Best book?

Question

What is the best book you have ever read? And what book would you recommend for somebody who doesn't have much free time (like one you can just dip in and out of)?

Answer 1

The Lord of the Rings is my favourite book. What I would recommend is Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, you can dip in and out of that to your heart's content and still never figure out what the hell is going on. Apart from people dying, obviously.

Answer 2

For the best book I've ever read, I would probably have to say "Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life" by Anne Lamott (I'm a writer, and obsessed with books about writing).

I'd recommend a good collection of short stories for people that are short on time! There are so many wonderful short story authors out there, and you can just read one story at a time, as your schedule allows.

Answer 3

The best book I've ever read would be Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Or Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta.
In fact I would probably recommend Saving Francesca to a teenage girl. It's easy to read, because you can understand the language. Plus it's an interesting story. And you'll really relate to Francesca because she goes through experiences that girls of her age will recognize.
And there are funny bits, romantic bits, and sad bits. And you'll find Thomas Mackee absolutely hysterical, and just like that guy you sit next to in History...

Answer 4

The best book I ever read is the first book I ever read when I was little. I had read kids books before but the first one with substance is "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls. I have read from that age in the 3rd grade for the rest of my life. That book opened the gift of reading to me. Right now I am reading "America's Constitution" by Akhil Amar.

Answer 5

The Stand by Stephen King -- NOT a dip in & out book, however
try: The Landover series by Terry Brooks the first one is "Magic Kingdom for Sale"

Answer 6

I quite recently found my new fave book! It used to be 'Birdsong' by Sebastian Faulks but since reading 'The Shadow of the Wind' by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, I've changed my mind! It was simply excellent! However, I can also recommend 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime' by Mark Haddon. It's quite a quick read if you haven't got too much time on your hands! Wonderful and unusual!

Answer 7

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. That book might be a little too sophisticated for your fragile mind tho.

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.

Answer 8

If you like to laugh, try reading the series by Janet Evanovich:
One for the Money
Two for the Dough
Three to Get Deadly
Four to Score
she goes up to 12 so far
You can read a page or two, put it down and come back anytime and be transported back to her hilarious world.
She is the best!

Answer 9

It depends if you want something fictitious or real.

The Prophet by Khahil Gibran would be my choice- it reads like poetry but there are some wonderful things in it about life and love, sorrow and joy.

Ive been reading it over and over for nearly 20 years and still find something new in it. You can just read a couple of pages and put it down.

Here's a bit about giving;

You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving."

The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.

They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.

Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and his nights is worthy of all else from you.

And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream.

Answer 10

Junior by Macaulay Culkin. I read it in like less than 3 days and that was only like 20 or 30 minutes a day or something. And I read slow. It's an easy read yet a very good book.