Favorite Novel

**Soulforged** · 09-24-2005, 01:18

"O alquimista" by Paulo Coelho ("The alchemist")

**RabidGibbon** · 09-24-2005, 03:10

The most meaningful novel I've ever read is "Animal Farm" by Orwell - Its Anti Communist by the way - 1984 was great too - however I greatly enjoyed Bernard Cornwells "The Winter King" Series (Bernard Cornwell wrote the Sharpe books, and trust me the Winter King ones are better).

For fight scenes and sheer drama & plot twists George RR Martins a Song of Ice and Fire beats anything however.

Jane Austen deserves a mention too - I loved all her books and I've read them all.

I also Loved the Sandman series by Neil Gaiman - but they were comics not Novels, but if anyone here has ever read them I'm sure they'll agree with me they are fantastic.

Iain Banks deserves a mention too - In fact I think my favourite ever novel is Excession written by Iain M Banks - I reccomend it to all of you - I also recommend anything by Ian Banks or Neil Gaiman - they are the best English Authors writing today.

**Zalmoxis** · 09-24-2005, 03:18

Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich".

**Seamus Fermanagh** · 09-24-2005, 04:35

Hmmm....most of the fiction I read is trash/just for fun. Battletech, King's Blades, Cussler.

Stand Alones are tough. Here goes.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Twain/Clemens

The Number of the Beast -- Heinlein

Starship Troopers -- Heinlein

Steppenwolf -- Hesse

Don Quixote -- Cervantes

Seamus

**Ice** · 09-24-2005, 05:48

I like Animal Farm, To Kill a Mocking Bird (I really love this book), and A farewell to Arms.

I want to read "All Quiet on the Western Front" so bad. I wanted to do my Author' Paper Senior Project on it.. but it had to be an American Author

**Azi Tohak** · 09-24-2005, 05:49

Yeah Seamus! Another Battletech fan!

...moving on to real literature...

I have always had trouble reading fiction. Why read something like that when history can be even more interesting?

But for novels, I really like "Shadow of Ararat", "Vortex", "Exodus", most of the Redwall series are delightful (yes I know, childrens fantasy, but still, I have loved them for 14 years), both "Texas" and "Carribean" by Michener... I suppose I could go on, but my favorite recent one that I have read has to be "Carribean". No, I did not finish it (school), but still, I think it is superb.

Azi

**Reverend Joe** · 09-24-2005, 06:01

Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh

Steppenwolf -- Hesse

Steppenwolf? I thought they were a band.

You know, "The Pusher", "Born to be Wild"...

**Big_John** · 09-24-2005, 07:22

Originally Posted by meatwad

Steppenwolf? I thought they were a band.

You know, "The Pusher", "Born to be Wild"...

the novel is about the band..

**Mount Suribachi** · 09-24-2005, 08:30

Shouldn't this be in the frontroom? I try not to come into the backroom these days, and am always a bit miffed to find what would be interesting frontroom topics here.

**The_Doctor** · 09-24-2005, 09:47

Are the Battletech books goods?

Or why LOTR was a bad read.

It just went on and on and on and on.

**Mount Suribachi** · 09-24-2005, 11:22

Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube

But then we couldn't break out into a controversial discussion about Orwell's political views. Or why Dune is supposed to represent the Middle-East. Or why LOTR was a bad read.

But thats not happened