Favorite Novel
 

Reading that other thread about required reading and shit..i was just wondering wat everyones favorite books were...i would have to say mine is "The Old Man and the Sea" by Hemingway.

'From here to Eternity' By: James Jones

Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut

Top 3:

The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

No paticular order. Everyone should read these books.

I like For Whom The Bell Tolls and Islands In The Stream by Hemingway.

Black Hawk Down

of mice and men by john steinbeck

On A Pale Horse : Piers Anthony

Curahee!! : Donald R. Burgett

1984 - George Orwell
Lord of the Rings Trilogy - J.R.R. Tolkien
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

Newton's Gift.

SemperFi and Call to Arms by W.E.B. Griffin

I need to read more......

Hemingway seems to be pretty popular. A Farewell To Arms was the best book I read junior year of high school. Great book.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas- Hunter S Thompson
Tale of Two Cities- Dickens
The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
Dune-Herbert
Slaughter House Five-Vonnegut
Catch 22--Heller
The Stand-King
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest-Kesey
The Teachings of Don Juan- Castenda
A Seperate Reality-Castenda
Journey to Ixtlan-Castenda
Silent Night: The Remarkable 1914 Christmas Truce-Weintraub
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant(the first three book) - Donaldson.

and more.....

Each of you - beside LOW SPARK - REALLY need to broaden your horizons. I mean fucking FOR WHO THE BELL TOLLS? SEMPER FI? Bleah.

House Of Leaves - Danielewski
The Invisibles - Grant Morrison
Watchmen - Alan Moore
Ulysees - James Joyce
East Of Eden - Steinbeck (anyone who says this isn't his best work is on crack)
Anything by Toni Morrison ESPECIALLY BELOVED - if you want a story on how racial injustice can scar you...read that book, or THE BLUEST EYES.

alot of these books u read in highschool yes?

band if brothers by stephen ambrose fire1: fire2: M16: bigzooka: zooka:

hey, to each his own, do not criticize a man's literature!

All Around the Town by Mary Higgens Clark (Best book in the world)
The Catcher in the Rye
the Picture Bible

"A Brave New World" By: Aldous Huxley

i like the vampire chronicles. bye Ann Rice.
the stand bye Steven king

the outsiders was good. Hg Hutten i think.

universe in a nutshell. Steven Hawkens.

the star wars books after jedi were cool.

weave world .i think it was called. by clive barker i think.

Anything by Tom Clancy. I like Rainbow Six the most. Brain Droppings By George Carlin was good too. Oh, and can't forget my favorite:
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Clive barkers books.

Lord of the flies is pretty good

Almost anything by King, IT and The Stand being on the top, though.

Farewell To Armsby Ernest Hemingway
Call of The Wildby Jack London
Moby Dickby Herman Melville
To Kill A Mockingbirdby Harper Lee
The Illiad and The Odysseyby Homer
A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles Dickens

And though these are not novels per se:

Any of Edgar Allen Poe'sworks.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmesclassics.
Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales

Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula by Bram Stoker

Nostradamus' Writings(good entertainment, if nothing else).
Plato
Socrates

anything by chuck palahniuk especially lullyby
and clock work orange was a fukin badass book if you can decipher the dialoge.. it was easy for me since i speak bosnian and its close to russian biggrin:

"Stan the Hot Dog Man" i love that book, its about 35 pages long though, and great pictures too

Heh heh heh. I'm gonna make a movie about that when i grow up........

there's like 2 movies about it already

1. Black hawk down (greatest book ever)
2. Band of Brothers (Another classic)

wow, i'm surprised no one said anything about me posting earlier about my favorite novel: angel: The picture Bible angel: biggrin:

the alphabet book FUCKIN HYPE!

I read the Bible regularly, but I didn't include it because it's not a novel. biggrin:

What about short stories? "The Body" and "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank redemption" are my favorite stories/ anything to read. In fact, they are the only thing I read outside of class. They always make us read black pride/ white guilt propaganda. It really is rather rediculous. I did like Catcher in the Rye, 1984, and the Mark Twain books we read. But damn does that propaganda get old.

[quote="EasyTrick2.0":8b11c]What about short stories? "The Body" and "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank redemption" are my favorite stories/ anything to read. In fact, they are the only thing I read outside of class. They always make us read black pride/ white guilt propaganda. It really is rather rediculous. I did like Catcher in the Rye, 1984, and the Mark Twain books we read. But damn does that propaganda get old.[/quote:8b11c] biggrin:

holyshit dude tell me bout that. we are doing this book in school at the moment

Yea and they sucked ass

i never seen it so i wouldnt know. btw devils advacate u can watch the movie about the book, it's pretty much the same.