NOT the best book ever:Da Vinci Code
i forget the author's names but my favorites are
The Giver
Lord of the Flies
The Outsiders
Not definite, but I want to say Lowry and Golding for the first two.
What is the best book ever?
Ian Fleming's Goldfinger or You Only Live Twice.
What is the best book ever?
Ian Fleming's Goldfinger or You Only Live Twice.
What is the best book ever?
Ian Fleming's Goldfinger or You Only Live Twice.
I would have to do more of a top ten.
Robinson- Muriel Spark
The House of Spirits- Isabel Allende
White Noise - Don Delillo
Great Harry- Carolly Erickson
Murrow: His Life and Times- A.M. Sperber
The Maltese Falcon- Dashell Hammett
The Influence of Sea Power on History A. T. Mahan
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
Infinite Jest- David Wallace
Under The Volcano - Malcom Lowry
Ask me in a week and list will be different.I picked these because I have read them in the last year and they are freshest in my noggin'.
The Best Book Ever
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
There are many more that I have read and loved, but cannot recall.
The Best Book Ever
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
There are many more that I have read and loved, but cannot recall.
(Sorry for posting this twice. I am so excited to be here my fingers are all atwitter.....!!!!)
The Best book Ever
The Best book ever are the ones we have chosen. The best seller list is just that; which publishing house sold the most copies. Literature is art, and as we should all know by now, ART IS SUBJECTIVE!
Just another thought...
My favorite book of all time would have to be Go Ask Alice by Anonymous. It is one of the most interesting and unputdownable books I have ever read.
My choices at the moment:
EVELINA by Fanny Burney (200 years old and still full of surprises)
SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser (could be adapted as the worst or best musical or opera ever)
THE PRINCESS BRIDE by William Goldman (rollicking fun)
NATIVE SON by Richard Wright (brilliant and involving)
THE END OF THE ROAD by John Barth (big influence in college)
What about 'Illusions' or 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull' by Richard Bach
Thoreau's Walden is the quite possibly the best book I have read thus far.
It should be required reading on the eve of anyones 30th birthday.
Best book ever
Um well i read l;ike non-stop so i defintly can't pick just one book! I loved The Outsiders by S.E. Henton and The Giver by Lois Lowry. I also really liked The Prohecy of the Stones by Flavia Bujor. (this is a relavtiely new 1) I know i have already put alot of them dow n but here is my last one i swear even though there are like 100 more good books i would want to put down here. It is the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series by Ann Brashares. They are soooooo good!
My award goes to "Hopscotch" by Julio Cortazar, one of the best latin american novels by one of the best latin american writers
Hey Rodbogey, what about :
Around the day in eighty worlds?
Best Book!
This is the best book I've read in a long time!
"He Who Goes First"
By Kevin J. Curtis
ISBN: 1-4137-4190-8
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"This is the story of a Mongol warrior who lived during Jenghiz Khan's empire. It is a new look at a frequently misunderstood culture and history. The participants are not bound by ideals of what is good or bad. Like their ancestor the wolf, they do not act out of cruelty or mercy. They live by a natural law, which has been lost on modern society. To judge them in the midst of our politically correct, industrialized world is like trying to convince a caveman of the merits of having a personal computer. Jenghiz Khan was perhaps the most brilliant uneducated man in history. He was a master of human nature. The men who helped him create his empire, like He-Who-Goes-First, were making their lives from the "raw materials" of the times they lived in. The warrior in this story struggles with his spirituality and his role as a soldier."
Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy
The Anatomy of Melancholy - Robert Burton
