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Anish M

Which is the best book you have read (non-programming)... fiction... non-fiction... any?

Marc Clifton

I guess, given the number of times I read them as a kid, and that I even as an adult reread them once in a while, it would have to be the Narnia Chronicles. Strange, isn't it? Marc

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Lord of the Rings trilogy. definitaly ! :-D

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Chris Losinger

i don't have a single favorite. but i always recommend these (in no order): Geek Love - Katherine Dunn Gun, With Occasional Music - Jonathan Lethem City Of Saints and Madmen - Jeff VanDerMeer The Ghastlycrumb Tinies - Richard Gorey A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole and if i think you're the type, i'll recommend: Gravity's Rainbow - Pynchon Infinite Jest - Wallace

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Monty2

Asterix :rolleyes:

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Bassam Abdul Baki

& Co. :)

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Bassam Abdul Baki

Math books. Now were's that geek icon when you need it. Hmmm, try this. G:eek:

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Chris Maunder

Too hard to pick one. But my faves: Hitchhiker's trilogy - Douglass Adams Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett The Colour of Magic / The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett Mirror of Her Dreams - Stephen Donaldson I'm sure there's about 50 more if I spent another 5 mins thinking...

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Kyudos

The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb

Lost User

Recently I read a book by Greg Iles -- Blood Memory. It is my recent favorite. All time favorites include - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. All the books by Stephen King, Sidney Sheldon, John Grisham, Harold Robbins . . . . and the list goes on and on and on. (:badger:)

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Joe Q

A couple of my favorites are: The Introvert Advantage - Marti Olsen Laney (gives insight into being an introvert and how to deal with it) Enders Game - Card N-space - Niven - Asimov (that he actually wrote) Well World triolgy - Chalker Joe Q

Paul Watson

Summer of Katya by Trevanian always comes to mind when someone asks about a good book. The Master and Margerita by Mikhail Bulgakov is another classic. Saturday by Ian McEwan is brilliant. Anything by Philip Roth is excellent. Ian M. Banks for SF. There is no best though. I could never choose :)

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Nemanja Trifunovic

Hard to say. Maybe Crime and Punishment[^] by Dostoevsky.

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Paul Watson

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Douglass

I think he would have had a good chuckle over that.

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Lost User

Life between Life. While still conjecture it did open up the possibility that the whole of mankind is joined, subconciously, by a sea of energy.

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hairy_hats

Gets my 5. I'd include the Silmarillion - the breadth of background and depth of internal history that pervades all of Tolkien's writings gives it a feeling of consistency you just don't get in most other fantasy.

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Gary Kirkham

The Bible - God The Christian's Secret to a Happy Life - Hannah Whitall Smith Grace Walk - Steve McVey Humility - Andrew Murray The Rest of the Gospel - Dan Stone Just to name a few.

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Yep, I've read about every book available about LOTR, the bottom line is, it's not enough... :sigh:

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Nish Nishant

The Sherlock Holmes collection.

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Jerry Hammond

Non-fiction: Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West [^] Science Fiction: The Foundation Trilogy[^] Fiction: A Darkness More Than Night[^]

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