I’ve read too many books to know the answer to your question.
My literary cherry was popped by the book, “Dune.”
lolol brocode…. i think @roadlesstaken - @roadlesstaken once showed me that book or a book smiliar, it was quite funny
have to say Sand Child, orr bleak house by dickens
actually…agh i can’t decide
The Itchy & Scratchy Movie: The Novel
Tie between Candy, by Kevin brooks.and Body of a Girl, by Leah Stewart.
Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Tranceded Tragedy
House of leaves is in my top tier, Company of ogres is another one, summerland, I never stop reading so the list goes on and on.
Tender is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Angela’s Ashes and Tis by Frank McCourt
Hmm…that’s a tough question! I think I have a tie between “Until We Have Faces” by C.S. Lewis and “The Everlasting Man” by G.K. Chesterton.
That is a very hard question. I don’t know if any one book really stands out to me. I loved Jane Eyre. Earlier this year I really enjoyed The Hobbit.
The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
@Ancient_Scribe - Till We Have Faces is amazing. And I loved “Orthodoxy” by G.K. Chesterton!
The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien. I’ve read it at least 20 times and it still moves me to tears.
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand or Crime and Punishment by Fydor Dostoyevsky
Don’t think I’ve ever read a book I didn’t want to put down more than “Pilgrims Progress”
Ze Bible, indeedeth! Besides that, Jane Austen’s books. And Anything written about the olden days
@Victoriamisu - I do have that! Good memory. Barney Stinson knows all!
i love the bro code book…. it kinda pertains to women too ya kno
Every book I’ve read by Stephen King. I just finished 11/22/63 and it was amazing!
Gone with the Wind
The ethical slut. Ok, not really, but I couldn’t think of anything else.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee; The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde; Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. It’s too hard to pick just one.
How do I pick just one? Haha. Ummm, I really enjoyed Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff. :)
The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck.
I do believe it was called. let me think. The name escapes me at the moment. Ah yes, it was called. Tits.
The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah..
Oh gosh, too many to narrow it Dow to just one. Probably the two I’ve picked il and read over and over are “Follow the River” and “The Red Heart” by James Alexander Thom. WONDERFUL historical fiction, true stories.
I don’t know if I would say it is the best book I’ve ever read, but I still ponder the book Life of Pi, even months after reading.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is without a doubt
amazing.
Catch 22, I suppose
Right now, I’m thoroughly enjoying Assassin of Gor. The Gorean Saga is really good so far.
Looking for Alaska.
Handmaiden’s Tale. And Harry Potter.
I’ve never read a book that had that big of an impact
A Bend in the Road by Nicholas Sparks
Journey of the heart by Melody Beattie
I rarely read books. I use to read when I was a child (since at school, twice a week for 45 minutes we had slient reading between the ages of 8-11, less in year 6 since towards the end of year 6 focus were most turned of us to get ready for secondary school (age 11-16, than sixth form, college, work etc)
In secondary school each form between years 7-9 had a period on our time table of slient reading taken by a tutor, sometimes we had one to one reading for each student taken by a reader tutor
this was an tutor/teacher who subject was English, sometimes we had less time because we were set homework to do a book reviews now and again on any book of our choice.
Just in case by Meg Rosoff:)
xanga
the melancholy death of oyster boy and other short stories. this book will make you chuckle, then burn your heart with acid. the words aren’t many but the impact is atrociously excellent. tres bien!
The Quran. As for non religious books I really enjoyed the ‘Gormenghast’ novels by Mervyn Peake; amazingly rich in detail and quite engrossing. I also liked ‘The Masters’ by C.P. Snow. There are quite a few more. I find it so hard to pick a favorite.
Who can pick just one? “The Bible,” by God; “Pride and Prejudice,” by Jane Austen; “To Kill a Mockingbird,” by Harper Lee; “North and South,” by Elizabeth Gaskell; “The Diary of a Young Girl,” by Anne Frank… the list goes on.
Les Miserables, or The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
“The Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien, “Game of Thrones” by George R.R. Martin (the best high fantasy writers have double-”r”‘s in their names) and “Ghostwritten” by David Mitchell.
