Best book ever written?

it was just a joke, in line with the whole "joyce wrote the iliad" thing.

 

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I don't think I've read enough books to give a competent answer.
Besides my opinion would be subjective any way.

 

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The Hole in the Wall by Arthur Morrison (1902)
is not, I suppose, a book of great literary or scientific significance.
Of all the books I have recommended to many friends over many years,
this is the one that is always spoken of with greatest affection as a wonderful discovery.
So I reckon that makes it the BEST.

 

all books are as good as all the rest

 

you're probably right, according to some post-modern philosophy

 

All childrens' books are amazing. Reading them as adults is a completely different experience. I'll definitely read this baby again one of these days.

My own choice: "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card is pretty good.

Stephen King -- "The Tower" series, Tommyknockers, It, The Last Stand... I know many don't consider him to be that great of a writer, but I like him a lot.

 

probably not "the best book ever written".. but my favorite is Alexandre Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo