What is your all time FAVORITE book?

[BibChr]

Thank you for the link. It is awesome!

Thanks very much; I appreciate the encouragement.

Dan

[SamAdams76]

Call of the Wild is an easy read and a good introduction to London's work. In fact, it is his definitive work. The story is narrated from a dog's point of view as it adapts from a life of sheltered comfort to a life of toil, struggle and constant danger. One of my favorite reads.

To whet your appetite, here is a sample paragraph from this masterpiece:

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad on a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight. He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time. He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars and over the face of dead matter that did not move.

[GOP_Raider]

Note how many of those have already been accomplished. Disheartening to say the least.

[stanz]

O.K. I'm hooked. Will pick up a copy as soon as I can motivate myself to stop at Barnes & Noble.
Thanks

[OldFriend]

Solzhenitzen's First Circle was a horrifying look inside the everyday life of ordinary Russians and their terror of those in power.

[opbuzz]

Glass Bead Game

[Dan from Michigan]

Tie

ATLAS SHRUGGED
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

[Dan from Michigan]

BTW - I CAN'T BELIEVE nobody mentioned Unintended Consequences before I did.

[Whitebread]

My Uncle Oswald, by Roald Dahl

[Whitebread]

"My Uncle Oswald"

Description

The nameless narrator has revealed snippets of the lovable, lascivious Uncle Oswald's life in other collections, but this is the only novel – brief though it is – dedicated solely to the diaries of "the greatest fornicator of all time." Inspired by stories of the aphrodisiac powers of the Sudanese blister beetle, the palpable seductiveness of the lovely Yasmin Howcomely, and the scientific know–how of Professor A. R. Woresley, Uncle Oswald anticipates the concept of the Nobel sperm bank by some 40 years, flimflamming crowned heads, great artists, and eccentric geniuses into making "donations." The life of a commercial sperm broker has a few surprises even for a sophisticated bon vivant, and Dahl manages his signature sting–in–the–tail ending even in one of his lightest comic works.

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

"Stolen Valor"

[Web_Woman]

"They Walked Like Men", Clifford D. Simak, 1962.
- A great sci-fi thriller in which aliens invade earth
disguised as bowling balls. Enjoy!

[Capitalism2003]

time for a BUMP! After plowing through a bunch of books, my top two non-fiction of all time are both from the same author, Thomas Sowell. EVERY conservative needs to get these two books. The Vision of the Annointed and The Quest for Cosmic Justice Amazon.com has great prices on both of them.

[Capitalism2003]

ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand is absolutely mandatory reading for everyone as well. I am really questioning now whether or not the book is fictional, since so many of Mrs. Rand's predictions are coming true today. For those who haven't read it...the book will change your outlook on EVERYTHING in life.

Not an exaggeration.

[InvisibleChurch]

evening bump