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banana500 wrote:

Ender's Game

Just a classic. It's about a young boy who is drafted into military training in an interstellar war against a hostile alien race. It chronicles his struggle and internal conflicts and his own pyschoanalysis over the course of six years.

It's truly one of the greatest novels ever written.


For other books, I'd say The Giver and Fahrenheit 451 are my two other favorite books. Both dystopian classics, Fahrenheit 451 is interesting and has a dark tone; The Giver (which I kind of prefer) is an incredibly thought-provoking novel with a sort of twisted concept.

Ender's Game is extremely interesting but I wouldn't call it one of the greatest ever written. Just a good book for kids.

And The Giver and Fahrenheit 451 are both really good. I've only ever seen the play, but rereading the Giver reminded me of 1984 to some extent. Animal Farm by the same author is also really good, so you may want to read that too.

And as for the topic, I don't really know what the best book ever is, and out of the ones I have read I don't feel I can actually decide.
Animal Farm is probably the best classic book I've read, I suppose.
And then maybe Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy is the best comedy.
Plus my opinions change pretty constantly.
Harry Potter was the end-all of books for me in the fifth grade.
And they are still probably the best modern children series
so they succeed at being the best at one genre/niche
but I don't think I've read the book that is so good I would remove it from being the best of it's niche to being the best I've ever read, regardless

banana500 wrote:

soupoftomato wrote:

banana500 wrote:

Ender's Game

Just a classic. It's about a young boy who is drafted into military training in an interstellar war against a hostile alien race. It chronicles his struggle and internal conflicts and his own pyschoanalysis over the course of six years.

It's truly one of the greatest novels ever written.


For other books, I'd say The Giver and Fahrenheit 451 are my two other favorite books. Both dystopian classics, Fahrenheit 451 is interesting and has a dark tone; The Giver (which I kind of prefer) is an incredibly thought-provoking novel with a sort of twisted concept.

Ender's Game is extremely interesting but I wouldn't call it one of the greatest ever written. Just a good book for kids.

And The Giver and Fahrenheit 451 are both really good. I've only ever seen the play, but rereading the Giver reminded me of 1984 to some extent. Animal Farm by the same author is also really good, so you may want to read that too.

And as for the topic, I don't really know what the best book ever is, and out of the ones I have read I don't feel I can actually decide.
Animal Farm is probably the best classic book I've read, I suppose.
And then maybe Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy is the best comedy.
Plus my opinions change pretty constantly.
Harry Potter was the end-all of books for me in the fifth grade.
And they are still probably the best modern children series
so they succeed at being the best at one genre/niche
but I don't think I've read the book that is so good I would remove it from being the best of it's niche to being the best I've ever read, regardless

I've read Animal Farm, thought it was great. I liked the allegory and the undertone behind it, and the ending made a lot of sense to me.

Also, another great book is Wonder by R.J. Palacio, if you haven't read that.

Heh, looked it up on Amazon

Strange recommendation in comparison to the other books we mentioned but I'll check it out

I don't see how the ending of Animal Farm could not make sense?

Last edited by soupoftomato (2013-01-26 00:03:30)

angelica101 wrote:

Wonder by R. J. Palacio. Just awesome, I loved it.

Also a BUNCH of Rick Riordan books, especially the Red Pyramid.

Totally agree on Wonder, fantastic book.

Rick Riordan...?

No.

Just...

No.

I don't know the best book I've ever read, I've read so many.
I gotta say Harry Potter for me.

Hard to say
Currently I really love uh
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, 1984, The Catcher in the Rye, Tangerine, Dicey's Song, Fahrenheit 451 and like all stuff by Ray Bradbury ever, The Book Thief, Lord of the Flies, The Egypt Game
In about fifth grade like soup I thought Harry Potter was bestestest ever! Not anymore though
In third grade I really liked Jack London's stuff and wrote fanfics of it :'(
But I'm over that thankfully!
His stuff is still okay though when you're in the mood for it
Around then I remember liking The Wind in the Willows a lot too but I don't remember much of it at all now
And in first grade uh it was still Harry Potter I guess and some other stuff
And before then probably my favorite was Peach and Blue (and I still love that too)

I like/have liked too many books to choose one

Oh and The Heavenly Village was really good
Okay I'll stop now

Last edited by Wickimen (2013-01-26 11:59:35)

soupoftomato wrote:

banana500 wrote:

soupoftomato wrote:

Ender's Game is extremely interesting but I wouldn't call it one of the greatest ever written. Just a good book for kids.

