Best Book ever?

[Brighton Breezy]

What is the best book you have ever read?

My favourites include:

The Diceman
Catcher in the Rye
1984
The Greatest Footballer You Never Saw
Awaydays

 

[dougdeep]

The Albion have just had a good win and Mr Morris wants to talk about books!

 

[Braders]

frank skinners autobiography

 

[Beach Hut]

Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

A timeless classic

 

[Ernest]

Wuthering Heights

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

It's probably not the best book ever, but I have just finished Play On to The End, by Robert Goddard, which is set in Brighton, and is about an actor who is playing at the Theatre Royal in a Joe Orton play, but gets contacted by his soon to be-ex wife, who is being bothered by an odd man, who keeps staring at her from a coffee shop opposite her shop. All the place names are real, so you are always aware where the story is taking place. I would strongly recommend it.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

frank skinners autobiography

You must be a seriously under-read man if that makes top of your list Braders, although I must admit that the bit at the beginning about the fan leaving a note on his car about anal sex is probably the only time a book has made me laugh out loud.


'Black Boy' or 'Native Son' by Richard Wright for me.

 

[Theatre of Trees]

Catch 22
1984
Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
Spike Milligan's war memoirs

I can never get beyond page 50 in Catcher in the Rye, too much adoloscent whinging going on.

 

[El Presidente]

"How to produce a Fanzine in 24 hours" by Richie Morris

 

[graz126]

i have just finished reading 'the stone roses' by john robb. and i must say for £2.99 it was a bargain. a great read about the lifes and trials of the manchester outfit.

my favorite books though would have to be 'england away' or 'the headhunters'. by john king. follow ups to 'football factory'.

 

[Cian]

Digital Fortess - Dan Brown (well before he became famous)
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson (the book that made him very famous for a while, his earlier stuff is good too)
Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers (you'd never know he was executed as an Irish revolutionary and that his son would be President reading this book, seems very Anglo...)
ALONE - Willie Bermingham (You'll not have heard of this - its a documentary book about the state that many Irish pensioners were living in the late 1970's, by a guy who started a charity. Harrowing barely describes some of the stories in it)

 

[Shizuoka Dolphin]

Catcher in the Rye

I HATE this book.

Favourite ever would be Nausea by JP-S.

 

[NMH]

Nial's Saga (Norse) author unknown
Lord of The Rings/Hobbit by JR Tolkein
The Famous Five by Enid Blyton
Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe
Wilt by Tom Sharpe
Julius Caesar by Shakespeare
Complete Works of William Blake
Autobiography of Marianne Faithful (I forget the title)
Frankenstein (forgot her name)
About A Boy by Nick Hornby
Old Yeller (forgot the author)
Grapes of Wrath (ditto)
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemmingway

I don't know about 'best books ever' but I enjoyed these.

 

[Cian]

Frankenstein (forgot her name)

Mary Shelley.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

1984
Animal Farm
The first Harry Potter
Beneath The Skin, by Nikki French
Enduring Love, by whatshisface

 

[The Great Cornholio]

Animal Farm
To Kill a Mockingbird
Catcher in The Rye
1984
Great Expectations

And may I be the first to mention - Build A Bonfire?

 

[n1 gull]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Hunter S Thompson

 

[Schrödinger's Toad]

It's probably not the best book ever, but I have just finished Play On to The End, by Robert Goddard, which is set in Brighton, and is about an actor who is playing at the Theatre Royal in a Joe Orton play, but gets contacted by his soon to be-ex wife, who is being bothered by an odd man, who keeps staring at her from a coffee shop opposite her shop. All the place names are real, so you are always aware where the story is taking place. I would strongly recommend it.

Read that in the summer - a very interesting read in terms of following the story around, and a pretty good plot, although tails off towards the end and the climax is a bit silly.

Best book ever? hmm ... in various genres:

The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) is a great thriller
The Lost Continent (Bill Bryson) my favourite travelogue
The Complete Dramatic Works (Samuel Beckett) contains some awesome plays.
A Box of Matches (Nicholson Baker) is a clever novel

Many, many others.

 

[Bluejuice]

The hitch-hiikers guide to the galaxy - Douglas Adams

Timeless

 

[bhafc99]

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace