My favorite book ever is ____________.

**Ophelia** · 11-10-2007, 08:22 PM

and why?

as usual, you first.

Captain Beefheart · 11-11-2007, 11:50 PM

Franz Kafka-The Trial
Jorge Luis Borges-La libreria de Babel("The Library of Babel")

Borges had a love affair with information and ideas, very likely to the detriment of his kind of stunted emotional/personal life. I think one of the joys of reading him is the "lazy pleasures of useless, out of the way erudition" or however he said it. And I don't think that's all he did either. For all his downpours of the esoteric and fantastic, there are always austere thickets of raw humanity. That's a juxtaposition I admire a whole bunch.

His work is both amazingly diverse and yet still thoroughly hermetic. Maybe hermetic because of that diversity. He was a librarian and it was a librarian's work. Looking out to look in. Or vice versa.

Borges knew more about the world than you and I might find out in two lifetimes.

And don't get me started on Kafka. I'm completely obsessed, don't get me started, I'll babble tell your ears bleed.

**MissyO** · 11-12-2007, 02:21 PM

Don't make me.......

Alright. I'll try. But it wont be acurate!

Maybe "A Farewell to Arms" by Hemingway. I'm very bloody fond of that book. Have been since I was 16, I still read it once in a while.

Latest love, which means I don't know how long it will last but I was so impressed that it may very well qualify was of course "War & Peace" by Tolstoy. Y'all know how much I loved this work.

Mónica · 11-12-2007, 04:21 PM

Hard one, I cannot decide...

angelbunny225 · 11-17-2007, 08:46 AM

fav book huh?
hm... I think it wud be Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight"! JUST LUV HAT BOOK....
AND NOT TO FORGET...my all time fav: ALICE IN WONDERLAND...AWwww

SilverSpoon · 11-19-2007, 11:12 AM

His Dark Materials.

11-10-2007, 08:22 PM	#1 (permalink)
Ophelia JOHO Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Joshtopia Posts: 6,939 My Profile	My favorite book ever is ____________. and why? as usual, you first.

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Captain Beefheart Mu nótahu Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: In a West End town, a dead end world Posts: 3,651 My Profile	Franz Kafka-The Trial Jorge Luis Borges-La libreria de Babel("The Library of Babel") Borges had a love affair with information and ideas, very likely to the detriment of his kind of stunted emotional/personal life. I think one of the joys of reading him is the "lazy pleasures of useless, out of the way erudition" or however he said it. And I don't think that's all he did either. For all his downpours of the esoteric and fantastic, there are always austere thickets of raw humanity. That's a juxtaposition I admire a whole bunch. His work is both amazingly diverse and yet still thoroughly hermetic. Maybe hermetic because of that diversity. He was a librarian and it was a librarian's work. Looking out to look in. Or vice versa. Borges knew more about the world than you and I might find out in two lifetimes. And don't get me started on Kafka. I'm completely obsessed, don't get me started, I'll babble tell your ears bleed. Last edited by Captain Beefheart : 11-11-2007 at 11:51 PM.

11-12-2007, 02:21 PM	#3 (permalink)
MissyO Perennially Disgruntled Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Sydney Posts: 4,084 My Profile	Don't make me....... Alright. I'll try. But it wont be acurate! Maybe "A Farewell to Arms" by Hemingway. I'm very bloody fond of that book. Have been since I was 16, I still read it once in a while. Latest love, which means I don't know how long it will last but I was so impressed that it may very well qualify was of course "War & Peace" by Tolstoy. Y'all know how much I loved this work.

11-12-2007, 04:21 PM	#4 (permalink)
Mónica Love Will Tear Us Apart.. Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Germany Posts: 1,395 My Profile	Hard one, I cannot decide...

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angelbunny225 Do you think I'm nuts? Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: in the middle of nowhere... Posts: 5,795 My Profile	fav book huh? hm... I think it wud be Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight"! JUST LUV HAT BOOK.... AND NOT TO FORGET...my all time fav: ALICE IN WONDERLAND...AWwww

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SilverSpoon Kamen Rider Kiva Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: www.canofnothing.com Posts: 7,525	His Dark Materials.

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