I'm just curious if you guys have a favorite book; one that really stands above all the other great books you've read?
I know I couldn't make a list of my top 5 favorites, there's just too many, but I can say without a doubt that The Brothers Karamazov is #1. It really changed my view of the world.
Share yours.
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Anonymous2009-08-11 1:31
It might be Ultravioleta. Love that book. But that's a hard question.
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Anonymous2009-08-11 4:58
Animal Farm
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Anonymous2009-08-11 12:42
1984
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Anonymous2009-08-11 13:21
Blood Meridian
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Anonymous2009-08-11 14:20
The Trial, probably.
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Anonymous2009-08-12 1:04
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph T.E. Lawrence
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Anonymous2009-08-12 19:55
As far as a favorite book (in general), "The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe" has been my favorite book to read for 20 years.
As far as a favorite novel, I'd have to go with Jurassic Park. It was the first novel I ever read, and it's the novel I have most frequently read. I know it isn't particularly artistic, but damn if it isn't a fun book to pass the time with.
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Anonymous2009-08-13 2:33
Stephen King's IT. Fuck Yeah.
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Anonymous2009-08-13 2:59
I think my favorite book still has to be The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy... I end up re-reading it once a year or so. While I've read plenty of books that are "better" it is just a fun read.
inb4 "philistine peasant, reading worthless shit of no literary merit whatsoever", IT'S FUCKING INEVITABLE. Don't disappoint me, intellectual elite of /book/!
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Anonymous2009-08-16 1:00
I can't pick a favourite, but I did enjoy Catch 22, The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy, The Old Man and The Sea(yes, it's simplistic, but it's a gripping read nonetheless, imo), Neuromancer, and Brave New World.
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Anonymous2009-08-16 1:37
Watership Down.
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Anonymous2009-08-16 6:10
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
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Anonymous2009-08-16 10:30
Kafka On The Shore
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Anonymous2009-08-16 20:06
Either Hyperion by Dan Simmons or Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. I love scifi and those are the best.
>>26
It may be a children's book, but somehow it's not the worst in the thread.
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Anonymous2009-08-17 1:23
>>27
If more "adults" could read at it's level, the world would be a different place. Among other things, it's an amazing treatise on ecology and resource management, sociology, and leadership.
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I haven't read all of them, and hate to be a snob, but I admit to some disappointment when I see things like Jurassic Park, and "Stephen King's IT. Fuck Yeah" At least the fellow who listed Jurassic Park qualified it.
FYI, my contribution wasn't Watership Down. I was just praising the choice.
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Problem is you guys don't know why this is there favorite book. I could be for other reasons such as a parent gave it to them for there birthday. Or it was the first book they read and liked which got them into reading. A lot of different reasons why a book is someones favorite other then the writing.
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Anonymous2009-08-17 18:57
my fav book is twilight by Stephany Mayer. my mommy gave it to me for my birtday and it god me into reading. i would not be reading Joyce and Dostoyevsky 2day if it was not for that book
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Anonymous2009-08-17 19:46
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See now this is a troll and you can say is the worst pick on the thread.>>33
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Anonymous2009-08-17 20:13
>>34
Too bad you don't know what trolling is, you hapless nerd.
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Anonymous2009-08-18 11:55
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. Opened my mind up to how people think.
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Anonymous2009-08-19 7:16
A Scanner Darkly. A lot of Philip K. Dick's stuff is awesome, but I "read" that one as an audio book and it packed a hell of a punch for me, since I have positively no experience with drug culture.
The whole ... well, I won't ruin it. It's worth your time for both the characters and the story. Read until the end.
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Anonymous2009-08-19 16:54
Probably Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Yeah I love the film, but I've never bought the book cause I was afraid of struggling with the nadsat (wasn't sure if it'd be the same as the film, I'd heard it was used more liberally/frequently in the novel).
By pisser you mean...
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Anonymous2009-08-26 18:57
>>56
Nah man the language is easy. All the words you can understand from the context and repeated useage. Otherwise look on wikipedia and look up the words;
I mean that if you don't know what devotchka, tolchock, viddy, ptitsa, starry, Bog, droog, milk plus knives, yarbles, etc... means beforehand, then the first few chapters will be somewhat difficult to understand because the book starts with Alex's slang. It's heavily laid on and it doesn't let up for quite some time. But once you're used to the slang, then the book gets much easier to read and becomes far more enjoyable.
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I am posting this to let you know, as you were surely hoping to find out, that, yes, the sage feature does, in fact, work on this board. I hope you are pleased.
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Oh yeah one thing I should mention. Some of the american versions of the book have a chapter missing at the end. So if it ends when it does in the film there is a chapter missing.