There comes a time when you have to stand up for something.

You have to make a goddamned choice. YOU. HAVE. TO. OWN. YOUR. OPINION.




So, anyways, what is the greatest book ever written? HUH?





NOTE : Books which may not be considered are religious scripture from any religion, medical or technical textbooks or manuals, or anything from the Twighlight series.



Go!

War and Peace.

Efan said:

That sounds kind of cool What's it about?

TheVoid said:

Well, there's the war part. And then there's the peace. Both are pretty good.

the tail of two cities.

Efan said:

I'll have to check it out. I like both.
As long as it's a quick read, no more than 200 pages or so, then I'm totally sold.

Some of my favorites:

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby
Henry and June - Anais Nin
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol - Andy Warhol
Smoke and Mirrors - Neil Gaiman (it's a collection of short works, you didn't specify it had to be a novel)


I could name lots more, but those are the first that come to mind.

myfavorite said:

it's about hookers isn't it?

'nuff said...

the underlying premise becomes more and more obvious as time progresses, especially if you watch the news regularly...

Green Eggs and Ham

The Great Gatsby

101 Uses For A Dead Cat.

HonestMan13 said:

I like the slippers and the pencil sharpener...

Efan said:

Of course, you know it was originally going to be titled War, What is it Good For. That's where the song comes from.

Krishnamurtis notebook

I don't know about *the* greatest, but some of my favorites include:

*Soul on Ice (Eldridge Cleaver)
*Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Dee Brown)
*The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
*This Side of Paradise (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
*Regarding the Pain of Others (Susan Sontag)
*The Drowned and the Saved (Primo Levi)
*Huis Clos (No Exit) (Sartre)
*The Gitagovinda (Jayadeva)
*Le Petit Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)


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RenHoek said:

Oh, yes.

I'm a little embarassed by how long I put off reading that, having misinterpreted the hype around it for the same kind that surrounds crap like The Secret. But once I did, I couldn't put it down. I must have read it over three times in a row.
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I'm sure I saw the movie for the first time before I was even old enough to form concrete memories, and have been watching it my entire life. The book I read for the first time when I was perhaps 11 or 12 and over the years I keep going back to it. The older I get and more life experience I have, the more I've been able to appreciate the subtle nuances and themes of the story. It's written off by a lot of people as just a fantasy book directed at a younger audience, but that's so wrong. Never have I ever encountered a story so aware of mortality and what it means to be a person than this one.

I've never read anything else like it.

N the cliche

Gone With The Wind!

Novel: War and Peace

Play: Hamlet

The older I get, the more I understand/relate to the stuff I read from both books. It doesn't hurt that both men have a wry sense of humor(which you don't hear much about in Malcolm's case).
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Mach said:

There's red eye, and then there's red eye...

I thought John Irving's "A Prayer for Owen Meany" for a while. Then, I read "Widow for One Year."


Then, I read Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins series....






Which leaves me at "The Count of Monte Cristo" for the win.

ThreadBare said:

I'm still on the look out for the unbridged version you told me about.

Harlepolis said:

i haven't written it
yet...

i don't know... leaves of grass?
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