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Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colifer

 

Many would disagree I think but this is mine:

The Demon apostle

This is the only book where the ending left me bazzled. I can't describe it but it had me leaving in a state of.....DAMN.

 

I like too many to pick a single one out Though the Dark Elf trilogy was excellent

 

It prob be one of these

The Hobbit
Silmarillion
Also Sprach Zarahustra

 

I don't know why but I really liked The Redemption Of Althalus but Homeland from the dark elf trilogy was great to.

 

This is a tough one. I don't have a single best. In no particular order:

Intervention
The Saga of the Exiles
The Galactic Mileiu (sp) Trilogy
The Farseer Trilogy
The Liveship Traders Trilogy
The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

 

Hm i don't know the exact translation but it must be "Speech" or something like that by M.Kemal Atatürk. It tells the Turkish Independence War, and is (was) a good read.
Other than that it can be "The Lord of the Rings"

 

@Tarsakh: how old are you? That book was written for kids. To answer the question I'd have to say that the Dark Elf Trilogy Collectors Edition was my favorite book. It had all three Dark Elf books in one.

 

that i see as being hypocritical. All of the slavatore/dragonlance/dark elf/forgotten realms were written for children. Or at least adolecants.

I gotta say that no one book can really outrank any other, as there is so many different genres.
But, here are my fav.

Childrens - Squids will be Squids or the 'Just' series.
Fantasy - Too many. Jordan, Martin, Hobb, Elliot, Feist. All good.
Sci-Fi - The Decent, forget the author.

 

Well now i'm not a children and i bet that more than half of Forgotten Realms/Dragonlance readers are not children too.
*groans*
I love Drizzt books.Yeah Dark Elf Trilogy is a good read.

 

The entire Foundation series written by Isaac Asimov was amazingly good, and I enjoyed it more than any other books I have ever read. However, I have to say the *best* book I've ever read is a more difficult question, I think I'll just give a top fifteen, that's about as closely as I can narrow it down.

1. The Tin Drum
2. 100 Years of Solitude
3. Point, Counter Point
4. The End of Science (The Undiscovered Mind wasn't nearly as interesting)
5. Metamorphosis
6. Ulysses (need to clear up that although I greatly disliked reading this book, I cannot deny its greatness)
7. Animal Farm
8. Farewell to Arms
9. The Bell Jar (probably one of the toughest reads ever)
10. The Sound and the Fury
11. Unto This Last, and Other Writings (John Ruskin)
12. The Ethics (Benedict de Spinoza)
13. Crime and Punishment
14. The Aenied
15. The Divine Comedy (seriously considering learning Italian just to read this in its original language)

There's a great deal of other books too, that's not even the tip of the iceberg.

[ May 08, 2003, 06:56: Message edited by: enjan ]

 

The Return of the King by J.R.R.TOLKIEN is my favorite. (It could be Silmarillion but I'm still on page 34)

 

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin. It's really a shame that only the first book of the Song of Fire and Ice is translated to swedish. Or finnish. I guess I'll have to read it in english then.

 

That's a tough question, as "best" has a lot of different shades. Best Mystery? Best Adventure? Best Interpretive novel? Too many genres and types.

I have to give some credence, though, to those English theorists who have claimed "Middlemarch" by George Eliot as the best written novel of all time. Magnificently organized and put together.

 

Helter Skelter-The True Story Behind the Charles Manson Muders by Vincent Bugliosi.

It left me saying "What the ****, who thinks of this stuff ",and it's a true story.

 

Animal Farm
The Godfather
1984
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Catcher in the Rye
His Dark Materials Trilogy

 

The best book i ever read would certainly be Silmarillion (JRRTolkein)or Hitch-Hickers Guild to the Galaxy series (Douglas Adams)

 

The Silmarillion without a doubt. Crazier and just plain more insane then LotR.