all time best book

[Llama]

Lets have them then- your all time favourite book, (two at a push), they can be classics or holiday trash up to you.

I'll start - the outsider -camus (2nd - Keep the aspidistra flying Orwell)

 

[Mr Pig]

The Bible

 

[swee'pea99]

Middlemarch, according to a recent survey. Don Quixote, if you'll believe Time Magazine (one of very few books in my life I have found literally unreadable).

 

[MickL]

Wind in the Willows and torn between Mort and Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett.

 

[goo_mason]

Oooo.... this is a difficult one as this changes depending on the way the wind's blowing at any particular instant !

Today I'd have to say:

'A Confederacy Of Dunces' - John Kennedy Toole
'Demian' - Hermann Hesse

given the number of times I've read them both !!

 

[Halfmanhalfbike]

Lord of the Rings and The Blind Watchmaker

(That's two books by the way not the title of a new one)

 

[Slim]

Despatches - Michael Herr

and /or

To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee


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[tyred]

I'd probably have to say Treasure Island or Hound of the Baskervilles as I have read both so many times.

 

[Dave5N]

Lord of the Rings and The Blind Watchmaker

(That's two books by the way not the title of a new one)

No, That's four.

 

[Dave5N]

Catch 22

 

[yello]

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

More to do with it's effect on me at the time I read it rather than any particular literary qualities.

 

[Halfmanhalfbike]

No, That's four.

Yes, but the Red book of Westmarch which it's based on was only one volume

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_of_Westmarch

 

[gbb]

Lets have them then- your all time favourite book, (two at a push), they can be classics or holiday trash up to you.

I'll start - the outsider -camus (2nd - Keep the aspidistra flying Orwell)

For me...both Orwell
1st - Animal farm
2nd - 1984

Tried various other orwell books...they just did'nt do it for me. Surprised me.

 

[Dayvo]

Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

Jonathan Livingstone Seagull - Richard Bach

as per Goo's guideline, given the number of times I've read them both! 40+ for both of them.

 

[PaulB]

The dictionary. It's got all the other books in there if you jiggle the contents up a bit.