What is the best book you have ever read?

[phyzik]

Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card

The Last King: Rome's Greatest Enemy
by Michael Curtis Ford

[NorCal510]

Yeah, but did you actually LEARN anything? It is annoying that your teachers aren't smart enough to see through bull like that.

You know how far that will get you in university, where you actually have to think for yourself and analyse multiple sources? Also, by relying on the Clift notes you are simply regurgitating someone else's version of the primary source. How do you know that you agree with them or that they are right? Go to the PRIMARY SOURCE at all times or you have no credibility.

My whole point before about reading books teaching patience and persistence and imagination is obviously lost on you. Cutting corners and doing things the "EZ way" is exactly what is wrong with the world today.

If you are the future, I am very afraid for humanity...

Generation Y can bite me.

i hate reading books that im forced to. at least let us choose what books we want to read. tttttt!

[duncan228]

i hate reading books that im forced to. at least let us choose what books we want to read. tttttt!

My son was the same way.

He's 17 now, I think you're younger?

Anyway, when he had to read "1984" he hated it.

He just read it again by choice and he loved it and therefore got much more out of it.

While you're in school you have to read what's required. But try to find something that interests you and read it on your own. It doesn't have to be fiction, wander around a bookstore or the library until something catches you.

You'll get a lot out of it and maybe won't resent the required reading so much.

[NorCal510]

See, this is one of your problems, McFly. There's a lot to learn in them thar books...

Not only can you learn about people and events and places in books, you learn to use your imagination, to be patient and persistent, and you can learn to use the language, which so few people do with any kind of beauty any more...

Try reading a book, you might learn something.

majority of the class doesn't even read what they're supposed to...

at least i'm making a 0 to none effort...

[Lady Marmalade]

Their Eyes Were Watching God -- Zora Neal Hurston
Beloved -- Toni Morrison
A Time to Kill - John Grisham
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Night - Elie Wiesel

[cherylsteele]

I am kinda surprised that no one mentioned the dictionary as a smart-ass comment.

[ShoogarBear]

I am kinda surprised that no one mentioned the dictionary as a smart-ass comment.

I actually used to do that. Not really read it, but when I went to look up a word, would remember other words I wanted to look up, and next thing you know a half-hour had gone by.

Internet killed a lot of things.

[FromWayDowntown]

I agree with Shoog about Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" -- if you haven't read it, it's worth the time.

I really liked "One Hundred Years of Solitude" as well.

I'd also put Crime and Punishment and Watership Down among my favorites.

But in the end, my favorite over more than half of my life remains To Kill a Mockingbird, just because it is such a rich story and so incredibly well-written.

[leemajors]

I agree with Shoog about Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" -- if you haven't read it, it's worth the time.

I really liked "One Hundred Years of Solitude" as well.

I'd also put Crime and Punishment and Watership Down among my favorites.

But in the end, my favorite over more than half of my life remains To Kill a Mockingbird, just because it is such a rich story and so incredibly well-written.

But do we thank Truman or Harper for that?
j/k
It is a great book regardless of conspiracy theories as to its author.
One of my favorite autobiographies is Beneath the Underdog: His World as Composed by Mingus. Its factual content may be up for debate, but it's still a good read. I didn't enjoy the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin at the time i had to read it in 6th grade, but when i found out its content may have been embellished greatly i certainly enjoyed it a lot more.

[theroc5]

I'm an idiot.

Im a proud Idiot then as well

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

So, two of you believe that the earth was created 6000 years ago? me, I cannot get over that. The volume of evidence to prove that supposition wrong is absolutely irrefutable.

Note that I am not criticising the Bible as a do ent, nor your right to have faith, merely the idea that the Bible is somehow a factual account of the history of the planet, which is plainly absurd.

Anyway, I'll leave you to your delusions.

[peewee's lovechild]

Toni Morrison sucks ass.

Read the entire Dark Tower series by Steven King.

Also:
Cat's Cradle
Slaughter House 5
(both by Kurt Vonnegut)
Memories of my melancholy s (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Choke (Chuck Palahniuk)

[atxrocker]

Choke (Chuck Palahniuk)

good book.

[peewee's lovechild]

Thus spoke Zarathurstra - Frederick Nietzche

Great book.
The cornerstone to Atheism.

[peewee's lovechild]

Also, I'm just about to read this book:

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens.

There is greatness in this book.

[Banks91]

Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
The Last King: Rome's Greatest Enemy
by Michael Curtis Ford

The whole Ender series is great, even though parts just went right over my head. Also the books on Bean and Ender's brother the Hegemon are good too.

[Jimcs50]

[QUOTE=peewee's lovechild]

Cat's Cradle
Slaughter House 5
(both by Kurt Vonnegut)
QUOTE]



Also must reads:

Tortilla Flats(Steinbeck)

The Sun Also Rises(Hemingway)

The Kite Runner(Hosseini)

The Three Musketeers(Dumas)

The Heart of Darkness(Conrad)

and

The Last of the Mohicans(Cooper)

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Invisible Man -- Ralph Ellison
All the President's Men -- Woodward and Bernstein

Two of my favorites.

[Vertigo]

I just finished Brasyl by Ian McDonald last night. Quite an enjoyable ride.

[1369]

"The Road" Cormac McCarthy

"Pattern Recognition" William Gibson

"West Of Jesus" Steven Kotler

"Old Man's War" John Scalzi

"We Were One" Patrick O'Donnell

"Starship Troopers" Robert Heinlien

"In Search Of Captain Zero" Allan Weisbecker

"Shadow Divers" Robert Kurson

"The divers' Rodeo" Humberto Fontova

[ShoogarBear]

Also must reads:

Tortilla Flats(Steinbeck)

The Sun Also Rises(Hemingway)

The Kite Runner(Hosseini)

The Three Musketeers(Dumas)

The Heart of Darkness(Conrad)

and

The Last of the Mohicans(Cooper)

Jim has personally autographed copies of them all.

[Mr. Dictionary]

I am kinda surprised that no one mentioned the dictionary as a smart-ass comment.

injure
–verb (used with object), -jured, -jur·ing.
1. to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair: to injure one's hand.
2. to do wrong or injustice to.
3. to wound or offend: to injure a friend's feelings.
[Origin: 1575–85; back formation from injury (n.); r. injury (v.)]

[Ladyspur .]

Archie.

[peewee's lovechild]

Ladyspur is hot.

[leemajors]

[QUOTE=Jimcs50]

Cat's Cradle
Slaughter House 5
(both by Kurt Vonnegut)
QUOTE]



Also must reads:

Tortilla Flats(Steinbeck)

The Sun Also Rises(Hemingway)

The Kite Runner(Hosseini)

The Three Musketeers(Dumas)

The Heart of Darkness(Conrad)

and

The Last of the Mohicans(Cooper)

maybe you should check this out:

Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses

by
Mark Twain