What's the Best Book you've ever read?

[RaptorWizard]

Well folks, I've changed my mind; the best book I've ever read was Project Mind: The Conscious Conquest of Man and Matter Through Accelerated Thought by T. Kun (David S. Devor).

What is life? What is death? What is the secret of the cosmos? Had the great minds of the past found all the answers, would there still be such suffering? The author claims to have found the key to the cosmic riddle and declares open war on death and taxes.

 

[WALMART]

Good book. Have you read Brian Greene?

One stop shop for advancing knowledge into the 21st century.

 

[RaptorWizard]

Good book. Have you read Brian Greene?

One stop shop for advancing knowledge into the 21st century.

I briefly browsed his "The Elegant Universe" at the library, but I don't like his style as much, and his content (much like many other physicists) seemed more technical than radical. The reason Kaku's my favorite is because he does a lot of crazy speculation with very expansive perspectives.

 

[WALMART]

I briefly browsed his "The Elegant Universe" at the library, but I don't like his style as much, and his content (much like many other physicists) seemed more technical than radical. The reason Kaku's my favorite is because he does a lot of crazy speculation with very expansive perspectives.

Ah, sensationalism.

 

[Mal12345]

Please don't ask this question on facebook. All you'll get back is "The Bible."

 

[Mal12345]

Atlas Shrugged.

 

[Stanton Moore]

I've read too many to pick just one.

 

[Mal12345]

I've read too many to pick just one.

Why did you delete your post?

 

[Stanton Moore]

Why did you delete your post?

What post?

 

[Mal12345]

What post?

The one where you answered "The Bible."

 

[ndovjtjcaqidthi]

Eh, I have too many favorites. I'll pick a novel though.

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe

 

[Stanton Moore]

The one where you answered "The Bible."

I decided to not be snarky... Ok?

 

[Mal12345]

I decided to not be snarky... Ok?

I didn't think you were being snarky.

 

[meowington]

My dark places - James Ellroy

 

[jewelluckystar05]

I would have to say Wicked, even though I ended up nicknaming the lion sir thinksalot in the last book, lol.

 

[zago]

The Singularity is Near

 

[WALMART]

The Face of Battle - John Keegan

 

[cafe]

I think LOTR will always be number one for me, not in small part because it was a good friend at a rough time during my formative years.

 

[highlander]

Atlas Shrugged.

Boo hiss. Not awful but the best??

Try Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. Three books. Best of anything I've ever read.

Also, there is a book called True Names by Verner Vinge that I liked a lot.

 

[Mal12345]

Boo hiss. Not awful but the best??

Try Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. Three books. Best of anything I've ever read.

Also, there is a book called True Names by Verner Vinge that I liked a lot.

Check out "the readers' list" at http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/

If you study how Atlas Shrugged was put together, you will discover that it is one of the most complex, if not the most complex, and well-constructed novel in history.

As for my favorites novels - they actually consist of much lighter story-telling than Atlas.