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.