Who is your favorite author and what is your favorite book by that author?  

Ernest Hemingway is my favourite author and the book " The Old Man at the Sea" is my favourite book.

When you look at it, you will wonder, how can such a thin book ( ~ 100 pages) can manage to win it's author the Nobel prize for literature ? Well after you read it , you will understand why. The story is a simple one of an uncanny friendship between an old man and a young boy and the old man's struggle in deep seas to bring in some catch. He then meets with the dangers of the deep0 seas when a gigantic swordfish drags him into the seas.

The description of fighting sharks, the struggle between him and the gigantic fish , will make you wonder at the author's imagination. The old man returns home after an epic struggle, empty handed , yet does not give up and in the end he is dreaming to embark on another adventure. This book has been thought as a great tribute to all those who struggle against all odds and even in defeat, do not give up hope, but live to see another day, believing that one day success will knock at their doorstep.

Answered by Lifeisfun , an ibibo Specialist, at 10:13 PM on December 01, 2008

Hermann Hesse for 'Steppenwolf', 'Demian', 'Sidharta', 'Knulp' and all the other wonderful books, a really spectacular writer.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe for 'The Sorrows of Young Werther', a book that charmed me when i was a little teen girl and that i simply don't want to read now as i know it wouldn't leave me the same impression now; and of course for 'Faust', the greatest book ever written, and for including the most amazing character among all the worlds literature of all times — Mefistofel.

Fiodor Dostoevsky for 'The Idiot', 'The Kamarazov Brothers' and 'The Crime and Punishment', the greatest Russian literature monuments.

Edgar Allan Poe and Anton Chekhov for the most amazing short stories ever.

Freud for the 'Interpretations of Dreams' and any other wonderful work on psychoanalysis.

Gabriel Garzia Marquez for 'One Hundred Years of Loneliness', hoping the other books will be as good as this one.

Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas for 'Altorių Šešėly', the book that could have been a worldwide known literature masterpiece if not the soviet literature censorship.

Michail Bulgakov for 'The Master and Margarita', the hugest literature work i know [3 plots, around 500 characters], having the best portrait of devil and also the book, which helped me to put my point of view about religion in words.

Deitel for JAVA How To Program because i wouldn't have survive in computer science without it.

Samuel Beckett for 'Not I', the play that i dream to read in an expressive reading contest, someday..

Pablo Neruda for the most magnificent poems.

My friend Aivaras for his special prose - you could f***** do great in literature if you wouldn't be a doc!

Answered by Sharad Singh , an ibibo Master, at 7:32 PM on November 24, 2008