Best Book Ever

I find it a shame that many people do not read anymore. I just finished reading Ender's Game for the 15 millionth time and it's just as good as when I read it in Middle School. Personally it's my favorite book.


Anyone here read? Got a book you love?

Anything written by Hunter H. Thompson.

What does he write?

Rum diary's, Fear & loathing in las vegas.

Im slowly building up the whole enders collection, but Im buying it all second hand so its proving difficult.
Its also hard find the ones I have amongst the several hundred other books on my book shelves.

Those are actually the only 2 I have ever read. I've been reading alot of science books latley. Brian Green books. Sting theory stuff, nutrinos, exc.

I've read (and own) all of the Ender's Series and the Bean Series that followed.

I'm reading a collection of novels now called "Song of Ice and Fire" by George R. R. Martin. Just finished the second book, "A Clash of Kings", the other night so I started reading Ender's Game to pass the time until the third book arrives at my doorstep as an early birthday gift to myself.

ok, yeah, I got nothing.

Grapes of Wrath
War of the Worlds
1984
Brave New World

Only books I really enjoyed reading were the Halo series and that was it.

Tough call, either Animal Farm, The Divine Comedy, or Ulysseus

I'm reading a collection of novels now called "Song of Ice and Fire" by George R. R. Martin.


Im half way through the 3rd book, but it fell to bits.
Be warned, its a bit slow in places, much slower than the 2nd one.
My g/f has just read the 4th book, and is waiting on the 5th.
Both her, and someone else who have read it said its VERY SLOW and boring.
Just to let you know what your in for :D
Fortunatly the 5th book sounds much better.

I'm a Stephen King fan personally.

Favorite would have to be Weis & Hickman, close second Raymond E. Feist, then Koontz,and King.

"War and Peace" anyone? "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" was good. "Waiting for Gadot" was hilarious although it's a play actually. Too many to list...

Im half way through the 3rd book, but it fell to bits.
Be warned, its a bit slow in places, much slower than the 2nd one.
My g/f has just read the 4th book, and is waiting on the 5th.
Both her, and someone else who have read it said its VERY SLOW and boring.
Just to let you know what your in for :D
Fortunatly the 5th book sounds much better.


There's nothing wrong with slow!

Anyone read "Pudd'n Head Wilson" by Mark Twain? It's absolutely fantastic writing...crappy title, but a great read.

"War and Peace" anyone?

Holy crap, did you actually read the whole thing? That was a frickin' huge book.

Anyway, as corny as it is, my favourite book (so far) is LOTR: Retun of the King. I got so hooked on it I read the whole thing in a day.

"Waiting for Gadot" was hilarious although it's a play actually. Too many to list...
If you liked Waiting for Godot, you should read / see Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. The movie was directed by the guy who wrote the play, so the movie is pretty legit.

Holy crap, did you actually read the whole thing? That was a frickin' huge book.

Anyway, as corny as it is, my favourite book (so far) is LOTR: Retun of the King. I got so hooked on it I read the whole thing in a day.
That's not corny. Tolkien is one of the most influential writers of ALL time.

Anything written by Hunter H. Thompson.

werd :smokin:

i was really into the Lord of the Rings early in high school, b4 the movies. Also some shakespeare, and Mark Twain's Tale of Two Cities.

lastly, John Stewart's "America, The Book" is effin amazing.

you should read / see Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

+1, you should know the play Hamlet though.

Umm the Apple Power Book... Ha GOt ya...

sophie's choice - kind of a romance type story following the life a young aspiring writer and a girl he meets one summer and her history living thru the holocaust

the hot zone - history of the ebola virus epidemic and the hunt for a cure and it's origin. this book is really captivating, you now couldn't pay me a million dollars to go to africa after reading it but this is an amazing book

passage - *realistic fiction* a doctor's story of trying to figure out what NDE's (near death experiences) mean and if there is a way to save people who are having one and are on the verge of death.

those are my 3 fav books, they're not girly or anything so i recommend them to all of you, sorry i couldn't remember any of the authors.

If you liked Waiting for Godot, you should read / see Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. The movie was directed by the guy who wrote the play, so the movie is pretty legit.

Read it. It was good, but Godot was better. Then there's...schiz, it's the play in Spider-Man 2. The Importance of being Earnest. That was funny!

All Quiet on the Western Front I think is my favorite though. Good all around in every aspect. Next is the Fountainhead. I tell you, those huge books fill in a lot free time.

once read the coolest book ever by an autralian author about this guy who makes movies with his friend who's name is merlin and merlin's parents are both artists and he's in love with merlin's hot sister. from my description you can tell that i don't read that much but i really want to read that book again and all i know about it is that the first word of the book is zulu's. really sucks :disappoin

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Catch 22 and Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galxy are the funniest books ever.
War of the Worlds, To Kill a Mocking Bird.
I just finished rereading The Chronicles of Narnia. After I saw the movie that just came out it seemed like a good idea. I forgot how much I like those books.
Keeping on the fantasy theme, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.

