books

[imaginethat]

What's the best book you ever read?

[LoveLife&Laughter]

the Foundation Trilogy

[truckie]

The Magician by Raymond e fiest

[WS]

The best was Magic Mountain - but it is a little inaccessible - the next best was Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf!

[officerripley]

The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri Tepper.

[Snagg]

Depending on what day of the week it may be...

"Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas"

"Catch-22"

"Huckleberry Finn"

"Another Roadside Attraction"

"Slaughterhouse-Five"

"A Brief History Of Time"

"The Grapes Of Wrath"

[Lifesighs]

So many wonderful books out there...I think the one that sticks in my mind was Rag doll. It was a book about a couple who both wanted exactly the same thing but were doing the opposite because they thought they were pleasing the other, non communication of deep feelings, the result was the loss of their cherished daughter and the ruination of their lives.

I learned how important it is to communicate your real feelings.

[CaliforniaNow]

I just keep on reading but for surprisingingly good entertainment, it's still Iberia by James Michener.

On the old "I heart this book" level - Wuthering Heights

More recent books - The Sea by John Banville

[Shadowman]

Finished reading Philosophers Behaving Badly recently and that was pretty good and now am reading an older one theorizing that Napoleon was poisoned called The Murder of Napoleon. But the best? So many, too difficult to answer.

[TeeBubbaDee]

I'm with Shadowman, too many favorites to pick from. But I'm going to use this thread to read some of everybody's else's favs. 

Except Wuthering Heights. (My apologies CaliforniaNow, ;-) been there, done that, and am not gonna do that again)

It's been a long time, but The Old Man And The Sea was a biggie when I was a teen.

[Shadowman]

I did not mind reading Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë that much but I had suck on the barrel of a loaded pistol to force myself to finish Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. I think think they even had another sister that wrote. I just could not ever bring myself to read any Jane Austen though. I am afraid I would squeeze the trigger on Sense and Sensibility.  I did work my way through Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged a few year's back and it is highly overrated, in both literature and politics, all 1100 pages or whatever that was. I believe someone mentioned it, but the Brief History of Almost Everything is good by Bill Bryson.

[TeeBubbaDee]

[Johnnieboy]

When in Jr. High school I read a book titled "Sharks are Caught at Night" by Francois Poli. It's the story of a Frenchman who travels to Cuba and nearby Carribean islands in search of shark fishermen. Each chapter is an adventure and depicts the history and life of the people who lived in those places in the '50's and prior. Fifteen years ago I looked for a copy on Amazon,com and actually found one. It wasn't cheap, but I re-read it every few years or so. Facinating. At least to me.