What is your all time FAVORITE book?

[Capitalism2003]

need some conservative book recommendations...

[petuniasevan]

Hey, how about Jeff Head's books?

So far he has two of the set completed.

1. Dragon's Fury - Breath of Fire
2. Dragon's Fury - Trodden Under

See this thread

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/549549/posts

[whenigettime]

The Bible

With Christ in the School of Prayer, by Andrew Murray

The Mark of a Christian, by Francis Schaeffer

Come Away My Beloved, by Frances J. Roberts

[Political Junkie Too]

The dictionary. All the other books are already in there.

I think that was a line from a M*A*S*H episode.

-PJ

[Diana Rose]

Shanna by Katheen Woodiwiss (romance)
Star Ship Trooper (SF)
The Virginian (western)
Dune (SF)

[Pharmboy]

Blood Meridian. Don't miss it.

[fnord]

HHGTTG is #3 on my list ... #2 is The Illuminatis Trilogy :-)

[stanz]

"A Christmas Carol" - Dickens

[pollywog]

The Bible !!!!!!! no question about it. A life changing, words being fulfilled, Inspired Word of the Living God.!!!!!

[Salo]

Favorite books, not all non-fiction
++++++
The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
The Lord of the Rings trilogy - JRR Tolkien
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy - Douglas Adams
1984 - George Orwell
Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
anything by PJ O'Rourke
Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zepplin Saga - Stephen Davis
Night Shift - Steven King
Skeleton Crew - Steven King
Washington Goes to War - David Brinkley
The Masked Rider - Neil Peart
Ghost Rider - Neil Peart

[PJ-Comix]

Nobody handles the American idiom like Raymond Chandler. Why? Because Chandler approached it like a foreign language. He was American but raised in Britain and had a British accent. When he returned to the States, he was fascinated by the way Americans spoke. He didn't take it for granted and it shows in his works.

[P.O.E.]

Lord of the Rings (read it about 5 times)

Other Faves:

C.S. Lewis' Outer Space Trilogy (read it 3 times)
Orphans of the Sky (Heinlein)
Almost anything by Bradbury or Lovecraft
Hayek was already mentioned
Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn
Robert Graves' Mythologies
Atlas Shrugged
Any of the "Hitch-hiker's Guides" by Douglas Adams.
All and Everything (that's a tough one)


Flaubert's "St Julian the Hospitaler" (short story)

The Bible (I prefer New American Standard Version)

[7beuties]

Witness,Wittaker Chambers(Reagan's favorite book)
The Black book of Communism
Left for Dead

[Spyder]

And if you like Hitchhiker's Guide you'll like anything by Terry Pratchett.

I'd add to the list Lucifer's Hammer by Niven and Pourneille (sp?). Great novel about a comet hitting earth.

[whenigettime]

I'd agree, good book... "Blue Highways"...

I liked the bearded hitchhiker that told him about God, he had a silver/aluminum suitcase, like he'd arrived from a different planet.. he was just a humble Christian witness.

[LonghornFreeper]

After the Bible, mine would have to be Lord of the Rings. In a very close second would be Richard Adam's Watership Down. This book actually has some political meaning also, despite being about rabbits. It sounds fruity, but it is really a great book.

[Capitalism2003]

I didn't like the Fountainhead much...a little slow for me and the enemy wasn't as frightening as it was in Atlas Shrugged. There idea of "The Destroyer" as the enemy in Shrugged was just awesome...The similarities between what Rand predicted in the 50s and what has happened today are amazing. The enemy of freedom and of America today is not just one or two guys, or a few governments conspiring in the background to overthrow capitalism...The enemy is entire undercurrent of society the philosophy of the left...it can't be seen or fought, but it is always there and it is destroying society. Atlas Shrugged really captured the feeling of this...of impending doom and the futile fight against it. I recommend A.S. to everyone I talk to about politics. Folks...if you haven't read it...you must. This book will change your outlook on life forever, and I'm not exaggerating. Buy it.

[BigBobber]

To Kill a Mockingbird.

Yes, that was my favorite book they made me read in high school. Very poingnant.

[Cooter]

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

[PJ-Comix]

46th Goal Subvert the original great taste of Slim Jims with cheap soy additive and polysorbate 80.