Favorite novel?

[slowlickitysplit]

S.P.Q.R. wrote;
Gates of Fire - Stephen Pressfield
Walden, or Life in the Woods - Henry David Thoreau
The Iliad - Homer


the Iliad was great but not in my top ten. Life in the woods is great also but not what I consider a good read in that I sort of sample it. I need time to digest it, a chapter, or even a page, at a time.

- Slow -

[LysergicBliss]

The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

[napolitana869]

did anyone read choose your own adventure books when you were young? those books were fun

[stinkyattic]

Anyone remember The White Mountains?
It's about this society of people, of which one boy who is about to come of age, and these tall tripod things come, and try to do something to his brain, I can't remember exactly, but it was really weird stuff.

Yeah, the Tripod Trilogy... White Mountains, Fields of Fire or something, totally fucking AMAZING books that were written for young adults but so good that everyone should read them. Same with the Susan Cooper series that includes Dark is Rising, Greenwich, Silver on the Tree, etc.

My list includes...

The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand- every time I read it I get something totally different out of it- the heroine is one of the best-developed and most complex female literary characters I've run across

One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabirel Garcia Marquez- One of the coolest epics EVER- weird, funny, at times disturbing, very well done, I think he got a Nobel Prize for lit for it too. Love in the time of Cholera isn't half bad either!

The Poisonwood Bible - oh who the fuck wrote that? GRRRR my memory sucdks but what a great novel about a bunch of girls growing up as the children of missionaries in midcentury Africa and the places their lives eventually take them

The Prince of Tides- Another really amazing novel along the same lines- children of totally fucked up parents, in this case an impoverished, violent shrimp fishermen.

The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco- Very cool medieval mystery. If you liked the DaVinci Code, which I LOVED, you should also read this.

For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemingway- Hard to pick my favorite Hemingway novel, but in terms of grit and the brutally honest depiction of wartime, it's a masterpiece. I also loved the Sun Also Rises (Fiesta).

And then of course for a good laugh, you HAVE to read the Hitchhikers trilogy- all 5 books of it lol- and Garrison Keillor's 'WLT: A Radio Romance' which I thought was a fucking RIOT but I guess you have to like his style of humor (A Prairie Home Companion- American radio show that airs on PRI on weekends- very nice!)

[napolitana869]

100 years of solitude is a good book. I had to write a paper on it but it was so complex I didnt even know where to start. I bet you could read that book 10 times keep finding new things in it

[stinkyattic]

100 years of solitude ... was so complex I didnt even know where to start. I bet you could read that book 10 times keep finding new things in it

You win the bet... I have read it close to 10 times... I'm about due for another

[TOOL9]

[quote=higher4hockey]rl stine ~~ of course. i was a fan im not gonna lie.

when i was in middle school rl stein actually came to my school and talked to us. It was actually pretty lame

As for my all time favorite novel it would either be

it by stephen king or
the dead zone by stephen king

[slowlickitysplit]

Stinkyattick wrote;
Yeah, the Tripod Trilogy... White Mountains, Fields of Fire or something, totally fucking AMAZING books that were written for young adults but so good that everyone should read them. Same with the Susan Cooper series that includes Dark is Rising, Greenwich, Silver on the Tree, etc.

My list includes...

The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand- every time I read it I get something totally different out of it- the heroine is one of the best-developed and most complex female literary characters I've run across

One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabirel Garcia Marquez- One of the coolest epics EVER- weird, funny, at times disturbing, very well done, I think he got a Nobel Prize for lit for it too. Love in the time of Cholera isn't half bad either!

The Poisonwood Bible - oh who the fuck wrote that? GRRRR my memory sucdks but what a great novel about a bunch of girls growing up as the children of missionaries in midcentury Africa and the places their lives eventually take them

The Prince of Tides- Another really amazing novel along the same lines- children of totally fucked up parents, in this case an impoverished, violent shrimp fishermen.

The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco- Very cool medieval mystery. If you liked the DaVinci Code, which I LOVED, you should also read this.

For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemingway- Hard to pick my favorite Hemingway novel, but in terms of grit and the brutally honest depiction of wartime, it's a masterpiece. I also loved the Sun Also Rises (Fiesta).

And then of course for a good laugh, you HAVE to read the Hitchhikers trilogy- all 5 books of it lol- and Garrison Keillor's 'WLT: A Radio Romance' which I thought was a fucking RIOT but I guess you have to like his style of humor (A Prairie Home Companion- American radio show that airs on PRI on weekends- very nice!)

Seriously stink, Tell yeag to keep a close eye on you. Betwen the fondue and our matching bookcases.....LOL

I had completely forgoten about hitchicker! And I love Garrison Keillor on the radio, didn't know he had a book. I'll have to search for it now.

As for Fountainhead....Have you read Atlas Shrugged by Rand? Talk about a strong heroine!

- Slow -

[higher4hockey]

any of you guys ever read the book "watership down" ?

i had a copy of that book that a girl stole from me and ive been trying to get it back for ages. i think i'm going to go get another copy of it. good book!~

[stinkyattic]

No wtf I seriously haven't yet and I am kicking myself to go find a copy of Atlas Shrugged.
Okay lets see, the Garrison Keillor books are Lake Wobegon Days, the News from Lake Wobegon, WLT: A Radio Romance, and I think there's more but the radio one is fucking hysterical. I brought it to th ehospital to keep my friend company when she was getting her MRI, she's wicked claustrophobic so I started reading it to her, but the technician kept yelling at her to stop giggling. It was priceless.
Hey, the overstuffed bookcase should make the Yeag even LESS worried... long distance girlfriend curled up with a book at night is better than long distance girlfriend curled up with another dude, right? hee hee!