• Question: What's your favourite book?

    Asked by phoebe_Davison to Francesca, Laura, Matthew, Andrew, Rebecca on 18 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Andrew McKinley

      Andrew McKinley answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      My favourite book… I’m not sure. I’d have to say a book that I have read more than once which, I have to say, is a very short list indeed!

      My favourite scientific book is “Relativity visualised” – it is a series of drawings intended to explain how the theory of relativity works. It is conceptually rich, but the drawings really help.

      My favourite work of fiction? I couldnt’ say. George Orwell’s 1984 made me cry when I first read it – it is a very emotional tale, and is one with ever more relevance in our surveillance society. I could say the same about Lord of the Flies by William Golding. It’s a bit like 1984 I guess – a cautionary tale.

      I couldn’t let this list go by without recommending The Princess Bride by William Goldman (yes, very similar name) – a lovely tale, plenty of humour, and with a film adaptation which subtly changes the book to adapt it better for film and is equal to the book – and it doesn’t matter which one you experience first!

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      Laura Schofield answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      I have always loved PS I Love You and Where Rainbows End by Cecelia Ahern. Both absolutely heart wrenching but equally hilarious. I also loved Animal Farm by George Orwell and my favourite science book is Kitchen Science Lab by Liz Heinecke. It’s got some awesome and simple experiments in it!

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      Matthew Camilleri answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      That would be Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone for me. It started me on the Harry Potter series + it introduced me to the realm of fantasy apart from the fact that it was greatly written.

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