As far as fiction goes, I really liked “Summer Sisters” by Judy Blume. Non-fiction is tough, I couldn’t possibly choose.
@mamabeans - Angela’s Ashes was intense. @BoulderChristina - You’ve reminded me that I need to finish that book!
“Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man” is one book that I give to all women! And I’m a dude. And I know it goes against The Bro Code (which is Awesome), but sometimes Bros don’t care what other Bros think… Also, “The Last Days of Krypton” and “How to Archer”.
Infinite Jest and Pale Fire. Throw in Catcher in the Rye for good measure.
Chilton’s auto repair guide for the 1969 Volkswagen Beetle.
Urgh! I could never choose just ONE!
For an off-the-normal-book-list book of AWESOME, I recommend Zorro by Isabele Allende. It has everything! Sword fights, ships, gypsies, horses, luuuurve…it’s a fun book! So is The Princess Bride. Of course, To Kill a Mockingbird is fantastic. And most of Jane Austen’s books. I enjoyed The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. A Little Princes by Frances Hodgson Burnett is one of my childhood favorites. Like I said, hard to choose just one.
Karl May’s “Winnetou”
@joyouswind - Loved the Princess Bride! It’s such a fun read.
Man.. I really dislike a lot of the books listed above! Lolita for it’s stylistic elegance!
Fight Club .
hands down Atlas Shrugged.
I like Eragon a lot =)
The Republic.
Dictionary, Bible.
My poop has been comming out dark lately. It could be the bananas with spinache I eat in the morning’s as part of a nutritional breakfast. Either way, I used to poop light brown like all the time. And by light, I really do mean light brown. I thought that was unhealthy too. But now, it comes out really dark, and I don’t like it one bit, unless of course, that is the normal healthy color. But I think an average brown is normal, not too dark, not too light. I am a meat eater, but I eat light meats, not the red meats.
I saw Jim Gravy’s recent post with Summer, I thought it was great they are finally together. Damn, Jim’s face was bigger than I thought.
The 1203 is the ultimate strength football cleat that combines the fit, comfort and support larger athletes need with the fast, clean design of a speed cleat.
It’s sooooo hard to pick just one, especially when you’ve read hundreds. My top three would be: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen, and The Help by Kathryn Stockett. All three really stuck with me even after I finished reading them, and of course it doesn’t hurt that two of the three were turned into great movies.
Stephen King’s “The Stand” is definitely one of my all time favorites. Many others across different genres as well, but that one always comes to mind when someone asks this question. I’ve read it multiple times.
The “A Song of Ice and Fire” books
1984
Reading’s for fags.
I mean define best… funniest? sucked me in? most enjoyable?
I’d have to say that the book that had the biggest emotional impact on me was definitely Night by Elie Wiesel. Night terrors started around then, well, because of that book plus watching Schindler’s List…
@Victoriamisu - Props for Dickens, but it’s hard to say what was his best book.
A Tale of Two Cities, Martin Eden, East of Eden, The Dharma Bums, Siddhartha.
probably the last book I read.
@Jenny_Wren - I’ve heard so much about the TBK from my fiction professor! Is it an older text?
This is a no Brainer..Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism.
@seriously_meredith - I’ve wanted to read that for a while but the audiobook is like fifty doll hairs and I can’t steal from that man.
hm, I’ve got a few “Best” books I’ve ever read because i have a few categories of Best:
The best book at opening my mind: The story of B, by Daniel QuinnThe best mindless read: The Sookie Stackhouse series.The best love story: the Harry Potter seriesThe best Vampire story: Christopher Moore’s You Suck TrilogyThe best Mind Fuck: Rant or Survivor or Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk The best story where Jesus is a main character: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore There are more. But you know… =)
Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card
Just read a trilogy called “Lilith’s Brood”. Not sure if it’s my all-time favorite, but it’s the best thing I’ve read all year.
REDEEMING LOVE!!! Francine Rivers
1. The Holy Bible by a variety of writers most if not all are unknown. 2. Slackjaw by Jim Knipfel. 3. How to Recognize Your Saints by Dieto Montiel.(Basically it is a punk rock guide to theology.) 4. Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourt. 5. Anything by Frank Delaney.
