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.

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.