What are the best books you have read? Who is your favorite writer? Favorite books? Feel free to discuss them and anything else having to do with literature here.

" Os Lusíadas"....you guys probably don't know this book....but is a book that shows and complements the great nation that once was Portugal.....in 1500bc that is.......

the best books i ever read were the sword of truth series by terry goodkind there Very Good books

i think my fav. is The Tale of Desperaux or The Artemis Fowl series.pretty simple lol.

I have read..

How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Julius Caesar
MacBeth
Tale of Two Snores Cities
Black Boy
The Pearl
The Glass Menagerie
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Chosen
The Lord of the Flies
Animal Farm
1984
Miscellaneous stories from Greek & Roman Mythology

I am quite sure that i have forgotten a few.. i'll post them later on as they come to me..

The House of Dies Drear is also good, as is Green Angel, and Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry.

I've read some books but not many, with the exception that they're nonfiction. And because they're nonfiction i don't remember the titles.

However I've been writing, just haven't finished a single story yet.

Well I'm only 13 so these books are for teens really but i'll put my fave books...

The Hobbit: J.R.R. Tolkein
Heretic: Sarah Singelton
Century: Sarah Singelton
The Magians (Reading the series, this is first book (It was really good))
The Knights of Liofwende trilogy: Spiggots Quest, Malmocs Castle, Boggart and Fen: Garry Kilworth
The Wind on Fire trilogy: Wind Singer, Slaves of the Mastery and Wind on Fire: William Nicholson

All those are my favirote books... I can't choose my fave book... But my fave writer is probably Sarah Singelton, But it's to hard to tell really

I read the Hobbit too, that's a good book.

Yeah i liked the Hobbit... for some reason many of those books were sad :'( The Hobbit was sad... The Wind On Fire trilogy was tragic... Century was a bit horific... Heretic showed how the Catholics had to deal with the Tudor times... With the extra fantasy... Fantasy are my faves by far!

Hobbit wasn't very sad, just the ending.

Yeah... that's what i meant... most endings i've read are sad

Anybody has read Moby Dick? It's a very nice book. And even you'll find some chapters completely hilarius.

I have the book at home.. I never read it.. my mom did when she was in school though..

It's okay. Basically it's about a guy named Ishmael who goes on a whaling ship that's owned by a one-legged whacko who wants to kill the giant, white title character. Later in the book the whaling ship is destroyed and a new one is built and christened under Satan. Moby Dick ends up killing everyone except for Ismael and one other guy and it sorta ends like the first Jaws movie. There's also a Native American.

Yeah, in fact people say that Moby Dick has a lot of Bible refereces, such as the captain's name (Ahab), and Moby Dick is somehow related to the Devil or other deities, as well in the narrator's name (Ishmael)

Those people are the same as those who see Jesus in a plate of spaghetti.. or Moses in the form of used toilet paper.. best to take their words with a grain of salt I say.

:lol: Yeah, I know what you're talking about. Around my country there are a lot of "images of the Virgin" discovered in a lot of objects.

Anyway. Anyone has read anything related to Sherlock Holmes? And what is your favorite adventure of him?

The Red Headed League was always a favorite of mine.

Well, I watched a movie with him in it. I've never gotten to reading books though. I've wanted to however.

easy dr jekly and mr hyde

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Two of them most famous literature characters. I managed to read it and it was nice.

Someone likes Poe's stuff?

Lord of the Flies is a pretty epic piece of fiction, especially the part where Simon....better not spoil it.