The Plague
;
The Stranger
three of the best books i’ve ever read:
the outsiders by s.e. hinton. that was then, this is now by s.e. hinton. crank by ellen hopkins.
<3
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell is easily the most fantastic piece of fiction ever set forth before human eyes.
@Babyboomerjill - ”probably the last book I read”…probably the best answer to the question on naming one’s favorite book. Well done (smile).
The Demon by Hubert Selby Jr.
“The feelings would be remembered, as feelings always are, long after the words and circumstances have passed beyond recall”
Selby is better known for Requiem for a Dream and Last Exit to Brooklyn but it’s The Demon, The Room and Waiting Period that will grab you by the throat and shake you until you feel weak.
For relieve, anything by Willa Cather would serve…My Antonia is her most adored work, in my opinion, but it has company.
For sheer power and impact on the late evolution of man I will always respect Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights of Man and The Age of Reason all by an expatriate excise officer from England, Thomas Paine.
most books i find influential these days are non-fiction, with exception to one, and that’s The Giver. non-fiction books are just more applicable for everyday life than the fictitious ones like outliers by malcolm gladwell or self-help books.
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
@Slag_Runner - thanks, I’m a big reader,too. Come visit my blog sometime. jill
“Lost Boys” by Orson Scott Card may not be the best book I’ve read, but it is the only book I’ve ever read through more than once that had me sobbing at the end, every time (even knowing how it ended.) Nicholas Sparks books, too.
“IT” by Stephen King (com’on, it is only 1093 pages long, ha ha)!
Tuesdays With Morrie
Attacking Faulty Reasoning by T.Edward Damer
Maybe next is the Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
^all of the above! except for To Kill a Mockingbird. haven’t actually read that one. also:
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman The Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson Eighty Days Around the World by Jules Verne
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The Awakening.
The Brothers Karamazov. And..Les Miserables.
How can you beat Alyosha..or Jean Val Jean?
I’ve read too many books to know the answer to your question.
My literary cherry was popped by the book, “Dune.”
lolol brocode…. i think @roadlesstaken - @roadlesstaken once showed me that book or a book smiliar, it was quite funny
have to say Sand Child, orr bleak house by dickens
actually…agh i can’t decide
The Itchy & Scratchy Movie: The Novel
Tie between Candy, by Kevin brooks.and Body of a Girl, by Leah Stewart.
Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Tranceded Tragedy
House of leaves is in my top tier, Company of ogres is another one, summerland, I never stop reading so the list goes on and on.
Tender is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Angela’s Ashes and Tis by Frank McCourt
Hmm…that’s a tough question! I think I have a tie between “Until We Have Faces” by C.S. Lewis and “The Everlasting Man” by G.K. Chesterton.
That is a very hard question. I don’t know if any one book really stands out to me. I loved Jane Eyre. Earlier this year I really enjoyed The Hobbit.
The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
@Ancient_Scribe - Till We Have Faces is amazing. And I loved “Orthodoxy” by G.K. Chesterton!
The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien. I’ve read it at least 20 times and it still moves me to tears.
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand or Crime and Punishment by Fydor Dostoyevsky
Don’t think I’ve ever read a book I didn’t want to put down more than “Pilgrims Progress”
Ze Bible, indeedeth! Besides that, Jane Austen’s books. And Anything written about the olden days
@Victoriamisu - I do have that! Good memory. Barney Stinson knows all!
i love the bro code book…. it kinda pertains to women too ya kno
Every book I’ve read by Stephen King. I just finished 11/22/63 and it was amazing!
Gone with the Wind
The ethical slut. Ok, not really, but I couldn’t think of anything else.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee; The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde; Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. It’s too hard to pick just one.
How do I pick just one? Haha. Ummm, I really enjoyed Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff. :)
The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck.
I do believe it was called. let me think. The name escapes me at the moment. Ah yes, it was called. Tits.
The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah..
Oh gosh, too many to narrow it Dow to just one. Probably the two I’ve picked il and read over and over are “Follow the River” and “The Red Heart” by James Alexander Thom. WONDERFUL historical fiction, true stories.
