What is the best book you have ever read?
Since the very beginning of their circulation in Europe, books have represented an incomparable good.
Be it for academic purposes or just leisure, books accompany us in our everyday life.
Let’s celebrate #WorldBookDay with some of the most beautiful libraries in our Union!
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The Count of Monte Cristo, is one of the best, if not the best fiction book I have read.
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For leisure:
Walter Moers: Die Stadt der träumenden Bücher!
@EU_Commission Not fiction, but Lisa Feldman Barrett's *How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain* gave me enormously useful insight on self and society.
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The Clowns of God by Morris West was the best book ever!
@EU_Commission @jan 1984 by George Orwell still my favorite
Read it about 7 times
I’m torn between Les Misérables, which lays bare the inequities of the human condition, and Irène Némirovsky’s Suite Française, which reminds us how many great things die with each life snuffed out by tyranny. Both moved me to laughter and tears. #WorldBookDay
Stiftsbibliothek in Waldsassen, Bavaria, Germany. 1720s.
Ccontains many life sized oak figures with impressive, angle dependent facial features.
One group illustrates the sophisticated multi step bookmaking process.
The second group shows all stages of human pride, to remind the reader to be carefull ...and the non-reader to be humble.
Stupidity, mockery, hypocrisy and ignorance.
As part of the vivid monastery it belongs to the greater ensemble of bohemian baroque.
@EU_Commission Propeller Island by Jules Verne. It literally predicted the future of mankind.
@EU_Commission hm 🤔 that’s not easy to answer. I think for me it’s the complete Sherlock Holmes series.
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Orwell: 1984
Remarque: All Quiet in the Western Front
Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings
@EU_Commission Walden will always have a special place in my heart
@EU_Commission #Papillion #TheColourPurple #Dune 📚 three favourites for #WorldBookDay
@EU_Commission Difficult, to pick a single book. There are so many books Stephen Hawking, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Isaac Asimov,
Caroline de la Motte Fouqué, Jule Verne,
Robert Heinlein, Gregory Benford ... .
@EU_Commission just by number of re-reads: The Master and Margarita, by Bulgakov.
Best memory of reading it: Circe, by Madeleine Miller.
@EU_Commission best one? idk, in primary school there were few ool books i read... hobbit for example or one about magic tree... now i dont read any :( sad :(
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1984 !
@EU_Commission Anathem by Neal Stephenson https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathem_(Roman)
this is in the Czech Republic, right ?
@EU_Commission Too many books to mention, but Sans Famille is still one of the best ever. I read it many times. In Dutch, it’s called ‘Alleen op de Wereld’.
@EU_Commission "De donkere kamer van Damokles" (The Darkroom of Damocles) by W.F. Hermans is an abslolute masterpiece.
