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The best book you've ever read...

Allan said:
...in your life.

What's that one page-turner we should all read?
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Listen Little Man by world renounced psychologist Wilhelm Reich.


It tells how Reich watched, at first naively, then with amazement, and finally with horror, at what the Little Man does to himself; how he suffers and rebels; how he esteems his enemies and murders his friends; how, wherever he gains power as a 'representative of the people,' he misuses this power and makes it crueler than the power it has supplanted.

It is an important book for all to read during this dark time of red hats.
 
Allan said:
...in your life.

What's that one page-turner we should all read?
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Certainly not the best book I've ever read but my favorite would be Stephen King's The Stand.

Best book in terms of lasting impact and making me think would be Isabel Wilkerson's Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.
 
mrjurrs said:
Certainly not the best book I've ever read but my favorite would be Stephen King's The Stand.

Best book in terms of lasting impact and making me think would be Isabel Wilkerson's Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.
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Seconded.
 
Kelby said:
Damned if I could get all the way through that one.
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To me, it was hard getting started - so much background. Couldn't put it down after that. I read it again every few years.
 
BabaVoss said:
To me, it was hard getting started - so much background. Couldn't put it down after that. I read it again every few years.
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Maybe I'll give it another go.
 
Fiction: Toss up between John Steinbeck's........................ Cannery Row & Of Mice And men

Non Fiction: An American Life (Ben Franklin) written by Walter Isaacson (Inventor - writer - scientist - hoodwinker - statesman - political genius)

Fantasy: J.R.R.Tolkien The Silmarillion - Hobbit - Lord Of The Rings trilogy.

Semi Technical: Popular Mechanics My favorite magazine as a kid, and it triggered my curiosity to no end.


Sorry.....I know you said just one.
 
Grand Mal said:
Love the title.
I graduated high school in 1973 but I can still recite that John Donne poem.
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I was not aware of this poem. I have since read it.
Thanks for making me aware of this poem and its significance. I'm richer for it.
 
Bok Tuklo said:
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I think Mark Twain helped Grant write it. Grant was suffering from cancer of the mouth at the time and hoped sales of his memoirs would help support his family. Sales were very good.

His real name, BTW, was Hiram Ulysses Grant. The name attached to the middle initial "S" is unknown.

Coincidentally, Harry Truman's middle initial, also "S," does not stand for a particular name. It's said the initial "honors both his grandfathers, Anderson Shipp Truman and Solomon Young, a somewhat common practice in the American South at the time."

I've also read that it originally stood for "Solomon" but the Jewish connotations caused him to drop it. I always write his name as Harry S Truman, without a period after the S.
 
RetiredUSN said:
Fiction: Toss up between John Steinbeck's........................ Cannery Row & Of Mice And men
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I have to go back and reread Steinbeck. I remember he's very entertaining and makes you think.
RetiredUSN said:
Non Fiction: An American Life (Ben Franklin) written by Walter Isaacson (Inventor - writer - scientist - hoodwinker - statesman - political genius)

Fantasy: J.R.R.Tolkien The Silmarillion - Hobbit - Lord Of The Rings trilogy.
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Tolkien is great.
RetiredUSN said:
Semi Technical: Popular Mechanics My favorite magazine as a kid, and it triggered my curiosity to no end.


Sorry.....I know you said just one.
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Loulit01 said:
I have to go back and reread Steinbeck. I remember he's very entertaining and makes you think.
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The Grapes of Wrath was my first Steinbeck novel. I was hooked.

If you enjoy that style of storytelling A Painted House by John Grisham is a must read.

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Minerva said:
I was not aware of this poem. I have since read it.
Thanks for making me aware of this poem and its significance. I'm richer for it.
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I once wrote the first verse on the wall of a jobsite washroom, as far as,

'Die not, poor Death, not yet canst thou kill me!'
-John Donne-

and followed it with,

'Nobody here gets out alive!'
-Jim Morrison-

I thought it was a nice contrast, the faith of a Christian clergyman poet, Donne, and the nihilism of a rock poet, Morrison
 
Impossible to answer. I have no idea how many books I have read, probably 500+
There were books I loved as a child, The Three Investigators I particularly loved. The Hobbit I remember how awesome I thought that was.
I went through a string of horror books, King and Koontz.
I had a literal library of Time-Life books in my 20s, Sci-Fi as well.
I got into philosophy, everyone should read the Art of War for sure.

Then even Sci-Fi humor like the Hard Luck Hank Series... there is just too much to try and narrow down to one book.
I can't do it
 
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