What is the Best Book you have read...

MailicedeNamedy wrote:My first choice would probably be my favourite book of all time, but on reflection, it's probably Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca".

In itself, the book is neither original nor world-changing.

It has elements of drama, thriller and coming-of-age in it, but what excited me the most in the whole story is simply that you can so wonderfully put yourself in the narrator's character's shoes that you feel you are really there. You have such a clear insight into her head, the embarrassing moments, and the thoughts that it is just wonderful to read there and feel how it feels to be constantly "threatened" by the housekeeper Mrs Danvers or to simply feel uncomfortable in this big estate called Manderley she now is living in after the marriage.

What I particularly like is that it is worth reading again and again and also how the character actually grows up over the story, and grows out of herself, but constantly has to struggle with the dilemma of being too young or too inexperienced.

Master_Yoda wrote:This is such a hard question to answer. So many to choose from .
I'll have to give a top 5 in no particular order:
1) Ender's Game -- Orson Scott Card
2) The Lord of the Rings -- J R R Tolkien
3) Harry Potter -- J K Rowling
4) Death in Vienna -- Daniel Silva
5) The Kite Runner -- Khaled Husseini

Ciao

Master_Yoda wrote:This is such a hard question to answer. So many to choose from .
I'll have to give a top 5 in no particular order:
1) Ender's Game -- Orson Scott Card
2) The Lord of the Rings -- J R R Tolkien
3) Harry Potter -- J K Rowling
4) Death in Vienna -- Daniel Silva
5) The Kite Runner -- Khaled Husseini

Ciao

MailicedeNamedy wrote:My first choice would probably be my favourite book of all time, but on reflection, it's probably Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca".

In itself, the book is neither original nor world-changing.

It has elements of drama, thriller and coming-of-age in it, but what excited me the most in the whole story is simply that you can so wonderfully put yourself in the narrator's character's shoes that you feel you are really there. You have such a clear insight into her head, the embarrassing moments, and the thoughts that it is just wonderful to read there and feel how it feels to be constantly "threatened" by the housekeeper Mrs Danvers or to simply feel uncomfortable in this big estate called Manderley she now is living in after the marriage.

What I particularly like is that it is worth reading again and again and also how the character actually grows up over the story, and grows out of herself, but constantly has to struggle with the dilemma of being too young or too inexperienced.