• Question: What's your favourite book?

    Asked by aimeej to Andrew, Daniel, Hayley, Natalia, Peta on 16 Nov 2011. This question was also asked by fbrown, alexandermca.
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      Peta Foster answered on 15 Nov 2011:

      I like many books but all for different reasons…

      I love the story ‘The little prince’ which is short story about an alien who meets a lot of people and creatures and makes interesting observations about human nature.

      I also love the book ‘The Athenian Murders’ which i found very scary and at one point actually felt i was stuck to my sofa with fear and to say to myself ‘it’s just a book… ‘

      I just finished a book called ‘Eat, Love, Pray’ which was really very enjoyable and made me think a lot. I always enjoy books that make me think. 🙂

      I hope you are also enjoying books too 😀

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      Daniel Scully answered on 15 Nov 2011:

      “The Big Sleep” by Raymond Chandler.

      It’s a stereotypical crime novel about a detective.
      Easy to read because of the simple language… but it’s intentionally simple to keep up the pace, and it’s really clever and witty.

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      Andrew Cairns answered on 16 Nov 2011:

      “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee. It is my favourite book, I love reading it and it taught me a lot. For my 16th birthday my friends bought me a special edition which I keep on my bookshelf at home, and is very special to me.

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      Hayley Smith answered on 16 Nov 2011:

      I have to admit, I’m not a great reader. I’ve never really enjoyed sitting still, and quietly, that much. But I have read three (!) books this year, so I’m getting better – it is something I’m trying to enjoy more. I’ve mainly been reading historical novels, mainly around the tudor period, because I find this quite interesting.

      Before that the only books I really read were Harry Potter, which I enjoyed, but I can’t say that any of them would be my favourite.

      My favourite book though, of all time, is a book called “But Martin”. I read it when I was about 5 or 6 years old, it’s only about 10 pages long, and mainly of pictures. It’s about an alien that comes to school and he is very different to all the other kids – reading it now, I see that that’s the lesson it’s supposed to teach is that everyone is different and that’s a great thing. But back then I just loved it because it was funny, one line that always gets me is “Li walks to school, Ben goes on a battered old Bike, Anna goes on the bus. But Martin goes to school in a spaceship”. Love it!

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      Natalia Parzyk answered on 16 Nov 2011:

      I quite like reading so it’s hard to pick just one I’d just say about two great ones which I read recently. It’s ‘Touching the void’ by Joe Simpson and ‘The naked mountain’ by Reinhold Messner. They are both great stories about mountains ascent (and Messner one have a lot of pretty mountain pictures!). Simpson books is about climbing Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. ‘Naked mountain’ is translation of Nepal words Nanga Parbat.

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