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What's your favourite novel of all time?

I think Hardwired turned me into the weirdo I am today.

Still there are many novels that are superior to this one, but I'm a sentimental at heart.

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Sounds like a quote straight from BoingBoing.net ;)

Of course, Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum" has a choice place in my twisted ego as well! Read this book, you will understand EVERYTHING! It's the key (and the gate, ay ay ay yog sottoth .. uh, oh, sorry.)

edit: re read all the thread. Heinlein! Yay! Orwell! Yay! No one spoke of Animal farm, which IMNSHO should be included with every 1984 print edition. And Tolkien and Sir Arthur C Clark and ... and.. and... Kernighan & Richie!!!

Ah threads like these should be forbidden, each and everytime, it reminds me how little time I devote to reading these days :(
 
Eye in the Sky
by Philip K. Dick​

It is the only book that I've read more than three times (I've read it six times in the last 25 years :eek: ).
 
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Anyway it is e! by Matt Beaumont. not really a novel but is a good book.
 
fhqwhgads said:
wow, a buechner fan! one of my all-time favorite authors, and godric was definitely my favorite book for a long time.

right now, though, i think lolita by nabokov has that title. although it'll probably be something else again soon.

anyway. i so rarely meet people who have even heard of buechner, and i really think he's one of the best of his time--certainly his work has affected me profoundly. hooray, isaint!
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Wow, I haven't met many fans either. Many of my Episcopalian friends have read several of his books. His work is profound. Have you read his "Whistling in the Dark, a Doubter's Dictionary" and "Peculiar Treasures, a Biblical Who's Who?" So enlightening to have read something that to me frees the mind to think differently than the traditional biblical conservatism.

If you like Buechner's "Laughter," you'd like Christopher Moore's "Lamb."

There's a DVD out of a documentary of Buechner. I haven't seen it, but would love to.

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Yay for Lamb!
 
Artemis Fowl Hands down... All 5 including the new one ive read at least 10 times over.
 
Can't believe I left out:

The Wrinkle in Time.
I know I know, most people read this in middle school (me included), but it was something very special to me, something I would definitely read again even when I was older (high school through now).

The Dark is Rising (series). Considering that the book is set in winter-time, seems like a good time to read it yet again :)

John Bellairs - Any of his books, but particularly:
"The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt" (Johnny Dixon series)
"The Mansion in the Mist" (Anthony Monday series)

Haha, I have yet to name a "mature" book, so anything I mention is pure nostalgia :)
 
I'm not sure if I could pick a favourite but I've recently finished Hunter S. Thompsons's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and really enjoyed it. Great book.
 
Favorite Book

Hey all, I'm just about finshed with The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub, and I'm trying to decide on what to read next. Anyone have any suggestions of a favorite book of theirs? Maybe something fantasy/sci-fi but it really doesn't matter. Thanks!

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I just finished reading Disgrace by JM Coetzee. It's about post-apartheid South Africa. It certainly doesn't seem to fit in with the fantasty/sci-fi genre, but it really is an excellent book that provides great insight into a history that many of us don't know enough about.
 
I've got a couple - some are a bit cliches.

If you ever visit France - Read 'A Moveable Feast' by Hemingway. It's a great book and gives an insight into hemingway's years in Paris in the 1920's. I read the book while I was in Paris visiting and it made me fall more in love with the city. I visit Paris every summer.

Another one that completely changed my life is The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran. An excellent beautifully written piece about life by a famouse lebanese poet.

Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird.. It's about a girl growing up in the 1930's in the US. I read this because I was studying at law school, but still remains a classic. A real life-changer!! A must!

I've read so many books but can't remember them now so I will add some later.

Oh yeah JD Salinger A Cather in the Rye
 
Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand; virtually anything by Stephen Baxter (Manifold series, Destiny's Children series) or William Gibson (esp. Neuromancer and Pattern Recognition); The Songs of Distant Earth, Arthur C. Clarke; and The Light of Other Days, Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke.
 
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danidoll521 said:
I just finished reading Disgrace by JM Coetzee. It's about post-apartheid South Africa. It certainly doesn't seem to fit in with the fantasty/sci-fi genre...
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This was meant to be a list of favourite novels of any genre. It's not meant to be a sci-fi book list.
 
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