What is the best book you've ever read?

[dashiz94]

Going Rogue: An American Life by Sarah Palin.




HA! To be honest, The Trial by Franz Kafka. It was so damn impactful

 

[Hashime]

Alex Cross series. All of them. Just so good. Also Maximum Ride.

Well basically... just anything by James Patterson.

I too read Maximum Ride, all of them so far, I just found they went from awesome to melodrama, like the 2000 show "Dark Angel".

 

[LoremasterVix]

I have to say my favorite book and the best is The Hobbit. It defines everything I like about fantasy and truly was memorable.

Honorable mentions go to A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens. While it started off rather plain and in fact rather boring, the ending made up for it a hundred times over. And Jurassic Park by Crichton.

 

[cheese_wizington]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Funniest book I've ever read.

 

[Woodsey]

The Silmarillion by Tolkien. The only book that has made me cry.

I found it dull, and to have far too many characters. Far far far too many.

The Hobbit on the other hand...

Now that's a book.

But my favourites are the Hitchhiker's series - brilliant.

 

[Scappo]

The Silmarillion by Tolkien. The chapter "of Beren and Luthien" had me balling my eyes out at the very end ...

 

[Dick Seamen]

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. I love the part were he describes his morning routine, he makes describing lotions creepy..

 

[Caligulove]

In school? A Prayer for Own Meany

In general... I just can't choose.

 

[Hlain]

Book 1-6 and 11-12 of The Wheel of Time.

For school, I'd say... The Stranger by Albert Camus.

 

[rosemystica]

My favorite book ever is Stephen King's The Stand, with Max Brooks' World War Z a close second.

 

[||XIII]

The best book I've read would probably be Dune, though honourable mentions would go to 1984, catch-22, the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy series, and the discworld series.

 

[soren7550]

At the moment I would have to say both of the Perfect Dark books (Initial Vector and Second Front).

 

[Hashime]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Funniest book I've ever read.

The series is brilliant, if you haven't read "the salmon of doubt" do it!

 

[Flamezdudes]

Darren Shan's Vampire Series of books is brilliant, amazing plot. I also adore Max Brooks' World War Z and Zombie Survival Guide.

 

[bad_dog14]

Mogworld by Yahtzee. It's not out yet, but I just know that it's gonna be awesome.

 

[Jedoro]

Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club

That book changed a lot about my whole outlook on life, and I'll never forget its role in shaping me into who I am today.

 

[jaammiie]

I love the Arthur trilogy of books by Kevin Crossely-Holland. Those books just appeal to the fantasy side of me. To Kill a Mockingbird is also an amazing book but the former is more fond to me.

 

[Morphidia]

Twilight

I have to admit, contrary to some internet belief, that as a straight male, I too thought the book was fairly good and the rest of the series (apart from book 3 really). Mostly because the first film came out, I went to see it with some females. When it ended I felt like I still didnt know what was going on. Lo and behold I read the book and they skipped quite a few of the important parts.

I dont really like book 3 very much because I felt that it didnt really contribute much to the plot of bella and her love(s?) and more focusing on the whole vampire side of things.

Ah... this is awkward... I was joking, to see if anyone would actually read the list.

I've read the first book, and didn't particularly enjoy it. I didn't hate it, and it doesn't deserve the amount of scorn poured on it by the internet community, but I didn't like it, either. I certainly didn't start to feel the overpowering love for it experienced by a large number of teenage girls (although I'm led to believe by my stepsister that that's mostly due to "R-Patz" and Taylor Lautner being in the film. Apparently they're attractive. Pattinson, maybe, but Taylor Lautner just looks very, very angry, the whole time).

Maybe it's just a generational thing - we had Harry Potter, they have Twilight.

Anyway, apologies for derailing the thread, especially if this degenerates into the standard Twilight flame war

Lol np I was trying to get into the 'in' crowd by quoting and forcing discussion. wasnt quite what I was going for. No I didnt experience the overpowering hate or love of the book. it was average at best lol