The best book you have Never read.

Kovalis Darkfire · Wed, 6th Aug '03, 6:46pm

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.

JSBB · Wed, 6th Aug '03, 7:09pm

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.

iLLusioN' · Thu, 7th Aug '03, 6:30am

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

Rallymama · Thu, 7th Aug '03, 2:08pm

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.

Harkle · Thu, 7th Aug '03, 6:57pm

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

monkey · Thu, 7th Aug '03, 9:23pm

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.

Rotku · Fri, 8th Aug '03, 10:29am

Harkle, you haven't read them before

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.

joacqin · Fri, 8th Aug '03, 11:30pm

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

Gaidin-_- · Sat, 9th Aug '03, 5:19am

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.

Rallymama · Sat, 9th Aug '03, 5:25am

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

Gaidin-_- · Sat, 9th Aug '03, 7:19am

maybe i have a morality problem

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Kovalis Darkfire · Sat, 9th Aug '03, 7:47am

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!

kemanmaldea · Sun, 10th Aug '03, 1:52am

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.

Jschild · Sun, 10th Aug '03, 2:08am

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.

Oaz · Sun, 10th Aug '03, 2:33am

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.

Lokken · Sun, 10th Aug '03, 3:23am

the bible

Aikanaro · Sun, 10th Aug '03, 4:02am

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

Gwenhwyfar · Sun, 10th Aug '03, 9:40am

Does my sister's diary count?

Got to be The Star Trek Voyager Conpanion. Don't you dare laugh. >.<

Daie d'Malkin · Sun, 10th Aug '03, 6:38pm

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

Morgoth · Mon, 11th Aug '03, 3:15pm

Leo Tolstoy's - War and Peace

JSBB · Mon, 11th Aug '03, 3:39pm

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.

Viking · Wed, 13th Aug '03, 2:02pm

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 you'll get plenty inspiration for books to read.

Kralizek · Wed, 13th Aug '03, 3:36pm

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.

Master of Nuhn · Wed, 13th Aug '03, 11:36pm

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...

Yerril · Wed, 13th Aug '03, 11:51pm

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

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Wed, 6th Aug '03, 6:46pm	#1
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Wed, 6th Aug '03, 7:09pm	#2
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Thu, 7th Aug '03, 6:30am	#3
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Thu, 7th Aug '03, 2:08pm	#4
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Thu, 7th Aug '03, 6:57pm	#5
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Thu, 7th Aug '03, 9:23pm	#6
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Fri, 8th Aug '03, 10:29am	#7
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Fri, 8th Aug '03, 11:30pm	#8
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Sat, 9th Aug '03, 5:19am	#9
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Sat, 9th Aug '03, 5:25am	#10
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Sat, 9th Aug '03, 7:19am	#11
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Sat, 9th Aug '03, 7:47am	#12
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Sun, 10th Aug '03, 1:52am	#13
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Sun, 10th Aug '03, 2:08am	#14
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Sun, 10th Aug '03, 2:33am	#15
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Sun, 10th Aug '03, 3:23am	#16
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Sun, 10th Aug '03, 4:02am	#17
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Sun, 10th Aug '03, 9:40am	#18
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Sun, 10th Aug '03, 6:38pm	#19
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Mon, 11th Aug '03, 3:15pm	#20
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Mon, 11th Aug '03, 3:39pm	#21
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Wed, 13th Aug '03, 2:02pm	#22
Viking Gems: 19/31 Latest gem: Aquamarine Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: A place not for the likes of you. Posts: 1,102 Like: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts vBActivity - Stats XP: 2,890 Level: 17 vBActivity - Bars Level Completion: 45.05% Daily Activity 2.28% Weekly Activity 1.95% Monthly Activity 1.32% Achievements	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 you'll get plenty inspiration for books to read.

Wed, 13th Aug '03, 3:36pm	#23
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Wed, 13th Aug '03, 11:36pm	#24
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Wed, 13th Aug '03, 11:51pm	#25
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