I only buy books which I've already read and want to reread, wanna have them on my shelf because they are so awesome or if I know I'll love them -- new parts off a book series/parts I haven't read yet, etc. For example I buy Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt stories straight away if I find them for low prize, because I already know I'll love them. If there's a book I'd like to read but don't know much about or it's not a part of series I've already read earlier books from, I'll borrow it from the library and read it. If it's awesome, I know I can't resist buying it at some point later on.

Have read a few awesome book series and almost without exception I've bought all of them or am still collecting, either rereading or have reread them.

Having to write and read some hundred(s) of emails every day i find it hard to concentrate on a pdf document for long and thence prefer the little thing to be held in my hands. It just feels better to read a proper newspaper or book, rather than having it online.

-edit- fixed typos. geez i ll never manage to post without atleast one typo

This post has been edited by Yourhighness: Sep 25 2007, 01:43 PM

PDF is a horrible format when it comes to reading it on a screen. The only way to go is with a real ebook format like Mobipocket's prc (which works on most mobile phones and is what I use) or Microsoft's lit format. God forbid that I should ever actually have to read a PDF.

All of my reading is done on a HTC Universal, although I'm looking to replace it with the HTC TyTN II as soon as they stop selling out before I get to the store.

I don't have a best or worst book, but the "worst book" I have read that made me temporarily change my personality would have to be American Psycho, before it was banned in Australian.

It totally screwed with my head, though I just had to read it all the way through, and to be honest I couldn't wait to finish.
I became moody, distant, short tempered and I began to think of ways to bump off my boyfriend at the time....seriously.
About a month after I finished reading it I realised how much it was altering my perception of my suroundings. That is one book I never want to read again!

Not being an avid book reader,however I liked Ken Follett's "The Pillars of the Earth".Such a good Story,I didn't want it to end.
I bought a couple more of his books, and to me were garbage.Wonder is this because the Publishers demand, say a book a year from these writers, and they simply can't produce one Classic after another.Just my thoughts.

Have you considered medication?

Worst Book Ever: Anything written by Hemingway. Can't stand him.

BEST book I ever read was Treasure Island as a twelve year-old boy. The version I read was also in it's original script, with which I persevered and was rewarded. It opened my eyes to the joy of books. I have read it every few years again and again, in between the many historical books I read, that, (rather unromantically), are always factual.

WORST book would be anything in the Cartland mould. Those little paperbacks with titles like 'The Lady falls backwards' or 'He did it, so she could love' etc., and cover pictures of a lady swooning into the arms of some damned handsome hunk.....eurgh!

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Favorite Books in no particular order:

1984 by George Orwell
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Shining by Stephen King
The Harry Potter Series by Jk Rowling
Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Worse Books I have had to read:

Anything by James Fennimore Cooper or Virginia Wolfe

Proust is far worse than Hemingway!


Some writers that I have spent some happy time with (excluding Shakespeare and Thomas Mann, of course):

Dickens
Dostoevsky
Hesse
J.Joyce
Wilde
Somerset Maugham
Laurence Durrell
Whitman

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The worst book I've ever read is Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War, and its sequel the title of which I can't remember. The sequel doesn't even come close to redeeming the first book. And it's suggested reading for young adults?!?!

The message of that awful book is "conform or you will be destroyed". There is no joy, no hope, nothing.

Orange Blossom

What a lovely theme...I think I'll steer clear of that...

best for me would be Ender's Shadow

This post has been edited by Hector Lanes: Feb 17 2008, 12:37 AM

Okay forgive me for not remebering authors, but the best book;
Joshua Son of None ( the cloning and reincarnating of John F. Kenedy )

The worse; Hilter A Great Mind; ( how macigal it was to have so much power over so many people )

One of the 'worst' books I've read in the past year ...

Every two weeks I fill a tote bag with misc books from our local library (love libraries!) and discovered one was 'odd' indeed.

Written by a person who happened to be 'black' and the book contained all sorts of nasty comments about 'whites'. I read the entire thing - partly hoping the story line itself would improve and partly trying to understand another's point of view (judging people based on colour of skin).

And ended up sorely disappointed. The story line didn't improve and the writer was simply a bigot.

But the 'best' books I've read lately surely won't make one smarter, but they are laugh-out-loud-funny in so many places! It's the series of novels based on the character Stephanie Plum, written by Janet Evanovitch.