Best Fiction Book You've Ever Read

[AdvExtreamer]

I can't read. In fact, I don't even know how I'm typing this sentence. If I could read, these would be my favorites, in no particular order:

The Brothers Karamazov, Crime & Punishment, Notes from the Underground (and most Dostoyevsky)
The Magic Mountain, Buddenbrooks (Thomas Mann)
Steppenwolf (Herman Hesse)
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Nietzsche)
American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses (James Joyce)

My guilty pleasure reading is Tom Clancy.

The Stranger was messed up. the guy just needed to be diagnosed with a psych disease.

 

[TrinoHo]

count of monte cristo seemed like it was drawned out for a very long time, but yearh, it was good

I had that experience with the count too, but then after it was done it was like ahh... im done

 

[mpbiz]

Loved these when I was younger..

 

[cougarclaws]

- The Fountainhead

plus 1

also, just learned that option+space word filters to GAY.

GAYGAYGAYGAYGAYGAYGAY

 

[guerilla]

Economics by Paul Samuelson. Kidding.

I chuckled.

A few that haven't been mentioned:

Neuromancer - William Gibson

Dune - Frank Herbert

mostly sci-fi and fantasy

<3

Dune is probably the most epic scifi ever written. Neuromancer is obviously legendary.

I'm also partial to "The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson.

 

[creativepart]

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Lonesome Dove

Great fiction.

 

[seiux]

anything by michael crichton pretty much, or jaws

 

[Lucidity]

A Song of Ice and Fire, George R R Martin. Fucker better stop worrying about the HBO pilot and start finishing the series.

I seriously have not been able to get into another work of written fiction since I finished the last book almost 2 years ago.

 

[macandongo]

The Giver by Lois Lowry
the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

both badass books

 

[xtacx]

lol

why read fiction when nonfiction is so fucking entertaining, read 'too big to fail'

 

[Rusky]

Speaking for my mother land.

 

[PhillipMarlow]

 

[veneficus]

Oups, forgot about chuck palahniuk, and M Chrichton. A lot of Stephen King Too, If you guys like fantasy(my fav) check out bartimeus by jonathan stroud, guarantee you get hooked in 1 chapter. And i'm not going to lie, i read the davinci code in like 1 hour too.

 

[-God-]

Hahahaha!!

The Godfather novel.

I was weighing up what book I think is best, and this is definitely a superb book and in the upper echelons of my reading chart!

I couldn't pick a "favourite" but Kolymsky Heights by Lionel Davidson and The Firm by John Grisham are up there. As well as The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson and countless Frederick Forsyth books.

The Stranger (Albert Camus)

My guilty pleasure reading is Tom Clancy.

Got to love a bit of Clancy! And The Stranger/The Outsider is a very, very good book - forgot about that!

 

[SkyFire]

The Mysterious Island

 

[jhansen]

Catch 22

 

[amfire]

The Giver

 

[jeanpaul1979]

Sphere

 

[papajohn56]

The Stranger was messed up. the guy just needed to be diagnosed with a psych disease.

Why? Not a fan of existentialism with early-absurdism? I killed him because the sun was in my eyes.

Also I'm happy this isn't just a modern war-fiction circlejerk.

 

[Yodaheim]

I just re read "Fup" by Jim Dodge again. Simple little story, you'll get through it in about an hour but I love it! Kinda Jonathan Livingstone Seagullish in a twisted sort of way.