I don’t know if I would say it is the best book I’ve ever read, but I still ponder the book Life of Pi, even months after reading.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is without a doubt
amazing.
Catch 22, I suppose
Right now, I’m thoroughly enjoying Assassin of Gor. The Gorean Saga is really good so far.
Looking for Alaska.
Handmaiden’s Tale.
And Harry Potter.
I’ve never read a book that had that big of an impact
A Bend in the Road by Nicholas Sparks
Journey of the heart by Melody Beattie
I rarely read books. I use to read when I was a child (since at school, twice a week for 45 minutes we had slient reading between the ages of 8-11, less in year 6 since towards the end of year 6 focus were most turned of us to get ready for secondary school (age 11-16, than sixth form, college, work etc)
In secondary school each form between years 7-9 had a period on our time table of slient reading taken by a tutor, sometimes we had one to one reading for each student taken by a reader tutor
this was an tutor/teacher who subject was English, sometimes we had less time because we were set homework to do a book reviews now and again on any book of our choice.
Just in case by Meg Rosoff:)
xanga
the melancholy death of oyster boy and other short stories. this book will make you chuckle, then burn your heart with acid. the words aren’t many but the impact is atrociously excellent. tres bien!
The Quran. As for non religious books I really enjoyed the ‘Gormenghast’ novels by Mervyn Peake; amazingly rich in detail and quite engrossing. I also liked ‘The Masters’ by C.P. Snow. There are quite a few more. I find it so hard to pick a favorite.
Who can pick just one? “The Bible,” by God; “Pride and Prejudice,” by Jane Austen; “To Kill a Mockingbird,” by Harper Lee; “North and South,” by Elizabeth Gaskell; “The Diary of a Young Girl,” by Anne Frank… the list goes on.
Les Miserables, or The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
“The Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien, “Game of Thrones” by George R.R. Martin (the best high fantasy writers have double-”r”‘s in their names) and “Ghostwritten” by David Mitchell.
As far as fiction goes, I really liked “Summer Sisters” by Judy Blume. Non-fiction is tough, I couldn’t possibly choose.
@mamabeans - Angela’s Ashes was intense.
@BoulderChristina - You’ve reminded me that I need to finish that book!
“Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man” is one book that I give to all women! And I’m a dude. And I know it goes against The Bro Code (which is Awesome), but sometimes Bros don’t care what other Bros think… Also, “The Last Days of Krypton” and “How to Archer”.
Infinite Jest and Pale Fire. Throw in Catcher in the Rye for good measure.
Chilton’s auto repair guide for the 1969 Volkswagen Beetle.
Urgh! I could never choose just ONE!
For an off-the-normal-book-list book of AWESOME, I recommend Zorro by Isabele Allende. It has everything! Sword fights, ships, gypsies, horses, luuuurve…it’s a fun book! So is The Princess Bride.
Of course, To Kill a Mockingbird is fantastic. And most of Jane Austen’s books. I enjoyed The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. A Little Princes by Frances Hodgson Burnett is one of my childhood favorites.
Like I said, hard to choose just one.
Karl May’s “Winnetou”
@joyouswind - Loved the Princess Bride! It’s such a fun read.
@TheMetalAge - Ga! Catcher in the Rye..so good!
Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain.
Frank Peretti’s The Oath is a close second, though!
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy would unquestionably be somewhere near the top of my list.
@maniacsicko - good one
Man.. I really dislike a lot of the books listed above! Lolita for it’s stylistic elegance!
Fight Club
.
hands down Atlas Shrugged.
I like Eragon a lot =)
The Republic.
Dictionary, Bible.
My poop has been comming out dark lately. It could be the bananas with spinache I eat in the morning’s as part of a nutritional breakfast. Either way, I used to poop light brown like all the time. And by light, I really do mean light brown. I thought that was unhealthy too. But now, it comes out really dark, and I don’t like it one bit, unless of course, that is the normal healthy color. But I think an average brown is normal, not too dark, not too light. I am a meat eater, but I eat light meats, not the red meats.
I saw Jim Gravy’s recent post with Summer, I thought it was great they are finally together. Damn, Jim’s face was bigger than I thought.
