What is your most favourate book? Mine has got to be Bram Stokers: Dracula!!! Not all the girlie vampire novels they have now like: Interview with a vampire: Ann Rice the Vampire Armand: Ann Rice ---------------------------------- Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! so what is your favourate book/s??
The Rats by James Herbett Cujo by Stephen King Do you remember your first time by Jenny Colgan (I cringe at mine)
The Road is an end of the world book (kinda like The Stand) but more realistic and horrifying. Its a man trying to save his son and its....wonderful and heartbreaking at the same time.
I'll say Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov but my favorite author is Dickens. Dracula is an interesting choice. Great story but Stoker writing at times seems to slip into unintentional parody. I've read it quite a few times though since my Ph.D. dissertation is on late-Victorian horror fiction.
If you like Dracula you should try to find a copy of Richard Marsh's The Beetle--it was a horror novel written around the same time that uses a similar approach to storytelling and has similar feeling to it. There's a story that Marsh and Stoker had a bet going that they would each write a horror novel and see which one sold better--at the time it was the Beetle.
That's on my to read list. I just finished Blood Meridian and I'd say its the best American novel written in the past 50 years. Now I need to read some more Cormac McCarthy.
Johnathan Living Seagull. This is an amazing book. A simple story ; on the surface . A lesson in how to really 'be' when you get into the story and pick up the real meaning . Jonathan is a real seagull; living with a group of other gulls . As time goes on; he begins to wonder if there is not more to life than fighting for fish . Voicing his feelings brings scorn to him. Over time , he begins to practice the art of flight. This brings increasing scorn upon him. He is not acting as a gull; not fighting over his share of fish.Spending more and more time flying and less working about getting a lot of fish. Eventually he is taken before the Authorities .He is warned ; shape up ; act as a gull , or become an outcast . His mother is worried , he must be himself. He must learn to fly to the best of the ability of a seagull. He tries and fails to conform to the orders to fall in with gull behavior. More time is spent flying in as many ways as he feels important. Again he is brought before the Head seagull. Now he is " outcast " , no decent gull may again associate with him. He continues his flight . His best friend warning him against it. What happens next ; I am leaving out . To include would ruin this wonderful book for those who may really get the depth of lessons from it. http://search.reviews.ebay.com/Jona...BN-13_9780380012862_W0QQfvcsZ1388QQsoprZ18463
