Best Book ever?

[Randy]

Whats the best book you ever read in your entire life?

 

[Corleone]

So far, Holes, but I am not a big reader.

 

[Dylan]

The Decisive Moment

The Decisive Moment, Jonah Lehrer arms us with the tools we need, drawing on cutting-edge research by Daniel Kahneman, Colin Camerer and others, as well as the world's most interesting 'deciders' â?? from airline pilots, world famous sportsmen and hedge fund investors to serial killers, politicians and poker players. He shows how the fluctuations of a few dopamine neurons saved a battleship during the Persian Gulf War, and how the fevered activity of a single brain region led to the sub-prime mortgage crisis. Lehrer's goal is to answer two questions that are of interest to just about anyone, from CEOs to firefighters: How does the human mind make decisions? And how can we make those decisions better?

http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesw ... ku=6672691

 

[Minor]

Killing a Mocking Bird

 

[Sam.]

Killing a Mocking Bird

To Kill a Mockingbird.



Which I have been meaning to finish reading, but I guess I'll start from the beginning.

 

[Kasynlie]

I need to read 8 of novels in like 2 weeks. HELP! What are some short books that still count as novels.

 

[Princess]

Killing a Mocking Bird

I concur.

 

[phatuis]

I loved the Harry Potter series

 

[Kaczynski]

Changed my life: The Alchemist - Paul Coelho. (I swear, everyone, EVERYONE has to read this book at least once in your lifetime. If not, I will stalk your death bed and read it out loud until you groan, roll over, and die from the sound of my voice.)

Made me suicidal: Veronika Decides to Die - Paul Coelho, A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess.

Made life acceptable: Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut, the Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger.



There are good books, and then there are books which influence you so greatly that they deserve to be read forever and ever, because they make sense forever and ever. I hope I find more of them.

 

[Discord]

Nonetheless.

 

[Princess]

So far, Holes, but I am not a big reader.

Holes is a pretty fair book--why don't you try something like White Fang or Call of the Wild (those are about dogs, not people, but they're sort of the survival type book that Holes is)

My favorite is actually a series of 6 books. The Earth's Children series written by Jean Auel. First book is Clan of the Cavebear, followed by Valley of Horses, Mammoth Hunters, and so on.

It is set in the time of the ice age when there were still neaderthals around, along with brand new but normal humans. I have gone through anywhere from 3 to 8 copies of each book in the series, that's how often I re-read it!!

I read Clan of the Cavebear--wasn't too bad, but I just had trouble getting into it. My husband likes them.

 

[Discord]

Changed my life: The Alchemist - Paul Coelho. (I swear, everyone, EVERYONE has to read this book at least once in your lifetime. If not, I will stalk your death bed and read it out loud until you groan, roll over, and die from the sound of my voice.)

Made me suicidal: Veronika Decides to Die - Paul Coelho, A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess.

Made life acceptable: Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut, the Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger.



There are good books, and then there are books which influence you so greatly that they deserve to be read forever and ever, because they make sense forever and ever. I hope I find more of them.

Ohey, you should read Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk. You'd like it.

 

[Kaczynski]

For a minute there I thought it'd be Fight Club. Suggestion taken into account and hopefully one day into a bookstore.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

The dictionary.

 

[Skillet]

The Shawshank Redemption. It was also one of the few books that when a movie came out for it, I wasn't disappointed.