The one book everyone should read?!?

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  • Keto_Keith
    Keto_Keith Posts: 73
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    Dragonlance Chronicles Trilogy. -Weis and Hickman
  • SherryR1971
    SherryR1971 Posts: 1,170 Member
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    My recommendation is anything by John Grisham or Dean Koontz...Grisham writes legal thriller and Koontz does supernatural horror stuff...both very engaging, I can't put them down...
  • nturner612
    nturner612 Posts: 710 Member
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    i am a major book worm...but 2 kids later ill read when i can what i can :) alll time fav is "Go ask Alice"
  • yowza101
    yowza101 Posts: 196 Member
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    I guess you have to figure out what types of books you may like to venture into, fiction, non-fiction, bio's, self-help,sci-fi, inspirational...hmmm, then I think you can truly go from there. I would suggest going to your local library and start reading books from there and then if you truly like reading...then start buying them.

    I personally like Green Eggs and Ham....SMILE.
  • Alovett1
    Alovett1 Posts: 4 Member
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    Can't wait to read Game of Thrones. I loved Pillars of the Earth and World Without End. They are pretty big, but really great books!
  • fishgutzy
    fishgutzy Posts: 2,807 Member
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    The girl with a dragon tattoo by Stieg Larsson is very gripping a thriller :-)

    Just finished the series. Then watched the extended Swedish film versions on Netflix with subtitles. The books were better, but the Swedish versions of the film were pretty good even if the actress playing the lead is about 5 inches taller than Lizbeth in the book. Like any movie adaptation a lot of the story gets dropped. But the essential elements remain. Many of the faces in the Swedish films are familiar. Nomi, who plays Lizbeth, was in the latest Sherlock movie and Prometheus.

    50 Shades is mommy porn if one is being generous. A pedophile pusher if one is less inclined to be generous.

    I am currently reading Point of Impact, the book upon which The Shooter was based. If you have seen the movie, or not, the book is a great read. Much better and actually quite different from the movie.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
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    Has anyone read The Jason Bourne books? The movies are great, but just wanted to know if the books were good as well.

    I might check those out. I have only seen the last movie (I know, I live under a rock!), but the storyline was just Flowers for Algernon with a car chase.
  • kit8806
    kit8806 Posts: 222 Member
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    Only one??? Goodness!

    Well, since you're a man, I'd say Moby Dlck because men seem to really love that book, but I didn't like it.

    As for what I would recommend, my absolute favorites that are not gender specific would probably be either Les Miserables or the Harry Potter series. There are seven books in HP, but it's really one continuous story, so it's more like one really long book (and so, so awesome).

    The Book Thief is a really good piece of historical fiction, and very powerful.

    Oy. I have a BA in English literature and when I didn't have a full-time job, I used to read three or four novels a week, so you're asking the impossible from me! Check out my goodreads.com page if you want a whole list!

    Harry Potter is awesome!! :)

    Also, goodreads.com is great!!! if you actually make an account, you can find books for you that will fit what you like! :)
  • 3foldchord
    3foldchord Posts: 2,918 Member
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    Depends on what you like. I like sci-fi/Fantasy. (because I get enough reality in real life- I like to eescape reality when I read)

    Some of my favortires are:
    Dune (the main 3- I have not read the ones is son put together from pothumous material or whatever) by Frank Herbert

    The Doomsday Book (Akin to Timeline, but better) by Connie Willis

    C.S.Lewis's Space Trilogy (Out of the silent planet, Perelandra, Thatt Hideous Strength- they are quick reads, short books)

    "Stars My Destination" by Alfred Bester (another short book)

    Books by the Author Jasper Fforde

    Hobbit/LOTR

    and I still like to go back and read my Madeline Le-Engle books (sci-fi series from when I was a kid)
  • emstethem
    emstethem Posts: 263 Member
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    Just for fun reading? Not fitness related....hmmm, I really loved the book --The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas...it's one of my favorite books. It is considered a literary classic. It is an AWESOME book. :) (And, I promise it's not a "chick flick" kind of book lol). I AM a book worm...couldn't LIVE without a good read. Hmmmm...my vote for worst book I've ever read...would have to be-- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. The book became a cult classic, and later a mainstream success, and Mr. Toole posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981 (I guess I just don't get it...I absolutely HATED this book...you might read it out of curiosity and tell me what I missed...haha). Well, hope this helps...maybe tell us a little about what kind of book might interest you? Then I would be able to narrow down suggestions... :D
  • raverhayley
    raverhayley Posts: 112 Member
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    cupcake brown- a piece of cake. amazing true life story. you should all give it a go :)
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
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    Oh! I have the answer. It's 42, and I'm not even joking.

