Best book ever?

[HarveyPotter]

I have just read Bridget Jones' Dairy and its brilliant. Any other books in this vain?

[MayimBialik]

The Edge of Reason?

[SavoyCabbage]

Adrian Mole? The ones where he is an adult.

[WHEELYMUM1976]

I love ture storys

[CoteDAzur]

Bridget Jones' Diary is "the best book ever", is it?

Without meaning to hurt your feelings, may I ask how many books you have read... ever?

[travellingwilbury]

What cote said !

[GoodbyePorkPie]

[TheOrchardKeeper]

I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith is my all time fave. Has been since I was 14

[whatwoulddexterdo]

Crikey didn't realize you had to have a degree in english lit to comment on these boards.

[travellingwilbury]

I was just surprised that's all .

If we all liked the same things blah blah de blah .

[CoteDAzur]

We don't all like the same things and people don't need a Lit degree to comment here.

However, holding up Bridget Jones' Diary as "Best Book Ever" does merit acknowledgement, and it is not unreasonable to ask OP about her reading history - in which library does Bridget Jones' Diary rise to the status of best book ever? Enquiring minds want to know

[DuchessofMalfi]

"Best Book Ever" is such a personal thing though. Maybe something about Bridget Jones' Diary resonates with the OP. When I read it I loved it too. It made me laugh. At the time I wasn't married and didn't have children, and lived in a flat. Some things about Bridget's life were familiar.

But I've moved on. I don't think I've found the best book ever yet, but I'm enjoying looking for it :o One person may love Middlemarch and think it the best book ever, another may love Bridget Jones for the same reason. It's personal.

[CoteDAzur]

Yes, a lot of people enjoyed it when it came out about a decade ago. I was one of them.

"Best book ever" is an objective assessment - i.e. the best book ever published, the best book ever to be written in the English language, etc.

What you are thinking of would be "my favourite book", which is indeed a subjective and personal evaluation, to which nothing can be said.

[DuchessofMalfi]

I wonder whether there could ever be a "best book ever" in that case. How would you get everyone to agree on one book? Favourite book is a much easier one to debate. It's probably better to call it "my best/favourite book ever".

But in any case I'll have a think about some suggestions for the OP :)