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Which book is your favorite and why?

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"Which book is your favorite and why?"

Well, I am not much of an avid reader, but the book I enjoy reading the most is "Comedy writing Secrets", by Mel Helitzer. It teaches the structures of comedy and why we laugh.

my favourite book is the Shaolin Workout book!
because it teaches all the cool shaolin moves and thats why I should win the price cause this is my fav book !!!

if i complete the shaolin work out , does that mean i can join the shaolin monks?

is there some application that i have to mail it to them?

Did real shaolin monks actually write this book

Well anyways, my favorite book it the Cat in the Hat....what a classical, a great book that anyone can relate too...It has it all drama, suspense, romance, action, and emotion.....its a great book...My favorite book by far

My favorite book would be A Tale of Two Cities A Tale of Two Cities by Charles d!ckens. What seems to be a simpe story actually has quite a lot of themes and symbols in it, most noticeably is the importance of sacrifice for a greater cause and that death/violence is always present in times of war because many leaders are currupt.

Though this story has many battles and government issues, the reader will always keep in mind the personal lives of individual characters. d!ckens wrote the book with such details and description that one could map out the actually events. With a very descriptive, meaning, and also touching story, there is no argument as to why this book is a classic and why it is my favorite book.

Sun Tzu's Art of War because it is simply awesome (I applied some of his theories into StarCraft and it worked hehe).

im guessing manga doesnt count so my favorite book would probably be same as lee the art of war!

"My Favorite Book and Why"

Tony Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" and "Songs of Soloman", because they both deal about accepting one's identity in an environment that either looks down on that or belittles it.

The books make you think and ponder and ask yourself what your identity means to you.

My favorite book is...
The lion the witch in the wardrobe.
The reason well
I had only known english for a few months (like 4 or 5) and yet I was able to read the book it was intresting but it made me feel great like I had accomplished somthing.
Even now 8 years later I read it once in awhile it is a timeless classic.

My favorite book is MEG, because its deals with a large prehistoric shark eating people.

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See. Sad book about chinese traditional foot binding. How women were treated as dirt, and how the birth of a baby girl is a disgrace to one family, only an "extra mouth to feed". Pretty sad, but I enjoyed reading it whole heartedly.

My favorite book is "The Shaolin Workout Book" because I saw it at Barnes and Noble and it was Shaolin Monks and now it's here so I want to win it. It will be my favorite book I think.

Angels and Demons is my favorite book because it really puts you inside the book. You feel like you are expericencing whats actually going on. It touches a sensitive subject of religion and science, much along the same lines as The Da Vinci Code but better. I got the sense that a greater deal of feeling was put into the book and thats why I like it so much.

The best book i ever read?? That's real tough, but the best book i ever read is what i'm reading right now, it's a book called PLATO, talking about SOCRATES. I got this book at first when i went to pace university for PHILOSOPHY class, i never read it during that class lol but i picked it up, dusted it off and started to read it. It's a good book, talking bout SOCRATES and his execution, virtue and how it can be taught or not taught, real deep crazy philosophical stuff, but it's good, mad confusing though, had to read it a second time

My favourite book: Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

Why? I've read so many books, some of them hundreds of times, some in the source but also in the many translations into other languages, and also well-written technical treaties, studies, documentations, and even whole dictionaries LOL!!! all those are books!!!

Now, if I had to choose one as my favourite, that could only be Les Liaisons Dangereuses, a French epistolary novel about love, seduction, intrigues and scandal in the Age of Enlightenments, by author Pierre Choderlos de LACLOS.

Many movies have been made, which were inspired of or adapted from this book (director and French film legend Roger Vadim had made two films: La Ronde, with actress Brigitte Bardot, and Les Liaisons Dangereuses, with actress Jeanne Moreau). Most of you have probably already viewed one or many of those?

Dangerous Liaisons (1988, Stephen Frears) -- is closest to the novel
Valmont (1989, Milos Forman)
Cruel Intentions (1999, Roger Kumble)
Untold Scandal (2003, E J-Yong) -- a Korean movie! I haven't seen this one yet ! --> follow this link
Dangerous Liaisons (2003, Josée Dayan)

This novel is really THE favourite classic novel of all times literature, the best of all epistolary novels ever written. And I love all the wit and the grace, and even more the beautiful and purest of style in French writing. BTW, the saying "Revenge is a dish best served cold" originated from this novel... (Ha ha "La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid"... Zidane should have read this book before playing the World Cup Finale!!!)

Personally, I often prefer to quote from Letter XXXIII: "Et puis, savez-vous ce qui arrive? par cela seul qu'on dispute, on ne veut pas céder. A force de chercher de bonnes raisons, on en trouve ; on les dit ; et après on y tient, non pas tant parce qu'elles sont bonnes, que pour ne pas se démentir".

"And then, do you know what happens next? by the only fact that you're having an argument with someone, you will not want to yeld. By dint of searching for good reasons, you'll find them; you'll say them; and after, you'll hold on to them, not so much actually because they are good reasons, but because you will not want to contradict yourself." <- my translation on the fly; in other words, it's better not to start arguing, when it's unnecessary.

There's a very good new English translation by Douglas Parmée, Oxford Paperback, ISBN: 0192838679. Reading it, your English might never be the same again.

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it was the first book I read !





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Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential

Why? Because it's so goddam hilarious

hahahahha, my first time hearing about a shaolin work out book, dame that's funny

my favorite book is The Secret Life of Plants becuase it gives a new perspective into plants and their existence...very interesting! you guys should read it!..Warning:this book is only for open-minded people...

SORSTALANSÁG by Imre Kertész

Its ironic and shows how a child playful nature becomes a man with no hope but waiting for death. The painful thing is that death becomes a way for the people to escape the world of no hope.
Shows world war two in a different way.

Catcher in the Rye because it's simple

The Two winners for this giveaway are as follows:

Tweaked_!55! and sstretch3223

Congrats to both of them! I will send you a PM soon with more information.