Greatest book you've ever read?

[vaportrailer]

I dunno about the 'greatest', but Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" was the most well-written book that I've read.

 

Greatest would probably be "Dr. Seuss' Sleep Book", just because it always worked, and the pictures were fun to look at.

 

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3mhGqeAOV6U/UU6LJN8uCgI/AAAAAAAAkT8/lMsgr14fWRw/s320/DSCN5376.JPG

[LakesideShark]

Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper

Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner

H.G. Wells - The War of the Worlds

 

It's probably a tie between those three.

[Blue J]

Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)

 

Fantastic!

[goose]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/Go_Dog_Go.jpg

 

My sister and I loved this so much! Still do. We loved the page where all the dogs are asleep together, heads on pillows in a huge human bed. It looked like the best slumber party ever!

http://www.joeslab.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/go-dogs-go.jpg

:heart:

http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/2/1/4/5/5/ar136695130255412.jpg

 

Best dog party ever.

[blueschica]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/Go_Dog_Go.jpg

 

My sister and I loved this so much! Still do. We loved the page where all the dogs are asleep together, heads on pillows in a huge human bed. It looked like the best slumber party ever!

http://www.joeslab.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/go-dogs-go.jpg

:heart:

http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/2/1/4/5/5/ar136695130255412.jpg

 

Best dog party ever.

 

Yes, the best !! I am lucky, I have been to a couple of parties in my life that have lived up to this one ! :)

[Segue Myles]

Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)

 

Fantastic!

 

It's really is...and it's also one of only two occasions where a book I love got a movie adaptation to match.

[condemned2bfree]

Charlie and the chocolate factory. Read it when I was eight, utterly captivated, read it so fast.

 

And now my children enjoy them too :)

 

Roahl Dahl rules.

[condemned2bfree]

My Son has just read 'Oh the places you will go'........ fantastic!

 

Its great to read, with your kids.

[Fridge]

Winters Tale by Mark Helprin

 

Please do not be put off by the shitty film adaptation which covers a tiny part of the book...imo it is pretty much unfilmable anyway.

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter%27s_Tale_(novel)

Edited March 6, 2017 by Fridge

[Zelix]

The Stand by Stephen King

[Steve Smith]

The Viz annual 2003 - the "Rusty Sheriff's Badge". all of the great icons in it - Johnny Fartpants, Sid the Sexist, Roger Melly the man on the Telly, Nobbie's piles,

 

A coming together of icons

 

Talk about synchronicity

 

I was just looking over some viz comics, happy memories. Hardly the best book I have ever read, but hilarious non the less.

 

Remember wavey davey gravey ?( if memory serves)

And the ads?

 

http://i68.tinypic.com/atjr6.png

 

Ravey Davey Gravey was actually based on a real person as were most of the characters. He was a shell suit "Chav" selling "E" pills outside a Sunderland "Rave" club in the early 90's.

[Steve Smith]

Apart from the Orwell novels

 

I have a couple of left field books

 

"4 iron in the sole" was a road movie book by Lawrence Donegan who spent a year on the European Golf Tour caddying for a Journeyman pro Ross Drummond and his experiences that year. It was a very interesting read about how the golf caddies lived in trailors 6 at a time, drank together and shared chemical toilets.

 

Lawrence is a journalist for the Guardian and played bass guitar with The Bluebells who had a number one hit with "Young at Heart" in 1984

 

"While my guitar gently weeps" is a novel about a lead guitar player in an up and coming band who was attacked by thugs outside a gig and had to have two of the fingers on his left hand amputated. He could no longer play and his career was finished. He spent the next couple of years travelling the country to find the two men and a girl who had done this and murdered them by cutting their throats. Sounds very depressing but a really good read, partly in flashbacks.

[condemned2bfree]

The Viz annual 2003 - the "Rusty Sheriff's Badge". all of the great icons in it - Johnny Fartpants, Sid the Sexist, Roger Melly the man on the Telly, Nobbie's piles,

 

A coming together of icons

 

Talk about synchronicity

 

I was just looking over some viz comics, happy memories. Hardly the best book I have ever read, but hilarious non the less.

 

Remember wavey davey gravey ?( if memory serves)

And the ads?

 

http://i68.tinypic.com/atjr6.png

 

Ravey Davey Gravey was actually based on a real person as were most of the characters. He was a shell suit "Chav" selling "E" pills outside a Sunderland "Rave" club in the early 90's.

