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The best book you've ever read is?

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where the red fern grows? haha, i remember really liking that book when i was in elementary school. other than that, the hobbit really got me started on the whole reading thing.
 
Atlas Shrugged was super-great ... far superior to both Fountainhead and Anthem. I also thought that "The Cherry Orchard" by Chekhov was great, but I can't tell you why. Just fills me with joy everytime I read it. OH, and the Unbearable Likeness of Being by Milan Kundera was incredible too.
 
The Catcher in the Rye
The 9/11 Commission Report
See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism
 
Redwall...!!!
And the entire Redwall series...
Good light hearted books...
...
And the only book to get a tear from me Of Mice and Men...
 
Great Gatsby or Catcher in the Rye.
Most of the books I read now are Ludlum, Crichton, and Higgins books which are good for a quick and entertaining read. I also like Dan Brown's books (Da Vinci Code, Deception Point, etc...)
 
Tough call...can't realy name just one of course. I'll toss out some supreme examples (these may be literary masterpieces, mind stretchers, etc)


The Real Story - Stephen R Donaldson
Illusions - Richard Bach
Lies My Teacher Told Me - James Loewen
Hero With a Thousand Faces - Joeseph Campbell
The Bible
The Qur'an
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
A Buddhist Bible - Dwight Goddard
The Nag Hammadi Library
The Gateless Gate - Ekai
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
How the Mind Works - Steven Pinker
Dune - Frank Herbert
Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet - Shakespeare
A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
The Commanding Heights - Daniel Yergin
Psychology and Religion - Carl Jung
The Marriage of Sense and Soul: Integrating Science and Religion - Ken Wilber
Personal Knowledge - Michael Polanyi
In Justification of Faith - William James
An Attack Upon Christendom - Soren Kierkegaard
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Fredrich Nietzsche
A Very Easy Death - Simone de Beauvoir
The Sociology of Religion - Max Weber
A History of God - Karen Armstrong
Beyond Freedom and Dignity - B.F. Skinner
Towards a Psychology of Being - Abraham Maslow
Forms of Intellectual and Ethical Development in the College Years - William Perry
The Atman Project - Ken Wilber
Toys and Reason - Erik Erikson
Insight and Responsibility - Erik Erikson
Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious - Carl Jung
The Development of Personality - Carl Jung
Cognitive Development - John Flavell
The Essential Piaget - Jean Piaget
Moral Development and Moral Education - Sara Sanborn
In a Different Voice - Carol Gilligan
Moral Development; a Guide to Piaget and Kohlberg - Ronald Duska & Mariellen Whelan
The Philosophy of Moral Development: Moral Stages and the Idea of Justice - Lawrence Kohlberg
The Evolving Self - Robert Kegan
Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau
United States Constitution & Declaration of Independence
Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein


I could list another 500 that are basic required reading to gain any real understanding or insight into life, but the above are a fairly good starting point...with some entertainment thrown in on top. 😎

 
Either

Paul Graham - Hackers and Painters

or

George Carline - When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?


Hitchiker's Guide and To Kill A Mockingbird are up there too.
 
i've never read one that made me go "wow this is the best book i've ever read"

i greatly enjoyed Rainbow Six and Winning by Jack Welch
 
Goblins in the Castle
Sideway Stories From Wayside School
Parable of the Sower

I read those books as a kid. Maybe I've just lost my attention span, or my imagination just suddenly shut down. Everything I read now is just okay. It would take me a couple extra minutes to even try & remember a situation from a more recent title, but these books are always stuck with me. I need a good book.
 
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