The greatest BOOK you ever read?

[300writers]

The greatest book you ever read and would advice to read!

Thank you.

[Agathosdaimon]

For any German language enthusiasts The Oxford Practical Dictionary of German Usage
https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Dictio ... rman+usage

i am glad i got it when it was first released as it is hella expensive now

[Rodwonder]

Starship Troopers- Heinlein

[aaatoysandmore]

They won't let me post it here; too religious. [:)]

[MrsWargamer]

Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan.

You won't like what you read in all likelihood, which is probably why you need to read it.

Honourary mention. Book 9 of the Sword of Truth series was quite an interesting statement. But you'd need to read the first 8 to get the full effect.

Love Letters by Debbie Macomber, and no, guys, it won't do anything for you I'm sure But it opened my eyes to where my writing was supposed to be. 30 years wasted trying to discover what I really wanted to write as an author (I thought for a long time it was supposed to be science fiction), and then life put me in the right situation to realize, I'd always wanted to write romance novels. I write romance novels by the way.

[Anonymous]

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[Red2112]

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco...
http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/

[JReb]

Its hard to just pick only one so here is the short list of fiction:

Lonesome Dove
Pillars of the Earth
Bourne Identity
Hunt for Red October
Rama Series
Sackett Series
Flight of the Old Dog


I could go on...and on and on...

[Curtis Lemay]

The First Man in Rome, Colleen McCullough

[slpatgun]

"The Sandpebbles"

[cpdeyoung]

"The Count of Monte Cristo"

Chuck

PS : Well worth reading unabridged - 1,462 pages. Reading it every two or three years also recommended.

[durangokid]

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice. Good for a read through every couple of years. Never fails to lift my spirits.

[Kuokkanen]

The Complete Hammer's Slammers

[bazjak]

The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monserrat
The story of the crew (from capt to stocker) of the sloop Compass Rose during the Atlantic convoys during WW2

[Zorch]

The Book of Lost Books - a list of all the books that were known to exist, but are sadly lost to us.

[Franciscus]

Right out of my head, three:

- The Lord of The Rings. read it in portuguese translation three times and in english a couple more

- Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham.

- the short and haunting novella by Tolstoi, The Death of Ivan Ilyich

[Rosseau]

Well now I know to read one of Colleen McCullough's books that's sitting on my shelf.

Besides the Bible of course, I would say "Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam," by Stephen W. Sears. Playing it in conjunction with SSI's Battle of Antietam is what makes it so memorable.

[TheGrayMouser]

ORIGINAL: Matti Kuokkanen

The Complete Hammer's Slammers

Nice!!

For me: With Fire and Sword Henryk Sienkiewicz

[redcoat]

J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings

[Agathosdaimon]

i love books just too much so i must post again as i cant go past these:

Faust by Goethe,
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe
The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov
War and Peace by Tolstoy
The works of Aeschylus
The Phenomenology of Spirit by Hegel
Magick in Theory and Practice by Aleister Crowley
The Vision and the Voice by Crowley
The Outsider by Colin Wilson
Thus Spake Zarathustra by Nietzsche
Philosophy of Right by Hegel