The Best book you OWN

[McShizzle]

My pride and joy is a beautiful limited printing of The Hobbit. There were only 2500 copies printed. I paid a mint for it but I love it. Pictures are in the spoiler tags.

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My favorite book. I highly recommend it to everyone.

Fckn A! That is an awesome book. You got the blue & white printing or the full colour? I prefer the blue & white (more mysterious). If you liked this book you might also enjoy a book called Dictionary of the Khazars. Wikipedia entry [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_the_Khazars] It's pretty neat too. I have a very nice hardcover printing of this, which I also enjoy.

 

[Thedayrecker]

Like the title says, name the best book you have in your collection

For me its this leatherbound baby

I have the exact same book, so that

 

[ZleazyA]

I can't choose between Dune, Hitchhiker's Guide to the galaxy, The House of the Scorpion, Catching Fire from the Hunger Games Trilogy, or Poison.
too... many... good... books...
How can I choose only one?

 

[BlumiereBleck]

THE BIBLE! Yeah!

 

[dalek sec]

My favorite book. I highly recommend it to everyone.

What is that book about exactly? I can't get a straight answer from anyone or any website that has information about it. What kind of genere is it exactly as well?

 

[Zakarath]

Best book? Hmm... I have a lot of them among my favorites; can't name just one.
Speaker for the Dead is probably the winner though.
Runners up:
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Song in the Silence by Elizabeth Kerner
Changes by Jim Butcher
Tea with the Black Dragon by R.A. MacAvoy
The Riddle of the Wren by Charles de Lint

 

[nintendoeats]

Oh hey, somebody else listed too. lets hear it for Orwell.

 

[nintendoeats]

And so you don't think that I'm some paranoid conspiracy theorist, I also made this out of annoyance:

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[Buzz Killington_v1legacy]

I don't have an image of it handy, but an 1896 London edition of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus I bought myself a couple of months ago when I was feeling like buying something old and collectible. (Got it for a really low price, too...something less than twenty bucks.)

 

[Star Pancakes Muthaf]

Zombie survival guide, kickass

 

[thelastgentleman]

The Divine Comedy, surprised no one owns this?

 

[McShizzle]

What is that book about exactly? I can't get a straight answer from anyone or any website that has information about it. What kind of genere is it exactly as well?

The book is about awesome! Seriously it's kinda tough to describe. It's certainly a unique piece of writing. It's kind of about a house that's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside, but that's only sort of what it's about. There's a lot more going on. One passage in the book contains possibly the most directly terrifying thing I've ever read. Again there is also more going on. Pick it up in a bookstore and just flip through it. You'll see what I'm talking about.

Edit: As to genre, I would kind of call it horror, maybe.

 

[Ih8pkmn]

The Divine Comedy, surprised no one owns this?

I own it, but not my best.

Fahrenheit 451. I just read it again today. It's still awesome, in a hopeless, dysatopian sort of manner. And I have never seen the movie. :-(

 

[octafish]

Man, why you got to do a thing?

To Kill a Mockingbird. It is a perfect little book.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

I'm pleasantly surprised that The Name of the Wind has been mentioned twice before the thread exceeded 3 pages. That book is so impossibly perfect.

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

Dune by Frank Herbert or Hyperion by Dan Simmons if this means I personally own them.

The Time Machine and War of the Worlds if my family owns it can count.

Yes, I like science fiction.

 

[Ken Sapp]

Like the title says, name the best book you have in your collection

For me its this leatherbound baby

I have that edition too. But honestly it is not fair to ask me which is the best book I own, there are too many "Best"s.

 

[T3chn0s1s]

We talking the book's content, or the book itself? I have a big tome of complete Tolkien all leather-bound and being big enough to thwap intruders to death with, which I consider my best prize...

Content-wise, however...

Jennifer Government. Simple paperback, but it has everything I've come to want from a story without becoming needlessly complicated or getting full of itself. Of course, we're talking about the book... Not the community that formed around it. Theeeere's a needlessly complicated bunch so full of themselves they reproduce through budding*.


*Generalized statement, may not actually reflect nation-sates community.

 

[carpathic]

The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy


It is only touched by Twilight of the Idols by Nietszche

 

[hottsaucekid]

The Last Olympian(Book 5 of the Percy Jackson Series)

it's just fucking awesome

sort of ninjaed since ive only read the first 4.
im gonna have to go with Percy Jackson series and Demonata series