If you had to recommend one book to ANYONE, what would it be and why??

For me it would be a customized book by birthdate.com. Based off your location of birth,date and time and using astrology charts to give you an overview of your traits. My book was scary accurate.

The Divine Comedy

Not a single book. The whole darn robot series starting with "I robot" onwards.

Why? Isaac Asimov predicated not only robots, which he coin the word form Czech, meaning to work tirelessly. Yet even today's Artificial Intelligence. Giving some of the very real problems in today's AI. Then quite possibly into our future. All this in 1946.

Even his "psychohistory" has real applications today, though the details are obviously vague at best.

He was a very real mathematician. With real mathematical works, on top of being a famous science fiction writer.

The Bible. Over and over. If you do it right, it isn’t just a book you read. It reads you. Shows you who you are and who you were made to be.

Redeeming love, my daughter asked me to read it, I bought it and left it by my bedside for a few weeks, she nagged me to read it while she was out in Australia for a year.

Anyway, I had a few days off and decided to start it reluctantly lol 😂

I literally couldn’t put it down and stayed up all night reading it.
It’s a beautiful book, touched my heart ♥ she knew I’d love it.

Five people you meet in heaven - mitch albom

The Bible because Jesus Christ is our lord and savior

Dharmakirti's Hetubindu

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The dictionary

Classic Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen.

My guess would be most people could relate to universal childhood hopes, experiences and fears.

One is tough. I might go with The Grapes of Wrath.
Man's inhumanity to man, human resilience, the power of family and, ultimately, hope.

The Little Prince since "“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”

A good dictionary... Useful for everyone

This one started me in my current journey.

100 years of solitude by Gabriel García Marquez

The Discourses of Epictetus

The Plague by Albert Camus

George Orwell: Animal farm.

Tasteless jokes

Julie Goodwin's Essential Cookbook

It's about Snake, a female healer that uses snakes in a post apocalyptic world that refuses to give up when adversity hits.

They called the healer Snake and she bore the name proudly, for the medicine she distilled from the venom of the viper she carried with her was a portent cure and a soothing power to her other companion, the alien dream snake, banished fear. But the primitive ignorance of those she served killed her dream snake and wrecked her career - for dream snakes were rare and Center would not grant her another. Snake's only hope was to find another - and on her quest she was pursued by two followers, one driven by love and the other by fear and need.

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