Your Top Five Fiction Books of All Time

[plagiarism]

[quote][i]Originally posted by WolverineSyr[/i]
<br>I got a copy of Lucifer's Hammer for christmas. I love post-apocalyptic stuff, so I'm looking forward to reading it.

Has anyone read The Road by Cormac McCarthy? Similar vein - it sounds good!
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[i]Lucifer's Hammer[/i] is a classic. Now, if only the writers of Jericho had a quarter of the talent as Niven/Pournelle. [V]

[WolverineSyr]

Thanks plagiarism! I think reading Jericho message boards is what tipped me off to Lucifer's Hammer.

I read an extended reveiw of The Road last night & although I love the concept, I don't think I'm in the right place to read it at the moment. I'm not into overly bleak, hopeless stuff right now.

[Otters Walk Among Us]

[quote][i]Originally posted by plagiarism[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by WolverineSyr[/i]
<br>I got a copy of Lucifer's Hammer for christmas. I love post-apocalyptic stuff, so I'm looking forward to reading it.

Has anyone read The Road by Cormac McCarthy? Similar vein - it sounds good!
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[i]Lucifer's Hammer[/i] is a classic. Now, if only the writers of Jericho had a quarter of the talent as Niven/Pournelle. [V]
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I second the Lucifer's Hammer recommendation. Earth Abides is another enjoyable post-apocalyptic story.

[KYYX4ever]

[quote][i]Originally posted by XXX[/i]
<br><p align="justify">I never cease to be surprised whenever I see a Garcia Marquez book listed. I read [i]One Hundred Years Of Solitude[/i] way back in sophomore year for an independent project in English and at the time I thought how a lot of it might not translate well into English - either the language itself or the situations presented might seem [i]too[/i] foreign for non-Spanish speakers/non-Hispanics, mainly because I related to the book and I could think back to my own family back in Latin America and how a lot of what's mentioned in the book reflected all of them[:0] The next year I read Gunther Grass's [i]The Tin Drum[/i] and that book struck me as very much in tune with the style of Garcia Marquez, except this time around it's set in Germany.
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Heck yes, I love this guy's style of writing. [i]Hundred Years[/i] is just beautiful. I think the translation really works...that whole "Mythical realism" thing is amazing. [i]Love in the Time of Cholera[/i] is also one of my faves. His dense, richly layered writing never ceases to amaze me. His short stories are pretty cool, too ("A Very Old man With Enormous Wings", for example.)

[randy]

Dont really have a top 5, but a few of my favorites:

Steven King--Salems Lot and The Stand
Skipp and Spector--The Light at the End ( a great vampire epic if you are into vampires)
Tolkien-Rings trilogy
Anne Rice--Interview With The Vampire and The Vampire Lestat--books after that left me a little dry
Robert Mayer--Super Folks[:o)]--try it--you'll like it.

and in comic book form--check out Alan Moore's Watchman--originally a 12 issue series years back that I still treasure--all were combined in one volume--trust me on this one also--you'll like it!!

[coop41]

[quote][i]Originally posted by hexicon[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by coop41[/i]
<br>1. American Psycho- Bret Easton Ellis- twisted and wrong and nearly ruined for me by a movie that was horrible


2. End Of Alice- A.M. Homes - another sick story by my favorite author

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Ew! Ew! Ew! [xx(][xx(]

I was about to say, "Coop, you are one sick fuck," but in the spirit of the season I'll change that to "Gee, we have very different tastes in literature, don't we?" [:D]

I am 100% anti-censorship but if I were on a library board or similar, I would be very torn about "Alice."

Ah well, different strokes.

P.S. Don't tell Philly what this book is about.[;)]
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Wow! thanks for the kind words [:D] [:D] [:D]

Actually, philly and I share the same feelings on the matter.
I realize, with the choices above, some may get the wrong idea about me!!!

I think the fact "Alice" was written by a woman changes the perspective completely and her writing style, particularly here, is compelling.



