Your favourite Book/ Books

[Layla]

I love reading and i thought it would be nice to post here our favourite book or books and maybe the way in which you were impressed after reading that particular book.

My favourite book, until now is Roots written by Alex Hailey. This novel followes several generations in the lives of a slave family. Believe me, once you hold the book in your hands, you cannot live it down.

Other books that i liked are:

- The Alchemist and Zahir by Paolo Coelho
- Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins
- The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (son)
- Love in Baghdad by Sami Michael
- East Wind: West Wind by Pearl S. Buck
- City Hospital by Barbara Harrison
- The Robe by Loyd C. Dougllas
- Solange du da bist by Marc Levy
- Der Richter und sein Henker by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

[Steena]

Very nice idea!

Looking on that small list of mine I know there are new picutrisations of my favorite books but I don't like movies about books at all.. so I haven't seen them
I love Fantasy books while I quite detest Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings and do not really like Fantasy movies in general. I think: "A book is no good without a dragon as the main lead" And books with less than 600 pages are no books, they are mere short stories

His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman; they are three of the best books I ever read! These books were written for youths but they are gripping far beyond this age. Once I start with the first sentence of Nothern Lights I can't stop reading until I finished the first book.
Inheritance Trilogy - Christopher Paolini; I discovered Eragon some years ago where nobody yet used to know the author and I really liked it he's still young and I am very excited what he will come up with in some years when the Inheritance Trilogy is finished!
The Bartimaeus Trilogy - Jonathan Stroud; While I don't see anything good in his other novels, Stroud's Bartimaeus is quite something!

The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis are ok with me, very nice books worth reading - especially for children.

Beyond that I lately enjoyed reading How to Talk to a Widower by Jonathan Tropper, it's sort of a male version of P.S. I love you, little more entertaining and quite nice.
I also like pretty much everything Nick Hornby has come up with over the years, he has a very entertaining style

am a bit of a softy
i like sad romatice ones with a twisd at the end
also i like the filmes like this too

i like reading (daniella steel) books but the one i realy enjoyed
was the book called ( the promse)
they not made a film of that one yet

ps,sorry about my spilling

[maria_gr]

I love many books, but I can't write them all, so I'll make a quick list.

- Το μυθιστόρημα των τεσσάρων (=The novel of the four) - Σ. Μυριβήλης / Μ. Καραγάτσης / Α. Τερζάκης / Η. Βενέζης
- Για την πατρίδα (=For Sake of the Fatherland) - Πηνελόπη Δέλτα
- Τον καιρό του Βουλγαροκτόνου (=In the Years of the Bulgar-Slayer) - Πηνελόπη Δέλτα
- Τα μυστικά του βάλτου (=The Secrets of the Swamp) - Πηνελόπη Δέλτα
- Επιστροφή στη λήθη (=Back to the oblivion) - Λεωνίδας Χατζηνικολάου
- Tο ελιξίριο της αθανασίας (=The elixir of immortality) - Λεωνίδας Χατζηνικολάου
- Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne (=Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow) - Peter Høeg
- Den stille pige (=The quiet girl) - Peter Høeg
- O Alquimista (=The alchimist) - Paolo Coelho
- Veronika decide morrer (=Veronika decides to die) - Paolo Coelho
- Il figlio del sogno (=The child of a dream) - Valerio Massimo Manfredi
- Le sabbie di Amon (=Sands of Ammon) - Valerio Massimo Manfredi
- Il confine del mondo (The end of the world) - Valerio Massimo Manfredi
- Chimaira (=Chimera) - Valerio Massimo Manfredi
- L'oracolo (=The oracle) - Valerio Massimo Manfredi
- Το φιλί του δράκου (=The kiss of the "dragon") - Χρύσα Δημουλίδου
- Η γυναίκα της σοφίτας (=The woman of the loft) - Χρύσα Δημουλίδου
- Das Parfum (=The perfume) - Patrick Süskind