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Your Fav Novels
2007-05-15, 5:14 PM #1
Just thought I would start a lit thread. Post the name of your favorite novel!

Mine is Number the Stars.
I read it in elementary school, but it was really good.

2007-05-15, 5:22 PM #2
It Rained Rire from the Sky.

A book about 3 African Children from the sudan trying to gtfo.

It was a very good book. I've also enjoyed Holes, Harry Potter, and The Shark Callers
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2007-05-15, 5:42 PM #3
Oh boy...do I have a favorite?
2007-05-15, 6:11 PM #4
The Giver was amazing in middle school. The other best novel I've read is Stranger in a Strange Land.
"Flowers and a landscape were the only attractions here. And so, as there was no good reason for coming, nobody came."
2007-05-15, 6:19 PM #5
The first three that come to mind are: American Gods, Lolita, and Jurassic Park.
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2007-05-15, 7:02 PM #6
Fahrenheit 451, even though I'm not sure it qualifies as a novel.
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2007-05-15, 7:03 PM #7
American Gods, Anansi Boys, The Picture of Dorian Gray...
2007-05-15, 7:07 PM #8
Shantaram, Da Vinci Code. all those classics. Favorite books ever are Catch-22 and Great Gatsby
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2007-05-15, 7:08 PM #9
Originally posted by drizzt2k2:
Great Gatsby


Are you insane? That was the worst heap of trash I've ever read.
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2007-05-15, 7:11 PM #10
Picture of Dorian Gray
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2007-05-15, 7:12 PM #11
Originally posted by Warlockmish:
Picture of Dorian Gray


Gaaaay.
2007-05-15, 7:17 PM #12
Cat's Cradle
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2007-05-15, 7:40 PM #13
Anything written by Timothy Zahn.
2007-05-15, 7:50 PM #14
Does anyone know what the name of the novel was with the Egyptian goblet and whatnot? That was a good book too.

2007-05-15, 7:50 PM #15
Originally posted by Freelancer:
Are you insane? That was the worst heap of trash I've ever read.


I liked it.
2007-05-15, 7:58 PM #16
I Will Fear No Evil - R.A.H. Great ****ing book. Mortality, morality, spirituality, sexuality, and as an added bonus Brain Transplants!

the first four are themes, the last part is literary device.
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2007-05-15, 8:02 PM #17
Scarlet Pimpernel - LOVE the musical too
Ragtime - Love the musical too
Phantom of the Opera - ditto

Angels and Deamons/Da Vinci Code - not a big fan of the movie

Others, I don't know. "Favorite" depends on the day
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2007-05-15, 8:09 PM #18
Originally posted by Vincent Valentine:
Gaaaay.


So what if Basil is gay?
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2007-05-15, 8:33 PM #19
Like Free, Fahrenheit 451 (same opinion on Gatsby. I LOATHED that book. Had to read it once in middle school and twice in high school).

A Prayer for Owen Meany and Catch-22 are great as well IMNSHO.
2007-05-15, 8:35 PM #20
You're silly if you think Basil is the only gay character in that. It's pretty obvious that Dorian is bangin' the boys.
2007-05-15, 8:36 PM #21
Originally posted by Lord Kuat:
IMNSHO.


i have no idea what that acronym means.
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2007-05-15, 8:37 PM #22
In my not so humble opinion.
2007-05-15, 9:22 PM #23
The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene.
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2007-05-15, 9:24 PM #24
Originally posted by Freelancer:
Are you insane? That was the worst heap of trash I've ever read.


Sure its a simple, straightfoward, comic book like novel but its built around a great theme and I really got into it for some reason.
America, home of the free gift with purchase.
2007-05-15, 9:34 PM #25
Originally posted by drizzt2k2:
Sure its a simple, straightfoward, comic book like novel but its built around a great theme and I really got into it for some reason.


You're taking about the Great Gatsby?!?

You couldn't be. Comic book like? How? There was symbolism up the wazoo, from the pink suit to the eye on the billboard. I wouldn't call it simple either.

Great theme? Eh?

Don't get me wrong, there are possible positive aspects to the book, but I've never heard it described like that by anybody.
2007-05-15, 9:42 PM #26
Nothing I've read has hit me as hard as Nineteen Eighty-Four.
2007-05-15, 10:21 PM #27
Anja – “Don’t live your life in a dream or you’ll get killed by the crazy Hungarian down the street…”

Red- “I’m glad you understood Fitzgerald’s deeper meaning…”
Fincham: Where are you going?
Me: I have no idea
Fincham: I meant where are you sitting. This wasn't an existential question.
2007-05-15, 10:47 PM #28
Right now, Speaker for the Dead. It's in the process of changing my life, I think.

And Aglar, if you count being incredibly disturbed as being hit hard, 1984 was amazing. Good book because it makes you feel awful. :P
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2007-05-15, 10:56 PM #29
Ender's Shadow was EXCELLENT, but I think Eisenhorn's definitely a contender at this point, as is Survivor.
D E A T H
2007-05-15, 11:00 PM #30
I have a manuscript copy of Ender's Shadow lying around and I still haven't read it. :ninja:
Ban Jin!
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2007-05-16, 12:30 AM #31
Favourite books are probably Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Can't decide which I like more.

Of recent series I really like A Song of Ice and Fire. Can't wait for the next book.
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2007-05-16, 12:37 AM #32
I have many.

I think right now it would be the Life of Pi. And maybe after that Crime and Punishment.

I haven't been reading lately as much as I would like.
My blawgh.
2007-05-16, 12:50 AM #33
oooh I heard the Life of Pi is good, I should put that one on my list
Fincham: Where are you going?
Me: I have no idea
Fincham: I meant where are you sitting. This wasn't an existential question.
2007-05-16, 1:07 AM #34
Originally posted by sugarless5:
oooh I heard the Life of Pi is good, I should put that one on my list


You'll be my hero if you do.
My blawgh.
2007-05-16, 1:20 AM #35
Lord of the Rings.

I've read it a few times in Finnish and a couple of times in English. Considering that, I must really like it.
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2007-05-16, 1:39 AM #36
Originally posted by NDNmojo:
Mine is Number the Stars.
I read it in elementary school, but it was really good.


A couple of weeks ago I went up to Gilleleje, where the second part of that book is set, with my Danish class. They showed us the church where the Jews hid until they could get on a boat to Sweden. Pretty cool.

My favorite novel is Les Miserables.
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2007-05-16, 1:40 AM #37
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
The Things They Carried (O'Brien)
一个大西瓜
2007-05-16, 2:11 AM #38
Wikipedia
2007-05-16, 3:38 AM #39
I don't read real books.

So I'll be inclined to say "anything by Bryson, Pratchett or Rankin".
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2007-05-16, 3:53 AM #40
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
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