The best book you've ever read is?

[CoolTech]

The best book I have ever read is....

Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things that matter


A lot of people read novels and scifi books, but fail to read books that can actually help them out in life like the one linked above. I implore anyone to read this classic.

 

[MX2]

So many, its hard to name one. A few...

The Road Less Traveled
Atlas Shrugged
It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
Communion : A True Story


I havent read the book you mentioned, but I am going to now

 

[jamesbond007]

Jurrasic Park...it was one of the few in my life I actually read and remembered and enjoyed. That was the 9th grade though...6-7 years ago.

 

[DainBramaged]

Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace

 

[PELarson]

Bimbo's of the Death Sun.

 

[notfred]

hmm.... I've probably read less than a dozen books from cover to cover in my life.

 

[Landroval]

Map is Not Territory

 

[Nomada]

I don't read so much, but Half Asleep in Frog Pyjamas-Tom Robbins really stands out.

 

[Darien]

GEB

 

[desk]

Crime & Punishment - Dostoyevsky

 

[Heifetz]

Norwiegian Wood by Murakami - perhaps not the best book I've ever read, but its definitely up there. His other novels are highly recommended as well.

 

[stnicralisk]

A Game of Thrones - George R R Martin (Best author of all time)

 

[mzkhadir]

rainmaker by grisham

 

[Maetryx]

The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need

 

[MartyMcFly3]

Not the best ive ever read but the best book ive recently read (within the past year or so)

Lucky Man: a Memoir by Michael J. Fox

Just a neat perspective on life.

 

[Dubb]

Originally posted by: CoolTech
The best book I have ever read is....

Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things that matter


A lot of people read novels and scifi books, but fail to read books that can actually help them out in life like the one linked above. I implore anyone to read this classic.

The fact that you seem to think that novels cannot help you in real life just shows that you have learned very little. How adorably close minded. :thumbsdown:

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace

This one's up there for me. One hell of a book - the original manuscript was over 1700 pages (and he wrote it in under 3 years).

Picking a favorite is difficult but I'd also list these as being up there:

snow by orhan pamuk (which I would argue is one of the most important books of our time)
My name is red by orhan pamuk
the crying of lot 49 by thomas pynchon
Music for torching by A.M. holmes
The atlas by william vollman
The book of laughter and forgetting by milan kundera

 

[tami]

harry potter!

 

[amcdonald]

hmmm here's a few by my favorite authors:
cat's cradle - vonnegut
steppenwolf - hesse

 

[ndn mbc]

Ender's Game

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

Hmm, I don't really read a whole lot but probably one of the Dark Tower books by Stephen King. I've only read 2 1/2 of them and I can't choose which one I like the best. The Gunslinger was pretty cool though.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: desk
Crime & Punishment - Dostoyevsky

raskolnikov > all

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: ndn mbc
Ender's Game

i think that book is highly overrated

 

[DaveCSparty]

On The Road

 

[amcdonald]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: ndn mbc
Ender's Game

i think that book is highly overrated

It was a good, easy read.
Better than crichton, but definitely overrated.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: amcdonald

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: ndn mbc
Ender's Game

i think that book is highly overrated

It was a good, easy read.
Better than crichton, but definitely overrated.

I will agree with this. There's a lot of scifi out there that is FAR better.