What is the best book you have ever read?

[redimp]

One to start you of with:

1984  by George Orwell

[Ironside]

the broons

[ItsMrAlex2u]

Not read loads, but the book of The Green mile and Shawshank Redemptio were fantastic.

Also Stephen King "IT" brilliant book but that guy must have issues !!

[Longy]

One to start you of with:

1984  by George Orwell

God damn you have nicked my answer.

Ok  Catcher in The Rye by J.D. Salinger.

[redimp]

One to start you of with:

1984  by George Orwell

God damn you have nicked my answer.

Ok  Catcher in The Rye by J.D. Salinger.

Another great book not as good IMO but a great read.


Bravo 2 zero  A quality read

[vegaslover]

Past Imperfect by John Matthews

[Ironside]

i'd like to change my mind from the broons too oor wullie

[Sark79]

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

[bolt pp]

The picture of Dorian Grey

A book of which i could never become tired

[tikay]

I could not nominate one, here's 10 to be going on with though.

A short history of nearly everything, Bill Bryson. Jaw-droppingly good.

The Watergate Tapes - (these were the real unedited tapes). Shows just how corrupt Nixon & his cronies were.

Formets Theorem, Simon Singh. A must for those with a fascination for the wonders of numbers.

Men & Horses I have known, The Rt Hon Heorge Lambton. A fascinating insight into the world of toffs a century ago.

Papillon, Henri Charriere, the underworld as it really is, though a tad embellished.

Boo Hoo, a case study on why the .com bubble bursst so spectacularly.

The Alan Clark Diaries - just awesome, every tiny detail of his life, from his relationship with Margaret Thatcher to the quality of his thompsons. His death was so poignant.

Tony Benn's Political Diaries.

The Double Helix, Crick & Watson. It's the story of the discovery of DNA, probably the most important discovery of modern medical science. All the DNA books are excellent.

British Birds - probably given me more pleasure than most books ever could, but my eyes are not good enough to bird-watch these days.

Sceptre, by Robert Standish Seivier. The greatest racehorse that ever trod British Turf, owned & trained by a grade one but lovable vagabond.

Oops that's 11 already.....Want more?

I could go on & on. Some would say I already have.....

[Ironside]

I could not nominate one, here's 10 to be going on with though.

A short history of nearly everything, Bill Bryson. Jaw-droppingly good.

The Watergate Tapes - (these were the real unedited tapes). Shows just how corrupt Nixon & his cronies were.

Formets Theorem, Simon Singh. A must for those with a fascination for the wonders of numbers.

Men & Horses I have known, The Rt Hon Heorge Lambton. A fascinating insight into the world of toffs a century ago.

Papillon, Henri Charriere, the underworld as it really is, though a tad embellished.

Boo Hoo, a case study on why the .com bubble bursst so spectacularly.

The Alan Clark Diaries - just awesome, every tiny detail of his life, from his relationship with Margaret Thatcher to the quality of his thompsons. His death was so poignant.

Tony Benn's Political Diaries.

The Double Helix, Crick & Watson. It's the story of the discovery of DNA, probably the most important discovery of modern medical science. All the DNA books are excellent.

British Birds - probably given me more pleasure than most books ever could, but my eyes are not good enough to bird-watch these days.

Sceptre, by Robert Standish Seivier. The greatest racehorse that ever trod British Turf, owned & trained by a grade one but lovable vagabond.

Oops that's 11 already.....Want more?

I could go on & on. Some would say I already have.....

you missed the broons and oor wullie

[tikay]

The Warren Buffett Story. No greater or wiser businessman ever lived.

[tikay]

All the biographies of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, a colussus amongst men.

[tikay]

The Signalman's story - a regular railway signalman with a zillion tales to tell.

[AndrewT]

The best book I've read recently is The End of Faith by Sam Harris - a breathtakingly lucid account of how religion is not only a massive waste of time, but how tolerance of organised religion is actually dangerous to humanity.