Do you have a book you love?

[Witterquick]

Do you have a book that you love for more than it being good? You don't have to explain the reason if it's too personal.

I won't reveal my favorite because it is top secret but I love "I am a cat" by Soseki because it was a great time in my life when I read it.

 

[data_lover]

i love the novel "fool on the hill" by matt ruff. i've lost at least 8 copies from trying to get others to read it.

 

[AstroSmurf]

Mine is "Strangers" by Dean Koontz. I have a paperback that I have read at least once a year for almost a decade. Needless to say it is almost in shreds. The cover is nothing but a wade of scotch tape now. To be completely objective, it is not all that great but for some reason I really really like it.

 

[Gepard]

"The Collapsium" by Wil McCarthy. Yeah, I think it's really good, but the story and characters hit a lot of personal notes for me, and I first read it during a difficult point in my life when that was appreciated.

Plus the SF super-science is mind bending – even more so given that one of the pieces of magic-sounding technology featured in the novel is in development right now.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Blood Music by Greg Bear.

 

[sojourner]

"The Collapsium" by Wil McCarthy. Yeah, I think it's really good, but the story and characters hit a lot of personal notes for me, and I first read it during a difficult point in my life when that was appreciated.

Plus the SF super-science is mind bending – even more so given that one of the pieces of magic-sounding technology featured in the novel is in development right now.

Hehe, cool!

I have like 5 Copies of "Space Viking" by H Beam Piper. I think one from each edition. Something about the setting just agrees with me.

(and collapsium is the major material used for starship hulls in the setting!)

 

[JonathonWally]

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.


Like assassins and their OCD need to be in constant possession of Catcher in the Rye, that's how I am with Gatsby. Every time I see a copy in a bookstore, I'm almost compelled to buy it again.

Ask, Robert Maxwell he's seen me almost do it.

I know, it's a very crazy book, but if you know me, it makes perfect sense.

 

[Gepard]

(and collapsium is the major material used for starship hulls in the setting!)

I assume it just happens to have the same name – unless Piper is building his ship hulls out of rhomboid crystals composed of stacked black holes...

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Ok, I am going to geek out here.

I love The Making of Star Trek Deep Space Nine by Judith & Garfield Reeves Stephens.

It is a brilliant and well illustrated behind the scenes book on the show. I think it offers many insights onto how the show is made. The authors love Trek, obviously, but they also have a more cynical view then you might expect, and they will say that money is the most important factor in why and how the show is or was made, or even why Trek exists They are not afraid to take to the romanticism out of the show or the franchise. They also explain the TV production in general in a great detail, whiule explaining how syinidication works. It is a book I would recommend for anyone interested in film and TV production. Bonus for anyone on this board, who are all fans of Trek.

 

[sidious618]

Duma Key by Stephen King. There are scenes in that book that just put me the fuck away. It's brilliant. Without a doubt King's best work.

 

[sojourner]

(and collapsium is the major material used for starship hulls in the setting!)

I assume it just happens to have the same name – unless Piper is building his ship hulls out of rhomboid crystals composed of stacked black holes...

Yea, in Piper's setting it's more like neutronsteel. They take steel and collapse the electrons into the nucleus making "super dense" steel. - Hey, what can I say, the stuff was written 50 years ago!

 

[AstroSmurf]

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

One of my all time favorites. The original cover still serves as an inspiration for my design work.

I love The Making of Star Trek Deep Space Nine by Judith & Garfield Reeves Stephens.

Can't agree more. I also love the DS-9 Companion for much the same reasons.

And I would like to throw in an alternate that some folks might find odd. I love "The Scarlett Letter". (But I have several books that I absolutely love and are very personal for me.)

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

The Lord of the Rings. My favorite book.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

The Lord of the Rings. My favorite book.

I heard (from somewhere) that a film was made based on this one. Do you think they succeed with the translation from book to film?

 

[opali]

Do you have a book that you love for more than it being good? You don't have to explain the reason if it's too personal.

I won't reveal my favorite because it is top secret but I love "I am a cat" by Soseki because it was a great time in my life when I read it.

A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle. I've had a copy of the book since adolescence. It is amazing it still holds together.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I have several copies of The Wizard of Oz. I collect them based on the illustrator and I mainly like editions that date from the 60s or earlier.

 

[nevermore]

Some random books that I love : The Malloreon by David Eddings, the whole damn Deryni series by Kathryn Kurtz, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra, which for some reason I read when I'm depressed.

Mine is "Strangers" by Dean Koontz. I have a paperback that I have read at least once a year for almost a decade. Needless to say it is almost in shreds. The cover is nothing but a wade of scotch tape now. To be completely objective, it is not all that great but for some reason I really really like it.

Shit. Yeah. I love this book and have no idea why since it's kind of crap. Even my dad, from whom I stole it when I was 12, doesn't care for it, but I've read it like 10 times in the past 20 years. I'm kind of gratified to know I'm not the only one...

 

[AstroSmurf]

^ That looks like the exact same copy I have, minus half a roll of tape.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Despite being a fan of horror fiction for many years, I've never read any Koontz. I've always been kind of curious, though, so maybe I'll read Strangers.

 

[Kestra]

Yeah, I'm curious about that book now too!

I have books that are important to me because they were gifts, but no single book really stands out in my mind. I think I love them all too much.