The Best book you OWN

Declaro

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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

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bartman675 said:
spacepope22 said:


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

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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

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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

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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.
 

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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

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

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.
 

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Argtee said:
MagicMouse said:
Argtee said:
MagicMouse said:
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).
:D
 

Senaro

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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.
 

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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
 

Piflik

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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...)
 

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Leopard said:
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

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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

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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.