The Best book you OWN

[Declaro]

Good Omens, Small Gods, and my well-thumbed copy of Life with Jeeves (three of P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves novels in one). Happy memories indeed...

 

[elcamino41383]

I am America, and so can You, by Steven Colbert

i forgot about this book it was awesome

I'm really not sure why to this day, but for some reason I couldn't finish that book. Still have it and I got it shortly after release.

 

[Fidelias]

In case you didn't notice my avatar, mine is The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. Technically not just one book, but I DO own all of them.

 

[Madara XIII]

Idk, I'm afraid of getting attacked, but here goes

A 19th Century Catholic Bible that's been in my Family for YEARS!!!

LOL the thing is Heavy as Hell!


Oh and the Screwtape Letters

Best Damn Book I've ever read

 

[EmeraldGreen]

Macbeth. Or if you want something that was actually intended to be a book: War and Peace.

Seriously. No one writes stronger characters than Shakespeare and Tolstoy.

 

[Fraught]

Well, of all the books I, myself, have personally read, almost none have been books I've actually owned, but there are two books I really, really like, and I own.

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Spoiler: With this cover

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Spoiler: And this one's with this cover

I (or, rather, my family) have a shitlot of books, but I'm uninterested in all of them, since they're mostly mediocre books, written by long-dead Estonian writers.

 

[Ledan]

Entire Wheel of Time series...

Pretty much this.


I don't have the ENTIRE Wheel of Time series, (1-7 and 9. I couldn't find 8 anywhere) but the ones that I've already read (1-5. I'm almost finished 5) are really good.

Yeah they are great books, very complex with alot of deep characters. I can't wait for the next book to come out from the new author, he did a great job on #12.

It's terrible that Robert Jordan died. I'm sure that book 12 would be different if he would've wrote.

I'm not saying that book 12 is bad. I haven't really heard much about it, but I'm sure it's still good. I'm just saying that it probably would've been...different if Robert Jordan wrote it...
[sub]Not sure how to explain, but I hope you understand what I mean[/sub]

How awesome would an ultimate wheel of time book be? About 10000-12000 pages compressed into 1 book. It would have to be 3x4 just to be the same thickness of his normal books. A thousand pages, each the size of 12 pages. If the font of the normal paperbacks was kept, and if it wasn't printed on super-thin paper (like the Ultimate Bourne collection).

 

[Tjebbe]

Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon

 

[Senaro]

Probably "It was on Fire when I Lay Down on it" and "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts of Common Things" by Robert Fulghum.

 

[sfd1985]

I don't have a specific edition of a book that's special to me, but one of my all time favourite books is Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. I generally love most of Vonneguts books, but this is my favourite until I re-read another one... The edition I have is this one:

# Paperback: 192 pages
# Publisher: Penguin; New Ed edition (1 July 1999)
# ISBN-10: 0140285601
# ISBN-13: 9780140285604

 

[h0wdyth3r3]

Wizard's First Rule, and the entire Sword of Truth Series.

 

[Legend of J]

Twilight hard back edition 0_0

Nah erm alan wake lol.

 

[deadguynotyetburied]

I own a lot I like. Picking one, it would probably be "The Doomsday Book" by Connie Willis.

 

[Piflik]

The Gone-away World by Nick Harkaway...even if you don't like the story, the writing alone warrants a buy...I read it twice in a row (and normally I don't read any book twice...ever...can't get into a book, if I know what happens on the next page...)

 

[Woodsey]

The Silmarillion. The thing is my freaking bible.

Because it's got way too many characters and is almost completely incoherent?

Never liked it myself.

OT: The Hitchhiker's books or The Hobbit (Tolkien at his best).

 

[Brainpalm]

I couldn't possibly choose just one... Although Seven Ancient Wonders by Matthew Reilly or any Matthew Reilly book is the top for me (Of books I own).

Others i love but don't own include: Animal Farm - George Orwell, Unwind - Neal Shusterman (Awesome Sci-Fi), Magician - Raymond E Feist and there are no doubt more but i cannot recall them at this time...

 

[RemSaverem]

So many good books.
I've got the Hitchhiker's Trilogy, leather bound and SIGNED.
I've got all four volumes of the Absolute Sandman series & the Absolute Death.
I've got a signed hardcover of The Graveyard Book.
I have the Complete Calvin and Hobbes.

But as far as my favorite, what I consider to be "best" books in terms of story, I'd say my copies of American Gods by Neil Gaiman and The Stand by Stephen King. Those are books I reread because I enjoy them so much.

 

[Arcanist]

Animal Farm. I loves me my Orwell.