What are your favorite all time books?

[Evo]

I was surprised this week when I received a large package from my friend in New York. Turned out to be a couple of dozen science fiction books. :!)

I lost my entire collection of science fiction paperbacks when a friend that had borrowed them moved to the Phillipines and they "accidently" got packed and shipped, yeah right. Accident. :grumpy:

Anyway, he has an incredible collection of old science fiction paperbacks and some are duplicates and it really made me sad remembering all the books I lost. So, he surprised me by shipping me a bunch. :!) :!) (Except he doesn't have a duplicate Asimov's Mysteries) http://www.answers.com/topic/asimov-s-mysteries

There are some REALLY NICE people in this world, and MIH and Zooby & Zz are also people that have gone out of their way to do nice things for me and I SUCK. I owe all four of these people and I really suck. I have become a terrible procrastinator.

 

[Reshma]

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho is worth a read.

 

[neutrino]

Finished reading Avenger by Frederick Forsyth a couple of days ago. I made a point to read more of his work after watching the movie The Odessa File. I'm currently reading The Afghan by the same author. It's been only a couple of months since its release, and last night I was reading about the events that happened on September 15th, 2006!

 

[Crystal Faye]

My favorite book of all time is Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I don't care if you think it is juvenile, I really love it.

 

[SpitfireAce]

"The Road to Reality" by Penrose. Even though I haven't finished this book, the small part I read can only be described by one word: "Beautiful"

Just thinking about it makes me happy

really? I really liked it up until chapter 8... I thought, finally, a book that is as long (and presumably thorough) as a textbook, but not as boring... but then he discusses stuff like conformal mapping, riemann surfaces, sigh... I never learned these things and he does a bad job of introducing them, so I decided to wait until I learned it in school... I am finishing up calculus, freshman in college... do I have a long wait? what is your math background?

 

[Math Jeans]

Because its relevant to what is currently going on, I'm going to say Flatland.