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re: Best book of all time. GOAT BOOK?
Posted on 8/25/16 at 9:16 am to SuperSaint
Posted on 8/25/16 at 9:16 am to SuperSaint
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SuperSaint
Nice list.
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Posted on 8/25/16 at 9:17 am to chesty
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Count of monte cristo
Legitimate argument can be made for this.
Posted on 8/25/16 at 9:20 am to KRobinson
Faust
Posted on 8/25/16 at 9:22 am to KRobinson
The Stand
Posted on 8/25/16 at 9:28 am to KRobinson
Not sure there is a GOAT. But my list of nominees would include:
Slaughterhouse 5
Hamlet
The Road
For Whom the Bell Tolls
A Prayer for Owen Meany
1Q84
The People of the Book
Slaughterhouse 5
Hamlet
The Road
For Whom the Bell Tolls
A Prayer for Owen Meany
1Q84
The People of the Book
Posted on 8/25/16 at 9:29 am to Palo Gaucho
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The Stand
Probably mine.
A Wrinkle in Time was also one of the first books I recall loving. First "can't put it down" book I ever read. I guess I was 12?
Posted on 8/25/16 at 9:34 am to KRobinson
Personal Favorites
The 48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene
The Collectors - David Baldacci
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa - E.B. Sledge
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Clear and Present Danger - Tom Clancy
The Geneva Strategy - Robert Ludlum
Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling
Honorable Mentions
Flags of Our Fathers - James Bradley
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - John le Carré
The Odessa File - Frederick Forsyth
The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
The 48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene
The Collectors - David Baldacci
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa - E.B. Sledge
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Clear and Present Danger - Tom Clancy
The Geneva Strategy - Robert Ludlum
Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling
Honorable Mentions
Flags of Our Fathers - James Bradley
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - John le Carré
The Odessa File - Frederick Forsyth
The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
This post was edited on 8/25/16 at 9:42 am
Posted on 8/25/16 at 9:39 am to KRobinson
TKaM
Posted on 8/25/16 at 9:54 am to KRobinson
Best: The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
Worst: atlas shrugged, animal farm. It's a shame those right wing propaganda "novels" are actually required by some schools
Worst: atlas shrugged, animal farm. It's a shame those right wing propaganda "novels" are actually required by some schools
Posted on 8/25/16 at 10:04 am to TTsTowel
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Posted on 8/25/16 at 10:05 am to KRobinson
goosebumps as a whole
Posted on 8/25/16 at 10:15 am to KRobinson
Tossup between...
1632 by Eric Flint
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
....both barely edging out the Twilight series (too hard to choose just one)
1632 by Eric Flint
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
....both barely edging out the Twilight series (too hard to choose just one)
Posted on 8/25/16 at 10:17 am to KRobinson
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Hunger games.
I will be honest, I read the first one.. I wouldn't call it the GOAT.
Posted on 8/25/16 at 10:21 am to TulaneUVA
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Old man and the sea is terrible. A whole book that could have been condensed into 2 pages
Hemingway wasn't exactly known for being extremely "wordy". And it's not like the book was very long in the first place. I don't love The Old Man and the Sea, but come on.
Not saying it's the best ever at all, but the only book I keep going back to read every few years is The Catcher in the Rye.
Posted on 8/25/16 at 10:27 am to KRobinson
It may not be the GOAT, but Animal Farm is pretty damn relevant right now.
Posted on 8/25/16 at 10:28 am to KRobinson
House of Leaves, so unsettling.
Posted on 8/25/16 at 10:35 am to 911Moto
Browsing through these lists, I can't believe I have never read Catcher in the Rye or Confederacy of Dunces. 
I just ordered both on amazon.
...and Huckleberry Finn is the greatest piece of American literature.
I just ordered both on amazon. ...and Huckleberry Finn is the greatest piece of American literature.
Posted on 8/25/16 at 10:42 am to dnm3305
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It may not be the GOAT, but Animal Farm is pretty damn relevant right now.
When I read this in 4th grade I just thought it was a story about some animals. I read it again in college and it made sense..
Posted on 8/25/16 at 10:43 am to 911Moto
Catcher in the rye is good and when I was younger I know doubt related to Holden. But Confederacy of Dunces is absolutely great still and I just read it again earlier this year. It's like we all know someone like Ignitious in NOLA and the underbelly of the city is captured accurately as anyone could put it, but it's all wrapped up in a comedy.
Posted on 8/25/16 at 11:01 am to SuperSaint
I had no idea about the author's back story. Apparently he committed suicide, and his mother found the manuscript in his room and took it to a publisher. He received a posthumous Pulitzer.
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