Best book you've ever read?

Paul_C

LoFi said:

bluechargeboy said:

@LoFi I would go along with that for SevenEves; he should just have written a non-fiction book about what he thinks would happen if the moon fell apart. I really enjoyed the Baroque Cycle. Depends what you mean by recent I suppose!

God, SevenEves was even worse. I'd clearly erased it from my memory.

The Diamond Age and Snowcrash were pure genius, and I thought the Baroque Cycle was great, but again, a bit indulgent. Since then, great ideas that need an editor.

You'd best avoid Reamde then, it's as though he started with no particular outline in mind and just wrote any and every idea that he came up with as he went, I got somewhere beyond halfway before giving up for good as yet another disconnected story line appeared.

1979

James Herriots Dog Stories is one for the heart strings but I’d have to go with Grapes of Wrath. I grew up with my grandparents and my Grandad gave it to me when I was a teenager. I finally read it 20 years later and it knocked me for six