The best book

[Riis]

What in your opinion is the best novel you've ever read (noting the word novel) I'll start.....
Blessed Child by Bill Bright and Ted Dekker
I'm kinda looking for suggestions that too would be appreciated - I like a vaguely intelligent read.

 

[Manna]

My favorite is actually a trilogy by Ted Dekker, The Circle Trilogy (Black, Red and White) that was actually one story cut into thirds, not follow-ups. Awesome, awesome books!

 

[mrkram]

my favorite was The Hobbit - i can't wait to reread it.

 

[Riis]

Oh I loved the circle!! They were fantastic I read at a rather disgusting rate I run out of books so quickly! I did enjoy the hobbit but I found that I did have to persevere through the first bit but I did enjoy it in the end.
Has anyone read the count of monte cristo? It's massive and occasionally drags a little but over all I did enjoy it

 

[GrayAngel]

I like The Chase by Susan Wales & Robin Shope. It's an inspirational fiction about an investigative reporter named Jill Lewis. Jill writes about a conspiracy in the run for President of the United States. But when a group of FBI agents come to tell her and her colleagues that her story is untrue, Jill is fired from her job and she returns to her home in Delavan, Wisconsin.

Jill is determined to believe that there was a cover up, and continues to pursue her story. But as she learns more and more about the truth, she discovers that her own life might be in danger, and the truth may be more than she wants to know.

It's an exciting book. There's a bit of romance, which I don't always like in a book, but I found it entirely tolerable.

 

[Conspiracy Theory]

'Dune' by Frank Herbert

Hands down.

It's sci-fi, but it's still good.

 

[savvy]

'Dune' by Frank Herbert

Hands down.

It's sci-fi, but it's still good.

Dune is a good choice (see siggy ).

I have too many favorites to pick just one...
Well, I just reread the Golden Compass (aka Northern Lights) and I am very fond of it, but don't like the sequals as much. Witches, armoured bears, souls outside your body, what isn't to like about that?

 

[PureLove]

thats like the hardest question ever, like one? i always think what im reading is my fav
sounds cliche but maybe Crime and Punishment

LoVe

 

[Ellesar]

it's hard for me to pick just one novel since I like so many, but one of my favorites is Thr3e by Ted Dekker. I just love the psychological thriller aspect of it

 

[GrayAngel]

Another book I like is an inspirational fiction called Blind Sight, written by James H. Pence.

The book is about a man named Thomas Kent; a nearly suicidal man who's lost his wife and children and now lives each miserable day alone with his dog. But a strange email begs him to fulfill a promise he made with a man he barely remembers. He must save the man's children from an evil, dangerous cult and deliver them to their mother. And as if the cult following them all across the country trying to kill him and take the kids wasn't enough, he doesn't even know where to look for the kids' mother.

And the cult, Thomas learns, is planning to take over the country, have a very good chance of succeeding. But Thomas, thanks to the man he barely remembers, has the evidence that may bring the cult down.

 

[JCMLR]

The DaVinci Code and The Giver

 

[Loki]

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Huge book, in word count and ideas and literary merit. Very good read. I've read it a few times straight through, and several more times in pieces. I've read C&P twice, too, and while it's a great book, it's not as good as Brothers, imo. And Brothers' epilogue is less insulting than C&P's epilogue.

 

[Pogue]

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Magic realism=happy Pogue.

 

[Jane_the_Bane]

Magic realism is AWESOME!

I could (and would) never settle on just one favourite, as literature is far too diverse and multi-faceted to be tied down like that.

My favourite *at the moment* is the novel my master's thesis will be based on: "The Crimson Petal and the White" by Michel Faber, a post-modern pastíche re-invigorating the Victorian sensation novel and portraying the "taboo" sides of 19th century London in relentless and unabashed detail.
(The surreal opening scene pictures the "customer"/reader being led through a seedy London slum by the "harlot"/novel, which, after all, has been bought and is now expected to provide entertainment; and the first character you encounter is a "fallen woman" named Caroline who's just at that moment attempting to wash out her nether parts with ugly chemicals to prevent getting pregnant from her latest customer.
Not exactly what you're used to when you read the whitewashed Victorian novels of Dickens and the like, but certainly a lot closer to historical reality in many ways. ("You may think, from other books you've read, that you know [this city] well, but those books flattered you, treating you as if you belonged. The fact is that you are a stranger from another place and time altogether.")

I've been told that by the end of one's thesis, you'll hate your topic with a passion. But so far, I don't detect any of the symptoms. Hopefully, it stays that way.

 

[mrscplus]

Anything by Francine Rivers...she is the queen of Christian Fiction. No fluff here!!

Also Randy Singer is really good, the John Grisham of chistian genre.

Angela Hunt is pretty awesome too, although her style is hard to pin down, the writing is consistantly good.

 

[pajaroloco]

One Hundred Years of Solitude. G.G.Marquez's writing is definitely unique. It was the book which made the biggest impression on me after Prozac Nation.

 

[Tragic Paradox]

Lord of the Rings trilogy - Tolkien.

I'm actually still reading it, but wow.

Runner up: Thr3e & the Circle books - Dekker

 

[Lasias]

Thunder Of Heaven-Ted Dekker

 

[IzzyPop]

A Game of Thrones George R.R. Martin

Hands down the best fantasy fiction out there. And main characters drop like flies. Amazing.

 

[odeminkwe]

I don't read a whole lot of novels anymore, but I thoroughly enjoyed The Secret History by Donna Tartt.