The Best Book

[zplsoccer]

Ok i'm not a big fan or reading a book. But there are a few out there that are really good.

I think the best book out there right now is "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card. It is a sicfi/fatasy type of book but its by far the best book i have ever read. There are also 3 books after it, and 3 books are a type of parallel novel.

Another really good book and series is "The Dark is Rising", by Susan Cooper, there are also 5 books after it, these books are a little more geard to a younger type of people (ie 13-18) but are still very good.

So those are the books that i think are the best, what do u think?

[Joel]

For Books, I recommend Edgar Allan Poe
"The Raven" and "Black Cat"

[Orgone_Man]

if you like horror and twisted surrealistic stuff, then check out HP Lovecraft. He blows EA Poe out of the water imho. Of course, it all depends on what you like...


btw, has anyone read the belgariad? I think I might quit reading it b/c I really don't like the way that the author writes. WAY too much dialogue...

[Joel]

have to check that, thanks

[Nat_roy]

Read the Sword of Truth Series by Terry Goodkind. Great fantasy books.

[dlinkwit27]

i like "the libray card" and "maniac magee" also good is my. potters penguins, and my poppers purple house.

who said the only good books were older aged books? NOT ME!

the ender series is good, so is teh earthen (i forget teh title) series by him.

[dirkdeftly]

enders game = r4wk.

tho i am a big fan of the harry potter series. :hides:

[FesterHead]

"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton (Contributor), Richard Phillips Feynman

"What Do You Care What Other People Think?" has been my motto since I've read it. Although, the wife has to remind me every once in awhile.

[indicavia]

I have to say that the very best book ever in history is the Bible! it tells you the truth. (yeah, i know most of you will disagree, but that doesn't change the fact )
besides that one i love nineteenaightyfour by George Orwell. ok it's not that original as your suggestions but it's great. and of course Lord of the rings and Hitchhikers Guide.
Merley(sp?) Christianity is a really good book were C. S. Lewis tells about why he was very atheist and how he after thinking logicly(sp?) he had to believe that there is a god, even though he didn't want to. he was a really good writer and thinker.
and i like some norwegian books i'm sure you havn't heard of.. Kabalmysteriet - Jostein Gaarder, Mengele Zoo - Gert Nygårdshaug, Beatles - Lars Saabye Christensen
and, no, they are not "christian books"
I guess you think i'm stupid, i havn't even heard about your books..

[Quack]

"THe catcher in the rye" is one of the best that i've read in highschool and also "love story" it's sad.

[binary hero]

[completley offtopic]OM - i just clicked the link in your sig.

i love it. that looks fantastic. have signed up to the newsletter

[ryan]

The Diary of Anne Frank!..

I also enjoyed Holes, To Kill a mockingbird, and Farenhiet 451.

[SSJ4 Gogitta]

Streaks in the Sand by Peter Dragon
Peeping Through the Doorhole by Semore Legg
Rushes to the Bathroom by Willie Makeit and Betty Dont

[mark]

the Discworld series, lord of the rings, etc

[dlinkwit27]

have no fearatero. i like the harry potter series as well didn't liek to kill a mockingbird tooo much tho.

[Xerxes]

Asimov: Foundation

Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead

[anubis2003]

You took one of mine Xerxes.

I like Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand a lot.
Also, LOTR and The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
Timeline by Michael Chrichton
The Sideways Stories from Wayside School

[d0rk]

"Great Expectations"- Charles Dickens
"To Kill A Mocking bird"- Harper Lee
"Black Sunday"- Thomas Harris
"Silence of the Lambs"- Thomas Harris
"Hannible"- Thomas Harris
"Red Dragon"- Thomas Harris
The whole Left Behind series (10 books so far, all over 400 and under 500 pages. Finished all 10 in just over 2 weeks ...should be 13 total after new ones come out)- Tim Lahaye, Jerry B. Jenkins
"Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal"- Christopher Moore.....Ok I recommend this book to absolutly anyone! No matter what your religion is. Its about Jesus going through life as a child into adulthood with his friend Biff. They travel througout the middle east, coming across concubines, and other stuff. Its f-ing hilarious!

Other than those, none I can think of hehe.

[d0rk]

btw....Favorite Book

[anubis2003]

Yeah, this has been asked several times before now.

