Most exciting book you have ever read..

[commander bunnypants]

Mine was the evolution of man.. good read took me about a year to get all the way through it..

DDQM

Lots of pics of the Rpresident as a child

[Catfight]

1. "Lying Liars and the Lies they Tell" I really learned a lot with that book

and couldn't put it down.

[JimmyJazz]

2. no doubt - the three musketeers. When it was over I was sad.

[veteran_for_peace]

3. People's History of the United States

by Howard Zinn

[Stuartpidd]

27. w00t

Howard Zinn's "People's History of the United States" is an eye-opener.

[Jack_Dawson]

4. Pet Sematary

It was scary. :scared:

[XNASA]

5. Well, in the traditional sense, I suppose the LOTR stuff....

I don't usually read fantasy/fiction books, but I must admit that the LOTR trilogy, especially ROTK, was pretty damn exciting.

[bif]

6. "Darwin's Radio"

Was a real page turner. I couldn't put it down. If you like realistic,Sci-Fi that takes place in the present day, get this book.

[flyingfysh]

7. One Hundred Years of Solitude

It is impossible to put this book down during the last 50 pages.

[Amaya]

9. I was just going to post this

And yes I agree. :)

[9119495]

15. I about got fired for finishing that book.

I WOULD NOT put it down so I went to work about an hour late to my shitty college job. It is my favorite book of all time--read it four times already. I'm just about out of Marquez in English so I don't know what to do.

[Kid_A]

8. "The Stand"

I read the uncut version that's over 1,100 pages long. I was so into that book I wished it were 10,000 pages long.

[ogradda]

28. that is

my very favorite book EVER.

[tech3149]

10. Back to the Moon by Homer Hickam

He's really under the radar, but a great writer. The story lines build consistently and the identity of the charachters is so vivid you think you really know the people months after reading about them.

[MissMarple]

17. There was a movie about him and his friends.

They grew up in a coal mining town in West Virginia. I think that was about Homer Hickam. Chris Cooper played his dad.

[mainer]

30. October Sky

Known as "Rocket Boys" in the book version

[underpants]

11. Big Lies by Joe Conason

I read it in a day. Loved it.

I would say that America the book was an EXCITING read too.

I can't say that most novels EXCITE me.

[AVID]

12. goosebumps

The Vampire Strike BAck

[sangh0]

13. The Masks of God by Joseph Campbell

Actually, it's a series of books (4 IIRC), but they really rocked my world.

[DrZeeLit]

14. Depends on...

mood, time, age, place....(all below BEFORE the movies..... duh)

Lonesome Dove
Shogun
A Soldier in the Great War
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (sort of a romance... sorry guys)
Prodigal Summer

These I read before I ever saw the movies:
All Quiet on the Western Front
Dr. Zhivago
From Here to Eternity


"Exciting" is relative.
I'm an English professor -- own a zillion books. These came to mind first.

[clover]

16. a tie: all quiet on the western front+cruddy (lynda barry)nt

[bigwillq]

18. "Friday Night Lights"

Can't wait to see the movie.

[skygazer]

19. "American Gods"

Neil Gaiman. I don't know if "exciting" is the word but I could not put it down. I've read it again twice and it was the same thing. Just a riveting book and beautifully written. Gaiman is a poet and a master storyteller. Lyrical, moving and an excellent point.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

20. "Among The Thugs" by Bill Buford.............................

a study of mob psychology framed by football hooligans in the UK, tied with "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer.

[mitchum]

22. "Among The Thugs" was a fascinating book

[Beaverhausen]

21. "The Talisman" by Stephen King and Peter Straub

excellent! I don't read that much of this genre but this one was awesome.

[Mizmoon]

23. 1984

Read it as a teen. Changed my life.

[Lady Effingbroke]

24. "Generations" and "The Fourth Turning" by William Strauss and Neil Howe.

Both books explain in an eerily prescient way how generational conflict/dynamics help to shape history, and how past generational cycles, or 'turnings', can be used to predict the behavior of generations yet unborn.

[chaska]

25. 'Ishmael' by Daniel Quinn, a must read for all on the left. See the future

...An exciting positive future.

[VOX]

26. Homer's "The Illiad" and "The Odessey"...

I was only 10 years old when I read these, and they were the most thrilling books I'd ever read to that point. I was perceiving a very far-off world (both in space and time) for the first time, and I could barely sleep with the buzz that these stories gave me.

My copies were a pair of dog-eared Penguin Classics paperbacks, and I took them everywhere.

[HEyHEY]

29. My war gone by, I miss it so