The best book I ever read

ajharper · #1 (**permalink**) 04-11-2006, 02:06 PM

Everyone has a favorite book - even if it's just for the moment. Let's exchange "best book" stories here, so we can all enjoy them! I am looking for recommendations from real people - not the media.

By the way, my favorite book is "Illusions" by Richard Bach.

beg1nnas · #2 (**permalink**) 04-18-2006, 02:43 PM

The best book I ever read is Petal because I wrote it lol. I,m not trying for a free ad but I would greatly appreciatte some real bookworm opinions/comments; www.petal.me.uk
The second best was The Thomas Covenant Trilogy
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iluvmcds · #3 (**permalink**) 04-20-2006, 05:47 AM

If you wrote it, it should be the best book you've written shouldn't it?
hehehe

amazing, you write book huh
a full time writer?
how did you get it published?
real story, your life story? previous experience?

sugarglider · #4 (**permalink**) 04-20-2006, 08:01 AM

There are so many books I love, but a book I read recently which has become one of my all time faves is "The Turning" by Tim Winton.

I've read a lot of his books, and think this is his best. As soon as I finished the book, I turned the cover back and immediately began re-reading it, which I've never done before. I just didn't want to leave the world of the book, or the characters.

dreampegasus · #5 (**permalink**) 04-20-2006, 02:01 PM

Has anyone read Doctors by Erich Segal. Infact I started to respect doctors more after reading this book...it tells about the life of doctors right from the beginning with great passion!

I can't resist reading If Tomorrow Comes, by Sydney Sheldon, it has all the emotions in...

sugarglider · #6 (**permalink**) 04-21-2006, 01:29 AM

Another book I really love is The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.

It has a very strange structure - almost like a series of drafts of the book strung together like a tapestry, so the same story is told over and over again, but each time you gain a new perspective.

The conclusion is horrifying, but told with incredible compassion - it depicts the consequences of the caste system in India.

blazingcow · #7 (**permalink**) 05-01-2006, 03:45 PM

It's not really a book. Phillip K. Dick's short stories collection (all volumes). Everything is in there, no need to say more.

sugarglider · #8 (**permalink**) 05-01-2006, 11:24 PM

Lots of great novelists also write collections of short stories. If you read a lot of novels, reading short stories makes a nice break.

I recently read a great collection of stories by Margaret Attwood, and I love the short stories by Peter Carey. Gabriel Garcia Marquez also published a book of short stories which are quite obscure and difficult to read, but worth the effort.

I also love Stephen King's short stories - in fact, I like them a lot more than his novels. They're more sci-fi than horror, and they're a lot more psychologically intriguing. Most are published under the name 'Richard Bachman'.

schiphaxa · #9 (**permalink**) 05-06-2006, 10:59 AM

It's a book about 4 women, I dont remember much, but I know it's my favourite one.

I read it when I was very young, at a very impressionable age, and it made an impact on me.

I searching for the book so that I might read it again, but no luck yet.

schiphaxa · #10 (**permalink**) 05-06-2006, 11:05 AM

This is a fantasy sequel written by Terry Goodkind.

I recommend this book to anyone who likes fantasy stories. I've read up to the fifth book and they are great. Cannot wait till I get the chamceto read the next!

Has anyone here read it? What do you think of the books?

Try it out!

bubica · #11 (**permalink**) 06-04-2006, 05:37 PM

my all-time favourite book is Brothers Karamazovs by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. I love all Dostoyevsky s books, but this one is really special, read it and find out why! Ivan Karamazov is my number 1 character too!

cherryq · #12 (**permalink**) 06-08-2006, 06:09 AM

The best book I ever read was the game by Niel Strauss... seriously every woman should read it so that they all know how much men need to EAT SHIT AND DIE!!!! :shock:

And because it really is a good book... fun to read :D

also like lord of the rings and the hobbit

jestuarn · #13 (**permalink**) 06-09-2006, 05:04 PM

This Book by Dick Francis was great. At first form the title , I thought it would be about horses. When I know it has abit of politics in it, i was about to (urgh!)

But then, when I read, I love it immeadiately! Not only it was humorus(sarcasm mostly) but it managed to connect the politics strategies, and horse-racing with normal lifes. Once I read it, there's no way of stopping!

And I was a politics and horse-racing anti when I read this.

annasibs · #14 (**permalink**) 06-26-2006, 01:40 PM

I am more inclined towards fantasy and historical novels, and I do not really have one specific favorite. I do have a favorite author, and that is Ursula K. LeGuin. I discovered her Wizard of Earthsea when I was in college. It was just a trilogy back then. I read all three books in one sitting, and I got enamored with her writing style. Then I got a-hold of The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness, and that became the start of my collecting her books and short stories.

ucancomenshare · #15 (**permalink**) 06-27-2006, 06:21 PM

rage of angels !!!