What is the best book you have ever read?

[Weblomaniac]

Although maybe not the best from a literary point of view the following are on topic for this board (kind of) and are all VERY good.

Breaking Vegas - Ben Mezrich
Ugly Americans - Ben Mezrich
The Great Casino Heist - Richard Marcus

There is a 3rd Ben Mezrich book - Bringing Down The House. I've got a copy sitting on the shelf waiting for a rainy day or boring flight. Breaking Vegas is a belter, highly recomended.

PS>> If there are any Casino or Card room managers reading this.... don't worry about my reading list, I'm not planning anything  honest

[redimp]

Read this book along time ago,dont know how it would fair now

but loved it when I read it

Not a penny more not a penny less   Jeffrey Archer

[Trace]

Some of my favourite's all the usuals im afraid


Lord of the rings - tolkien (take it that no longer cool to like the greatest piece of fiction any longer)
1984 -  orwell
Wasp Factory & Espadair street - Iain Banks (not Iain M Banks he's a knob)
To kill a mockingbird - harper lee (loved it from school)
Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy -  Douglas Adams
Fear and loathing - hunter s thompson

OMG  The Wasp Factory - what a weird and wonderful book.........

[Sheriff Fatman]

Fermat's Last Theorem - was that the Pythagoras Puzzle?

xⁿ + yⁿ = zⁿ
has no integer solutions for x, y and z when n > 2

So I guess it's could be known as that.

Cheers Kin,

Think I've read this or seen a film on it maybe. I remember it being really interesting.

It was very famous in mathematical circles due to Fermat writing a note saying that he had found a rather wonderful proof of this theorem but couldn't fit it on the margin of the page he was writing on.  He then, rather inconveniently, died without ever publishing the proof.

No-one subsequently could provide such a proof for about 350 years, until it was solved in the mid-90's.

It sticks in my mind as it was the subject of one of my earliest 1st year math's lectures at University.  Its memorable because the lecturer said that any of us who managed to provide a proof to it would be pretty much guaranteed a professorial seat at the university, which would probably take the pressure off the end-of-year exam situation for us.

[Rozza1]

Something wicked this way comes by Ray Bradbury

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

It by Stephen King

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Ffjord

I Am Legend by Richard Materson

[Zebediah]

Read hundreds and hundreds before the invention of Sky football and internet poker!

One for a cardplayers and gamblers though.

"The Grand Wheel"  by Barrington J. Bayley

I've read most of this guys books and he is a seriously left field SF writer.
He is completely unique and never found anyone like him, but still very readable.

This particular book is by a guy who discovers how to manipulate luck, sounds bizarre i know.
But as another one of his books is about a planet where peoples clothing are a kind of symbiotic lifeform affecting the personality of the person wearing them....quite literally a sharp suit will make you better in the boardroom.

Hmmm, knew trying to describe his books was a bad idea lol.