best book you've ever read

[bednobs]

What is the best book you've ever read?
for me it would have to be his dark materials by phillip pullman
ok, so it's not technically 1 book, but i bet if i get any answers, people will be giving 2 or three!

[Booldawg]

Perfume - Patrick Suskind is one of my favourites.

All 7 books in the Narnia series does it for me. My guilty pleasure is anything by Chris Ryan circa - 1998-2002

[janbee]

Anything by Tom Sharpe or Bill Bryson. As I live in Sussex, I also like Peter James "Roy Grace" books.

[joggerjayne]

Lady-J ...

I did enjoy Anna K ... BUT ... I couldn't read it again.

Janbee ... the Roy Grace books are great, aren't they. I like it when you can visualise where the events are happening. I think I only started reading them because you've mentioned them before.

I tried to buy Peter James's first novel online (before he started the Rot Grace series), and the only copy I could find was about £200!

[joggerjayne]

"Rot" Grace ?

Eeuuw ... I hope THAT doesn't happen !

[janbee]

Jayne, do you mean Dead Letter Drop? If so, I haven't been able to find that one either.

[whiskeryron]

The Matarese Circle by Robert Ludlumgets my vote, the most exciting book I have ever read & in my opinion would make an excellent movie Ron.

[joggerjayne]

Yes, janbee ... it was.

I've just had another look. There's a copy on ebay now for £55.

Tempting!

If I buy it, you can have it after me. I will leave it behind the bar at The Plough in Rottingdean. It would be just like in a crime novel. Okay, not much like it, but you know what I mean.

[lady-janine]

JJ - have just finished reading latest roy grance book. very exciting. that makes 2 i have read now.
no ones meantioned r rendall or pd james.

[horseshoes]

As a child - The Wind in the Willows and The Otterbury Incident.
AS a Teenager All the Jean Plaidy books; Wuthering Heights
As an adult - Tess of the D'Urbervilles; Birdsong;

[joggerjayne]

Ron ... you should make a bid for the movie rights.

[joggerjayne]

Lady-J ...

If you've read the latest one, you should have read five or six.

You mustn't read them out of order, because they do make references back to each other.

[lady-janine]

JJ - sorry but i came acroos them by accident and didn't realise they were in sequence until i had started reading but not to worry too much i will just have to make sure i remember details that are relevant to the sequence. will try to get hold of the others now.

[McMouse]

Dune, by Frank Herbert would be high on my list.

[lady-janine]

also like books by john fowles

[joggerjayne]

Dune ... gosh, yes ... good shout Mousey.

[joggerjayne]

I enjoyed The Magus.

Bit weird, though.

Coulldn't quite follow what was going on.

[Davethedog]

The Shining - Stephen King.Rad it when it was first published. I was a 20 year old Jack the lad, and I it scared the bejasus out of me.

[lady-janine]

JJ - yes that was the best one

[lady-janine]

how about raymond chandler?

[mccfluff]

i love lord of the rings trilogy, but a book i re read to this day is the "dark is rising sequence" still love it