Best book you ever read

[adrockuk]

Am I allowed three? These are books that I enjoyed immensely, and quite similar in theme.

Jack kerouac On the Road

Hunter S Thompson The Rum Diary

Luke Rhinehart Dice Man

[stauffer01]

Great tips so far, have already ready most but I found a few gems.

[Sniper]

You might also find the What Books have you read recently? thread interesting...

[hyde]

I'd second Catch 22 and 1984 as classics

More currently is Sam Harris's "Letter to a Christian Nation"
and Tom Wessels' "Myth of a Sustainable Future"

edit: the last two were "Important" maybe more than best.

[FortunaMaximus]

"Millennium", John Varley.

[stauffer01]

Im ordering Catch 22, Millenium and Children of Hurin (anyone read it yet?) so far, many of these books can't be found in swedish internetshops for some reason [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Thanks for the replies!

[Dane S]

The best I can do is narrow it down to 3:

[Runkmud]

While I enjoy many of the classics, I'm going to steer clear of them and offer you something a bit more contemporary, alhough it's set in medieval times.

Pillars of the Earth



I love this book so much that about every two or three years, I reread it, and it's like new again.

[Case Closed]

Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut

Any book by Vonnegut.

[RobertJohn]

Vonnegut - great modern american thinker/writer
1984 - classic, must-read

NATURE - EMERSON
WALDEN and CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE - THOREAU
LEAVES OF GRASS - WHITMAN
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X - ghostwritten by Haley

Anything by DT SUZUKI
Select Ancient Japanese Koans

The best? Too hard to pinpoint.

Edited b/c I forgot to mention Camus' THE PLAGUE.