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[Helina.Liu]

I am a chinese. The book I like the most is Jane Eyre, which is familiar to everyone, I think. Which one do you like best?

[Afroz]

hmmm... I would have to say that my favourite book(s) are The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien. Those are the only books where the mere description of characters can bring a tear to my eye and give me goosebumps!
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[erika honda]

The title of my favorite book is Poltergeist. This book written by Mr. JIRO AKAGAWA, and this book is mystery. Mr. AGAGAWA is very famous in Japan. AKAGAWA's book is very good!!

[angelwing]

I like some of the stranger and more controversal books out there, including: Catcher in the Rye, A Prayer For Owen Meany, The World According to Garp, and The Cider House Rules. Other good books I like are usually nonfiction, especially those by Mark Bowden. These include Black Hawk Down and Killing Pablo.

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[balooma71]

My favourit book(s) are the diary i like reading diaries whether they are written by famous or ordinary people , but recently i heard about a wonderful book it called (diffinciy code) i inttened to buy it soon.

[ClarissaMach]

It's a long list, but if I was to choose the ones I consider the best, they would be: "Anna Karenina" and "Brothers Karamazov", written by the russian authors Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, respectively; "The unbearable lightness of being", by Milan Kundera; "Dangerous liasions", by Chordelos de Laclos; "A hundred years of solitude", by Garcia M�rquez; "Pantaleon and the Visitors", by Mario Vargas Llosa; "Essay on blindness", by Jos� Saramago; and "The best ghost stories from Algernon Blackwood".

Most of them I've read in Portuguese, for I can't read in Russian, or Spanish, or French. But I sware I'll learn how to speak these languages!!!

[ltp-008]

I don't have my favorite book,I just don't remember which one is my favorite book,but I do have some books which I like most.When I was teenagers ,I like to read some historic books and some historic novels ,I don't remember which book gave a deep influence on me,but I do think the books which I had read during my teenage have an deep impact on me.Take some famous autobiographies for example,I like to read them,I learned a lot of knowledge and experience from them.

I think you can get a broad knowledge by reading historic books.Why?Because historic books give you our ancestor's experience and lessons,these books tell us why they successed and why they failed,through the history,we can learn invaluable knowledge which will benefit your whole life.

Sometimes history repeats itself again,if you know the history,you will not make same mistake which our ancestors had made.But most time,history doesn't repeat itself as the exact same as its past,it changes a lot through today developments,so we must learn to adjust to today 's world ,work hard to make ourlives more comfortable.

[ClarissaMach]

I agree with you about the value of biographies. Unfortunately, I�ve read only a few of them: �Chat�, o rei do Brasil� (�Chat�, the king of Brasil�), about a famous journalist who played an important role in the construction of Brazilian press; �Minha raz�o de viver� (�My reason to live�), autobiography of Samuel Wainer, another famous journalist in Brazil; and �Olga�, about Olga Ben�rio Prestes, one of the greatest women this country has ever known (she was the wife of Luiz Carlos Prestes, an important revolutionary figure of our history... he dreamed about implementing socialism in our country. I deeply admire him).

By now I�m reading the Beatles biography. Not because I�m great fan of them, but because the book happened to come into my hands. This, I believe, is the special secret about biographies: you may not be a great fan of the artist or politician who�s being talked of, but it always teaches you something interesting about a certain period of history. By reading the Beatles biography, I�m discovering a lot about the effervescent sixties !

Oh, and I almost forget to mention: once I read a pocket book named �The intimate sex lives of famous people�. I know, the name makes it sound a little bit stupid, but, trust me, it was very interesting. Although the focus of the mini-biographies were the sexual lives of the personalities portrayed, it also talked about other interesting aspects of their lives. And what a personalities: Albert Einstein, Cleopatra, Tolstoy, Alexander Graham Bell, Sim�n Bolivar, Napoleon Bonaparte, Giovanni Jacopo Casanova, Catherine II, Benjamin Disraeli, Mahatma Gandhi, Mao Tse Tung...

This last one was so interesting that I�ve been planning to buy Mao�s biography. He as such a great man!
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[yuri0919]

The title of my favorite book is "Momo"

In Michael Ende's novel, Momo is a mysterious young orphan who lives in a ruined ampitheater in an unnamed metropolis. Her extraordinary ability to listen draws people, particularly other children, to her and she has many wonderful friends. Everything starts to change when the Men in Gray appear and began to take over the city. Momo goes on a quest to determine who these sinister, shadowy figures really are and what they have done with her friends. Her journey takes here across the frontiers of time to the secret fountainhead of life itself

It makes us consider time, or life
That is not only for children also for adults

[miwako1023]

I recommend you "Angels & Demons" written by Dan Brown.
I think thisbook is more exciting than "Da Vinci Code"
Have you ever read?

[yan0515]

My favorite book is title which is "The child which was called It "In this book, the main character has been violenced by his mother. the story is very cruelty.I was cried many times.But The consequence is....after reading, the pleasure Lets reading many good book

[tetsuko0814]

Hi! I'm a Japanese student.
My favorite books are "Darren Shan"
Do you know Darren Shan
This story about vampire,but it's not freaky Ah...little bit scary
I think it's thrilling story for children,bur so excited
Please read it

[Manuel]

Really difficult to choose. I would say "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury, some books from Garc�a Marquez (not only one hundred years of solitude), and "The Steppenwolf", by Herman Hesse.

[GTS]

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde - great concept. Definitely a good read for those who are more 'reserved."

I also enjoy a quick gander at the TV Guide every now and then. That's quality reading.!

[ClarissaMach]