Flip-A-Thread: Best book you've ever read?

[grumbler]

A Soldier of the Great War.

There's the winner, right there.

[Ideologue]

I really did love Earth Abides.

And what of the Dude?

[Caliga]

Hmmm... I don't think I can name a favorite, but here's an attempt at a top five in no particular order:

Life and Fate
A Canticle for Leibowitz
American Gods
Red/Green/Blue Mars (three novels, but I'll count em as one here)
The Old Man and the Sea

[Josquius]

I really did love Earth Abides.

And what of the Dude?

eh?

[Caliga]

And what of the Dude?

[Grey Fox]

I've thought about it & It's either LOTR or Les Rois Maudits.

[mongers]

Too difficult to pick one above others, so I'll just go with Brian Aldiss's 'Helliconia' trilogy.


edit:
Our Italian friend's choice of H2G2 is good one,  a very well written book.   

[Agelastus]

Probably Terry Pratchett's "Night Watch".

[Drakken]

I've thought about it & It's either LOTR or Les Rois Maudits.

I go with Les Rois Maudits.

The original six volumes, though. The seventh and last was a bore, mostly because all main characters were dead.

[Maladict]

I really dig Rushdie for his style, and I've read Pratchett's Small Gods over and over again, but best book? Not quite.
I think I'll have to go with Paradise Lost.

[Grey Fox]

I've thought about it & It's either LOTR or Les Rois Maudits.

I go with Les Rois Maudits.

The original six volumes, though. The seventh and last was a bore, mostly because all main characters were dead.

It barely has anything to do with the First Six. Shouldn't have been included in the series. Damn Marketing.

[syk]

Based on how often I read them LotR and A.S. Neill's The Last Man Alive.

[Barrister]

Our Italian friend's choice of H2G2 is good one,  a very well written book.

Based on the number of times I've read them, my favourite would probably be a toss up between Hitdhhikers, Lord of the Rings, and Narnia.

But all of them are childrens, or adolescent, books.   

Favourite adult book however?

I really dig early Douglas Coupland - Generation X, Shampoo Planet, Microserfs.  But even that might be more enjoying the setting than the writing itself.

I got it.  Barney's Version, Mordecai Richler.  An adult book that I quite thoroughly enjoyed.  Haven't seen the movie however.

[crazy canuck]

Foucault's Pendulum

One of my favourites.

Also, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

[Capetan Mihali]

Martin Heidegger, "Being and Time."