what was the best book you ever read?

[feartheflames]

a great one is the girls her adored by jonathan nasaw, total page turner and slightly grotesque, anyone else?

[ricoFlame]

i like funny stuff, so i would have to say A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. totally different story by a very interesting author. hilarious read.

[Zarathustra]

1984 is a personal favourite.

[JiriHrdina]

Microserfs by Doug Coupland.

[rubecube]

A Clockwork Orange

[V]

1984 is easily my favourite.

[redforever]

Hard to name an all time favorite but I just read this book while on vacation, was in the library of the villa we rented. "Healing Flynn" by Juliette Mead. It started out with a North Sea disaster, I thought, well will just read the first chapter, I am sure this is not for me. But by the end of the first chapter, the story was spun and I was hooked, very well written and tied together.

[Devils'Advocate]

"Hard Times" - Dickens.

It was assigned reading for the "Intro to Lit" class I dropped out of. I didn't read any other the other required reading, but I've read "Hard Times" thrice since. I suppose one could listen to Supertramp's "Logical Song" to get the same thesis.

[Azure]

Night by Elie Wiesal.

The Holocaust never meant much to me before I read that book. Should be required reading for everyone in high school. Just to understand what happened.

[Flames09]

Originally Posted by Azure

Night by Elie Wiesal.

The Holocaust never meant much to me before I read that book. Should be required reading for everyone in high school. Just to understand what happened.

Alot of teachers are encouraging students to read that book now, my sister had to do a project and they had too pick a novel for extra credit. They could choose from 8 different books, but if you wanted to do 'Night' it would be accepted. 'Night' IMO was one of the best books I have ever read, other books I love are all the 'Harry Potter' books.

[HelloHockeyFans]

Ooooh man, hard question.

My Life by Bill Clinton... Lucky Man by Michael J. Fox... I really like biographies.

[sadora]

That's such a hard question because it's so difficult to narrow that selection down. I'll have to go with three but I have quite a few more that I would put in this category.

On The Road by Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson

[Ford Prefect]

It's hard to to top 1984, as a couple others have already mentioned. Walden, by Henry David Thoreau maybe. For fiction, I'd have to say a somewhat obscure series by Edward Whitmore ... I can't remember all of the titles, but Sinai Tapestry and Jerusalem Poker were two of the books.

[JackJack]

The Firm....John Grisham

The movie didn't do the book justice

[metallicat]

Fear Nothing by Dean Koontz is the book that got me back into reading many years ago. I read Mystic River last year and it ranks up there with the best books I've read. And Children of Men which I read a couple months ago was fantastic.

[I_H8_Crawford]

The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald is one of my all-time favs.

Henry V by Shakespeare.

Ordinary Men: Police Battalion 101 by Christopher Browning is an excellent read if you are into history and the Holocaust - puts some serious doubts into Milgram's theory of authority.

Also for some smut, love The Stand, It, and the Dark Tower series by Stephen King.

[Flames09]

Originally Posted by JackJack

The Firm....John Grisham

The movie didn't do the book justice

I loved The Broker by John Grisham, I've never read/watched The Firm.

[Staypuft]

My favourite book(s) are the Dark Tower Series by Stephen King.
If you have time to spare, it's a really great read.
I also really like Heller's Catch-22 for a more humorous read.

[JiriHrdina]

Originally Posted by Staypuft

My favourite book(s) are the Dark Tower Series by Stephen King.
If you have time to spare, it's a really great read.
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Boy you know that would have to be my pick as well. The amazing thing was that I thought he managed to pull off the ending as well...something I thought impossible.

The question is - of the series which did you like the best. For me it was probably The Wastelands.

[I_H8_Crawford]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

Boy you know that would have to be my pick as well. The amazing thing was that I thought he managed to pull off the ending as well...something I thought impossible.

The question is - of the series which did you like the best. For me it was probably The Wastelands.

wastelands and Wizard's Glass were my favorites.

I too really enjoyed the ending.

Song of Suzannah and The Dark Tower were good, but I really didn't like the whole part SPOLER ALERT SKIP THE REST OF THIS POST IF YOU WANT TO READ THIS SERIES


















Where he writes himself into the plot. I found that campy and lame, and so did he based on the fact he mentions in the books that it looks lame, but it is "part of the story"