Alright, the rules are simple, and practically non-existent:
Pick your favorite book, the one you enjoyed the most, you aren't required to limit yourself to one choice, maybe one for each genre, but you don't have to go into each one. Just the books you like the most.
Don't criticize another poster's choices, though you may ask why they chose what they did. Also, don't get defensive, this is a positive thread.
I'll start with my choices:
My two favorite political/nonfiction books are All The President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, and JFK: The CIA, Vietnam and the Plot to Kill John F. Kennedy. They're both deeply disturbing whistle blower books that paint even more unpleasant pictures of very unpleasant events, Watergate and the Kennedy assassination respectively.
My favorite Sci-Fi books are Frank Herbert's Dune and Isaac Asimov's I, Robot. Wonderfully well beyond the Science Fiction setting, using the whole science fiction concept as a backdrop to grander philosophical and logical exploration...
My favorites from the random schtuff category...
James Joyce - Ulysses
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Alex Haley - Roots
Dante Alighieri - Comedy
Nicholas Pileggi - Wiseguy: Life In a Mafia Family
Frederick Forsythe - The Day of the Jackal
Clive Barker - The Great and Secret Show
Nicholas Pileggi - Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas
[ 07-09-2004, 10:03 PM: Message edited by: Oblivion437 ]
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