Author Topic: your favourite novel (Read 5487 times)

PANZERCATWAGON · « **on:** January 02, 2009, 04:39:58 pm »

all this talk of stories and that lately has got me in the mood for reading something new. what is your favourite novel/story/whatever, and provide some description because i might want to read it if it sounds any good.

for me it was hard to choose but ultimately easy. possibly the greatest novel i will ever read - "i have no mouth, and i must scream" by harlan ellison

i enjoy the ideas in the story so much i think i could have written it myself. its about a perverted artificial intelligence that tortures some humans in cave after world war three. i think it also takes my award for the greatest ending ever, too.

Thinkto urself · « **Reply #1 on:** January 02, 2009, 05:09:13 pm »

The Green Mile.

LtKillroy · « **Reply #2 on:** January 02, 2009, 05:09:24 pm »

Hmm, Clear and Present Danger is way up there. The Eragon series is OK, its written for 10-14 though. I liked Animal Farm quite a bit too. Flags of our Fathers was pretty good.

I'd have to say Clear and Present Danger. I like Tom Clancy a lot and that book is just really cool.

jrgp · « **Reply #3 on:** January 02, 2009, 05:16:20 pm »

FightClub, Dry.

{LAW} Gamer_2k4 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 02, 2009, 05:20:52 pm »

Perelandra by C.S. Lewis. It's profound and well written; I don't think I'll ever get tired of reading and rereading it.

The Philanthropist · « **Reply #5 on:** January 02, 2009, 05:36:31 pm »

This Wilbur Smith series I really enjoy. It's the Courtney series of novels, and it just follows this one crazy family over like 12 books, and tracks all their escapades. It's reall unrealistic all the shit they get into, but it's probably one of the best told stories I've ever read. It just seems kind of aimless, like their is no ultimate purpose to the stories, which is why I enjoy it so much.

Lonestar · « **Reply #6 on:** January 02, 2009, 05:38:38 pm »

Lord of the Flies, Les Miserables, Fahrenheit 451, Into the Wild...

Blue-ninja · « **Reply #7 on:** January 02, 2009, 05:43:36 pm »

Duma Key. I like how the book loosely resembles the Death Note series in my mind.

Demonic · « **Reply #8 on:** January 02, 2009, 06:18:56 pm »

Hm.

Gabriel Gárcia Márquez - One hundred years of solitude

Magical realism covering many aspects of what a human has to bear, from love and war to unfairness and abstracted morals contradicting seemingly dumb tradition. Also has lots of sex, sometimes incest. It just can't get more awesome than that. I died from fever on the dunes of Singapore.

Mihail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita

It's communist Russia, Moscow. Two praised contemporary literalists are debating whetever Jesus existed or not, and a strange man joins in on their conversation. Little do they know that this man is Satan himself... a beautiful tale where love can only prevail in a society fucked up beyond comprehension with the help of the supernatural. And manuscripts don't burn.

Salman Rushdie - Grimus

Rushdie takes us on an adventure, a really fucked up one. An island of immortals with the protagonist struggling to end his life, while you get large snippets on the dark motivations of an ordinary human, the basic principles which makes us tick, and a whole lot of philosophy which if nothing else is good food for thought.

Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera tells us a lot about how he perceives the world all wrapped in a net of stories, following different characters and the mentalities they testify. Among many others he covers love or the lack of it, sex robbed from the feeling, revolution with thought, words and mundane acts, or how we're all just saps for symbols.

iDante · « **Reply #9 on:** January 02, 2009, 08:02:01 pm »

Catch 22. Awesome book, awesome style, awesome everything.

LtKillroy · « **Reply #10 on:** January 02, 2009, 09:56:57 pm »

Quote from: iDante on January 02, 2009, 08:02:01 pm

Catch 22. Awesome book, awesome style, awesome everything.

I forgot that one, I love that book.

Dascoo · « **Reply #11 on:** January 02, 2009, 10:10:26 pm »

Ender's game would be candidate for being my favourite novel. I've been recommended The Forever war, and Starship troopers but I haven't got to them yet.

Quote from: PANZERCATWAGON on January 02, 2009, 04:39:58 pm

"i have no mouth, and i must scream" by harlan ellison...
greatest ending ever

Sounds familiar. Short story?

Ellimist · « **Reply #12 on:** January 02, 2009, 10:11:31 pm »

Any Clive Cussler books, especially Dirk Pitt Series. (Maritime Thriller)

Also Chickenhawk by Robert Mason. (Vietnam War)

a-4-year-old · « **Reply #13 on:** January 02, 2009, 10:37:42 pm »

I propose that anyone who suggests Harry Potter as their favorite book get a warning.

Treasure Island was my childhood favorite.

STM1993 · « **Reply #14 on:** January 03, 2009, 12:57:22 am »

It's funny, I love reading/writing, yet I don't read a lot, and I can barely find any books I know of that are good.

Anyway, I heard the book, Matthew Reilly - Ice Station , is good.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Reilly

Ellimist · « **Reply #15 on:** January 03, 2009, 01:11:34 am »

Quote from: STM1993 on January 03, 2009, 12:57:22 am

Anyway, I heard the book, Matthew Reilly - Ice Station , is good.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Reilly

Havent read Ice Station, but Area 7 is good

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_7_(novel)

KYnetiK · « **Reply #16 on:** January 03, 2009, 02:43:34 am »

Havent read many novels in recent years, but I have some favourites.

Fight Club was a great book. Like the movie except much more twisted.

I am David. About a kid who was raised in a German concentration camp, and how he dealt with the world when he escapes at the age of 11.

The Dexter series of books is pretty funny too.

Im sure other titles will hit me after I press post.

Hair|Trigger · « **Reply #17 on:** January 03, 2009, 02:46:35 am »

Matthew Reilly was epic but I got bored by the time I had read Hover car racer Ice station Area seven and I got stuck half way through 7 ancient wonders. I might get the newer book though in hopes that he changed the style a bit ><

PANZERCATWAGON · « **Reply #18 on:** January 03, 2009, 05:26:34 pm »

Quote from: Dascoo on January 02, 2009, 10:10:26 pm

Ender's game would be candidate for being my favourite novel. I've been recommended The Forever war, and Starship troopers but I haven't got to them yet.

Quote from: PANZERCATWAGON on January 02, 2009, 04:39:58 pm
"i have no mouth, and i must scream" by harlan ellison...
greatest ending ever

Sounds familiar. Short story?

dascooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo my little asian gimpcake

yes it is a short story and its also sickeningly delicious

you can read it here

it was also a game for pc though i never played it

Smegma · « **Reply #19 on:** January 03, 2009, 05:29:50 pm »

Molloy by Beckett

The shit.

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