Just ONE book

The Rules: (because everyone loves rules, right?)
1. JUST ONE BOOK! (per person, choose wisely)
2. give author
3. summary (without giving away the ending or other surprises) or an intro.

thank you.

p.s. you may edit your one post if you feel you have made a mistake in your choice but remember..."there can be only one"

1. To Kill A Mocking Bird
2. Harper Lee
3. If you don't know what this book is about, you suck.

God damn it!

what? booo! how am i supposed to know that I want to read it if I don't get a summary?

I have read it BTW.

1. the republic
2. plato
3. the basis of the thought process behind the founding of the U.S. goverment

1. Watchmen
2. Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
3. Best. Graphic Novel. Ever.

*edit* to add more info.

Costumed crime fighter are very real. Or at least they were until thier activities were declared illegal by the U.S. Government. Oh sure a few are still around. The U.S. keeps the cynical Comedian, and the nigh omnipotent Dr. Manhatten on retainer. And a third "hero" still haunts the shadowy criminal underworld. All three Furies wrapped into one trenchcoat and fedora wearing man, Rorschach is good at what he does. He's also quite mad. When a costumed hero is killed, Rorschach makes it his mission to get to the bottom of the "mask killer" conspiracy he belives is underway. But god help him and anyone else who tries to find out.

Easily the most lauded work in the comic book medium, Watchmen is a must read for fans of comics, sci-fi, and literature in general. Not only is it one of the greatest stories ever told, it also contains myriad subtleties and layers that only are revealed upon multiple readings.

[Edited on Jun 16, 2004 by Akira_Li]

1. Candide
2. Voltaire (not the model, morons)
3. If you love Monty Python, you'll love this book. It's full of quirky adventures, sarcastic humor, general weirdness, and gardens. And monkeys. Plus, it's a classic, so if you take the two hours to read its daunting, overwhelming TWO HUNDRED pages, you can tell people you've read a classic novel. The girlies love that, doncha know...

This is not my favorite book, but it's one everyone should read.

*edited to fix formatting



[Edited on Jun 16, 2004 by Sorcha]

1. Good Omens
2. Niel Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
3. Apocolyptic satire at its utmost best.

The DaVinci Code
Dan Brown

A man is trying to solve a murder he was accused of. He has to use clues found in various works of DaVinci to accomplish this. Along the way he discovers the origins of an ancient secret society and the identity of the last scion. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in mystery or even theology.

can you think of the next best?

1. House of Leaves
2. Mark Z. Danielewski
3. Incredible, post-modern mind-fuck.

1. Suicide Girls
2. Missy Suicide and select Suicide Girls models.
3. This book had a lot of boobs in it. First, Missy said a few words about what Suicide Girls was, then there was a lot of her awesome pinup photography. In the second part, some of the models wrote some stuff about themselves and took snippets from their journals. They put them next to naked pictures they took of themselves. All in all, I liked the book, it made me love reading all over again.

1. Guerrilla Warfare
2. Che Guevara
3. Enables the common man to change the world

I thought the answer to the question in 3 was some combination of The Prince and 1984 .... but I was thinking about the operations manuals for the current government. My bad.

I keep meaning to pick that up since all of my friends have told me to get it. Thank you for reminding me.

1. Experience
2. Martin Amis
3. Brilliant novelist writes memoir. He deals with being the son of a brilliant novelist. He has teeth trouble. He becomes a brilliant novelist, but tries to make it a surprise by including a lot of really stupid letters he wrote his dad when he was a kid. His cousin is murdered. His dad dies. You laugh many times, and cry too.

My most recent read
1. Confessions of Max Tivoli
2. Andrew Sean Greer
3. Max Tivoli was born with the physical appearance of an old man. As he aged he became younger. Echoes of Proust and Lolita.

1. The Collector
2. John Fowles
3. An extraordinary study of obsession. An ordinary (emotionally dysfunctional) man abducts a beautiful woman he has become entranced by. The device of half the book being narrated by the captor, and half by the captive, works extraordinarily well and the effect is chilling.

The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles: Couple is on vacation in Northern Africa- circa 1958. Trouble ensues, illness, wonton love..... great book

The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles: Couple is on vacation in Northern Africa- circa 1958. Trouble ensues, illness, wonton love..... great book

AMAZING book.

Everyone read this. NOW.

1. The I-Ching
2. multiple authors
3. Ancient book about the nature of change in the universe. Considered by many to be the oldest book in the world.

cash: an autobiography

johnny cash

story of one of the greatest artist's of all time, excellent book delve's into the begining of rock'n roll