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Post by moviebuffbrad on Feb 20, 2017 4:39:14 GMT
Watchmen
Animal Farm
1984
Of Mice and Men
A Clockwork Orange
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Feb 22, 2017 1:37:34 GMT
The Brothers Karamazov
The Catcher in the Rye
Of Mice and Men
In Cold Blood
Slaughterhouse-Five
HM: The Blood Meridian, A Fan's Notes
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Post by forksforest on Feb 24, 2017 1:24:41 GMT
Gone with the Wind
Wicked
A Time for Dancing
Brave New World
To Kill a Mockingbird
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Post by cheesecake on Feb 26, 2017 3:52:09 GMT
The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
11/22/63, Stephen King
Torso, Brian Michael Bendis
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
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Post by moiestatz on Feb 26, 2017 8:52:01 GMT
1. Brideshead Revisited
2. Vellum: The Book of All Hours
3. To the Lighthouse
4. Madame Bovary
5. The Catcher in the Rye
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Post by ibbi on Feb 26, 2017 10:44:41 GMT
Blood Meridian
The Executioner's Song
The Grapes of Wrath
Les Miserables
One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Post by countjohn on Mar 27, 2017 5:22:35 GMT
I'll give you ten
1984
To Kill a Mockingbird
Animal Farm
A Farewell to Arms
Catch-22
Wuthering Heights
We
In Cold Blood
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Mar 27, 2017 5:47:15 GMT
The Great Gatsby
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Fahrenheit 451
Animal Farm
A Clockwork Orange
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Post by Martin Stett on Mar 28, 2017 19:26:26 GMT
I tried posting descriptions of why I loved each book, but my connection was lost and all of it was eaten.
1. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
2. The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
3. Watership Down by Richard Adams
4. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
5. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Not a strict order, and there are many novels that I could just as easily swap in here.
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Post by DingoMatty on Mar 29, 2017 4:46:02 GMT
1. Cloudstreet by Tim Winton 2. The Color Purple by Alice Walker 3. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (And What Alice Found There) by Lewis Carroll 4. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 5. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky |
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Post by jimmalone on Jun 6, 2017 13:20:05 GMT
It's pretty impossible to make a definite Top 5 for me, so I'll make just a list of Five of my absolute favorites:
Memory, Sorrow and Thorn by Tad Williams
The Lord of the Rings by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Le Comte de Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
La Sombra del Viento by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
HM: Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, Il Pendolo di Foucault by Umberto Eco (okay, I'll stop now)
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Post by bob-coppola on Jun 18, 2017 23:20:02 GMT
1. The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath
2. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick)
3. Orlando (Virginia Woolf)
4. 1984 (George Orwell)
5. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (Haruki Murakami)
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Post by pickpocket on Jun 30, 2017 3:29:26 GMT
1984, George Orwell
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
The Easter Parade, Richard Yates
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2017 17:44:29 GMT
1. The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath) I recently read this over the weekend, and it immediately made my Top 10. Stunning piece of work. |
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Jul 2, 2017 17:24:58 GMT
One of my Top 5 favorites as well!! Read it a couple years ago for a college class and haven't stopped thinking about it since. Very dense and intricately layered... but tremendously interestingly well-written. So many unforgettable quotes. Do you think an adaptation (miniseries or feature) would work? There's a wealth of material, characters, avenues. I think in the right hands (the wrong hands being...James Franco) it could be something special. Despite being one of the most complicated novels of his that I've read I would say it would likely be one of the easier to adapt by someone capable. It's not as splintered by such a diffusion of perspectives in a way that would be impossible to adapt like some of his stuff (sup Sound and the Fury). I think it's also filled with some of his most intricate, gorgeous imagery that would translate beautifully to the screen. Would love to see how Sutpen's decaying mansion would be realized. I wanted to chime in because I think you made a good point. Absalom, Absalom is a complex novel, but it struck me as far more suitable for film than other Faulkner novels such as Sound and the Fury or As I Lay Dying. Visually and plot-wise I think it would be easier to adapt. Light in August is another one that I think would have made a powerful, haunting film if done right. I really don't want to see novels like Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying adapted for the screen. The internal dialogue is too crucial to those novels. They just wouldn't be the same in another medium. |
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Jul 2, 2017 17:28:07 GMT
1. The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath) I recently read this over the weekend, and it immediately made my Top 10. Stunning piece of work. Unforgettable novel with a lasting impact. Plath was such a gifted writer! |
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Post by ingmarhepburn on Jul 2, 2017 19:02:22 GMT
In no particular order:
The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger
The Collected Poems of Alvaro de Campos, by Fernando Pessoa
The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, by Tennessee Williams
Others that I could choose if you asked me on any other day:
The Music of Chance, by Paul Auster
The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams
The Hours, by Michael Cunningham
The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Post by urbanpatrician on Aug 21, 2017 17:41:57 GMT
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Gargoyles by Thomas Bernhard
Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison
Runaway by Alice Munro
Currently at Lily of the Springs by Carole Bellacera, feels like all-time stuff. As of now, it's those 5.
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Post by clunkybob2 on Sept 17, 2017 23:37:34 GMT
Idk, but they're more obscure, more impressive, more patrician, and more pretentious than anything you cloud ever even dream of. Beware.
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Post by DeepArcher on Aug 14, 2018 17:28:25 GMT
Gonna give my list a much needed update.
Here's ten...in no particular order...
Watchmen, Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons.
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy.
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote.
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf.
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin.
American Pastoral, Philip Roth.
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut.
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner.
Catch-22, Joseph Heller.
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas.
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Post by Kings_Requiem on Aug 14, 2018 17:45:01 GMT
Some combination of...
Moneyball, Michael Lewis
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
Holes, Louis Sachar
Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Aug 14, 2018 18:29:27 GMT
THE HOUSE OF MIRTH
IN COLD BLOOD
THERESE RAQUIN
THE WINGS OF THE DOVE
THE GREEN MILE
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Post by chris3 on Sept 13, 2018 8:46:34 GMT
The Dark Tower: The Complete Series by Stephen King
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
A Song of Ice and Fire (books 1-5) by George R.R. Martin
It by Stephen King
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Dune Chronicles by Frank Herbert
From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Jun 17, 2019 14:24:32 GMT
This is tough, as I've never kept track of what I've read, so I know for sure I might be leaving something off, but I'll go with
1 It by Stephen King
2 American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
3 Pop. 1280 by Jim Thompson
4 A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
5 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré
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Post by TerryMontana on Jun 17, 2019 14:58:30 GMT
It
The Godfather
The Green Mile
Of Mice and Men
Rebecca
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