And The Giver and Fahrenheit 451 are both really good. I've only ever seen the play, but rereading the Giver reminded me of 1984 to some extent. Animal Farm by the same author is also really good, so you may want to read that too.

And as for the topic, I don't really know what the best book ever is, and out of the ones I have read I don't feel I can actually decide.
Animal Farm is probably the best classic book I've read, I suppose.
And then maybe Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy is the best comedy.
Plus my opinions change pretty constantly.
Harry Potter was the end-all of books for me in the fifth grade.
And they are still probably the best modern children series
so they succeed at being the best at one genre/niche
but I don't think I've read the book that is so good I would remove it from being the best of it's niche to being the best I've ever read, regardless

I've read Animal Farm, thought it was great. I liked the allegory and the undertone behind it, and the ending made a lot of sense to me.

Also, another great book is Wonder by R.J. Palacio, if you haven't read that.

Heh, looked it up on Amazon

Strange recommendation in comparison to the other books we mentioned but I'll check it out

I don't see how the ending of Animal Farm could not make sense?

I read it, you probably wouldn't like it soup
And it sort of doesn't go with the others no

Wickimen wrote:

soupoftomato wrote:

banana500 wrote:

I've read Animal Farm, thought it was great. I liked the allegory and the undertone behind it, and the ending made a lot of sense to me.

Also, another great book is Wonder by R.J. Palacio, if you haven't read that.

Heh, looked it up on Amazon

Strange recommendation in comparison to the other books we mentioned but I'll check it out

I don't see how the ending of Animal Farm could not make sense?

I read it, you probably wouldn't like it soup
And it sort of doesn't go with the others no

It doesn't go with the others, it's an entirely different kind of book.

I usually judge books on story, characters, and theme, not style of writing.

But yeah the writing style is kind of bland when it comes to describing settings but really that's the point. It's more focused on the characters and their psychological portraits and their thoughts and how things appear to them in their own eyes.

banana500 wrote:

Wickimen wrote:

soupoftomato wrote:

Heh, looked it up on Amazon

Strange recommendation in comparison to the other books we mentioned but I'll check it out

I don't see how the ending of Animal Farm could not make sense?

I read it, you probably wouldn't like it soup
And it sort of doesn't go with the others no

It doesn't go with the others, it's an entirely different kind of book.

I usually judge books on story, characters, and theme, not style of writing.

But yeah the writing style is kind of bland when it comes to describing settings but really that's the point. It's more focused on the characters and their psychological portraits and their thoughts and how things appear to them in their own eyes.

Well yeah that's what I mean
Based on other stuff he said he liked that's sort of a random thing to recommend
It's like recommending a good band to a One Direction fan or vice versa

banana500 wrote:

Wickimen wrote:

soupoftomato wrote:

Heh, looked it up on Amazon

Strange recommendation in comparison to the other books we mentioned but I'll check it out

I don't see how the ending of Animal Farm could not make sense?

I read it, you probably wouldn't like it soup
And it sort of doesn't go with the others no

It doesn't go with the others, it's an entirely different kind of book.

I usually judge books on story, characters, and theme, not style of writing.

But yeah the writing style is kind of bland when it comes to describing settings but really that's the point. It's more focused on the characters and their psychological portraits and their thoughts and how things appear to them in their own eyes.

Story, characters, and theme are all pretty big on effecting the style. The silly characters in Hitchhiker's are the style. The serious allegorical theme in Animal Farm is the style.

Anyway, I'll probably read it anyway. The excerpt on Amazon seemed good enough, I suppose though it did seem a bit like
it was
trying really hard or something? I guess?

Anyway The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury was actually pretty dumb Wicki, and looking back on it The Veldt was interesting but looking at the author's intention, he was an idiot.

The Veldt was actually pretty good as a simple story with a twist ending until you consider what "lesson" Bradbury tried to put in everything he wrote.

Here I am, having to edit the present tense out of my post about Bradbury. 

Last edited by soupoftomato (2013-01-26 14:12:45)

I'm horrible at making decisions on favorites, but Series of Unfortunate Events is up there.

soupoftomato wrote:

Wickimen wrote:

Everything I've /read/ by Ray Bradbury

and i liked the veldt!

I liked the Veldt too until I realized the point was to imply watching TV makes you imagine killing your parents

uh no that wasn't the point at all

Last edited by Wickimen (2013-01-26 14:35:41)

The Hunger Games
The GONE series
The Alex Rider series
Skulduggery Pleasant books

I love them all!