The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas Those are my two favorites, others that I like but not as much would be LOTR, Ender's Game and sequals, Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and most of R.A. Salvatore's Forgotten Realms books.
"Nine and a Half Weeks : A Memoir of a Love Affair" by Elizabeth McNeill Only book I've ever read that I couldn't put down.
"Rochelle, Rochelle: A young girl’s strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk" was good. Much better than the movie (or musical).
Its far too difficult to name my best book ever. The best books I have read recently are:- Killer Angels - Michael Shaara Pompei - Robert Harris Ghost Wars - Steve Coll
Ok... The Godfather by Mario Puzo Super System By The Great Doyle Brunson Oh yeah can't forget... The Art of War by Sun Tzu... When Paulie Walnuts quotes a book, its a damn god book!
Angela's Ashes A Tree Grows in Brooklyn not great literarture but the book that I have the hardest time getting out of my head is A Boy Called It
Just off the top of my head: Alas Babylon-Pat Frank (probably not that great, but that's the only book I've ever read cover to cover in one sitting...this was back in 8th grade) The Great Gatsby-F. Scott Fitzgerald Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal-Christopher Moore American Tabloid/The Cold Six Thousand-James Ellroy (two books...the second is the sequel) High Fidelity-Nick Hornby
I'm not much of a reader but a long time ago, I used to have to read so many books a summer (it was a way my father tried to instill culture into me). Out of those books, I read I liked: "Call of the Wild" by Jack London "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway I am actually reading right now, "Shakey: Neil Young's Biography" by Jimmy McDonough. Great stuff - just got done reading about the breakup of Buffalo Springfield.
The Gay Science - Nietzsche Zen and the Art of Motorcyle Maintenance - Pirsig Winesburg, Ohio - Anderson
The entire 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin. It's so good that I couldn't read anything else for a year or so because it all just paled in comparison.
1 Moby Dick 2 Crime and Punishment 3 Old Man and the Sea 4 100 Years of Solitude 5 Revolutionary Road (Richard Yates) Not a book, technically, but checkov short stories are high up there for me. Hey Kam, did you really read War and Peace? I started it last week and am having a tough time penetrating the first 30 pages. The first couple of chpaters are so thick with Russian-history-politics, and I don't know squat about that time period. Does it get more accessible?
I second that! I wrote to him in English class and he actually responded to me like a couple months after though...that really showed a first person view to actually be in the ghetto during Holocaust..
