<p>What do you think is the all time best book?</p>
<p>my autobiography, which has not yet been written</p>
<p>The Bible, obviously. It's pretty hard to beat the Big Guy when it comes to book writing. </p>
<p>Runner-up: St. Thomas Aquinas' masterwork of philosophy and theology, the Summa Theologica.</p>
<p>Fides Et Ratio, are you like a religion studies major?</p>
<p>Philosophy and Religion double-major.</p>
<p>Who cares about best book, what matters is your favorite. I like Uncle Tom's Cabin and To kill a Mockingbird. Are they the best, no, do I give a ****, no.</p>
<p>P U S H K I N</p>
<p>A brief history of time</p>
<p>"A brief history of time"</p>
<p>I'm actually reading this right now; it has been my bed-side book for the last couple of nights. It is awesome.</p>
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<li>The Bible -- I consider it as instruction to the world though, not a book in real sense.</li>
<li>Faust.</li>
<li>Lermontov, Chekhov, Bulgakow, Shakespeare books and others in the range.
I'm saying this because it's hard to say that Lermontov's "Hero of our time" is better than, say, Bulgakow's "Dog's heart".
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Pushkin is too overrated.</li>
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<p>The DaVinci Code and The man in the brown suit.</p>
<p>Frankenstein</p>
<p>Sun Tzu's "The Art of War"; because thats one subject that'l never go out of style.</p>
<p>it maybe overrated but the catcher in the rye to me is just brilliant and amazing..</p>
<p>Try Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 years of Solitude. Awesome book. Absolutely amazing.</p>
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It's pretty hard to beat the Big Guy when it comes to book writing.
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<p>well...He didnt actually write it...</p>
<p>The thread should be titled "All time favourite book" because it's incredibly presumptuous to think that any of us are well-read and multi-cultured enough to objectively decide upon a "best book". There might actually be a chance that if there is a best book out there, none of us have read it, and it's probably not in English.</p>
<p>"well...He didnt actually write it..."</p>
<p>Well, I'm a Christian, so to me, He did. According to Christian theology God inspired the human writers of the Biblical books to write exactly what He wanted them to, and nothing more. That makes Him the primary author, and this is why Christians see the Bible as the Word of God.</p>
<p>Hamlet. :D</p>