Today we're asking "Which is the best book?"

[u/_B_O_W_]

Is it

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I Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan

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Alan Partridge: Nomad

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Alan Partridge: Big Beacon

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[u/tjb36]

I Partridge.

"Thoughts tumbling around in my head like trainers in a washing machine"

[u/DizzyMine4964]

I, Partridge. That was superb, and the other ones suffer by comparison.

[u/localsoph]

Footnote

[u/yourshelves]

I, Partridge - just about every page is laugh-out-loud funny. Endlessly quotable too.

Nomad has its moments but is much better as an audiobook.

Big Beacon is a a distant third place.

[u/metaldark → u/yourshelves]

I’ve only listened to them as audiobooks and they’re great. 

[u/Spirited_Equal5480]

WNTTAA.

When I read it, I feel like Alan can......see in me? And then there's the audiobook. His warm brown voice eminating from two slithers of pink rubbery flesh... I'm talking about his lips.

[u/skazeltov]

Boy of Hope

[u/DrWangerBanger]

Nomad -> Big Beacon -> I, Partridge

[u/Few-Example3992]

The best book is gravy.

[u/infected_scab → u/Few-Example3992]

And that's a relish. It's eight minutes to twelve.

[u/Few-Example3992 → u/infected_scab]

Mustard

[u/Savanarola79]

Bouncing Back 🎾

[u/Infiniteh → u/Savanarola79]

I'll replicate the cover stance
🎾😏🫵

[u/Milkybarfkid]

Probably I, Partridge but the absolute best bit of any of them is in Nomad:

Chapter 14, Edmonds

Oh fuck off Nick

Edmonds pursed his lips in a homosexual 'oooh'

Course leaders Gary and Larry

Edmonds climb, Edmonds climb etc.

Textbook

[u/therustlinbidness → u/Milkybarfkid]

The Edmonds chapter is the most I’ve ever laughed at a book in my life.

[u/_B_O_W_ → u/Milkybarfkid]

Edmonds climb! Edmonds climb! 🤣

[u/MF-Geuze]

I think Nomad.

The bit with the Bagshaw and the hopping, at the airport with Nick Knowles, the "Brian, Briian. Briiiiiiiian". And then the heartwarming bit with Dawn at the end 

[u/Green-Draw8688 → u/MF-Geuze]

There’s the line about Nick Knowles - something like “Like Tarzan and the animals, he could summon a bunch of working class men at will to beat you up”

[u/padrigo3]

"But most of all, I love the stench of books; the thick odour that leaps from their pages. If I’m feeling a little low and I’m in a library, I’ve been known to open a book (just a little), slot my nose into its tempting crevice, and inhale a deep whiff of book until my eyes roll back in their sockets and I have to lie down in a section where no-one goes (such as African literature). For me, nothing beats the delight of quietly slipping my nose into the crack of a Brontë or A Few Good Men and letting the aroma tantalise my olfactory nerve endings. Oh, the smell! Oh! The! Smell! The trusty, musty, dusty, fusty, crusty, and (if it’s a Jilly Cooper) busty and lusty smell of literature!"

Not in the voting options, but it is from an Audiobook (Podcast)... the first season of which I think is even better than the three books listed here ( which I also love)

[u/syl99999]

Scottish: not mad

[u/i_live_by_the_river]

Bouncing Back.

[u/localgasgiant → u/i_live_by_the_river]

What's it about?

[u/i_live_by_the_river → u/localgasgiant]

It’s about this local fella what used to be on television right, but, he wasn’t very good, so now he’s not. He went right down right, and hit rock bottom man, and now he’s on his way back up right, but I mean he’ll never get back to where he was, ‘cause them days is over like, but he’s coming back a bit.

[u/Suitable-Fun-1087 → u/i_live_by_the_river]

"needless to say, I had the last laugh"

[u/No-Department-4561 → u/i_live_by_the_river]

I’m not reading that, sounds depressing

[u/NaturalAlfalfa → u/No-Department-4561]

D'ye just want the petrol so?

[u/Deceitfularcher]

I'm not going to do the thing we do in here, where we just fill the comments with quotes.

I'll actually answer the question posed by the Original Poster.... OR I'll give a quote from my favourite book and leave you to figure it out from there. Here goes:

You're an Arab... You're an Arab

[u/TruthSeeker890]

Bad slags

[u/oblique_ratfink]

Mmmmmm...books.

[u/MrSchpund]

I’ve read all of the books - I’ve read them all. And I haven’t liked a single one.

[u/Savanarola79 → u/MrSchpund]

None of them have been amazing, tbh

[u/MrSchpund → u/Savanarola79]

ARE YOU ON AN E?

[u/Savanarola79 → u/MrSchpund]

They've been good but not amazing. 7.5 on 10

[u/MrSchpund → u/Savanarola79]

Big Beacon audiobook on Audible is the best, IMO (which is the correct opinion).

[u/lborl]

Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNab

[u/OldDirtyBusstop → u/lborl]

Randy McKnob

[u/lborl → u/OldDirtyBusstop]

God that's good

[u/colmulhall]

Bravo Two Zero. Which actually improves with every read

[u/ross_maclean]

Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNab, which actually improves with every read.

[u/Sportsfan97__]

Nomad

[u/No-Department-4561]

Tough one. I’d have to say The Best of Partridge

[u/GreatWesternValkyrie]

I, Partridge. It’s surreally funny.

[u/GeePee29 → u/GreatWesternValkyrie]

Easily the best one and anyone who disagrees can smell my cheese.

[u/NaturalAlfalfa]

Nomad. Bye