What is the best book you ever read?

Question

Did it affect you or yr views in any way?

Pls give me the name of the author and a brief idea about the book.....

Thanks

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@ Everybody: Alhamdulelah i am a muslim and Quran is not even to be compared to anything written by mankind.

So pls i mean work of fiction or even biographies. People i am looking for some good reading material.......

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.@ Rozy: Hi hun, missed u around here, hope yr fine.....

Answer 1

I'd have to say the Holy Quran of course! But I know you mean books in general.

I'll think about it and get back to you!

OK, I have been thinking and here are my favorites:

-The Granada Trilogy by Radwa Ashour. It is about the last Days of the Arabs in Andalusia and the fall of Granada. It is so heart touching and beautiful, definitely a must read. What really hurt is that it seemed as if I were reading about our contemporary history now, not about historical events hundreds of years ago. History doesn't repeat itself, we repeat history, and apparently we never learn our lesson.

- I loved Khaled Husseini and can't wait for him to release a third novel. His first novel The Kite Runner and the second one A Thousand Splendid Suns are both set against the backdrop of the historical and political events in Afghanistan. They explore human relations and emotions in a touching way. The first deals with a father/son relationship while the second deals with a mother/daughter relationship. I really cried and felt sick to the stomach while reading these two. Very touching.

- I also liked Taxi, Chicago, and 3omarit Ya3qobian.

You can borrow them all when you come ISA ya amar. :D

Answer 2

2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke. Also a great movie. Shows how the evolution of A.I. can become too powerful. Very dramatic and very well written. The book was actually the first to think of a liveable, self relinant space craft. The sequels are amazing as well. It is a beautifully told story with an amazing ending. All 4 of the series are amazing books.

Answer 3

So far, I'm reading this book called Hatchet. It's written by this amazing author, Gary Paulsen.

I haven't finished it so I'm not sure how I'm going to feel when I finish the last words of the book. So far, the book is about a young 13 year old on the way to visit his father in Canada's safe side of wilderness. His mom and dad have divorced, and only Brian and his mother know why. It's the secret Brian knows about his mother, his mother's dishonesty. So, while on a plane to Canada to visit his father, his pilot has a heart attack and dies. He's all alone in the plane but manages to crash it in the lake. He swims to the shore. Now, he finds himself stranded in the middle of nowhere. No food, no shelter, no one.

And I'm excited to finish it, then move on to Brian's Winter, which is the sequal. Someone who has read both books.. I don't want to be a spoiler but at the end of the book, Brian gets rescued. But what if he DIDN'T? Then he would have to live the winter in the dark, lonely, dangerous wilderness. That's the sequal!!

Answer 4

Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
The Alexandria Quartet is a tetralogy of novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published between 1957 and 1960. A critical and commercial success, the books present four perspectives on a single set of events and characters in Alexandria, Egypt, before and during World War II.

As Durrell explains in his preface to Balthazar, the four novels are an exploration of relativity and the notions of continuum and subject-object relation, with modern love as the subject. The Quartet offers the same sequence of events to us through several points of view, allowing individual perspectives to change over time.

The four novels are:

* Justine (1957)
* Balthazar (1958)
* Mountolive (1958)
* Clea (1960)

In a 1959 Paris Review interview, Durrell described the ideas behind the Quartet in terms of a convergence of Eastern and Western metaphysics, based on Einstein's overturning of the old view of the material universe, and Freud's doing the same for the concept of stable personalities, yielding a new concept of reality. For all the novels' experiments with chronology and viewpoint, for many readers the appeal lies in the luxurious beauty of the writing. Though the books are often dismissed as pretentious, it is difficult to find writing that so prodigiously and intricately recreates atmosphere, place and fleeting emotion with such style. Celebrity admirers of the book include the British politician and ex-leader of the Conservative party, Iain Duncan Smith, who named the Quartet as the one book he would take with him to a desert island.


and about the author visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Durrell

and it really have a great affect in my thinking and much of points of view if you read it it will change you of sure

Answer 5

Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita. It's really the best book. It didn't change my views that much, better to say it strengthened my views. In the book there are shown two different worlds: the life in Moscow in the 1920th and the parts of Jesus' life. (the book is not about religion, there was no religion in Soviet Union!!!) It's hard to say, what it is about, you should read it yourself. You can look in the wikipedia the plot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_and_Margarita
There is also a movie, which is very good and is made really very close to the book, except the dress of Margarita in the ball of Satan (in the book she has no dress). Of course it is in Russian, but in youtube someone made English subtitles.
I really advise you to read this book. It's worth reading

Answer 6

My favorite book is 'The Far Pavilions' by M.M. Kaye. Its a romance, set in India, around the time of the Raj & the uprisings. I have read it so many times, i lost count at 11 x, & every time i read it i feel i learn something new, almost like something i missed each time.
I am one of those people that get lost in a book, sort of like i'm living it, & this one is so well written, i cant not read it again.
If you do read it, i hope you enjoy.

Answer 7

I don't know why people say holy koran , ya gama3a it's not a book , da kalam rabena , da eslob 7ayah , don't compare it to any book .

well for me it's the novel '' my name is red '' by Orhan Pamuk my favorite writer , I had read the arabic transalation by dar el mada , it's wonderful , a perfect novel , it's a historical novel at the days of the ottomen , it made me read the shahnama , khesro and sherin by nezamy and a couple of book about the islamic painting and reviewed many of the paintings online and the one book we have at dar el kotob , the actual reading took about 3 days but the whole reading for it took a month , I enjoyed the journy and I earned much through it . it's a must read book , like those of amin maalouf or emberto ecko .

Answer 8

Middlemarch by George Elliot. The wisdom and understanding of human nature by the author is amazing. Never mind the events of the story, it is how it is written. At the end of each paragraph the author writes how she sees relationships between people, how she analysis the behavior of human beings. Her opinions are almost similar to definitions of laws of physics, they are so clear, short and definite. her words are like chains of gold.

Answer 9

Around the world in 200 days for our Egyptian writer Anis Mansour.
Actually it affected me a lot in dealing with various personalities as the writer did in his trip.
The book displays different traditions for many countries.

Answer 10

In religious books, God s smuggler by Brother Andruw, it is a testimony. and I dared call Him my father by Bilwuis Madam. Those are testimonies. Apart from that I like Enid Blytin story books and Earl Stanley Gardener ,The Perry Masin and these are mystery novels.