami is my favourite author.

[peteyt]

i tend to re-read books i loved when i was 13/14 (i was seriously into reading back then). love the noughts&crosses series by malorie blackman, they are gripping and still touch me emotionally even at 21. enjoyed harry potter but feel like the films have ruined the books for me.

Are they the books where society has been flipped, blacks rule and whites are the slaves? Never read it but the concept sound like the kind of thing I'd like.

I don't tend to have any favourite books but I do read a lot. I am notorious for buying five or ten books at a time on the iTunes iBook store and reading them before I sleep and when I have nothing to do during the day. I pick different genres but the ones that captivate me most are the ones that centre around tragedy. I am also very partial to non-fiction and like reading encyclopedic books and a even a bit of traditional philosophy. I find that some of the best fiction stories I have ever read, though, are ones I just bought on a whim and never thought about until that one day when I had nothing to do but read. The last book I read was «Secret Diary Of A Call Girl».

This brings another interesting question. How many people prefer digital reading as apposed to actual reading e.g paperback/hardback books - I'm a technology geek and love my computer and smart phone and while I read a lot of posts, blog stuff and news articles I just don't see a device replacing an actual book itself for me when it comes to reading a novel - there's something good, something real about actually turning the page.

The Hunger Games!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, I've only just got back into reading and I'm in love with these!

That reminds me I have also read Battle Royale, well the English adaptation and bought a couple of the manga's although I'm not into the animie scene really.

[dirrty]

errr...besides mandatory reading (so books at gcse, a-level), i've only read harry potter books & lemony snicket: series of unfortunate events which used to be my favourite books - so i'd go for that by default lol

[LetsBeFreaks]

The hunger games - All the way! If you haven't read them then I seriously recommend it!

[beth]

Are they the books where society has been flipped, blacks rule and whites are the slaves? Never read it but the concept sound like the kind of thing I'd like.

yesss not slaves as such, but the crosses (black/asian etc) are the upper class and the noughts (whites) have only just been giving an equal status, even though it's not really. and the lead character sephy is the daughter of the primeminister (a cross) who falls in love with a nought and it changes her life completely. they're really good books. they're quite shocking though, a lot of terrorism and there's sex and violence and murder, but they are really really really good.

the first book sounds really soppy and romantic but it's not like that at all, definitely unisex books. i'd like to think they shaped me as a teenager. there's 3 (maybe 4...) of the books the first is sephy as a child, the second is her as a young adult, the third is a joint novel between sephy and her daughter and the 4th is the daughters tale.

i would definitely recommend them. you honestly can't put them down.

[peteyt]

Just remembered I read some of the Demon Headmaster books what seems like eons ago

[Inseriousity.]

Harry Potter although I was a bit of a late bloomer to it and didn't bother reading it cos the first book they gave me was the 4th and the first chapter was boring and made no sense to me. wasn't until i got the 2nd book that i started to love it. i read the 2nd before the 1st, oh well.

Before Harry Potter it was Roald Dahlthough. Used to be obsessed with his books!

[Jessie]

When I was 12/13 i absolutely loved Jacqueline Wilson, Tracy Beaker was my fave haha.
My favourite book series at the moment would be The Mortal Intruments, The Infernal Devices and The Hunger Games
I read all the Harry Potter books after most of the films so I couldn't really form my own characters which kind of ruined it for me

[jasey]

oh i've read secret diary and it's very very very good and i've got another one i think it's called confessions of a manhatten call girl and that's very good too, dunno if it's just my taste but you can't beat a bit of literotica hahahahahha.

So true, Bethie! It is guilty but very pleasurable reading.

This brings another interesting question. How many people prefer digital reading as apposed to actual reading e.g paperback/hardback books - I'm a technology geek and love my computer and smart phone and while I read a lot of posts, blog stuff and news articles I just don't see a device replacing an actual book itself for me when it comes to reading a novel - there's something good, something real about actually turning the page.

I really think that eReading is just as good as turning a paper book if not moreso. You never damage the copy, you can instantly get definitions of words you don't understand just by highlighting them (useful for me since I am French), bookmarking a page and highlighting important passages is easy and removable should you so choose, you can read in the dark since it is backlit, you don't have to go to the shop to get a book because millions are available with a tap of your finger whenever you get the urge to read and you can bring as many books as you want with you anywhere without actually lugging a packsack full of paperbacks around with you like a silly.

That being said, there is so much nostalgia in libraries, book shops and real physical books than can never be replaced by anything electronic. I can totally understand why people would want to stick to books they can feel and hold in their hands.

[peteyt]

yesss not slaves as such, but the crosses (black/asian etc) are the upper class and the noughts (whites) have only just been giving an equal status, even though it's not really. and the lead character sephy is the daughter of the primeminister (a cross) who falls in love with a nought and it changes her life completely. they're really good books. they're quite shocking though, a lot of terrorism and there's sex and violence and murder, but they are really really really good.

the first book sounds really soppy and romantic but it's not like that at all, definitely unisex books. i'd like to think they shaped me as a teenager. there's 3 (maybe 4...) of the books the first is sephy as a child, the second is her as a young adult, the third is a joint novel between sephy and her daughter and the 4th is the daughters tale.

i would definitely recommend them. you honestly can't put them down.

Sounds not bad. As long as its nothing like Twilight. I avoided mentioning my issues with that franchise to avoid being shouted at ha