What's your favorite book?

[catenaccio_L'pool]

I recently decided to invigorate my reading, so I typed in google: 100 best books/novels and came up with a list of some 120 books (different sites contain different books)...I've read some of them, but was embaressed to find how many I did not read...so, I picked up a Merriam-Webster Dictionary (English as a 2nd language :) ) and proceded to my local library:
I'm on my 3rd book of the month -- Don Quixote -- and can only recommend the last 2: The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan and The Black Sheep by Honore de Balzac...(I am going alphabetically by author's name ;) )
Last month, I finished reading The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner (Pulitzer winning book)...it is a beautiful work on the understanding of the evolution...

[twh3]

The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand-- the story of the rise of modernism in American thinking. amazing book.

[ghazi]

One of the funniest books you'll ever read is Thank You For Smoking, by Christopher Buckley (william f. Buckley's son). It's now a movie, and is getting great reviews, so you may want to check it out.

[usscouse]

Recently I've read 2 books on WWI. The first by American Joe Persico is a very well written book focussing on the events leading up to last hours of the war and the thousands who were killed trying to gain the last yard of land.

Eleventh Day, Eleventh Month, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918world War I and its Violent Climax by Joseph Persico

Then I picked up Tommy by Richard Holmes, from the Aiport coming back from China.
It really is quite a different and enlightening view of the war, mainly from a soldiers view.

Good reading both of them.

[Menace2Sobriety]

Recently watched "Capote" on DVD and re-read "In Cold Blood"

Forgot what a wonderful book this was - completely engrossing. Perfect balance of a non-fiction story written with a fictional style. 10 out of 10.

[usscouse]

I'm working with a nice young and seeming smart couple in buying their first home, Mid 20's I'd say. I noticed that her name was LaNora Cervantes. So I had to ask "Any relation to the author Cervantes?"
"What author?" she asked.
"Miguel de Cervantes," Says I.
“Don't know him, what did he write?”
“He's well known for his "Don Quixote, Man of La Mancha"
“Never heard of it” she said.
So I let it drop….Thud…!

For a moment I thought I was on a different planet, or was I being 'inadvertently' elitist...?
I just thought that she’d have she’d have heard, even just because they have the same name.

[liverbird]

I'm working with a nice young and seeming smart couple in buying their first home, Mid 20's I'd say. I noticed that her name was LaNora Cervantes. So I had to ask "Any relation to the author Cervantes?"
"What author?" she asked.
"Miguel de Cervantes," Says I.
“Don't know him, what did he write?”
“He's well known for his "Don Quixote, Man of La Mancha"
“Never heard of it” she said.
So I let it drop….Thud…!

For a moment I thought I was on a different planet, or was I being 'inadvertently' elitist...?
I just thought that she’d have she’d have heard, even just because they have the same name.

"My Mama says 'Stupid is as stupid does'" and that's bloody stupid.