    No one, I mean NO ONE, should leave this planet without having read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. If you read no other book in your entire life, you have to read that one. If only so you have any idea what people are talking about when they answer every question with "42."
  • jerber160
    jerber160 Posts: 2,606 Member
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    since you asked for 'everybody' I think, being an election year, everyone should read some ayn rand. Atlas Shrugged! I had to skip huge parts of her manifesto (or diatribe if you're being kind) but everyone could have a feel for what a whack she can be and how it's influencing our culture.
  • hypocrisy8
    hypocrisy8 Posts: 26 Member
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    Only one??? Goodness!

    Well, since you're a man, I'd say Moby Dlck because men seem to really love that book, but I didn't like it.

    As for what I would recommend, my absolute favorites that are not gender specific would probably be either Les Miserables or the Harry Potter series. There are seven books in HP, but it's really one continuous story, so it's more like one really long book (and so, so awesome).

    The Book Thief is a really good piece of historical fiction, and very powerful.

    Oy. I have a BA in English literature and when I didn't have a full-time job, I used to read three or four novels a week, so you're asking the impossible from me! Check out my goodreads.com page if you want a whole list!

    I second The Book Thief
    I have a short attention span and usually lose interest in books easily- but this was a great book. Loved it from beginning to end.
  • 3foldchord
    3foldchord Posts: 2,918 Member
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    Has anyone read The Jason Bourne books? The movies are great, but just wanted to know if the books were good as well.



    I have read the first two, after I saw the 1st movie. They were good, but did not make my list of "books good enough to re-read"
  • MonkeyBars
    MonkeyBars Posts: 266 Member
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    ok, I'm pulling the MFP card here and going for a fitness book rather than fiction ;)

    "Overcoming Gravity: A Systematic Approach to Gymnastics and Bodyweight Strength"
  • ShreddedTweet
    ShreddedTweet Posts: 1,326 Member
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    Well, you're not an avid reader so I'm not going to suggest some of the great books I REALLY love but I always find the Lee Child Jack Reacher books are good. They're not silly or 'womany' and they're fairly well written compared to the reading-by-numbers tripe like 50 Shades which has the writing style of a 10-year old with no thesaurus.
  • Merc71
    Merc71 Posts: 412 Member
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    "The 5,000-Year Leap," by W. Cleon Skousen
  • 3foldchord
    3foldchord Posts: 2,918 Member
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    Just for fun reading? Not fitness related....hmmm, I really loved the book --The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas...it's one of my favorite books. It is considered a literary classic. It is an AWESOME book.

    DITTO! Read The Count of Monte Cristo! Another one of my favorites!
  • yksdoris
    yksdoris Posts: 327 Member
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    just one?

    uh... I'm not at all religious, in fact I am very strongly agnostic but if you want ONE book that has had the most influence of (Western) society as we know it, read the Bible.

    If you're more interested in literature... well, here are some suggestions:
    The full collection of Grimm fairy tales & Anderson fairy tales
    1001 Nights
    The Three Musketeers
    Les Miserables (suggest to read the English version... unless you're fluent in French)
    Jane Eyre
    Pride and Prejudice (it's quite small, but very influential to literature today)
    Gone With the Wind (not nearly as chick-flick as you'd think. there's lots of action and battles and muddling through!)
    Crime and Punishment
    Steppewolfe
    anything by Kafka
    anything by Vonnegut
    Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    Ender's Game
    The Name of the Rose (or, indeed, anything by Eco)
    the Wheel of Time series (IMO, it's better than aSoIaF - more magic, less gruesome and pointless deaths, more politicking and manouvering; and more action)
    the Otherland series
    the Farseer series

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