What is your favourite book?

Question: What is your favourite book?

Asked by anon-201693 to Sophia, Sarah, Meirin, George, Emily, Andy on 5 Mar 2019.
- George Fulton answered on 5 Mar 2019:
  
  I used to play a game called ‘Dynasty Warriors’ on PS2 when I was younger. All the characters are based on characters in an Chinese mythology book called ‘Romance of the three kingdoms.’ It’s quite a bit like Game of Thrones, except its based in China around 1500 years ago. Some of the characters, and how they behave, in this book are important to many Chinese even today. I find the combination of epic drama and the history of the book really interesting and that’s why it’s my favourite. Imagine if GoT was real!!
- Sarah O'Sullivan answered on 5 Mar 2019:
  
  Robert Harris did a series of books about Roman government official Cicero, called Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator. They’re all great books. I also really like Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science for a non fiction read
- Sophia Pells answered on 5 Mar 2019:
  
  I think it has to be the Harry Potter series. I’ve read the whole set about 4 times!
- Andy Buckley answered on 5 Mar 2019:
  
  I am completely nuts, so actually have a whole list of favourite books. I will post it if you like… and then you have to read them ALL.
  
  But here’s a few picks:
  
  Rocket Boys – Homer Hickam
  Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
  Moonfleet – Robert Faulkner
  From Hell – Alan Moore And Eddie Campbell
  Sandman Series – Neil Gaiman
  Akira – Katsuhiro Otomo
  The Crow Road – Iain Banks
  The Road To Wigan Pier – George Orwell
  Vurt – Jeff Noon
  Pixel Juice – Jeff Noon
  Down And Out In Paris and London – George Orwell
  The Mountains Of My Life – Walter Bonatti
  Seven Years in Tibet – Heinrich Harrer
  The Pleasures of Counting – Tom Korner
  Safe Area Gorazde – Joe Sacco
  The Baroque Cycle – Neal Stephenson
  Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air – David Mackay
  The Demon-Haunted World – Carl Sagan
  Do No Harm – Henry Marsh
  Oh, the Places You’ll Go! – Dr Seuss
  Command and Control – Eric Schlosser
  The Martian – Andy Weir
  
  I can’t pick one. Let’s hope I never have to go on Desert Island Disks. Maybe the Tom Korner book, even though it’s non-fiction, because it’s *perfect* and wonderful and accessible, and could totally convince you all that maths is actually fascinating 🙂
- Meirin Oan Evans answered on 7 Mar 2019:
  
  Contact by Carl Sagan is a really good book in my opinion. Carl Sagan was an amazing scientist and science communicator. It’s about establishing contact with aliens!
- Emily Lewis answered on 8 Mar 2019:
  
  Ah there are too many!
  I really liked ‘The Call of the Wild’ when I was younger. But mostly anything by Oliver Sacks, including ‘The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat’, it’s about the really interesting ways our brains can go wrong. He was an excellent scientist and he really cared about his patients.

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