What is the best book you ever read?Tell us a little about it.?

Question

Try to make me wont to read it.

Answer 1

It is very hard to reccommend a book to someone else if you do not know their tastes, but I will give it a go!

My favorite book ever is Watchers by Dean Koontz. He is an excellent author, and this is by far my favorite of all of his books. It follows a man who is having a rough go of it, and meets a very interesting dog. They eventually meet a woman who joins their little adventure, and the stuff that happens is just incredible. The dog is probably the best part of the book - I really don't want to put too much detail here because it is just best to discover the intricacies of this one on your own.

I love love love Dean Koontz, and have read all of his books, and have many other favorites (Dark Rivers of the Heart, Lightning, etc) but another great series that you would like from him are the Christopher Snow books. Fear Nothing, and Sieze the Night. OH! Also, the Odd Thomas Series - what a great series of books, I think you will really like themn as well ... Odd Thomas, Forever Odd and Brother Odd ... very very good reads. You are almost sad to reach the end of the novel because that means you have to leave the characters whom you have just met and gotten to know ...

James Patterson is a good read, and I also enjoy Jeffrey Deaver (he wrote the Bone Collector, which was made into a movie starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie) ... both authors have a penchant for twists and surprises that keep you on your toes.

If you are into Fantasy, the DragonLance books are very good, as are the Terry Brooks series of Shannara - I could not stop reading those.

Another great series that I was only recently introduced to are the Harry Dresden novels (which were just recently made into a Sci-Fi series ... although it does not do the books justice exactly) by Jim Butcher. Although they center around wizards and magic, they are not typical of that genre, and even people who are not into that sort of book would definitely like them. He is a gritty detective who is all too human, and easy to relate to. You can't help but like him, and the books are excellent!

These are all great books, try one, try all ... I think you will enjoy them!

Answer 2

Does that mean I have to choose just 1 book then! Now that will be difficult. But ok, this is one of the best:-

Ties That Bind, Ties That Break by Lensey Namioka

It's 1911 and 4 year old Ailin is trapped, she is strong willed and a free spirit, her Father is modern and encourages he freedom while her mother and Grandmother want to break her by binding her feet so she can marry well. Ailin is the 3rd daughter, her eldest sister already married and the 2nd sister prepares to wed soon. Ailin will be a pioneer, by 12 her world is falling apart, her father dies and her uncle has no time for girls - especially when they are unmarriable. Ailin is offered an opportunity to make her own money but will she have the strength and courage to leave her family behind and stand on her own feet?

Answer 3

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling is absolutely fantastic, it makes me sad to think I've only got two more books left to read before I'm finished with the series.

The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis, are also some of the most fantastic books I've ever read.

The Inheritance Trilogy by Christopher Paolini (You've probably heard of them or seen the movie "Eragon") are also great books.

The above are all fantasy-fiction books.

"The Oath" by Frank Peretti is more of a suspense-genre I suppose, it's a fantastic novel, I would recommend to anyone.

Answer 4

The Compiled Works of Carl Jung.

This is actually a condensation of "The Complete Works of Carl Jung" which is actually an 18 book series spanning his entire life's work. The Compiled Works is an abridged version covering his most popular works along with essays and annotation regarding the implications of his work.

By far, the most comprehensive study on psychology I've ever encountered. I learned more from this one book than I did in two years of psychology classes.

Answer 5

I loved The Hobbit. It is the book before Lord of the Rings. It had great characters. I loved Bilbo. He wanted to stay home so bad but he got dragged along on an adventure to take back some gold that a dragon had stolen. Along the way Bilbo found a magic ring that made him invisible.

I loved it so much that I read it 13 times!

Answer 6

One of the best books I've ever read is Naguib Mahfouz's "The Cairo Trilogy" (no one mentioned this title). Mr Mahfouz was the 1988 Nobel Prize recipient, the only one in the Arab world, and passed on in 2006 in his grand age at 95. First he wrote the Trilogy in Arabic in three novels which you can buy separately in paperbacks, namely: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire and Sugar Street.
If you want a hardcover, it's published by Alfred A. Knopf in New York in the Everyman's Library series.
I didn't mean to read this novel last year but I thought then his fame as a Nobel Prize winner should guarantee his literary masterpiece and it didn't disappoint me, I enjoyed reading it from page 1 to page 1300+. Thanks to the great four-member team of translators who did a fantastic job. One must read this novel if he/she wants to better understand Muslim culture, family affairs, political crisis under the British rule, paternal love and conflicts, etc. It covers the period of the British imperialism, then World WarI to World WarII.

Answer 7

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While the characters are not the most remarkable part of the game, the graphics and the interface are some of the features that the players usually like of this game.
It's my favourite game.

Answer 8

From the classics..."Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte....
"Wicca, A Guide For The solitary Practioner"...by Scott Cunningham....now that book was life changing for me!
For a great thriller Dean Koontz , "The Taking".... It was the best written, scariest, most thought provoking novel i have ever read!

Answer 9

Cities of Gold is the most memorable book that I have ever read: It tells of a writer who goes to find the rumored cities that Cortez was supposed to find. He hired a local southwest native who supposedly knew how to handle horses, and they set off thru the wilds to follow the reputed trail the explorers used centuries ago.

The antics with the horses caught in the bushes, running off, the cook not knowing how to cook, the horse handler not knowing about horses is humorously put. And the local stories about each place as they travelled thru Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma were priceless: stories of gunslingers, town massacres, fights between sheep ranchers and the encroaching cattlemen--stories of Indian legends and geology and anthropology of the indiginous peoples and how they now eke out a living, thoroughly enjoyable and a wealth of information. I set it out of my bookcase again, promising to read it once more! (3 cowboys have borrowed it and enjoyed it as well!)jbu

Answer 10

I don't just like a book, it's a series called "The Redwall Series" I know, it's only a bunch of animals fighting against another bunch, but it tells us how we should show our character in life and how we should always love one another. In each of these books, animals die, but the good always win. Sometimes the bad guys almost win, then a huge army of good animals come and kill all the bad ones. It had a whole lot of suspense. I only recommend it to those who love animals and long books