Best book ever written?

James Joyce was a brilliant Greek poet who wrote the Iliad and Ulysses.

And I said more influential. You can't argue that the Bible is a good book in terms of prose.
 
I think you'll find James Joyce was an Irish writer who wrote a book called Ulysses! Homer was the ancient Greek poet who wrote the epic poems Iliad and Ulysses.
 
"How to please women in bed and leave them begging for more" by Friedrich Nietzsche.
 
John J. Bannan said:
Your judgment.
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Considering you've denigrated nearly every choice so far put forward why would you want my judgement?

Which book do you think is Best?
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Depends on how I feel: anything by Roger Zelazny, Roark's guide to stress and strain (engineering), How Designers Think, Hofstader's Godel, Escher, Bach....
Bearing in mind I own around 6,000 books (none of which would get shelf/ floor space if I didn't think they were worth reading and keeping), I'm supposed to pick ONE?
Not possible.
 
Xev said:
"How to please women in bed and leave them begging for more" by Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Refer to that one a lot, do you Xev?
 
Not possible to pick one? Come on. You're going to a desert Island, and you have to take one of your six thousand books. Which one? I'm guessing not The Bible or Origin of Species - but I'm sure it's interesting.
 
What is with this guy's hard-on for the Bible and the Origin of Species?

Oli: No, for me it's "Against All Odds" by Chuck Norris, which I find to be my personal moral guidebook.
 
John J. Bannan said:
Not possible to pick one? Come on. You're going to a desert Island, and you have to take one of your six thousand books. Which one? I'm guessing not The Bible or Origin of Species - but I'm sure it's interesting.
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Who me?
Hmm im not much of a reader.. i guess if i HAVE to choose i choose On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin.
 
I thought that "The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals" was a better Darwin book. A steamy, adreneline-soaked page turner.
 
I though the Bible was a collection of books? Each one with a different authors.
Then you have the Old Testament, New Testament, and the Book of Mormon.
 
Couldn't pick just one;but:
Chaos, James Gleick,
Six Not So Easy Pieces, Dick Feynman
The Character of Physical Law, Dick Feynman
Genius (biography of Feynman), James Gleick
Four For Tomorrow, Roger Zelazny
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
Donnerjack, Roger Zelazny
Today We Choose Faces, Roger Zelazny
are all contenders.
 
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