If you could only read one book for the rest of your life, what would it be and why?

Essais by Montaigne in original French. Teach yourself French and read warm friendly philosophical essays at the same time, by the inventor of "essais"...

Canned answer, of course, would be a religious text of some kind, probably the Bible because you have good moral lessons, you have action, advernture, sex, poetry, history. All the good stuff :-).

That's easy! Eat, Pray, Love from Elizabeth Gilbert. A true diamant!

Reading about a woman, finding herself after a lot of failure in life, giving others the opportunity to keep believing in love and life. A journey of recognition to me!

I would like ready the Holy Quran...The Holy Quran is 1450 years, intact without any any changes since its existence. It is downloaded from heaven.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.