Frankenstein is one that i read in high school that i liked a lot

My favorite books are as follows:

The Haynes or Chiltons or other repair manuals for the vehicles I own and work on.

The owners manual to my Snap-On Diagonistics Machine

And last but not least Stephen King's Desperation. (although I never finished it)

i dont know about you guys but im more of a theme book kinda guy. i like the older books by twain and h g wells. but i also like tolken books... and i have read a few potter books just cuz i was curious about the hype. but the book series i want to find more of is the adventures of grey .... grey something. i have only one book of it called the demon hand. but i couldnt put it down. i burned through the book in about 2 weeks... usually it takes a couple months. i also liked a book called "carry on mr. bowditch" it was written just after the the revolution.

The Divine Comedy

I'm trying to find one that has the original Italian version with an English translation. I'm reading The Dante Club right now, it's good too.

My favorite book right now is The Birth of Venus.

My favorite authors are George Carlin and Carl Hiaasen.

Other favorites -
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Naked Pictures of Famous People - John Stewart
The Pleasure of My Own Company - Steve Martin
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
The Meg Series - Steve Alten

And of course...all the Harry Potter books.

And like, 8 million others. I read a lot. Like, a lot a lot. Like, a crazy amount of books that can't even begin to be explained.

john grisham is really good too. my fav book by him was probably The Brethern

The Chronic...
WHAT!?
...les of Narnia!

The Chronic...
WHAT!?
...les of Narnia!


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I finished Card's Ender and Bean series last year (with the release of shadow of the giant). I already read Card's Sarah, but I can't seem to find Rebecca, so instead I started on The Shadow of Earth, but the end was kinda sucky, so I'm wondering if I REALLY want to read the rest of the series.

Also on the "loved it" list are The Great Gatsby, (i'm drawing a blank now for some reason... if my brainfart ends, I'll try to remember some others)

edit: OMG, how could I forget Flatland!!!! AMAZING book!

Anything by Brian Jacques, Robert Jordan, Terry Brooks, and Tolkien. I'm currently on the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, i'm on the last book so far and i've been reading him since my junior year of high school. There's one book that i've read more than once, and that's the Silmarillion by tolkien.

Anything by Ayn Rand, the Robert Jordan Series, The Madman's Tale, 1984, Walden, The Nibelungenlied, A Clockwork Orange, a few of Tom Clancy's books, Good News About Injustice, Empowering the Poor (written by one of my professors), The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters and countless other authors and titles :smile:.

Some of my favorites (in no particular order) are:

Chung Kuo (David Wingrove - 8 book series)
Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson)
Cryptonimicon (Neal Stephenson)

Love everything I've ever read by Kurt Vonnegut

Just finished reading The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deavers, was the basis for the movie. The book was awesome, the movie was rubbish.

Currently reading "Body Double" by Tess Gerritson (murder mystery)...

Anything by Micheal Crichton (Jurrasic Park)

Tom Clancy and Steven Pressfield for entertainment, Thomas Friedman for a slightly more intellegent read, Ambrose for history.

Wall Street Journal for newspaper.

Brian Jacques

Haha, I used to read his Redwall series like it was crackrock back in middle school. Other than just about every import mag, i dont read much. I have to read The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin for EnglishIII and it blows imo. Every other word in the dammed thing is n****r. I may pick up a redwall book just so i can finish the series.

since i can't remember the name of my favourite book i'll just say some books i like are the pigman and miracle boys (just finished reading them in english class)

A few of mine:

Tom Clancy - The Sum of All Fears and Red Storm Rising (I've read the whole Ryanverse, and TSOAF is my fav. RSR isn't part of the Ryanverse but still a great book)

George Orwell - 1984
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
Philip K Dick - The Man in The High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Tolkien's LOTR trilogy.
Mark Z Danielewsky - House of Leaves
Frank Herbert - Dune
Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting


Trying to find Ray Bradbury's Farenheit 451, and Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko.

Making my way through Frankenstein at the moment, after that it's Dracula, War and Peace (scares me :/) and Crime & Punishment.

I LOVE reading, but have hardly done any these holidays :(

Also on the "loved it" list are The Great Gatsby


I remember reading that in high school, it was an interesting read. Although i can't say i remember to much about it i do remember i liked it, i'll have to pick it up again.

Any of the greek myths, stephen kings dark tower series(currently on book 7)
and Frank Herberts Dune

I remember reading that in high school, it was an interesting read. Although i can't say i remember to much about it i do remember i liked it, i'll have to pick it up again.
I read it in Honors English 10, and fell in LOVE with it... I had these beautiful images about how things looked, smelled, sounded, etc. THEN my teacher showed us the movie and it completely TRASHED my images.

Moral of the story... don't watch the movie if you liked the book itself.

Trying to find Ray Bradbury's Farenheit 451

good, but DO NOT WATCH THE MOVIE!!!

War and Peace (scares me :/)

Don't worry,you'll get into it and it'll whiz right on by before you know it.