The best book you've ever read?

I liked Of Mice and Men. It was a very good book - well written, with good "feeling" for the characters.

Cormac McCarthy writes some books with some similarities to it, so if you like Steinbeck he's worth checking out too.

EDIT: Just seen that somebody suggested Holes. Fantastic book :)
 
With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge, read it about 2 years ago over a Xmas and couldn't put it down, loved every minute of reading that. I have leant it out to a mate and I am unlikely to see it again which is a shame! I think I will have to buy it again. Just couldn't put it down.
 
Stumble Bum said:
For me personally, last year I read a book called 'Eight Lives Down' by Chris Hunter. A real life account of being a bomb disposal officer in Iraq or Afganistan. it's was one of them and I simply couldn't put it down and reallllly didn't want to finish it. Cost me 1$ in Australia and was easily the best book i've ever read. Bargain.
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My wife bought me this last xmas and i agree, its a great read. Non fiction like this i read a lot of, although i don't get as much time as i would like to read...stuff by Stephen Ambrose is always good as well. I'm currently reading Helmet For My Pillow by Robert Leckie which is the account of Guadalcanal 'The Pacific' was based around.

Fiction, for me my fave would be the Lord of The Rings i think.
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Castiel said:
I have read WOT over and over during the past decade. Fantastic series for the fantasy buff. Just finished Towers of Midnight, excellent.
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Yup, it's excellent - I'm about 60 pages from the end of ToM (read it in under a week :(), so don't spoil it for me! I'm a big fan of the series, and the way in which it goes so much more into depth regarding the politics of the world, and its nations' various leaders/hierarchies/traditions than anything else. It's long, but it gives it a remarkable feeling of being alive.
 
I want to read WoT really badly. However, when I get one, I will inevitably buy the whole series, which looks like it will set me back rather a large amount :(


Anyway, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell (Susanna Clarke) and Neuromancer (William Gibson) are two books that I would heavily recommend.

Other than those two, the book I have probably read the most times is the Zombie Survival Guide :D.
 
manic111 said:
Yup, it's excellent - I'm about 60 pages from the end of ToM (read it in under a week :(), so don't spoil it for me! I'm a big fan of the series, and the way in which it goes so much more into depth regarding the politics of the world, and its nations' various leaders/hierarchies/traditions than anything else. It's long, but it gives it a remarkable feeling of being alive.
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Read them one after the other, it makes better sense and you realise things you missed before...like who killed Asmodean for example...;)
 
Fellowship of the Ring.

I first read it while at school, where the library only had Lord of the Rings available as separate books. As a result I still view LoTR as three very distinct acts and the Two Towers and Return of the King just don't hit the same spot for me as the first part does.


The first work of fiction I've read in the last couple of years is American Psycho, which was quite extraordinary. :eek:
 
One book is very tough/impossible to pick. To be different i'll choose a non-fiction one. Stalingrad by Antony Beevor. Its a history book that reads as well/better than most fiction. An incredible narrative style.
 
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The Picture of Dorian Gray for a single book is probably my favourite, but I really like the Sherlock Holmes stories as well.

1984 was the book that got me started reading classics so deserves a mention as well.
 
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