Best Fiction Book You've Ever Read



I have stopped reading "modern" fiction altogether - they all seem lackluster in quality. My 3 favorites that I can read over and over again without getting bored...

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Childhood's end, but I read it like 10 years ago. It's been a while since I read fiction.

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Didn't think much of 1984.
 
I can't believe you fags haven't mentioned the Hitchikers Guide series. Fuck you all.

+ 1/2 for the Enders game saga... If that ever gets made into a movie it will be the next and final movie I see in the theater.
 
I read so many books, I don't even pay any attention to titles really, just authors.

For fiction I roll with guys like Douglas Adams, classic Asimov, any John D. Macdonald, Frank Herbert, Orson Card...Love the Lee Child and Vince Flynn series of toughguy shit, etc.

It's impossible to pick a favorite. With a gun to my head, I would prolly say "Bill The Galactic Hero" by Harry Harrison.

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Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail

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+ 1/2 for Bill the Galactic Hero, too... A boyhood favorite of mine up until I discovered hitchikers.

If you can suspend your disbelief (when he did shit like hide small, working hand grenades in his short hair in order to pass a strip-seach) then Bill put out the most incredible excitement per page of any series I've ever read.

...If you want realism, go with Uncle Scott. (Card) I even took a writing class from him back when I stupidly wanted to be a writer... That man knows how to weave one hell of a story.
 
LOL - I teach or have taught about half of the ones mentioned so far. My list is too long to organize right now, but I'm anxiously waiting to see the cast of the Hunger Games come out - they are planning the movie now. It had better be awesome or I'll be furious...
 
InternetAuthor said:
LOL - I teach or have taught about half of the ones mentioned so far. My list is too long to organize right now, but I'm anxiously waiting to see the cast of the Hunger Games come out - they are planning the movie now. It had better be awesome or I'll be furious...
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I won't see it no matter how good people say it is.

A few that haven't been mentioned:

Neuromancer - William Gibson
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haroki Murakami
Winter's Tale - Mark Helprin
Golden Compass - Philip Pullman
Dune - Frank Herbert
Dreamcatcher - King
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K Dick
A Wrinkle In Time - Madeline L'Engle
Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There - Lewis Carroll
Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman

mostly sci-fi and fantasy
 
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.
 
nvanprooyen said:
In the spirit of the thread about worst books ever read, figured I'd do the flip side of it. Keeping it to fiction for this one, probably will start another one about best business / marketing books.

I have 2 that immediately come to mind....

- The Fountainhead
- The Count of Monte Cristo
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count of monte cristo seemed like it was drawned out for a very long time, but yearh, it was good
 
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