40 Times People Read A Book And Were In Awe

Best book ever.

Not to be tantalizing, but the last page of "The Count of Monte Cristo" is the best one in the book. (And, no, not because it's the last.)

All I can think about is William Sadler's character in Shawshank saying "Alexander D*****s."

Most right wingers complaining about living in 1984 like times haven't read the book.

I read 1984, and I know it was a commentary on society and politics, but all I could think was schizophrenia

I can't decide whether I like Pride & Prejudice or Emma best, and I love all her other novels (except maybe Persuasion) too

Pride and Prejudice and Lonesome Dove, the books and the mini-series, go together so well that reading/watching one always immediately follows with the other one. They are also the two best adaptations of books I’ve ever seen. Try them together

I prefer Robert Fitzgerald's translations myself.

Agree! I also read Little Men and Jo's Boys which were almost as good.

Jane Eyre and Anne of Green Gables are two of my favourites, though I think I will be saying that about a lot of this list!

Anne of Green Gables had a real house that is now a museum in PEI

I have had Frankenstein on my 'to be read' shelf for ages!

I totally agree about Wuthering Heights! I also found it very boring and not 'romantic' as many claim.

Thank you for speaking truth about WUTHERING HEIGHTS.

I didn't understand the fuss about any of the Brontës. John Wyndham however is quietly brilliant.

Flowers for Algernon was so sad.

Flowers for Algernon was a total tearjerker. I must have been 14-ish when I read it. Sad, but I'm glad I read it.

I think The Triffids is excellent

My favorite part, which I completely understand, is when Gulliver returns home after being rescued. He had lived with the horse nation for such a long time, and was used to the clean smell of them, and then coming home to live around people really affected him so profoundly that he started packing loose tobacco up his nostrils, to filter out the smell of humans around him. I've been waiting since the day I read that for somebody to invent insertable nose filters so I can tolerate strong smells

When I read The Master and Margarita, I was amazed that the Soviets allowed it to be published.

Yes to all of those! Scout is my favorite character, ever, and Lord of the Flies has been in my top ten list ever since I first read it, over 50 years ago.

To K**l a Mockingbird and Lord of the Flies were both ones we studied at school and I loved. I also highly recommend So Much to Tell You and See How They Run, great Australian novels we studied.

Lord of the flies and 1984 are great, mockingbird boring as hell.

Censoring "have". Really?

Not sure if the people who censor Bored Panda can read English. Why else would they have censored the word have?? Wondering what word they though it was??

That book is so amazing conserving that it will change my entire life.

I loved In Cold Blood, which surprised me for some reason.

The Poisenwood Bible is one of my favorite books too!

My friend told me this was a great book and loaned it to me, back when we were 19 or so. I read it. It wasn't bad, but now this is the second time people mention it in particular. What's so great about it? True crime novel. Well done, but enough for me to ever mention it to someone? Not for me. I'm curious.

Personally I did not care for it, although the opening sentence is great.

Took me several tries to get through Moby D1ck. Luckily there are annotated editions that give background, details of the story and the author, etc. Also graphics novels help me to get the gist of the story. My favorite character on the boat is Queegueeg Forgot to mention that this fiction book has basis in a real story that was recently made into a film. It had to do with whaling boat attacked by a certain type of whale, s***m whale, and the boat was damaged enough that only 2 men survived. Film had Chris Hemsworth in it

I always thought I was the only person who liked Moby D**k. I’m glad I was wrong.

I was surprised how much I enjoyed War and Peace. It was a really good read

War and Peace is epic.

I tried reading the Scarlet Letter but couldn't get into it. I did keep it with hopes of trying again. I wasn't really a fan of The Time Machine either.

No other vampire stories quite measure up to Dracula. Although in the 90s, White Wolf Publishing put out some short story collections that came close.

I would really appreciate some description of what these books are about and particularly why the person loves them. Otherwise this is just a list of books. I can go on Amazon for that and it's more informative.

Pretty much every CEO on the planet uses this as a checklist.

I love The Prince. Idk why it's not been written as a play or film, it's a pretty comprehensive list of how to get ahead of the other guy in politics, govt, business. In the TV series Wednesday, the main character says she learned Italian so she could read this book

Every time I've described Candide to others, they look at me like I'm crazy. But it's a fantastic, wierd, sad, funny story, one of those journeys that make a great story, but what happens next is very trippy. I'm still not exactly sure if Candide is happy at the end of the story, in the garden, or depressed by how life has gone. Candide was a life-changing book for me. Of all the different genres and types of books I've read, this one impacted me the most

One of the very few "school classics" I enjoyed while actually at school (most others I reread as an adult to fully appreciate). Read it in a night.

I still don't know what is meant by vanity. It's a word in some versions of the Bible in Eccliciasties. It's like being vain, caring too much about yourself, but I don't understand the context of Becky Sharpe as having vanity. She seems more of a survivor, manipulating men to survive

I enjoyed this book. I liked Thackeray so much better than I liked Dickens.

Weird. I've tried to read TGG several times but always give it up. Just don't like it.