 

Yeah I think I met a few :). Do you remember the comedy series Spaced? There was a character in there who I think was lifted from Ravey Davey; hearing tunes in nearly everything, telephone crossings etc.

 

[Steve Smith]

My Son has just read 'Oh the places you will go'........ fantastic!

 

Its great to read, with your kids.

 

Bloke goes to a doctor

 

"I cant stop eating snooker balls"

 

Doctor says OK tell me about it

 

Bloke says "Well yesterday I had two reds and a yellow for breakfast, I had 3 reds and a brown and a blue for lunch, for tea I had 4 reds a pink and a black"

 

Dr says "Oh I know what's wrong, you're not eating enough greens"

 

Ha ha, Just like that!!

[Steve Smith]

The Viz annual 2003 - the "Rusty Sheriff's Badge". all of the great icons in it - Johnny Fartpants, Sid the Sexist, Roger Melly the man on the Telly, Nobbie's piles,

 

A coming together of icons

 

Talk about synchronicity

 

I was just looking over some viz comics, happy memories. Hardly the best book I have ever read, but hilarious non the less.

 

Remember wavey davey gravey ?( if memory serves)

And the ads?

 

http://i68.tinypic.com/atjr6.png

 

Ravey Davey Gravey was actually based on a real person as were most of the characters. He was a shell suit "Chav" selling "E" pills outside a Sunderland "Rave" club in the early 90's.

 

Yeah I think I met a few :). Do you remember the comedy series Spaced? There was a character in there who I think was lifted from Ravey Davey; hearing tunes in nearly everything, telephone crossings etc.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ9w1Q-4eBw

 

Yes I watched Spaced a little, humming with the noise the bus makes when it stops.

 

Tommy could tell totally shit jokes and make them funny, that's why he was a genius.

 

He said to the Queen after the Royal Variety

 

Ma'm may I ask you a question please? Do you like football?

 

The Queen said no not particularly

 

Well can I have your ticket for the cup final?

 

Priceless!!!!

[barney_rebel]

Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)

 

Fantastic!

 

Didn't know what to expect with that one. It turned out great

[Segue Myles]

Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)

 

Fantastic!

 

Didn't know what to expect with that one. It turned out great

 

In all honesty the film matched the book for me perfectly. Very rare for that to happen!

[barney_rebel]

Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)

 

Fantastic!

 

Didn't know what to expect with that one. It turned out great

 

In all honesty the film matched the book for me perfectly. Very rare for that to happen!

 

So I've heard. I haven't seen it yet, but there is one critical part missed out of the film I hear. I can't remember exactly what, but it may have been when she was singing and dancing with the doll.

[barney_rebel]

 

Did the audio for this one. The narrator was fantastic. I swear to god he sounded just like JFK in the phone convo.

[Stinkerbell]

Still by far the best book I have ever read was back in my 9th Grade English Class and it was the great Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird.

[Union 5-3992]

I now change my answer to The Stand. Other than that ending....

[Ash-517]

Ayn Rand's "Anthem"

It's the only book I've ever wanted to read a second time.

I did a book review on it this year for English class, but that was a copy that was handed out to students, so I don't have one myself. What I do have is an Amazon gift card...

[Steve Smith]

1984

[goose]

My Son has just read 'Oh the places you will go'........ fantastic!

 

Its great to read, with your kids.

 

Bloke goes to a doctor

 

"I cant stop eating snooker balls"

 

Doctor says OK tell me about it

 

Bloke says "Well yesterday I had two reds and a yellow for breakfast, I had 3 reds and a brown and a blue for lunch, for tea I had 4 reds a pink and a black"

 

Dr says "Oh I know what's wrong, you're not eating enough greens"

 

Ha ha, Just like that!!

[Steve Smith]

My Son has just read 'Oh the places you will go'........ fantastic!

 

Its great to read, with your kids.

 

Bloke goes to a doctor

 

"I cant stop eating snooker balls"

 

Doctor says OK tell me about it

 

Bloke says "Well yesterday I had two reds and a yellow for breakfast, I had 3 reds and a brown and a blue for lunch, for tea I had 4 reds a pink and a black"

 

Dr says "Oh I know what's wrong, you're not eating enough greens"

 

Ha ha, Just like that!!

 

Sometimes it is just completely obscure stuff of a book that you pick up at a flea market for 50p or 50c and you read it and think "Hey this is really good"