What's your all-time most fav book?

[MissPrep]

"The Lions of Alrassan"
"Tigana"

both by Guy Gavriel Kay.

Can't choose between them.

[Wildfire]

Stephen Baxter Evolution ;

The book follows the evolution of mankind as it shapes surviving Purgatorius into tree dwellers, remoulds a group that drifts from Africa to a (then much closer) New World on a raft formed out of debris, and confronting others with a terrible dead end as ice clamps down on Antarctica.

The stream of DNA runs on elsewhere, where ape-like creatures in North Africa are forced out of their diminishing forests to come across grasslands where their distant descendants will later run joyously. At one point, hominids become sapient, and go on to develop technology, including an evolving universal constructor machine that goes to Mars and multiplies, and in an act of global ecophagy consumes Mars by converting the planet into a mass of machinery that leaves the Solar system in search of new planets to assimilate. Human extinction (or the extinction of human culture) also occurs in the book, as well as the end of planet Earth and the rebirth of life on another planet. (The extinction-level event that causes the human extinction is, indirectly, an eruption of the Rabaul caldera, coupled with various actions of humans themselves, some of which are only vaguely referred to, but implied to be a form of genetic engineering which removed the ability to reproduce with non-engineered humans.) Also to be found in Evolution are ponderous Romans, sapient dinosaurs, the last of the wild Neanderthals, a primate who witnesses the extinction of the dinosaurs, symbiotic primate-tree relationships, mole people, and primates who live on a Mars-like Earth. In the book's epilogue, it is implied that the replicator machines sent by humans to Mars have developed sentience and high technology, unknowingly advancing the late mankind's legacy in the Universe.

[Decaff]

I've just read "one second after" what a fantastic read! Made me cry buckets of tears!!

Also makes me want to dash out and but more food for storage, especially tinned meats, given what they ate in the book , the hated spam sounds devine and may now end up in my stash!!

[Briggs 2.0]

I've just read 'Max and the Revenge of the Polar Bears'.

What a complete riot! The overall message is of society's collapse after a huge power outage, wrapped up in what can only be described as a story of pure manic farce. Orangutans being used to test athlete's foot cream? Polar bears being used to test.....ah, I won't spoilt it for you

And it's set in Devon, what else could you want?

[Stray2]

This is one of those things that changes when you read another cracking book! I think I would say though: Robinson Crusoe- Daniel Dafoe and Watchers by Dean Koontz. I still re read the Stand by S King ever few years or so when the urge takes. As well as the the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.

[Stasher]

Err, not survivalist. Fav book of all time is ............My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell. The funniest book I've ever read (five times) I made the mistake of reading the scorpion bit in a train once. People actually moved away from me