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10 favourite novels

Started by droog, September 01, 2008, 10:05:35 PM

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Seanchai

#15
September 02, 2008, 04:32:44 PM
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. And I'm reading it again! Right now!

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Pseudoephedrine

#16
September 02, 2008, 05:42:34 PM
Blood Meridian by McCarthy, which I reread every year on my birthday since I discovered the book.
Catch-22 by Heller
The Iliad (if it counts as a novel) by Homer
The Odyssey
VALIS by Dick
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Dick
Labyrinths by Borges
The Book of the New Sun by Wolfe
If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Calvino
The Baron in the Trees by Calvino, which I lent to a very pretty girl and never got back
Mason and Dixon by Pynchon
Don Quixote by Cervantes
The Name of the Rose by Eco
Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
Moby Dick by Melville
The Collected Short Stories of Poe
The Collected Short Stories of Kafka
Running
The Pernicious Light, or The Wreckers of Sword Island;
A Goblin\'s Progress, or Of Cannons and Canons;
An Oration on the Dignity of Tash, or On the Elves and Their Lies
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wulfgar

#17
September 02, 2008, 06:00:39 PM
QuoteHow is Treasure Island not a novel?

I could be mistaken, but I don't think it's long enough.

Edit:Well, according to my quick internet research, I was mistaken.  Novel it is.
 

Aos

#18
September 02, 2008, 08:15:14 PM
Okay, cool, thought I was going goofy or something.
You are posting in a troll thread.

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Werekoala

#19
September 02, 2008, 09:12:39 PM
Alas, Bablyon; Pat Frank (probably my #1 book of all time, I'm sure I've read it a dozen times or more)
Ringworld; Larry Niven
Ringworld Engineers; Larry Niven
Inferno; Niven and Jerry Pournelle
1984; George Orwell
Atlas Shrugged; Ayn Rand
A Tale of Two Cities; Charles Dickens
Childhood's End; Arthur C. Clarke
Red Storm Rising; Tom Clancy
Starship Troopers; Robert Heinlein

Yep, pretty sure I could get by nicely with just those on a desert island.
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NotYourMonkey

#20
September 03, 2008, 02:47:44 PM
In no particular order, and subject to change without notice.

The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
A Game of Thrones George R.R. Martin
Wizard in Glass Stephen King
Dead Beat Jim Butcher
A Dirty Job Christopher Moore
Shogun James Clavell
The Return of the King Tolkien
Faded Suns C.J. Cherryh (dated as hell, but very good)
Green Angel Tour Tad Williams
AKA Anubis-scales.

One Horse Town

#21
September 03, 2008, 03:21:39 PM
Impossible, but i'll put down books that i was unable to put down on first reading and read all in one go - i'm a slow reader, so some of these literally took me close to 24 hours to read in 1 sitting. :)

Magician by Raymond Feist - the smell of the book is unlike any other i have ever owned (wierd glue binding, i guess). Just smelling it reminds me of the day i spent reading it that first time.

Mission by Patrick Tilley - read whilst i had a savage bout of the flu. Haven't read it since that first time in 1993. I will soon.

House on the Borderlands by William Hope Hodgeson. I read this on a very wild and windy October night and it's stuck with me ever since.

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Just got it's hooks into me and didn't let go. It was my brother's leatherbound copy and the smell of leather reminds me of Dickens.

Legend by David Gemmel. The first and best of his books (IMO) when the themes he explored where fresh and new, instead of rehashed. It breathed new life into fantasy novels for me.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. I live in the town where Percy Shelley lived, so it resonated with me. The fact that it was thundering when i first read it helped.

Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake. This did take me close to 24 hours. Very Dickensian, dense writing. Totally spellbinding.

Magicians Gambit by David Eddings. Yep, i read it in 1 sitting. Haven't revisited Mr.Eddings work since i was about 18 or so, so i have no idea how it stands up now that i'm all growd up.

The Time of The Dark by Barbara Hambly. Maybe even still my favourite fantasy novel. I read the series that this book starts regularly and still like this opener the best.

The Thousand Nights and One Night translated by Madras & Mathers. This is one of my prized possessions. A rare anthology of the complete English translation in 3 volumes. This breaks my read in 1 sitting rule, but i love to take one of these volumes from their slip-case from time to time and read something that is different from my experience and if i'm snobish about it, represents my only collectors piece.
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