What do you think is the best book that you have not read but you wish to read.

For me it is LoTR, never read that one, but if it's as good as the movies, I'll have to get around to it.

Probably a tie between Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey. I have meant to read them for some time but I have just never gotten around to locating a copy.

they are good books, archaic but good. mine would be the dunes series

For literature, I'd have to say James Joyce's ulysses. Strictly in the realm of fantasy, probably Eddings' Belgariad, although y'all are piquing my interest in Martin's stuff.

I think that it is Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy. I've heard lots of good things about that book.

Probably Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Its the one book that I really want to read but for some reason haven't got round to it yet.

Rallymama: If you're talking about George RR Martin then go for it. I can't wait until the next in the series comes out.

Harkle, you haven't read them before :eek:
Go down to the nearest book store and buy them now . You don't know what you have missed out on.

The book I've resently really wanted to read is The Iliad. It just sounds an interesting book. I've been meaning to read it for a while now but my friend's just started reading the Odyssey, which reminded me I wanted to read the Iliad.

To Kill a Mockingbird, everyone lavishes praise on that one. I need to get around to read one of these days.

no...don't read To Kill a Mockingbird....i hated it....but that's just me...

Im a dune nut...so the best book ive never read is THE BUTLERIAN JIHAD.

Don't believe him, Joac, it's brilliant. A stunning book.

maybe i have a morality problem :D .

WOW, I didn't know people actually read stuff that is not fantasy.

I found to kill a mocking bird a bit dry, but it was ok here and there. Suprisingly because normally a book like that would bore me to death, even beyond death!

For me probably the iliad. oh and IMO To Kill A Mockingbird is not a bad book as long as you don't have to wrap your head around what some less than stellar intelect language teacher wants you to get out of it.

For me that would also be LOTR trilogy. Just have never gotten around to it. BTW the George R. Martin books are very good and fast paced despite the lenght. Tried the Wheel of Time series but they are so overly drawn out and boring that I just can't continue with the series which basically has a good story. Its just that there are chapters upon chapters in which nothing happens at all.

The Crucible sounds like an interesting piece of work.

Yeah, it's a non-fantasy book. I really feel like I don't want to read that stuff anymore.

the bible

Probably The Count of Monte Christo, it's just so... huge.

Does my sister's diary count? :D
Got to be The Star Trek Voyager Conpanion. Don't you dare laugh. >.<

War and Peace.
And half of the FR books. I've only read Exile Sojourn and the other one.

Leo Tolstoy's - War and Peace

I was tempted to say War and Peace, I have a copy and started reading it once but after fifty or so pages I got really bored and went on to something else.

I can only imagine that it gets better once the actual story starts but page after page of briefly introducing a seemingly endless list of characters really turned me off.

It's not for nothing that about ten times more people have War and Peace on the bookshelf than have actually read it. ;)

Personally - There are a number of classics that I feel I should have read but haven't. To single out one is tough, so I'm working my way through the BBC's big read list. I've probably read about a third of the books on there already, and I'm probably not going to read the kids stuff that I haven't read already, so about 30-40 books on there I suppose.

If you haven't already looked at the Big Read top 100 books (http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml) you'll get plenty inspiration for books to read.

Charles Darwin's "On the origin of the species by means of natural selection". An eye-opener at the time, but Darwin was surely a better scientist than a writer.

This present darkness. Peretti
Piercing the darkness. Peretti.

The Visit - Adrian Plass

Lessons of the disciple: A Compilation of Sermons - Mathetais

And perhaps I will read something of C.S.Lewis.
If I ever read... :rolleyes:

The Silmarillion. I try. I do try. So hard. :(

War and Peace - it's just so damned big! :bang:

It seems that I am the only one here, who has read War and Peace :D . As for the best book I have never read, this is Baudolino by Umberto Eco.

Hitchikers guide to the galaxy, never managed to get my hands on this and i feel very sorry for this. But i hope i will make up sometime

dude....do you want your computer to commit suicide?

read the book before its too late....

I have to say that the best book I've never read would be Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, but dear God in Heaven, who has time to read over 1,000 pages of Jean ValJean?

Also, I must end up getting Dracula.

Dave Pelzer's "trilogy" from A Child called It to A Man Named Dave. I saw him discussing it on TV once about 2 years ago and decided I had to track it down. IMHO The Iliad and The Odyssey were hard to get my head around at first but after a bit of perseverence I loved them both.

Hmmmmm.... well I think it mostly comes down to Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. I've been meaning to read it for 2 years now and I've never once gotten around to it. But I'm much more into fantasy than sci-fi so it keeps getting superceded. Other than that I keep trying to finish LOTR but I get bored by the middle of the 3rd book, I'm hoping that once I get older I'll have an even longer attention span or something. I suppose if I forced myself I could read it though, else I'd never have gotten through Catcher in the Rye.

On a side note, I liked To Kill a Mockingbird even though I was certain I'd detest it but I loathed Catcher in the Rye... that was a god-awful book IMHO.

I'd say "the hobbit" but I'm about to start reading it tonight, so the Silmarilion (sp?). I did start it, but that whole "The universe is made from music" idea at the beginning really confused me and never really got past it...

If you accept what "they" say (as far as how good a book is) I'd go with James Joyce's Ulysses. Can't stand Joyce and, as I'm long past any school and ancillary reading lists, I can firmly say that I am never going to read it.

As far as books that I hear are good from reliable sources that I just haven't gotten to: probably Bonfire of the Vanities.

"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" by Lo Kuan-Chung (Luo Guanzhong).

There's a lot, but for fantasy, I'd say Donaldson's 6 Thomas Covenant series.