Midnight Souls Forum Favorite Book

Hello Midnight Souls.
In line with getting to know everyone I have another question. Out of every book you have ever read...What's your Favorite.

MIne is The Stand By: Stephen King

Really tough to reply on that because there are so many that have affected me from various authors. I guess the one that kind of freaked me and affected my writing the most is "Mirror" by Graham Masterson. You'll always think of it whenever you look into a mirror. Spooky stuff.

When in school we had so many books to read.. i didn't mind i love reading.. one book was To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.. an older book and I have seen the movie on turner classics.. that book took me away for the summer it was the best i had read up till then.. so though it isn't horror it is this book.. It has a great message.. a great father that i wanted for mine and a brother and a sister and there is a bit of horror with Boo Radley the odd neighbor that the kids thought was evil..
Their father was an attorney and took a case of a black man accused of raping a white woman.. he was innocent..
I got the title when i got older.. when the dad tells his son who is aiming his gun at a mockingbird not to ever kill one as they do no harm ... well the black man symbolizes the mockingbird is this story.. oh and their was also a rabid dog in the book ,, a little like Cujo..
Sorry seems i got carried away so you see what an impact this book had on me..

I also love JD Salinger's book.. Catcher in the Rye..

Favorite by King is The Stand .. I enjoyed every one of the million words in that book lol ... fun question !

Chloe
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Probably The Silamrillion by Tolkein. It's not horror I know, but that's the book that really inspired me to write. Sure LOTR was great, but it was watching the world and history of Middle-Earth come to life in the Silmarillion that really inspired me to try and create my own worlds like Tolkien did.

Despite it not being a horror, there were plenty, PLENTY of dark, horrific images in that book.

That's great everyone. It doesn't have to be horror. One of my fav book series was The Executioner by: Don Pendleton. Great series...since it was where the idea for the Punisher came from. Loved Deathlands by James Axler...until I found out James Axler was a combination of many writers and not one guy...but they were some good stories.

I used to LOOOOVVVEEE Fear Street books when I was a kid, especially the original three Fear Street Saga books. I'd read 4-5 of those books a week.

I think I'm going to go with a few:

"Imajica" by Clive Barker
"American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
"Catch 22" by Joseph Heller
"The Stranger" by Albert Camus
"The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka
"Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut

I guess if I had to limit it to one, I'd probably pick "Imajica," though.

Hands down even though it's not horror, it's gotta be "The Black Jewels Trilogy" by Anne Bishop. They are phenomenly written and I've read them about ten times a piece. :D

As far as horror, I'd have to say I have more than just one. The Dark Half by Stephen King, Dominion by Bentley Little, the entire Necroscope Saga by Brian Lumely. So yeah, that's a lot more than a few considering the saga has 14 books so far. :D Gotta love them though!

Black Beauty... dunno who wrote it tho ::mad::

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Someone who's read the Necroscope series??? You are so steadily rising in my favor, Pauline, it's not even funny!! The Black Jewels and Necroscope.. Wow.. I'm moving you to my top friends on myspace.. ::biggrin:: LOL!!

I really can't say just one favorite book.. I've read so many over the years. If I had every book I've ever owned I'd fill a room with them. ::biggrin::

I really couldn't go with just one, so let's say...

"Queen of the Damned" and "Memnoch the Devil" by Anne Rice
"The Dark Half", "Gerald's Game", "Needful Things", "Firestarter", and so many more by Stephen King
"Necroscope" and the rest of the series by Brian Lumley
"Good Omens" by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
"Battlefield Earth" by L. Ron Hubbard
"Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

I know there's a lot of s**t said about Hubbard, but I've read "Battlefield Earth" two or three times now.. and while it's pretty good in the first half, it's twice as good in the second half. Sometimes I've just skipped all the first half and gone right to the second. :)

And as Pauline said, The Black Jewels trilogy and sequel/prequel book are great stories too. I even named my son after a character.. which I swore I would never do since both me and my sister were named after characters in books. LOL..

Well of course, I didn't mean to exclude Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, I have all of those as well and they are part of my favorites too. Also for mystery lovers definately the Prey books by John Sandford. LOL. I have many loves when it comes to my books, I've got about 300 or so and I've read most of them at least twice. ::biggrin::

Shanna - I'm glad to find a fellow reader of the Necroscope books, they are probably one of the most kick a*s books with vampires I've ever read. The characters are so deliciously evil!

As mostly a fan of fantasy and believably flawed protagonists, my favorite book series was the first fantasy I ever read: Stephen R. Donaldson's first Thomas Covenant Trilogy. The ur-viles, at the tender age of eleven, were the most horrendous things I'd ever heard or read about at that time. And Covenant, an outcast in his community as a leper, was both pitiful and antagonistic. I rooted for him because he was downtrodden and a loner (much as I was throughout middle and high school), and at the same time, some of his less than heroic behavior made me appaled that this man was the hope of the realm he'd been dropped into. Yet therein lay the trick- he wasn't just endowed with magical powers. He was essentially flawed, perfectly human. I had to root for him.

Also, by the style of narration, you're never really sure if the entire Land just takes place in his head, like a dream or delusion. At least, not until the second trilogy, which shatters that theory apart.

I read so much, but my favorite thing to read are books with zombies in them. So I would have to say " Cell " by Stephen King. It put a whole different idea on the zombie spin.

I would have to say Frank Herbert's, Dune Chapterhouse 

Since we're delving into non horror books...

"God is my Co-pilot" by Robert Scott

"The Red Badge of Courage", "All Quiet on the Western Front", "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey", "Where the Red Fern Grows", and everything Jesse Stuart ever wrote. I'm a sucker for "Old Yeller" as well.

I must say, the first and foremost that comes to mind as a favorite would be:

"To your scattered bodies go" Book 1 of the Riverworld Saga: Philip Jose Farmer

I liked the whole saga, but this one stuck.

Followed by:

"Swan Song" by Robert McGammon

3rd would be:

"The List of 7" by Mark Frost

And so on:

"The State of Fear" by Michael Crichton

"The Stand" by Stephen King

"Eyes of the Dragon" By Stephen King

"Watchers" Dean Koontz

"Island at the top of the World" Ian Cameron (not the original"The Lost Ones" verstion, haven't read it)

I usually read a book once, then knowing the plot, it becomes boring.  Having said that, there are very few that stand out for me.  One, and getting back to a horror theme is The Dark by James Herbert.  The only author I will read again and again is H P Lovecraft.