hi, What's the best book you've ever read?

Question

Please no Da Vinci Code, I am french and I want to discover American literature.

Hi cameron, your french is good compared to my terrible english.

Hello,

Thanks for you answer, i will follow your advices.

Thanks to those who answered in french, merci beaucoup.

I let you vote, because choose a best answer will not be fair.

Answer 1

IF you like horror...be sure to check out anything written by the author...Dean Koontz....if you are looking for love/drama go for Nora Roberts, her trilogys are great

Answer 2

The best book I've ever read has to be The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, followed closely by To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I'd also recommend Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. A Separate Peace by John Knowles is also worth looking into.

Answer 3

Hands-down, the best book written in America in the past 20 years is called "Youth in Revolt" by CD Payne. As proof of my bold statement, I offer the following story:

The book is basically a sex farce about a 14-year-old boy who is totally infatuated with a girl from out of town. Both are the intellectual equals of the Berkley professor who wrote the book, and it is written at a graduate-student comrehension level. I gave the book to my ex'es little brother for his 14th birthday. He owned three guns and a car and had never read so much as a comic strip, let alone a sophisticated book. It was so funny, though, that not only did he read it ten times, he gave it to all his farmer friends and they all read it too. I taught an entire town's bad kids more language skills with one book than ten years of school. There is a laugh on every page. Enjoy it.

Answer 4

My favorite american author is Mark Twain, but as an american, I must admit I prefer Dostoevsky, Dickens, Jane Austen, Tolkien. Best book? Probably Crime and Punishment or the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the Hobbit, or Wind in the Willows.

Answer 5

i fell in love with Catcher in the Rye by J. D Salinger and To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee...
but the book that made me fell in love with literature is Phantom of the Opera by Geston Leroux but i only read the english version since i dont know a word of french. and i'm malaysian...

Answer 6

One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest par Ken Kesey.

C'est mon livre préféré, pas de question. L'histoire est au propos d'un criminel qui est mis dedans une institution mentale. C'est un peu litéraire mais très interessante.

(Yeah, my French is really bad too.)

Answer 7

Le meilleur livre que je jamais ai lu est To kill a mocking bird par Harper Lee
My french is really bad.

Answer 8

Goldie Hawn's "Biography", called: "A Lotus Grows In The Mud",.... she has had such a, "Fasinating, fun, scary, Vulnerable, life!!!" This book had me laughing, crying, and just flat-out, to the point to where I didn't want to put it down!! EXCELLENT Book!!! Very well written!! She must have really gone to some "Fabulous, editor's, and such!!" Because, I highly recommend that one, to the whole world!!! I love, "Biography's !!!" And have read, many over the years, but her's wise the icing on the cake!! Trust me on this one!!! Smile!!! Great Question hun!!!

Answer 9

Bonjour, mon roman préféré, devrait être "Leap of Faith" par Danielle Steel. C'est un livre écrit au sujet de l'amour. Seulement lu lui si vous voulez un expeirence heartwreching.
Elizabeth Sullivan (I love speaking french)

Answer 10

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. Loaded with sybolism and meaning. Amazing book.

Answer 11

The Giver by Lois Lowry.
Short, powerful, thought-provoking. Makes you appreciate life, but not in a depressing way.