Even though I love my collection of Mack Within books, I'd have to say my favorite book of all time is "East of Eden" by Steinbeck, followed closely by "Blue Like Jazz" by Don Miller, "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn and "Catcher in the Rye" by Salinger.
Douglas Coupland - Generation X Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club Michael Ondaatje - The English Patient Elie Wiesel - Night Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451 (had to add it after seeing FlyerFanatic post it, great book!)
Favorite books: A Season on the Brink-John Feinstein Of Mice and Men-Steinbeck Farenheit 451-Ray Bradbury Moneyball-Michael Lewis I like a lot of autobiographies, probably my favorite type of book.
Animal Farm. I read that when I was a kid and liked it, but then later on I found out about all it's different levels and appreciated it much more. It's great. Great Expectations would probably be next, another book from my childhood that I think fondly on. In terms of books that don't benefit from nostalgic feelings (i.e. stuff I've read in the past couple of years), would include Cold Mountain, Choke, the Tuesday Next novels, and the Song of Ice and Fire series.
I haven't read the others, but Blue Like Jazz was a phenomenal book. If you haven't read his other books, I highly recommend Searching for God Knows What.
Best Bio: "Huey Long" by T. Harry Williams Best Faulkner Novel: "Absalom, Absalom" Best Tale: "Animal Farm" Best Recent Novel: "Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy: "LOTR" Best Non-Faulkner Novel: "The Brothers Karamazov" Best Twain: "Huck Finn" Best Recent History: "Simple Justice" by Richard Kluger Best Pre-20th Century US History: "The Creation of the American Republic 1776-1787" by Gordon S. Wood Best Nazi Book: "Explaining Hitler : The Search for the Origins of His Evil" by Ron Rosenbaum Best Lincoln: "Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography" by William Lee Miller
Oh man, good call. I liked that book more than Fight Club actually. Fo sho. I read "Blue Like Jazz" last summer and Don Miller came and spoke at Baylor last semester (was very popular here, even with a stronger liberal approach than in his books), and I bought that one and "Through Painted Deserts." His writing style is addicting, and I've really taken his stuff to heart. Blue Like Jazz though, that book is incredible.
My favorite book was "Seven Steps to Rid Yourself of Book Snobbishness". Will you kick my ass if I say Jurassic Park?
holographic universe uncle tom's cabin history of the conquest of mexico moby dick miles davis autobiography a tale of two cities things fall apart
Great Expectations Love in the Time of Cholera A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Pride and Prejudice The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Lord of the Rings. I really loved the Hobbit too. I couldn't put those books down. Nothing even comes close.
the holographic paradigm and other paradoxes - ken wilber physics and philosophy - werner heisenberg the center of the cyclone - dr. john lilly prometheus rising - robert anton wilson brave new world - aldous huxley joyous cosmology - alan watts i'm sure there's more...
100 Years of Solitude - Marquez The Beautiful and Damned - Fitzgerald The Three Musketeers/The Man in the Iron Mask - (The 3 Musketeers is the best if you read only one. The Man in the Iron Mask is the best if if you read the whole 5 volume series) On the Road - Kerouac Slaughterhouse 5 - Vonnegut There are so many more it is hard to say one is the best, but these are among the best.
"On The Road"- Jack Kerouak "Dharma Bums" - Jack Kerouak "To Kill A Mockingbird"- Harper Lee "Through The Looking Glass"- Lewis Carroll to name just a few...
****, the only thing i read is this forum. Why the hate for the Da Vinci code though? I thoroughly enjoyed it. Fear and loathing in las vegas - HST I just read Slaughterhouse 5, still trying to forumlate an opinion although I loved it. A biography about Gen. Patton. On the Beach by Nevil Shute I love the vampire chronicles by anne rice. The book of 5 rings by Miyamoto Musashi. The box car children fo sho. I read like 1-234 then quit because they churned them out faster than I could read them.