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It’s sooooo hard to pick just one, especially when you’ve read hundreds. My top three would be: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen, and The Help by Kathryn Stockett. All three really stuck with me even after I finished reading them, and of course it doesn’t hurt that two of the three were turned into great movies.
Stephen King’s “The Stand” is definitely one of my all time favorites. Many others across different genres as well, but that one always comes to mind when someone asks this question. I’ve read it multiple times.
The “A Song of Ice and Fire” books
1984
Reading’s for fags.
I mean define best… funniest? sucked me in? most enjoyable?
I’d have to say that the book that had the biggest emotional impact on me was definitely Night by Elie Wiesel. Night terrors started around then, well, because of that book plus watching Schindler’s List…
@Victoriamisu - Props for Dickens, but it’s hard to say what was his best book.
A Tale of Two Cities, Martin Eden, East of Eden, The Dharma Bums, Siddhartha.
probably the last book I read.
@Jenny_Wren - I’ve heard so much about the TBK from my fiction professor! Is it an older text?
This is a no Brainer..Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism.
@seriously_meredith - I’ve wanted to read that for a while but the audiobook is like fifty doll hairs and I can’t steal from that man.
hm, I’ve got a few “Best” books I’ve ever read because i have a few categories of Best:
The best book at opening my mind: The story of B, by Daniel QuinnThe best mindless read: The Sookie Stackhouse series.The best love story: the Harry Potter seriesThe best Vampire story: Christopher Moore’s You Suck TrilogyThe best Mind Fuck: Rant or Survivor or Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
The best story where Jesus is a main character: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
There are more. But you know… =)
Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card
Just read a trilogy called “Lilith’s Brood”. Not sure if it’s my all-time favorite, but it’s the best thing I’ve read all year.
REDEEMING LOVE!!! Francine Rivers
1. The Holy Bible by a variety of writers most if not all are unknown.
2. Slackjaw by Jim Knipfel.
3. How to Recognize Your Saints by Dieto Montiel.(Basically it is a punk rock guide to theology.)
4. Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourt.
5. Anything by Frank Delaney.
The Plague
;
The Stranger
three of the best books i’ve ever read:
the outsiders by s.e. hinton.
that was then, this is now by s.e. hinton.
crank by ellen hopkins.
<3
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell is easily the most fantastic piece of fiction ever set forth before human eyes.
@Babyboomerjill - ”probably the last book I read”…probably the best answer to the question on naming one’s favorite book. Well done (smile).
The Demon by Hubert Selby Jr.
“The feelings would be remembered, as feelings always are, long after the words and circumstances have passed beyond recall”
Selby is better known for Requiem for a Dream and Last Exit to Brooklyn but it’s The Demon, The Room and Waiting Period that will grab you by the throat and shake you until you feel weak.
For relieve, anything by Willa Cather would serve…My Antonia is her most adored work, in my opinion, but it has company.
For sheer power and impact on the late evolution of man I will always respect Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights of Man and The Age of Reason all by an expatriate excise officer from England, Thomas Paine.
‘Tuesdays With Murray’ is one of the bests
‘TUESDAYS WITH MURRAYS’ is one of the BESTS
@P0RCELA1N_D0LL - will read it just ’cause you rec’d it
most books i find influential these days are non-fiction, with exception to one, and that’s The Giver.
non-fiction books are just more applicable for everyday life than the fictitious ones like outliers by malcolm gladwell or self-help books.
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
@Slag_Runner - thanks, I’m a big reader,too. Come visit my blog sometime. jill
“Lost Boys” by Orson Scott Card may not be the best book I’ve read, but it is the only book I’ve ever read through more than once that had me sobbing at the end, every time (even knowing how it ended.) Nicholas Sparks books, too.
“IT” by Stephen King (com’on, it is only 1093 pages long, ha ha)!
Tuesdays With Morrie
Attacking Faulty Reasoning by T.Edward Damer
Maybe next is the Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
^all of the above! except for To Kill a Mockingbird. haven’t actually read that one. also:
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
The Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
Eighty Days Around the World by Jules Verne
etc…