Best Book Ever Read ?

[TinTrump]

100 years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I persevered until about halfway and gave up. Couldn't engage with its sudden departures into fantasy. Liked "The General in his Labyrinth" though.

Also failed to finish "Catch 22" and "A Clockwork Orange".

"August 1914" by Solzhenitsyn is brilliant.
"Birdsong" by Sebastian Faulks is beautiful.
"1984" by Orwell. Course book at achool and loved it ever since.

[sasguru]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Calculus-Mic...4745173&sr=8-5

- Sasguru

Well yes. If you must read a calculus book that is the best one IMHO.
Be warned some of the more challenging questions will do your head in - but very rewarding nonetheless.

[nomadd]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Calculus-Mic...4745173&sr=8-5

- Sasguru

How to Be a Friend: A Guide to Making Friends and Keeping Them: http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Be-Frien...4746111&sr=1-7

Cheers,

Sasguru.

[sasguru]

How to Be a Friend: A Guide to Making Friends and Keeping Them: http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Be-Frien...4746111&sr=1-7

Cheers,

Sasguru.

I'm supposed to be polite, so I will politely tell you to go and perform some well dodgy acts on yourself.

[shaunbhoy]

For anyone that has done any serious running, Flanagan's Run by Tom McNab is pretty good. Also Trinity by Leon Uris.

[DS23]

just to balance out a little i think catch 22 is a truly great book.

by turns hilarious and horrifying. as it develops the hilarity lessens and the horror increases. a descent into hell.

war and peace is not better nor worse - just different (though it is like catch 22 a truly great book)

there are plenty of truly great books from 1001 nights to jonathan strange and mr norrel (and beyond) but if i was to choose one....

shardik by richard adams.

[MrMark]

Fiction: Dune by Frank Herbert (2nd choice would be Catch 22)
Non-Fiction: Data Analysis using SQL and Excel by Gordon S Linoff.

[sasguru]

For anyone that has done any serious running, Flanagan's Run by Tom McNab is pretty good. Also Trinity by Leon Uris.

Wot, no insults.
You cretinous nincompoop

[thunderlizard]

Catch 22

...makes some very good points and is laugh-out-loud in parts but I'd say it's a few steps off greatness. It retells the same joke over and over again (& some may argue that's the point of it) with varying success. Somebody (a lecturer) once told me that if you remember it was originally a newspaper serial, that goes some way to explaining its deficiencies. Unfortunately...it wasn't!

[PorkPie]

For anyone that has done any serious running, Flanagan's Run by Tom McNab is pretty good. Also Trinity by Leon Uris.

Is that Andy's lesser known and slightly more boring brother?