Books you can’t forget

[Parnate]

For me it is the " God of small things". The writer is controversial but book is the best one I have read. What is your favourite book.?

 

[violetforever]

nausea by jean paul sartre. not my favorite but a book i can't forget i guess. it made me more depressed for months after reading it.

 

[Spider Lilies]

This is so hard.

The Quiet Room by Lori Schiller is a memorable first person account with second hand witness accounts on schizophrenia.

The Chronicles of Malus Darkblade because I love Warhammer Fantasy and these were my introductory books to the lore.

Both Child Thief and Slewfoot by Brom.

 

[MiraiShisen]

Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, for me its like a guide, a treasure, the more I perceive now (present moment) the more I am with my true self and experiecning a life, every moment of now is amplified.. If I was healthy I would try to live by this guide because I believe I would not have regrets of now living a life

 

[an_alias]

For me it is the " God of small things". The writer is controversial but book is the best one I have read. What is your favourite book.?

that's my best friend's favourite book of all time! i also loved it and thought it was practically perfect. really love how evocatively Roy writes about rape... chilling.
my top 5 books of all time (when limited to one per author) are probably:

• Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

 

[justanotherbody]

Novels:
Dracula, because it's a fantastic classic.
Annihilation and House of Leaves, because of the surreality.

Short Stories:
Mephisto in Onyx by Harlan Ellison, because it's thrilling and stressful.
Masquerade of a Dead Sword by Thomas Ligotti, because it's incredibly unique.

 

[FoxSauce]

For me would be the very hungry caterpillar I always read it if I find it. I love that book since I was a kid.


Fnaf comic series the : the fourth closet, the twisted ones and silver eyes.(which I have)

 

[gunmetalblue]

L'Étranger by Albert Camus
Song of Achilles by Madeleine Miller
Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
Looking for Alaska by John Green

 

[NoHorizon]

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig is a big comfort read to me. At the moment I'm reading The Count of Monte Cristo and I'm loving it.

 

[MissAbyss]

The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle.

 

[Pluto]

 

[X-sanguinate86]

Lost Illusions by Balzac

Tristessa by Kerouac

I Made a Poo by Guy on the Internet

I come back to the last one a lot more. It's really good.

 

[m1v]

L'Étranger by Albert Camus
Song of Achilles by Madeleine Miller
Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
Looking for Alaska by John Green

Great taste. I love L'Étranger by Albert Camus. I remember we had to read it at school and I loved it.

 

[gunmetalblue]

Great taste. I love L'Étranger by Albert Camus. I remember we had to read it at school and I loved it.

Thanks. Yeah i studied it in literature in high school. Along with many other classics. I just generally love Camu's philosophy

 

[an_alias]

Tristessa by Kerouac

nice to see someone else post Kerouac in the thread :D

 

[Endisclose]

1. Of human Bondage - Somerset Maugham
2. Krapp's last tape - Samuel Beckett
3. Blindness - Jose Saramago
4. Collected short stories 5 volume set - Somerset Maugham
5. A house for Mr. Biswas - V.S Naipaul

I've read "The God of small things". It is indeed as one review pointed out - a book whose pages are "dripping with sadness". I can't bear to read more than a few at a time.

 

[Forveleth]

Not my favorite book, but one I cannot forget is A Prayer For Owen Meany. The main character believes he was put on earth for a specific purpose from God and that details some wild events in his life. The story is narrated from the perspective of his best friend as they grow up together. I had to read the book for English class, and it has always stuck with me.