Mine would be
Red Dragon, Angela's Ashes, the Strange case Of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde, and The Shining.
2007-02-09 04:24:42 · 52 answers · asked by Dustbowl Blues 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The 1979 Ford Cortina Service manual.
2007-02-09 04:29:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
I wasn't going to get involved, but can't resist, especially as some of your responders are lying (read the Koran my foot!) and some are mad (Flowers in the Attic is good, but BEST?) and some are wrong (The Golden *** is by Apuleius, not Aristophanes). Ahem.
Best:- The Lord of the Rings. It has got everything, in spades.
Humour: Jeeves Collection, by Wodehouse. Mind you, humour is a personal thing more than anything else.
Classic: The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad. Hard to pick one, but this shades it for me - what a plot!
Prizewining: The Remains of the Day, Ishiguro. Brilliant!
Romantic: Friday's Child, Georgette heyer. Do yourself a real favour and track this one down.
Horror: I Am Legend, Richard Matheson. never met anybody who didn't like this book, ever.
Crime: The Phillip Marlowe books by Raymond Chandler, just edging out Agatha Christie. It must be a guy thing...
Sci-Fi: Ringworld, Larry Niven. Even better then Asimov, no higher praise.
Historical: The Flashman books, George MacDonald Fraser. Highly entertaining and informative.
Factual: London Labour and the London Poor, Henry Mayhew. Nobody ever told it like it is better then him.
Childrens: Harry Potter (I feel soiled saying that! True though)
man I could go on and on...
Cheers, Steve.
2007-02-09 04:53:45 · answer #2 · answered by Steve J 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a similar question to 'If you were stranded on a desert island, what three books would you want to have with you?'
My choices would be, in order:
1. The Bible (because it forms the basis for most of our Western culture, and it tells the road to salvation).
2. The complete works of Shakespeare (because he was so damn entertaining; almost all his plays are still performed today; his sonnets are little works of literary art).
The final book is hard to choose.
There are many books that would be valuable to have. Here are some suggestions:
3. A trade book on home building (might come in handy), or
3. The Golden Bough by Edith Hamilton (this is a book about mythology, both Greek and Roman, and also forms a large part of our culture), or
3. The Metamorphoses by Ovid (another mythology book, originally written in Roman times), or
3. Collected works of Mark Twain, or Charles Dickens, or Edgar Allen Poe, or Earnest Hemmingway. They were all great authors.
I hope these ideas kind of help.
2007-02-09 05:51:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Stand by Stephen King
The original James Bond books by Ian Flemming
War Of The Worlds by H G Wells
Chariots of The Gods by Heinrich Von Daniken
The Carpet Baggers by Harold Robbins
2007-02-09 04:37:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Angela's Ashes was a very good book, I agree, as were Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and just about anything by Stephen King. I also enjoyed Summer Sisters, by Judy Blume, Beach Music and The Prince of Tides, by Patrick Conroy and ANY of the Spencer novels by Robert Parker.
2007-02-09 04:36:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Red Storm Rising, Tom Clancy. The Horseman Riding By, RF Delderfield and the rest of the series. River God, Warlock and Seventh Scroll Wilbur Smith. My Son, My So, Howard Spring.
2007-02-09 04:29:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
On the Road-Jack Kerouac
To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas-Hunter S. Thompson
The Catcher and the Rye-J. D. Salinger
2007-02-09 05:48:43 · answer #7 · answered by TheLizardKing 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini was really good
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Animal Farm - Orwell
All of Elizabeth George's mystery books
2007-02-09 04:53:00 · answer #8 · answered by bugged to death 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Imajica by Clive Barker
The Moon and the Sun by Vonda McIntyre
Cachalot by Alan Dean Foster
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
2007-02-09 04:29:34 · answer #9 · answered by badkitty1969 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs were good, but Hannibal and Hannibal Rising kinda sucked.
The first four books in Stephen King's Dark Tower series were really really good, but then they sucked after that, because he got hit by a van and just wanted to finish before he died.
2007-02-09 04:29:21 · answer #10 · answered by mr_peepers810 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