Bookworms Thread

I read a lot, but I can't say I have a single favourite book. The Lord of the Rings is pretty good (both the book and the movie, in fact), though, as is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and most of Mark Twain's books. And yes, all these are English; I like to read English books and learned most of my English from them (but of course there are many, many good books in other languages that I've read).

@NeuralGnat , I simply must protest even though I would normally hesitate to deviate from your insight.

Daddy Polgar's MASSIVE book is delightful, and a wonderful, nearly inexhaustible source for problems with which to teach kids chess.

Indeed, I've been using it to teach my latest young prodigy, and it has helped a lot, as it always seems to do.

I've got the original big, black doorstop-sized issue, as well. And I'm proud to have picked it up, long ago, at a ridiculously low price. I've not yet found it to contain an error.

It's among my favorite efforts by a chess author.

Aside from the Bible, which is a meditative read that constantly improves with repetition and the growing insight of years, I'd pick practically ANY historical work by Winston Churchill.

The man was to the English language born and wields it with a wit and precision rarely encountered.

Yet another who can write of history with a rare wit and grace was C. V. Wedgwood, as shown, for example, in her "The Thirty Years War." To anyone with an aspiration to write history, either Churchill or Wedgwood can provide the sort of cautionary urge toward humility as can the showing of an aspiring painter the works of Vermeer or Rembrandt.

@Noflaps

Susan Polgars book " Chess Tactics for Champions " is rather good. Took me a month to work through it but i did learn a lot. btw her real name is Zuzu,i always thought tt was cool :)
@Quasar3C273
I've always loved Steinbeck,read everything he wrote,Pearl Buck is good, Leon Uris is also good,read Dickens and Twain and many others.
On the science side of things Macchio Kaku writes rather well and i did enjoy Steven Weinbergs "The first 3 minutes"

@Dukedog

All the Polgar sisters strike me as pretty cool, as do their parents.

Akiba Rubinstein and Judit Polgar are probably my two favorite chess players, although that varies with the amount of coffee I've consumed on a given day.

Judit lies toward the intense end of my tastes in chess consumption and Akiba more toward the relaxed end.

Lately, I've developed a new appreciation for Fine and Reschevsky, too.

@ YES,i read a lot of Reubans instructional books way back when,lol still using English notation back then.
Probably just me but i found the switchover to algebraic a bit jarring at first. Have to admit tt once i got used to it it is more logical.

Wings of fire series

@Jaiden14 said ^

Wings of fire series

We are no longer friends.

Also I like Artemis fowl and skullduggery pleasant

anyone here ever read House of Leaves or The King in Yellow

heres an actual bookworm!