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re: What’s the best novel/book you’ve ever read?
Posted on 4/23/20 at 2:31 am to TDcline
Posted on 4/23/20 at 2:31 am to TDcline
Novel: Either Walker Percy's-Love In The Ruins or C.S. Lewis'-That Hideous Strength.
Just any book, maybe Shelby Foote's-The Civil War or William Alexander Percy's-Lanterns On The Levee.
There's just so many good well written books out there it's hard to do more than just express favorites.
Just any book, maybe Shelby Foote's-The Civil War or William Alexander Percy's-Lanterns On The Levee.
There's just so many good well written books out there it's hard to do more than just express favorites.
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Posted on 4/23/20 at 4:48 am to TDcline
The Stand
Posted on 4/23/20 at 11:50 am to Roaad
Mystic River
Posted on 4/23/20 at 11:07 pm to TDcline
Sometimes a Great Notion
Posted on 4/24/20 at 6:23 pm to DMagic
Fahrenheit 451
Was the book that really made me love reading.
Was the book that really made me love reading.
Posted on 4/25/20 at 10:57 am to TDcline
I'll do a top 4 in no order
Ada or Ardor, and Lolita- Nabokov
Suttree- Cormac McCarthy (That's just my personal favorite, though I love and have read all of his novels)
The Unlimited dream company- JG Ballard
Ada or Ardor, and Lolita- Nabokov
Suttree- Cormac McCarthy (That's just my personal favorite, though I love and have read all of his novels)
The Unlimited dream company- JG Ballard
This post was edited on 4/25/20 at 10:58 am
Posted on 4/25/20 at 11:11 am to TDcline
So many great gooks have been mentioned and I would love to list them also. A few I loved, in no order.
Lonesome Dove
Texasville
The Last Picture Show
The Evening Star
The Stand
The Green Mile
Christine
11/22/63
The old man and the sea
The Godfather
Pillars of the Earth
Eye of the Needle
The first 4-5 Ludlum Books
The first 4-5 Clive Cussler books
Hunt for Red October
For Whom the Bell Tolls
All of the "Spencer" novels (For Boston experience and dialogue)
So many others
Lonesome Dove
Texasville
The Last Picture Show
The Evening Star
The Stand
The Green Mile
Christine
11/22/63
The old man and the sea
The Godfather
Pillars of the Earth
Eye of the Needle
The first 4-5 Ludlum Books
The first 4-5 Clive Cussler books
Hunt for Red October
For Whom the Bell Tolls
All of the "Spencer" novels (For Boston experience and dialogue)
So many others
Posted on 4/25/20 at 1:53 pm to biglego
My opinion got downvoted. Tough crowd 
Posted on 4/30/20 at 7:58 am to biglego
Crime and Punishment
Loon Lake by E.L.Doctorow
Any Jim Harrison's novels, Julip is a favorite
Loon Lake by E.L.Doctorow
Any Jim Harrison's novels, Julip is a favorite
Posted on 4/30/20 at 10:15 pm to TDcline
Grendel may not be the best book, but it’s my favourite. It’s much better than the Beowulf epic.
Posted on 5/2/20 at 10:29 am to Tigris
Have you listened to the audiobook version of Infinite Jest? It's fantastic.
Posted on 5/6/20 at 9:42 pm to TDcline
quote:
For me it’s probably East of Eden
I would have to agree
Posted on 5/6/20 at 9:58 pm to TDcline
Foucault's Pendulum
Posted on 5/6/20 at 11:30 pm to TDcline
Hip shoot for a working Top 5:
The Great Gatsby
The Killer Angels
To Kill a Mockingbird
Brave New World
Catch-22
(ETA: I answered Killer Angels earlier in the thread,)
The Great Gatsby
The Killer Angels
To Kill a Mockingbird
Brave New World
Catch-22
(ETA: I answered Killer Angels earlier in the thread,
)This post was edited on 5/6/20 at 11:31 pm
Posted on 5/7/20 at 9:14 am to TDcline
I've read Catcher in the Rye 5 or 6 times over the last 10 years, absolutely love it.
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster is a group of three unrelated novellas, usually packaged as one novel, that I would recommend to everyone. Kinda trippy noir, very well written.
I really enjoyed The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and The Goldfinch among relatively recent award winners. Swamplandia! was a tough read but very memorable - kinda like a literary Stephen King novel.
For older stuff, Libra by DeLillo (I'm currently reading Underworld), For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway. My favorite classic is Candide by Voltaire.
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster is a group of three unrelated novellas, usually packaged as one novel, that I would recommend to everyone. Kinda trippy noir, very well written.
I really enjoyed The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and The Goldfinch among relatively recent award winners. Swamplandia! was a tough read but very memorable - kinda like a literary Stephen King novel.
For older stuff, Libra by DeLillo (I'm currently reading Underworld), For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway. My favorite classic is Candide by Voltaire.
This post was edited on 5/7/20 at 9:15 am
Posted on 5/7/20 at 3:57 pm to TDcline
The Count of Monte Cristo
Posted on 5/7/20 at 6:16 pm to Marciano1
Hard to tell where you are but It gets pretty interesting as the plot comes together, although it certainly is a laborious read. Looking back I appreciate it more now than when I was reading it. I always liked how F.D. characterizes humanity and also the insights into Russian culture. I’m looking start another if his books.
I read the same translation you did - Stick with it you won’t be sad you did!
I read the same translation you did - Stick with it you won’t be sad you did!
Posted on 5/10/20 at 8:31 pm to Muthsera
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Libra by DeLillo (I'm currently reading Underworld)
I read Underworld last year and enjoyed it more than anything in many years. After that I did White Noise on audiobook and liked it but not as much as Underworld. Libra is on my to do list for sure.
Posted on 5/10/20 at 8:33 pm to DLSWVA
quote:
Have you listened to the audiobook version of Infinite Jest? It's fantastic.
Yeah, I've got it and have listened on long drives and flights. It's a good way to get back into it, and I like it, but sometimes it really needs the footnotes. Some things in there are pretty important to the story.
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