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The best book you've ever read...

Have read lots of books over my 65 years and have enjoyed them all in different ways.
A few I have enjoyed off the top of my head
The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
And one very weird but enjoyable one - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter Thompson
 
9 times and counting...

Be honest now. Y'all started just skimming three pages into Galt's dry 60-page soliloquy that just rehashed the themes of the book with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer without presenting any new information or driving the plot forward in any way right?

There's no way anyone could have been riveted to that slogfest the whole time.
 
The Lord of the Rings is the best page turner.

My favorite novel is Go Down Moses by William Faulkner. It's kind of a collection of short stories but they are all interwoven if you know the family tree of the McCaslin family.
 
Be honest now. Y'all started just skimming three pages into Galt's dry 60-page soliloquy that just rehashed the themes of the book with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer without presenting any new information or driving the plot forward in any way right?

There's no way anyone could have been riveted to that slogfest the whole time.
The original anvil drop. The origin story of anviliciousness.
 
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.

Loved that book. And The Mass Psychology of Fascism.
 
Just about any one of Chandler's novels qualifies, but this one is my favorite.

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It's close match, but I would say Moby Dick by Herman Melville. I'm glad I read it my mid-30s, because I think I would have bounced off it when I was younger.

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It is closely followed by Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. Best "Weird Fiction" I have ever read.

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I was having a hard time picking between Moby Dick and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I think those are the two greatest American novels. Have you read White Jacket by Melville?
 
"Death Be Not Proud" by John Gunther

I read this as a teen.
It was the story of a young man being diagnosed with cancer and dying as told by his father.
It's one of the few books tot his day that I can remember the title and author of.

"The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors" by James D. Hornfischer, is number two.
I also read the first one as a teen - maybe it was even an assignment for a class??? I remember it being a book you couldn't put down.
 
Be honest now. Y'all started just skimming three pages into Galt's dry 60-page soliloquy that just rehashed the themes of the book with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer without presenting any new information or driving the plot forward in any way right?

There's no way anyone could have been riveted to that slogfest the whole time.
LOL - she nailed your character to a tee. Sux, huh?
 
Huckelberry Finn and The grapes of Wrath.
 
...in your life.

What's that one page-turner we should all read?
Can't pick just one. Here are a few:

A. J. Cronin's The Keys of the Kingdom

John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany

Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time
 
Can't pick just one. Here are a few:

A. J. Cronin's The Keys of the Kingdom

John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany

Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time
Also:

Any and all books by Oliver Sacks

Hannah Green's I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels
 
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