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comfortably numbcomfortably numb Posts: 188
edited May 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
Interested in what some of your all time favorite novels are, as I'm currently looking for some summer reading.

mine:
the sound and the fury- by william faulkner
this side of paradise- by f scott fitzgerald
the great gatsby- by fs fitzgerald
atlas shrugged- by ayn rand
don quixote- miguel cervantes

none of my friends read :(
saw things so much clearer
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    frankenstein is my favourite novel. :)
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  • HushBullHushBull Posts: 996
    A Clockwork Orange might be my favorite...
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  • AstroFanAstroFan Posts: 193
    "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
    "The Razors Edge" by W. Somerset Maugham
    "Crime And Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    "Choke" and "Survivor" by Chuck Palahniuk

    If you have not read them, I would definitely recommend the first two novels I listed. Don Quixote is on my to-read this, but I already have a stack of books I've yet to get to...
  • righteousbaberighteousbabe Posts: 662
    Anything by Kurt Vonnegut.

    And Catch 22 by Joseph Heller is one of my favourites.

    Some other good authors of fiction are Douglas Coupland, Stephen King(if you are into that kind of thing), John Steinbeck, Tom Robbins, Hunter s Thompson(somewhere between fiction and reality), and I realize my list would go on and on and on..............
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev.

    I don't know why. It's not the BEST novel I've ever read (it's one of them though), I just adore it. Something about it is magic to me.

    Second would probably be Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut.

    I don't read enough novels though, not for an english lit student anyway. I read a lot more poetry and theatre.
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  • hoopinmanhoopinman Posts: 294
    A Confederacy of Dunces-John Kennedy Toole
    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas- Hunter S Thompson
    Jitterbug Perfume- Tom Robbins
  • cubbieblue82cubbieblue82 Posts: 292
    I'll second the Vonnegut, my fav is probably Cat's Cradle though.

    Also, my favorite book of all time is East of Eden by Steinbeck. I LOVE that book. I can identify with the character Cal sooo much.

    I really love anything by TC Boyle. I think Water Music might be my favorite, although Tortilla Curtain and Drop City give it a run for its money.

    Really love the Lonesome Dove books as well!

    I'm sure I can't think of everything now.
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  • _Crazy_Mary__Crazy_Mary_ Posts: 1,299
    1. The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
    2. Swan Song by Robert McCammon
    3. The Stand by Stephen King

    I could read all three of these over and over again.
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  • PaukPauk Posts: 1,084
    Mine are all kinda obvious or already mentioned.

    To Kill A Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
    Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk
    The Stand - Stephen King
    The Timetraveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
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  • AmentsChickAmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas -- James Patterson
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • AmentsChickAmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    fowls wrote:
    To Kill A Mocking Bird - Harper Lee

    AWESOME fucking book!!! :D I seriously had no idea how good it was!
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • violetpsychevioletpsyche Posts: 122
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev.

    quote]

    Wow! Some one else has read Turgenev? You will have to excuse me but I pretty much get blank looks when I mention him as one of my favourite authors, so it's nice to meet some one who also likes his work. I liked Rudin slightly more than Fathers and Sons though.

    My favourite books:

    The Heroides by Ovid
    The Mists of Avalon by Marion Bradley
    Jane Eyre
    The Masterpiece by Zola
    The Civil War by Lucan
    Leucippe and Clitophon by Achilles Tatius
    I Claudius and Claudius The God by Robert Graves
    Crime and Punishment

    Other favourite authors include Bukowski, Kerouac, Ruth Rendell, Lucian of Samosata...it varies.

    Ok, I'm going to stop now because there are too many :D
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    cubbieblue82 wrote:
    I'll second the Vonnegut, my fav is probably Cat's Cradle though.

    Also, my favorite book of all time is East of Eden by Steinbeck. I LOVE that book. I can identify with the character Cal sooo much.

    I really love anything by TC Boyle. I think Water Music might be my favorite, although Tortilla Curtain and Drop City give it a run for its money.

    Really love the Lonesome Dove books as well!

    I'm sure I can't think of everything now.

    ooh a mcmurtry fan. ive been reading him for over half my life. he's the main reason i love tx. :D
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  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Dante's Beatrice wrote:

    Wow! Some one else has read Turgenev? You will have to excuse me but I pretty much get blank looks when I mention him as one of my favourite authors, so it's nice to meet some one who also likes his work. I liked Rudin slightly more than Fathers and Sons though.
    I haven't read Rudin yet, I've only read Fathers and Sons, First Love (which I also love), Spring Torrents and A Sportsman's Sketches. I just love his style. Dostoevsky and Tolstoy were more accomplished thinkers and writers probably too but I actually enjoy Turgenev more than them. I've also never understood why, just because of War and Peace, Tolstoy seems to be held up as the greatest novelist. I think Dostoevsky was superior.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • Vedderlution_BabyVedderlution_Baby Posts: 2,535
    The Darktower series by Stephen King
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