April_Rose
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Favourite all-time bookAnyone care to share their favourite all time books?
Personally I have too many to even begin listing but I will try seeing as I'm starting the topic, otherwise it's just a bit pointless! 
I love The Lord of the Rings trilogy, plus The Silmarilion and Unfinished Tales by JRR Tolkien.
I've been a huge fan of the Chronicles of Narnia books ever since I read the Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe aged 7 and wanted my own wardrobe to open into a secret magical world. (hated the film by the way, it was terrible!) I know there's a whole Christian thing running throuhg it and I'm anti-religion but on the whole the 7 books are just marvellous stories and I still return to them from time to time.
Again a childhood favourite is Watership Down, love it, must read it again in fact!
Big fan of To Kill a Mockingbird, thankfully it's one book at least that studying in school didn't kill off for me!
One Flew over the Cuckoo's nest is brilliant as well.
My all time favourite author is Margaret Atwood, I love her stuff, from her short stories to the speculative fiction of The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake. Fantastic writer, I find her really inspiring.
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Em_J
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Yeah I can't just pick one either! Love HDM by Phillip Pullman. Anything by Robin Hobb, especially actually her Liveship Traders books which I didn't think I'd like at the time but I love them now! All about pirates.
Also A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin cos it's just so good! I've actually sworn out loud a few times reading those books cos there's some shocking bits in it!!
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Xarcabard
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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck has always been my favourite book.
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April_Rose
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I did that at school too but I don't remember it that well, it was in second year or something, it's about the two farmhands isn't it? One of them smart and small, the other big and dumb?
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Xarcabard
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Yeah thats it. I did it at school as well, one of the only books I enjoyed reading in our English lessons.
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April_Rose
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I think I have it upstairs actually (in the room that is now wall to wall with all the books I haven't read) might track it down as I've forgotten all of it. School does have a tendency to ruin good books, it's sad really.
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angelfairy
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His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman will always be my favorite set of books, i've read them so many times but i never get bored.
I also love the Lord Of The Rings Trilogy. When i was doing my A-Levels last year we studied a book called The Color Purple by Alice Walker and that was an amazing book, so heartfelt
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April_Rose
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Oh yeah I love the Colour Purple as well! Great book!
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redwinegoblin
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I love To kill a mockingbird, My family and other animals, Birdsong by Sebastian Faulkes, The woman in Black by Susan Hill.
I also sometimes go through phases of reading really awful pulp novels- I just finished one about a giant shark menacing Tokyo Harbour (called MEG if anyone fancies giving it a go.) Another good'un is Invasion of the Crabs - a load of 10ft crabs invade Cornwall....how it ever got published is totally beyond me!
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Jenny*
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I love . . .
To Kill a Mockingbird
My Family and other Animals
HDM
Watership Down <<< tis a very very good book! (film is scarily freaky though)
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April_Rose
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I love watership down, haven't read it in years but I'm thinking about trying to find it and reading it again!
The film only covers the first part of the book doesn't it? Not when they go to the other rabbit camp that's all military? Or does it have all of it but really shortened down? I can't remember, it was on a while ago and I recorded it but the Dvd was too old and wouldn't play 
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Jenny*
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no they have the whole of story in - but miss bits and characters out here and there - tis pretty grusome for a kids film though
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April_Rose
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I must watch it again then! I'd prefer to read the book though, I know if it isn't upstairs then it's at my mum's house.
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Jenny*
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yeah the book is much better
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