Here are some reviews on End Of Alice:

"A. M. Homes has attempted to write a kind of updated version of 'Lolita', borrowing from Nabokov superficial motifs, images, and narrative strategies. The novel she has written, however, has nothing else in common with 'Lolita' and everything in common with Nabokov's definition of modern pornography, namely, a lubricious and single-minded pursuit of sensationalism and sensation."
New York Times Book Review - Michiko Kakutani (02/23/1996)
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"'Alice' cannot be tossed off as another 'American Psycho.'...Homes shows a knack for intertwining two characters' pathologies."
Time - Ginia Bellafante
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"A literary serial-killer novel, by turns sensational and clever, smutty and powerful...a lurid but weirdly arch page-turner."
King

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Now, American Psycho, .....I guess I am sick![xx(][xx(]

[Horrorgrrl]

[quote][i]Originally posted by WolverineSyr[/i]
<br>I got a copy of Lucifer's Hammer for christmas. I love post-apocalyptic stuff, so I'm looking forward to reading it.

Has anyone read The Road by Cormac McCarthy? Similar vein - it sounds good!
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Lucifer's Hammer rocks Wolvie! I enjoyed it immensely.

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[Horrorgrrl]

There are some really great books included in these lists. However, as I perused the thread and began to think of some of my favorites, I was transported back to my youth as that is when I most definitely did most of my reading. I still read, but unfortunately do not have as much time to devote to the pasttime as I once had. I was a real lover of animals in my youth - still am to some extent - and it was those stories that really were my favorites from the heart, and - as I realized while reading this thread - still are. Here is my list of iconic favorites from my youth and beyond:

The Call Of The Wild - Jack London
White Fang - Jack London
Island Of The Blue Dolphins - Scott O'Dell
Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
Wild Animals I Have Known - Ernest Thompson Seton (just re-read this again earlier this year - and the stories within STILL bring me to tears)

I have many other favorites as well - Stephen King's "The Stand", Ann Rice's "Witching Hour" series, pretty much everything by Clive Barker, Heinlein's "Stranger In A Strange Land", Tom Robbin's "Still Life With Woodpecker" & "Another Roadside Attraction", John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederacy Of Dunces", Pirsig's "Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance", Joseph Heller's "Catch-22", most everything by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., etc...

I see Brett Easton Ellis mentioned a few times. I have lately been on an Ellis kick - having recently read "Less Than Zero", "The Rules Of Attraction" and am now deep into "American Psycho". I can't really decide if I like him as much as I anticipated. I have seen all three movie adaptations - and as much as they are different from the books (with "Less Than Zero" strikingly so) - I still love them all. The books I'm warming more slowly to. I will say "American Psycho" has had me laughing out loud more than once - it is damned funny.

A couple of my recent favorite reads have been Clive Barker's "Coldheart Canyon" and the first two offerings in Dean Koontz's Frankenstein series - "Prodigal Son" & "City Of Night". The third in the trilogy is still in the works.

There you have it![8D]



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[empyrean]

Im always intrigued by Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. I wonder why Khomeini ordered the death of Rushdie because of this book.

Anyone who read this?? [:D]

[NuWaveRx]

[quote][i]Originally posted by WolverineSyr[/i]
<br>I read an extended reveiw of The Road last night & although I love the concept, I don't think I'm in the right place to read it at the moment. I'm not into overly bleak, hopeless stuff right now.
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I got a copy of The Road for X-mas, Wolvie and I'm about 100 pages into it. I can tell you two things so far:

1.The author writes in an incredibly flowery prose style, which (to me, anyway) gets a little irritating after awhile.

2.This is one of the most depressing books I have ever read. It goes beyond bleak into DARK. What keeps me reading it is the relationship between the man and his son. I suppose if anyone made Testiment into a book it would be like this.

Some great lists here everyone--I'm planning to check several of these out.

[DonGately]

I tried reading The Road about a month ago. Couldn't get into it, mainly because I get irritated with the author's style. No quotation marks? Ok, I can live with that. Sets the tone. Now, why is he sometimes dropping apostrophes and sometimes not? I don't know. I found all of these little touches distracting and set it aside. Maybe I'll try it again later.

[WolverineSyr]

The review I read said that he's a difficult author. I understand his style is very biblical & that he tries to emmulate some of that as a style.