What is your "That Book"?

[Apprentice88]

The Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer, and the Imperial Munitorum Manual.

FOR THE EMPEROR!!!

 

[Vault Girl]

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest every time. It's the one book i can read ALL the time and never get bored of.

 

[creothes]

Sun tzu's the art of war. the swiss army knife of books

 

[Mistermixmaster]

I'm not much of a reader, but I guess Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. I've read it three times amazingly enough (my current record for re-reading a book).

 

[Naeras]

1984 by George Orwell.
It isn't just a dystopia for me. It's the worst imaginable dystopia I could think of, and it scares the shit out of me. And it's incredible.

 

[Lynx]

The Harry Potter series. My mind truly dives into the story every time and leaves my body just the shell that holds the book.

 

[teh_Canape]

The Baron of Münchhausen

there's something in all the bullshit that guy says that makes it so fun to me

 

[dakorok]

The Dresden Files. I could read them all day, every day. ALL DAY, EVERY DAY.

Fitting that this is the first response, because they're damn good.

 

[Taham]

Jingo, by Sir Terry Pratchett

 

[TheRookie8]

The Dresden Files. I could read them all day, every day. ALL DAY, EVERY DAY.

Agreed.

Since you already mentioned The Dresden Files, I recommend The First Law Trilogy and spin-offs. Dark humor, flawed characters, and grisly action.

 

[Rekrul]

fight club

 

[Lectori Salutem]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I enjoy the entire series immensely. (Yeah, even that Eoin Colfer book. Wasn't as good but still rather entertaining)

Now here's a hoopy frood who knows where his towel is.
I could read those books till eternity

 

[C117]

Bored of the rings. A marvelous parody that does just enough to not just come across as silly.

 

[notebook_holder]

The Passage by Justin Cronin. A excellent post-apocalyptic,si-fi book. Iain Banks: Wasp Factory and 120 Days of Sodom by Sade

 

[Not-here-anymore]

The Dresden Files. I could read them all day, every day. ALL DAY, EVERY DAY.

Seconded. Or thirded. Or whatever.
So I read all of Ghost Stories in one sitting. On the day it came out. On my kindle, so I got it at something like 1 in the morning. That's clearly not a bad thing.

 

[The_Echo]

For me, it'd probably be Of Mice and Men and A Clockwork Orange.

I've only read ACO once, but I've seen the film so many times, and I loved the book about a thousand times more than the film, so I'm sure I'll end up reading it many more times in the future.

 

[Mordekaien]

The book Koniá? - A Man on the Road and Koniá? - Lone Wolf
WHY?

Because it's awesome!!!!

 

[Blunderboy]

It's a series rather then a singular book, but I'm a huge fan of The Dark Tower.

'The Man in Black fled across the desert, and The Gunslinger followed.'
Possibly one of the best opening lines ever written.

Close contenders are the Belgariad and Malloreon by David Eddings, The Discworld books by Terry Pratchett and The Drenai books by David Gemmell.