Best Book That You Ever Read?

[SamSneed]

yep we still friends, just don't talk much. I notice all 7th day kids/teens have a different aura...hard to explain...they are kinda etheral.

Her parents were always kind to her friends...but they were kinda weird...just packed up and moved to the woods of NC 12 years back...she ended up dropping out and marrying young as hell to some dude that was 18 and she was 21...they were building a log cabin. I think her parents got tangled up with the wrong kinda church people.

They were nice but a lil off. She wasted her life taking care of them and the siblings were allowed to prosper.

I have that book in my garage. I will dig it up...

i think they left too soon,its not a bad church.i have the same idea to just leave and go back to nature,not like a cave man or some nomad but to get away from the city.thats why i like to go deer hunting its so peaceful in the woods just nature and you the way it was meant to be.i'm out once they start that chip shit,i was in the service and did stuff/saw things that gave me nightmares and when i go hunting/campin i sleep better. let me know what you think when your done with it,always wonder what folk who are not sda think of it.

 

[Gilgamesh]

So Far, the list is pretty lame.
Best Books, Guaranteed:

Ender's Game
2001: A Space Odyssey(Even though written after movie, much better )
Casino( The book that the movie was based)
Godfather
Land of Opportunity( about the Detroit Chamber brother's drug ring)
Orion Series(By Ben Bova, especially the first Orion and last)
Animal Farm( May no longer apply and simple read, but still good as hell)
Ethan Frome( Supposed to be a classic)

 

[Gilgamesh]

best book i have read and only recommend to an open mind not one stuck in its ways

I bought it, but haven't read it.

 

[Ervis]

Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe. Probably the first 600+ page book I ever read and it is incredibly hard to put down.

 

[nyeleman]

My best friend gave me this book when we were in high school. She was devout 7th day Adventist.

What is that book about? Never read it, but still have it.

Don't bother with it just read about the EDICT OF MILAN OR CONSTANTINES JEWISH DEICIDE. It's an SDA take on information thats already out there but with usual Ellen Gould white twisted logic. It focuses on something which Most SDA's don't know already happened are expecting to happen.

 

[PrettyToney]

 

[APOPHIS]

My best friend gave me this book when we were in high school. She was devout 7th day Adventist.

What is that book about? Never read it, but still have it.

It's about decoding and understanding revelations to rationalize biblical prophecies rather than using sane logic to form your own perspective regarding the book's use of symbolism. It's basically Christians pointing fingers at other Christians about who's worshiping "God" the right way and how the "rapture is imminent and inevitable.

 

[coolie569]

Any thing by Octavia Butler(R.I.P.) But my favorites are Wild Seed, and Lilith's Brood.

I'm telling you if you like Sci-Fi then you will love anything by her.

 

[tino]

 

[pdlc]

good thread

 

[A$AP SaVaGe]

bump

 

[Ill Paragraph]

Peace,

LOVE book threads. In no particular order:

The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon
From Superman to Man - J.A. Rogers
Watership Down - Richard Adams
Indispensable Enemies - Walter Karp
Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond
Souls of Black Folk - W.E.B. DuBois
Getting to Yes - Roger Fisher and William Ury
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

 

[godofwine]

Thinning The Predators by Daina Graziunas & Jim Starlin (If someone is able to get the UNABRIDGED audiobook for me I would owe them big time)

This book is about a guy who goes on a 7 year spree of killing serial killers and there is an FBI Agent trying to catch him! Awesome. You can find this book for cheap online.

Tell No One was an awesome book. The past will haunt you.

Jurassic Park I can re-read it once every few years.

 

[dHustla]

The Sicilian by Mario Puzo

 

[A$AP SaVaGe]

thanks guys..I'm a try to make that trip to the library tommorrow to pick a few of these books up, starting wit the ones mentioned the most.

 

[greygoose]

saved

 

[A$AP SaVaGe]

bump

 

[Ill Paragraph]

^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

[mdr2013]

c/s

 

[daakcyde]

best book i have read and only recommend to an open mind not one stuck in its ways

man this book is LONG AS FUCK!!! and that chapter where the john galt dude is talking on the radio explaining his philosophy is insufferable. good book (tho she caricatured the "bad guys" a bit much) but i'd need extended jail time or a gun to my head to pick that book up again

i thought this book was pretty tight:

this too:

 

[Ill Paragraph]

i thought this book was pretty tight:

this too:

Peace,

How could I have forgotten about The Known World. Excellent choice. As is The Black Jacobins. Both of these are on my book shelf. A few more:

A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn (This book really awoke something in me..)
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper - John Allen Paulos
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
The Negro in the Making of America - Benjamin Quarles
The Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe

More to come...

 

[power lord]

the ice & fire books by George r.r. martin. if you like fantasy this is the best .

 

[alexw]

It may be a childrens book, but is continues to be the best book ive ever read:

 

[RasBastard]

Definitely one of the best i ever read also.

But this one here was excellent.
and i almost forgot The Chrysalids.

 

[darth frosty]

man this book is LONG AS FUCK!!! and that chapter where the john galt dude is talking on the radio explaining his philosophy is insufferable. good book (tho she caricatured the "bad guys" a bit much) but i'd need extended jail time or a gun to my head to pick that book up again

DUDE...I thought it was just me. I've always heard how great this book is but everytime I try to read it I cant get past the bitch getting to NY or wherever she was going in the beginning. I even have just john galts speech and I cant crack it (I heard she spent a year working on the speech alone.)

Some of my favorites not mentioned (still got to shout out The Alchemist again.)
Anne Mcaferty's dragon riders of pern series(she is a great sci-fi writer)
Timothy Zahn Star Wars Thrawn trilogy (really should be the next movies.)
Isaac asimov's Foundation series

 

[egatsby]

check my avatar

 

[Darrkman]

 

[starfish]

Loving Donovan by Bernice L McFadden

Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver

Tempest Tales and Killing Johnny Fry: A sexistential novel by Walter Mosley

The Invisible Man Ralph Ellison

Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown

The seventh son by Orson Scott Card

Pimp by Iceberg Slim

Race Matters Cornel West

The Autobiography of Malcom X

Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P Newton

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

Blues Dancing by Sharon McKinney Whetstone

 

[starfish]

check my avatar

one of my fav's too. i meant to list it.

that and the natural bernard malamud

 

[Darrkman]

Soem of my choices:

 

[starfish]

Native Son by James Baldwin

Once you start you won't put it down. Great Summer reading.


I also love WALTER MOSELEY books and ELMORE LEONARD's crime novels.

c/s notes of a native son by baldwin and native son by richard wright.. two thumbs up! i think i might re-read those this summer. good lookin'

 

[patty]

To claim this as the best book you've ever read is very disturbing. but I suppose, to each, his own.

Anyway, my favorites are;

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Republic by Plato
1776 by David McCullough
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

 

[apple slim]

One of the best reads I've experienced is a book by a dude named Guy Johnson, he's the son of Maya Angelou. The book is called "Standing At the Scratchline". Helluv a novel. I recommend it as a must read if you're into novels. Oprah and Magic Johnson need to get together and make a movie or mini series out of this one.

 

[Dallas Bueller]

I don't read a lot of fiction. I read mainly for information purposes. But since cats are posting novels, here's my favorite out of the few novels I've read.

ATLAS SHRUGGED is next on my list though

 

[FIVEFIVE]

Right there witcha plus some:

My Top:

It was entertaining:

Read this book YOUNG. learned a LOT.