[Orgone_Man]

Originally posted by binary hero
[completley offtopic]OM - i just clicked the link in your sig.
i love it. that looks fantastic. have signed up to the newsletter

[Joel]

did you know Gabriel García Márquez?
"Cien años de soledad"

[ryan]

"Cask of the Amontillado" by Edgar Allen Poe - Is a great short story.

[zplsoccer]

I know most of u know that this ? has been asked before, but between then and now, i'm sure a lot of books have been read, so people's opioin might have changed

Another good book is Dune

[BMWboy]

I like just about anything by Tom Clancy.
also LOTR, and (I know this is way below my reading level) I have a complete set of the Mossflower series of book by Brian Jacques. also, SOME, not all Star Trek Books.

[Orgone_Man]

Originally posted by BMWboy
I like just about anything by Tom Clancy.
also LOTR, and (I know this is way below my reading level) I have a complete set of the Mossflower series of book by Brian Jacques. also, SOME, not all Star Trek Books.

would you be interested in purchasing my tom clancy books? I have a bunch and will sell them fairly cheap (like 2-3 dollars a book). Of course, you would have to be within the continental US for it to be worth it.

[zplsoccer]

Originally posted by BMWboy
I like just about anything by Tom Clancy.
also LOTR, and (I know this is way below my reading level) I have a complete set of the Mossflower series of book by Brian Jacques. also, SOME, not all Star Trek Books.

Hey i have read two of the books in that series by brian jacques, there pretty good

[fwgx]

Thought As a System - David Bohm
On Dialogue - David Bohm
A Brief history of Time - Stephen Hawkin
Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky
Three roads to Quantum Gravity - Lee Smolin

Those are some of my favourites.

[Sparky!]

The Hyperion series by Dan Simmons is an excellent read. It's a little bit sci/fi, and a little bit fantasy (sing to tune of famous Donny & Marie song! )

dlinkwit27 - you're thinking of the "Homecoming" series by OSC. Good stuff.

If you can get your hands on Orson Scott Card's Maps in a Mirror get it. It's a collection of short stories that are fantastic. There's a wide range of genre's represented: sci/fi, fantasy, mystery, some religious stories for children he did many years ago, etc. Most of it is from very early in his career and shows what an astonishing imagination he has. Some of the stories are just plain bizarre and/or twisted!

[dlinkwit27]

Originally posted by Sparky!
dlinkwit27 - you're thinking of the "Homecoming" series by OSC. Good stuff.

thats the name of it! very good series! poor overlord. its dying

[eleet-2k2]

George Orwell's 1984 was an awesome book!

[dlinkwit27]

i've onyl ever gotten to page 32 in that book. i was at a track meet and stole it form some girl on antoehr team. i only got to page 32 before the meet was over tho. up to that page was cool tho!

[anubis2003]

You should go buy it. It is an awesome book. Very interesting.

[jarsonic]

Bible.

- `jars

[BMWboy]

Originally posted by zplsoccer
Hey i have read two of the books in that series by brian jacques, there pretty good

I didn't mean to say they were bad, it's just that they are about a 5th or 6th grade reading level. and also, I've had a reading level equal to that of a college senior since I was in 6th grade(or so the school tests said), so by the time I started reading them, they were below my reading level, and now that I'm 19 they are way below my reading level(but I still read them). to give you a hint at what a college reading level is, I read "Hunt for Red October" in 5th grade for a book report.

[zplsoccer]

Originally posted by BMWboy
I didn't mean to say they were bad, it's just that they are about a 5th or 6th grade reading level. and also, I've had a reading level equal to that of a college senior since I was in 6th grade(or so the school tests said), so by the time I started reading them, they were below my reading level, and now that I'm 19 they are way below my reading level(but I still read them). to give you a hint at what a college reading level is, I read "Hunt for Red October" in 5th grade for a book report.

i would agree there at a lower level, and i can read way above that (in 6th grade i read "little women") but just b/c a book level is lower does not mean its bad

[BMWboy]

like i said, they are great books, but they are nowhere near as taxing on the brain as "Hunt For Red October"(which, because this thread made me think about it, I'm reading again) or "Red Storm Rising"

[zplsoccer]

true, true, but some times its good to read a little below ur level just for a brake, and some times u want somthing that is chalenge