What is the best book you ever read?

Moby Dick...

At least I think that's the name... a little drunk tonight, and that sounds like maybe a porn I saw.

But for sure by Herman Melvill and about a whale.

(not a porn novel)

Lord of the Rings helps me to live, I've read it countless times. I agree with whoever said you're either a reader or you're not, but I couldn't live without the release of leaving this world, and immersing myself in the made up world of fiction, and you really can learn a lot from it, from characters who become your friends. jmo, peace.

Frank Herbert Dune Series

OK.

Semi-fiction there, right?

The message was lost in translation and people just don't get it. It's as clear as you'd like to make it.

Das Parfum, The Story of a Murderer
Ender's Game

Even if we don't see eye to eye on many things in life FubarMan, we do at least have one thing in common!

The Brothers Karamazov.

And to the poster that said he never reads fiction, I've often wondered if other sentient lifeforms have fiction. I mean I wonder if there are intelligent species "out there" that never developed a concept of "other than fact." Like no stories, no lies, nothing. Then that makes me wonder if other exo-species might have no religions.

I wish we had contact with other worlds so as to get a perspective on whether religion and fiction are the norm or are an aberration.

I think too much. Maybe I should just watch Idol.

Purple Chicken, I love reading your posts, and finally get to ask you a question: Since you love Stranger in a Strange Land (as I do), I was wondering if you identify more strongly with Jill, Dorcas, Miriam, or Anne? I see you more as Jill. But I find some of Jill in me, as well as Anne.

Also, did you get to read the unedited version Heinlein's widow published? I felt it was well-worth the re-read. Maybe it was because I was older, but I really liked it more.

Namaste!




PS: after I posted this, I was looking for your post to leave you green karma, and suddenly saw your new av. I miss your gentle smiling visage, but will remember you in my heart that way, when I see the purple chicken. Love!

Last Edited by So Not a Princess on 04/27/2012 12:50 AM

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Hmmm...never really thought about that (identifying with a character) and it's been sooooooo long since I read it last, I really couldn't say.

I'd love to reread it again and will definitely keep on the look out for the unedited version - thx! Thou art god!

My own...

Hey I read that Alas Babylon when I was a kid great book.

Unintended Consequences, Wizard's First Rule and Atlas Shrugged - it's a 3 way tie.

Good read.

Mine would be The Book of Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi. On the other end of the spectrum I would add King's Dark Tower series.

Patriot by James Wesley, Rawles. Its a survivalist book.

Wait the bible actually is first, Patriots is second!

Bible

...and all that groks is God.

May you never thirst!

For me,

The Red Lion: by Maria Szepes

LOTR is my favorite series of books ever, and like you I've read the trilogy multiple times. Feel like the guy in conspiracy theory (always buying the catcher and the rye) because I've ended up with 5 copies of the fellowship of the rings.

The rest of his works are okay, like The Silmarillion, but nothing he wrote is as epic as the LOTR.

Sure I've read many other books, but when seeking a good dose of escapism, lotr is my vehicle of escape.

Watership Down is one of my all time favorites too :)

I love it when somebody gets it! Thank you.

I haven't read much fiction lately but when I did Anne Rice was one of my favorite authors.

White Gold Wielder by Stephen R. Donaldson, and the previous five books. The Land stays with you long after you've turned the last page. I'm still enjoying my way through the third set of novels.

Also, anything and everything written by Arthur C. Clarke.

kybalion.

The Lord of the Rings, and anything from Terry Pratchett!

you mean like what youre doing right now here on the internet?

everyone can easily look up your post history for themselves.

lets not waste any more of our time with foolishness.