what is the best book you have ever read?

Question

please give the name and the story's summary. thanx

Answer 1

'The Autumn of the Patriarch' - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
'Desperation' - Stephen King
'Memoranda' - Jeffrey Ford
'The Castle' - Franz Kafka

Existentialism and surrealism the best I've read anywhere.

Answer 2

The answer will depend upon my mood at the time. So I will just list some of my faves.

For SciFi I like David Webber. His Honnor Harrington charactor is quite good. Webber does space opera. His work owes a lot to the Hornblower mold, although his charactors wage war from the command chair, rather than the quarter deck. Good, technically believable and good, in deapth charactors.

Horror ish, I quite like the Annita Blake series or at least the earlier ones. The latter stories, if she isn't bonking anything without a pulse, she is shooting it. Another author has done similar and I am getting into her work (A Fist Full of Charms. For a Few Charms More, etc.) These are alternate reality stories with vampires, werewolfs, etc..

Bernard Cornwall is good for historical. I quite like alternative history as well. Guns of the South was quite good, detailing the possible cause of events if time travellers were to deliver AK47s, by the case load, to Robert E Lees Confederate troups. The same author did a more plausable series examining the possible chain of events, if the South had won.

David Gemmell, who died recently, is one of my favourate sword and scorcery authors. However, there are a great many authors, whose work I have sampled and liked, but have only ever written one book. The Wheel of Time is another good series in this Genre, although it is going on a bit (Different author) as it is now at about book 12.

Unfortunately, I have read quite a lot and so my tastes are quite eclectic.

Hope this helps.

Luck

Answer 3

Alone on a wide wide sea by Michael Morpurgo.

hes a 60 yr old mad telling his story of how when he was a child he was seperated from his sis kitty. he gets taken to austtralia and put on farm at the age o5 i think. he is a slave he meets some good people and when hes older has a daughter and plans a trip bak to england to find his long lost sister and find our what the key means (when he left his sis she gave him a key- he calls it the lucky key)

but we he make the journey
that was a bit about the story
heres the blurb from the book:

THERE WERE DOZENS OF US ON THE SHIP, BOYS, GIRLS. WE WERE OF TO AUSTRALIA, IT MIGHT AS WELL BEEN THE MOON.

Orphaned in WW11, Arthur is separated from his sister and sent to the other side of the world. There his extraordanary journey continues as his friend Marty Survive brutal captivity on a working farm find a new family with eccentic Aunty Meg and her animals, and discover their talent for designing yachts.

Sixty years later, Arthur's Daunghter Allie sets sail single-handed in a yacht sesignded by her father, derermind to find his long los sister in england. Can her family LOve stretch across time and the vastness of the oceans? And will threads of Arthurs life finally come together

hope you read this book

Answer 4

Andersonvill by Mackinlay Kantor. Story of captured Union soldiers interred in a horrific prison camp at Andersonvill, Ga. Based on a true incident in the Civil War. A class CW book.

Answer 5

umm, well The Alex Rider series awas good by Anthony Horowitz, It's about a spy that is 14, and is forced to do theses different mission. it's full of action. The books in this series are Stormbreaker, Scorpia, Point Blank, Eagle Strike, and one more that i can't think of.

Answer 6

anything by Ted Bell or Dan Brown! Ted has a main character similiar but much cooler than James Bond, and Brown's books are very hard to put down. Read these and enjoy!

Answer 7

I don't have a "best." They have all been good. I love the Harry Potter books.
I really love "The Scarlet Pimpernel." Here is a link to more information on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Pimpernel
I also love "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen and it is my all-time favorite. I really love the main characters. http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/pride/summary.html for a brief plot overview.

Answer 8

Shogun.

Answer 9

Varjak Paw by S.F. Said.
Also 'Of mice and men' is fantastic as well.