What's your favorite piece of Literature and why?

Question

Mine is "The English Patient" by Michael Ondaatje.

Love how he describes darkness in lyrical prose.

Answer 1

Children's I'd have to say "Rifles for Waite"

Adult most definently "Lord of the Rings" Trilogy

Answer 2

I could never pick a favorite one but I can mention a few decent writer and great novels.



For pure fun and laughs you can't go wrong with a Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett or the farcical, P.G Wodehouse, Jeeves and Wooster series.



For wonderful story telling and charactures the Pickwick Papers by Dickens is, probably, his best and funiest work. Marcel Proust In Search Of Lost Time is Epic and grand and quite beyond imagination.



Bill Bryson is unmissable as a writer and so is Alan Coran.

Answer 3

A Tale of two Cities by Charles Dickens and On the Beach by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 4

Lots and LOTS! I love to read, and I am a sucker for a good story...I also love series where characters grow and tales run together.



LOTR (though it is NOT a trilogy, it was published in installments as a money making ploy but it was always ONE story according to Tolkien)



Narnia



To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee



The Bean Trees by Barbra Kingsolver(story continues with Pigs in Heaven)



ALL great stories that I haven't been able to forget, with characters that have become part of me, or have spoken for me, or both.

Answer 5

It would have to be a toss up between the Lord of the Rings trilogy or Hamlet. Both are timeless pieces of literature and you can read them over and over and not get bored.

Answer 6

Les trois mousquetaires by Alexandre Dumas. Original French version.



Tell me Your Dreams by Sydney Sheldon.

Answer 7

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (romantic at heart) or if this counts anything by Piers Anthony (fun & adventure in a fantasy world)

Answer 8

Macbeth by William Shakespeare. It's a classic.

Answer 9

"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare. It's a legendary piece of literature.

Answer 10

The Historian.

Answer 11

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Answer 12

I loved Tell me your dreams by Sidney Sheldon and the Left Behind series.

Answer 13

Lord of the Flies by William Golding...very touching, not to mention shocking...

Answer 14

Gone With the Wind because it's filled with taboo for the place and time it was written. They didn't even include Scarlet's other children in the movie because it was too controversial.

Answer 15

I really don't have a favorite piece of literature but my favorite author is Ann Rule and her true crime books. I love to read about true crime. there is something about knowing that it is true that just pulls me in.

Answer 16

Anything by Hemingway. And I don't really know why. There's just something about the way that man told a story...