I've run out of excellent books - what is your favourite read? Tell us a bit about why you like the book so much, too. And if you can't choose just one, list a few! Please :)
I'll start
1. Vanity Fair
Because of the epic romance. Also I'd never read a book before this where I could picture every single character clearly. I also *liked* every character in some way. Amelia especially.
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2. 20,000 leagues under the sea
There was a LOT of boring fish-listing in this book, but there was also Captain Nemo to balance out the lame. He's maybe my favourite literary character, and the interaction between him and Professor Arronax had me hooked.
angel infernal and city infernal they have sex with demons :)
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Anonymous2007-11-16 20:34
Animal Farm By George Orwell
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When The Emperor was Divine By Julie Otsuka
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Anonymous2007-11-17 3:02
Thomas Convenant - Epic Emo crazy shit
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Anonymous2007-11-17 3:29
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke. It sucks you in like nothing Ive read before. And Clarke's endless imagination is stunning. Its thick as hell though, in length and prose, so I doubt if too many 4channers would appreciate it.
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Anonymous2007-11-17 5:41
Probably David Gemmell - Legend. It's just so awfully epic, plus heroic deaths and the like always make me cry like a little girl /wrists.
I read that because some of my friends were into it. I got through it, but I found it pretty tedious. The only character I liked was The Man with the Thistle Down Hair.
Favorite book?Hmm...Hard question.Final contenders include Michael Ende's "The Endless Story", Herbert's "Dune", John Steakley's "Armor", Charles De Lint's "Forests of the Heart" and Tim Powers' "Dinner at the Deviant's Palace"
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Anonymous2007-11-17 10:27
Favorite book?Hmm...Hard question.Final contenders include Michael Ende's "The Endless Story", Herbert's "Dune", John Steakley's "Armor", Charles De Lint's "Forests of the Heart" and Tim Powers' "Dinner at the Deviant's Palace"
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Anonymous2007-11-17 10:27
sorry for double posting
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Anonymous2007-11-23 15:19
Best book of all time:
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
*unabridged*
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Anonymous2007-11-23 16:48
Götzen-Dämmerung by Friedrich Nietzsche
Must be read in its original German. The English is a bit butchered. A true Genius.
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Anonymous2007-11-23 19:16
Mein Kampf
best evar
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Anonymous2007-11-24 3:27
Ender's Game.
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Anonymous2007-11-24 17:00
>>17
It's really not very good if you sit down and actually read it.
Candide by Voltaire, Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
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Anonymous2007-11-24 17:23
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace (1953) by Harry Elmer Barnes
Explains why America is heading towards major fail through interventionism.
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Anonymous2007-11-25 2:37
The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
Candide, Voltaire
Water for Elephants, Susan Gruen? (not sure of author)
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Anonymous2007-11-25 12:26
This Perfect Day by Ira Levin
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
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Anonymous2007-11-25 23:12
Glorianna by Micheal Moorcock
The story of a queen who can't orgasm.
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Ivanhoe comes back to England after the Crusades to kick the French out and prepare the way for King Richard's return...and Robin Hood puts in an appearance too!
The Starfist series of military sci-fi novels by Dan Craig & Steve Sherman
The Confederation Marine Corps takes on aliens, dictators, gangsters, and anyone else who threatens galactic sovreignty.
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Anonymous2007-11-27 0:26
White Noise - Don Delilo
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
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All very good, but I have to throw out another Heinlein book, Job: A comedy of justice, as one review I read put it, "You owe it to yourself to give this book to an evangelical christan and then run the other way as fast as you can
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Anonymous2007-11-28 14:26
"all hallow's eve," charles williams.
"keep the aspidistra flying," george orwell.
"earth abides," george stewart.
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Anonymous2007-12-09 15:32
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey (The movie was shit)
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Anonymous2007-12-09 20:09
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
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Anonymous2007-12-09 23:40
A Confederacy of Dunces: John Kennedy Toole.
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Anonymous2007-12-10 17:13
Starship Troopers (1959) by Robert A. Heinlein.
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Anonymous2007-12-10 19:54
Momo by Michael Ende
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
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Anonymous2007-12-11 21:12
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22(already been listed) - Joseph Heller
Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
and of course...
Lolita.
The Old Man And The Sea, most badass character in literature. EVER.
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Anonymous2007-12-22 16:24
The Scar-China Mieville
Winner of some Awards or some, great shit gets fukkin epic and is one of the most original and believable gritty worlds created in a long read.
Also has got Uther Doul, fucking bad ass motherfucker.
Great book, great writer.