Sep 26 2008
Your Favorite Book of All Time
I might have loved to get into those gruesome horror stories from Stephen King as a youngster, but it was when I had a particular English teacher in high school when I found my true love in books. This English teacher thought it would be great to assign banned books all year - no books that were not banned were allowed. He received a lot of angry letters and phone calls from parents, other teachers and the school district. Somehow though, he managed to make it all year without getting fired.
That year I read To Kill a Mocking Bird, The Cage, Lord of the Flies, Of Mice and Men, The Bastard Out of Carolina, The Catcher in the Rye, and Fahrenheit 451. I am sure I could remember more if it weren’t so long ago!
That one year was the best reading I had ever had. It was shocking, tear jerking, laugh out loud reading. I learned about other people’s life situations that I had no idea even existed. I became wiser from it. I have read them all many times since then and became quite the advocate against censorship on books in my school.
However, there was and still is one favorite censored book of mine: 1984 by George Orwell. What a fantastic story! It made me gasp, cry, laugh, and most importantly think about the world around me. You grab a copy for yourself here .
Until next time,
What is your all time favorite book?
Nice post! Hmmm…my all-time favorite book HAS to be “The Mis-Enchanted Sword” by Lawrence Watt Evans, followed closely by Naomi Novik’s “Temeraire” series and (of course) Lord of the Rings (with a close fourth being Douglass Adams).
Thanks for the awesome Blog!
~Michael
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My favourite book of all time! Oooh, tough one. Whenever I’m asked that question, my answer just can’t be “a book,” but has to be a series. If you like historical fiction, you might have heard of The Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett. It’s a series of six books, covering a decade in the life of a young Scottish nobleman, in 16th century Europe. It’s the most stunningly intricate, well-written/researched, and beautiful story I’ve ever read.
Whenever I’m asked what book I’d want with me on a desert island, I hope I could actually take all six books with me.
Interesting…thanks for sharing!