MrV
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June 4th, 2012 at 8:12:22 PM permalink
My top three:

Albert Camus: "The Stranger"

John Kennedy Toole: "A Confederacy of Dunces"

Ovid Demaris: "The Boardwalk Jungle"
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June 4th, 2012 at 10:29:37 PM permalink
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June 6th, 2012 at 10:01:57 AM permalink
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Animal Farm, George Orwell
1984, George Orwell
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
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June 6th, 2012 at 10:08:53 AM permalink
My favorite book is the first book I remember reading...I was around 5 years old.

1) ANIMAL FARM BY GEORGE ORWELL

2) CANDIDE BY VOLTAIRE

3) WHORESON BY DONALD GOINES
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Nareed
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June 6th, 2012 at 10:09:12 AM permalink
Science Fiction:

The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
The Integral Trees/The Smoke Ring by Larry Niven
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
The Complete Paratime by H. Beam Piper
His Share of Glory collected stories by Cyrill Kornbluth
The Technomage Trilogy by Jeanne Cavelos
The Foutnains of Paradise by Arhtur C. Clarke
Friday by Robert Heinlen


Not science fiction:

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Roma Eterna by Robert Silverberg
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
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buzzpaff
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June 6th, 2012 at 10:32:31 AM permalink
Almost anything written by Lewis Lamour, Dick Francis, or Earl Stanley Gardner.
bigfoot66
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June 6th, 2012 at 11:08:20 AM permalink
Quote: Nareed

Friday by Robert Heinlen



I've only ever read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlen. Not into scifi, but I really enjoyed it. Is friday better?
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Nareed
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June 6th, 2012 at 11:20:13 AM permalink
Quote: bigfoot66

I've only ever read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlen.



I couldn't get past the mixed language vocabulary.

Quote:

Not into scifi, but I really enjoyed it. Is friday better?



I've read some other of his novels and short fiction. Friday was his last novel. Now, keep in mind we're talking of favorites. Friday refers to the title character, a young woman of that name. In many ways she's unpleasant or too maudlin at times, but overall I tend to identify with her. Besides she faces prejudice often, which resonates with me a bit.

For "best," though, as regards plot and characterization, I'd go with "The Door Into Summer."
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June 6th, 2012 at 11:33:25 AM permalink
My top, more or less in order:

1) Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
2) Underworld - Don DeLillo
3) Ulysses - James Joyce
4) Anything by Dostoyevsky
odiousgambit
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June 6th, 2012 at 12:30:07 PM permalink
Quote: Nareed

Science Fiction:

The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
The Integral Trees/The Smoke Ring by Larry Niven
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
The Complete Paratime by H. Beam Piper
His Share of Glory collected stories by Cyrill Kornbluth
The Technomage Trilogy by Jeanne Cavelos
The Foutnains of Paradise by Arhtur C. Clarke
Friday by Robert Heinlen


Not science fiction:

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Roma Eterna by Robert Silverberg
Cosmos by Carl Sagan



don't see Ray Bradbury, but he died the last day or so
the next time Dame Fortune toys with your heart, your soul and your wallet, raise your glass and praise her thus: “Thanks for nothing, you cold-hearted, evil, damnable, nefarious, low-life, malicious monster from Hell!”   She is, after all, stone deaf. ... Arnold Snyder
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June 6th, 2012 at 12:35:20 PM permalink
Quote: UP84

Anything by Dostoyevsky



concur, for me add anything by Hemingway, James Jones, some others that don't come to mind no doubt, and currently most anything on the Civil War....
the next time Dame Fortune toys with your heart, your soul and your wallet, raise your glass and praise her thus: “Thanks for nothing, you cold-hearted, evil, damnable, nefarious, low-life, malicious monster from Hell!”   She is, after all, stone deaf. ... Arnold Snyder
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June 6th, 2012 at 1:09:26 PM permalink
My top 2:

1-Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
2-Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
Nareed
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June 6th, 2012 at 1:27:45 PM permalink
Quote: odiousgambit

don't see Ray Bradbury, but he died the last day or so



And this is how I found out...

I liked some of his short stories, but what I've read of his novels left me cold. Even Farenheit 451, a classic, didn't have much of an impact on me. As Totalitarian Dystopians go, it falls far behind Anthem, 1984, Brave New World or even Niven's rather obscure World Out of Time.
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