What are your favorite fiction books?

Discussion in 'Fiction' started by MissEmma, Jan 9, 2010.

  1. surreal_charm

    surreal_charm Member

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    i like both.
     
  2. Frogfoot

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    letsee

    1984
    Crime and Punishment
    The Brothers Karamazov (reading this now - Dostoyevsky rocks :2thumbsup:)
    The Penitent - Isaac Bashavis Singer
    Neuromancer
    A Scanner Darkly - Philip K Dick
    Foundation
    The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
    Sputnik Sweetheart - Murakami
    All's Quiet on the Western Front
     
  3. surreal_charm

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    latest addition to my list: Watchmen
     
  4. knotdirty

    knotdirty Over the Rainbow

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    Till We Have Faces
    Anna Karenina
    Bag of Bones
    Fight Club
    Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    Pride and Prejudice
    Breakfast at Tiffanys

    These are just a few off the top of my head that I've read over and over and over.
     
  5. knotdirty

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    Oh my God, I'd forgotten about this book. Fabulous, fantastic, amazing book.

    And I'm with you, literature is a dirty word for me. :love:

    Meliai, have you read any of Amy Tan's stuff? I think you'd like it.
     
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    To Kill A Mockingbird
    A Catcher in The Rye
    The Lost Symbol
    1984
    Brave New World
    Clockwork Orange
     
  7. surreal_charm

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    i'm reading it currently. it's interesting.
     
  8. RickyRicardo

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    Currently re-reading George Orwell's 1984.
    The ideas the man had were amazing, considering the book was written yonks before that.

    It is a fantastic book.
     
  9. glitterbugs

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    I am an avid reader, when time permits.

    Here is what I've read recently..
    1) The Quickie by James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge
    2) Isle of Dogs by Patricia Cornwell
    3) The Husband by Dean Koontz
    4) From Potter's Field by Patricia Cornwell
    5) Fatal Tide by Iris Johansen
    6) At Risk by Patricia Cornwell
    7) The Last Precinct by Patricia Cornwell

    As you can see, my favorite authors are: Patricia Cornwell; Dean Koontz and James Patterson. I'm trying to finish all my hard back books so I can start using my Kindle that my fiancee bought for me.
     
  10. nannymiss

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    no order:

    the trial
    the castle
    amerika
    the stranger
    lolita
    this side of paradise
    infinite jest
    all mark twain
    naked lunch
    soft machine
    catcher in the rye
    sometimes a great notion
    all steinbeck, specifically, "the grapes of wrath"
    rabbit, run
    the same door

    to name a few :p
     
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    brothers karamazov
    anna karenina
    sirens of titan
    almost all melville
    everything by william faulkner

    had to throw those in there.


    and shit, all the above posts seem pretty damn entry level.
     
  12. vinster

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    I'm a huge reader and have read many, many books, but The Lord Of The Rings is by far the best work of fiction of all time IMO. No other work compares to the beauty that is LOTR. The books are my bible and I can legitimately say they changed my life.
     
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    I really enjoy the majority of James Pattersons books. I have read a bunch of them. But as of now im really digging the Dexter series. The show is great but you need to read the books. The outcome is entirely different and just better.
     
  14. wee_willy_winkle

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    One of my big favourites recently for dialogue has to be 'Confederacy of Dunces' by the tragic John Kennedy Toole. A great book, the character Ignatius J.Reilly, fat, pompous and an underachieveing layabout with lofty aspirations is truly superb.
     
  15. WOLF ANGEL

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    Do Political Party Manifestos count?
    ;)
     
  16. evilreign

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    No particular order

    As I lay Dying by William Faulkner
    The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    Journey to The End of The Night by Louis Ferdinand Celine
    I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
    Everything by H.P. Lovecraft
     
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    I'm not seeing any of Gary Jennings stuff on anyones list??? Check out Aztec Blood, Aztec Rage, Apocalypse 2012, and he has a few others that are really good. Any Stuart Woods, Michael Connelly, Robert Parker.
     
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    L.O.T.R
    any thing by Stephen King and Dean R Koontz
    Wilbur Smith especially loved "The Sunbird"
     
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    Haven't read much in years but recently, (Christmas) I obtained a Kindle and have been gobbling up books like a starving man. At present I'm working on reading the last two novels by Tony Hillerman written about two Navajo Tribal policemen, Jim Chee/Joe Leaphorn. The books are a quick read and contain an very accurate depiction of the Dineh, their history and cultural oddities and, of course, the vast reservation which cuts across state boundaries extending from The San Francisco Peaks in Flagstaff, AZ to Window Rock in NM and North to Lake Powell and Monument Valley. I lived in AZ for 9 years and got to travel to such places including Canyon de Chelly, the Grand Canyon, Lake Powell and have crisscrossed the "Res" en route to these scenic venues.
     
  20. lugubrious

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    Any and all fiction is beautiful.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
    Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
    The Hours by Michael Cunningham
    Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
    Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
    Anything Kurt Vonnegut's ever written
    Of course Harry Potter - my absolute favorite, I'm in the process of reading it out loud to my dad. Superb, I don't know if anyone can top it as far as imagination, entertainment and shock value.

    Also since I'm strapped for time these days I've been getting into short fiction: The New Yorker has some amazing stories, Welcome to the Monkey House and Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut are truly worth giving a go. Kafka. Dostoyevsky. And the master of masters, Edgar Allen Poe.
     

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