Favourite novel ever?

[Immenseman]

What is your favourite piece of literature? :)

[Lost]

Favourite novel? omg... um, loads. One that I have just finished... Angels&Demons D: I don't know I'd need time to think.

[Immenseman]

I didn't mean to write novel; just literary writing in general. My favourite has to be George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Ever since I've read it I see references popping up everywhere and it taught me where the name Big Brother came from, haha.

[LoveToStack]

I didn't mean to write novel; just literary writing in general. My favourite has to be George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Ever since I've read it I see references popping up everywhere and it taught me where the name Big Brother came from, haha.

Ye that's a really good book. The Third Man by Graham Greene is really good if you get a chance to read it, not a long novel but good nonetheless.

[Neversoft]

Eden: It's an Endless World! if you want to count that. It may be a graphic novel, but the writing is superb. The story is greatly based on Gnostic mythology, and although it is a science fiction piece set in the near future, it is incredibly realistic and in my opinion not at all fictional. I can imagine the events told in Eden actually happening. I consider it a work of art, and one of the best written books I have ever come across.

I haven't read a novel in a long while, but a book that left quite a big impression on me was The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. I read it about five years ago now, but I still remember how amazing it was. I couldn't put it down. Definitely recommended.

[Immenseman]

My other favourites are: Tess of the d'Ubervilles, The Collector, A Clockwork Orange and Brave New World. I like novels portraying a dystopia.

[Inseriousity.]

Very cliché Harry Potter. I've read that book too Neversoft about the autistic boy trying to solve the murder of the dog. I agree with you, it was better than it sounds! :D

Erm... I generally like murder mysteries, preferably the cop ones than the forensic one but I've never been bothered. If it has a good first page, I'm likely to read it :P

[,Jess,]

I didn't mean to write novel; just literary writing in general. My favourite has to be George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Ever since I've read it I see references popping up everywhere and it taught me where the name Big Brother came from, haha.

I really disliked Nineteen Eighty-Four when I read it, I don't think the book itself was great maybe just the idea behind it. My favourite has to be anything by Stephen King, The Running Man and Pet Sematary.

[Immenseman]

I haven't read a novel in a long while, but a book that left quite a big impression on me was The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. I read it about five years ago now, but I still remember how amazing it was. I couldn't put it down. Definitely recommended.


Very cliché Harry Potter. I've read that book too Neversoft about the autistic boy trying to solve the murder of the dog. I agree with you, it was better than it sounds! :D

Erm... I generally like murder mysteries, preferably the cop ones than the forensic one but I've never been bothered. If it has a good first page, I'm likely to read it :P

Yeah, I've read that too. Like Neversoft, it was ages ago. I vaguely remember him finding out his Dad killed a dog, or something like that, lol.

@ jess; We read it for our AS literature course. Interestingly, none of the girls liked it much, not as much as the boys anyway. I just think it's a brilliant piece of writing and very intelligently written by Orwell.

[Catzsy]

That's a hard one! I do like russian literature in particular Dostoevsky.
His 'Crime and Punishment' is a masterpiece. On the lighter side I like Fay Weldon.
Her books are always meaty with some nice sarcastic humour.

[Stephen!]

His Dark Materials trilogy.

[LoveToStack]

His Dark Materials trilogy.

I still haven't read the Amber spyglass, love those books though. :D

[FlyingJesus]

Roger Zelazny's "Lord of Light" hands down. He is frankly the best author I've ever come across, no-one I've read since has wowed me properly

[Scotesh]

1984 is an amazing book.
I'd have to say either Wild Swans or Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee.
Both are incredibly written and are particularly to my taste as they are both linked closely to history. Another book would be Memoirs Of A Geisha - a book that the film absolutely destroyed.

[Immenseman]

1984 is an amazing book.
I'd have to say either Wild Swans or Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee.
Both are incredibly written and are particularly to my taste as they are both linked closely to history. Another book would be Memoirs Of A Geisha - a book that the film absolutely destroyed.
Yeah, it's not often you're forced to read a book in college and you learn to love it but that's happened to me with all the books I've read on my course. Oryx and Crake, 1984, Tess of the d'Ubervilles and Brave New World. :)

[FlyingJesus]

I was made to read Spies by Michael Frayn at college.. worst book I've ever read I think. Even the teacher hated it

[VelvetClover]

I didn't mean to write novel; just literary writing in general. My favourite has to be George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Ever since I've read it I see references popping up everywhere and it taught me where the name Big Brother came from, haha.

I've read Nineteen Eighty Four...almost lol I got really far to the end and just gave up but the storyline was really good, Orwell's an amazing writer. The part where the character, (I've forgotten his name) goes into room 101 - ooer lol

Animal Farm by George Orwell is really good as well.

My favourite novel would probably have to be Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck. Ever since I read it at school I've loved it and the ending is so sad.

[jackass]

1984 was pretty good I thought, and it is a great perception of what life is now.

2001: A Space Odyssey was also amazing, yet incredibly confused and hard to perceive the exact meaning of the book.

[e5]

I don't really read, but I really enjoyed 'Good Night Mr Tom' along with the film :).

[Special]

I really enjoyed "The curious incident of the dog in the night time"

It's a really good book about a child with a disability who lives with his dad (he is told his mum is dead), then later on he find's out his mum is alive and goes in search of her.

It's really good you should read it

[Immenseman]

Of mice and men is a good novel, over-rated in my opinion though.

Jarvis, I think I have read it. It was mentioned on page 1 was it not?

[MJJ]

I don't think I could choose, but the one I'm reading right now is really good. It's called The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan.

[Kardan]

*Sigh* I feel so... dumb... when reaing this thread since I never really read. The only books I've really read are the Dark Materials triology, the Alex Rider series and the Harry Potter series, and rather predictably Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was the best book out of them all...

I really should get round to reading...

[buttons]

*Sigh* I feel so... dumb... when reaing this thread since I never really read. The only books I've really read our the Dark Materials triology, the Alex Rider series and the Harry Potter series, and rather predictably Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was the best book out of them all...

I really should get round to reading...
Yeah same just because of the way it all comes together really cleverly in Deathly Hallows.
My other favourite is "A child called 'IT'" it's so so sad.

[VelvetClover]

I really enjoyed "The curious incident of the dog in the night time"

It's a really good book about a child with a disability who lives with his dad (he is told his mum is dead), then later on he find's out his mum is alive and goes in search of her.

It's really good you should read it

I've read that, it's quite a good story. The first person dialogue of the boy with Asperger's or whatever he had was really believable. You could tell the author had researched or had knowledge of the condition to be able to write about it so convincingly.

[Grig]

That's a hard one! I do like russian literature in particular Dostoevsky.
His 'Crime and Punishment' is a masterpiece. On the lighter side I like Fay Weldon.
Her books are always meaty with some nice sarcastic humour.

Being originally from Russia, I was able to read the original. I must agree 'Crime and Punishment' is reallt thrilling, about Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, the protagonist. Superb read.

[Immenseman]

Yeah same just because of the way it all comes together really cleverly in Deathly Hallows.
My other favourite is "A child called 'IT'" it's so so sad.
yeah i've read that :( skye loves those sort of books :P

*Sigh* I feel so... dumb... when reaing this thread since I never really read. The only books I've really read are the Dark Materials triology, the Alex Rider series and the Harry Potter series, and rather predictably Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was the best book out of them all...

I really should get round to reading...
i thought i was the only one that read alex rider!!

[Fez]

"The Last Book in the Universe" by Rodman Philbrick

Well written, brilliant plot and possibly the most original characters ever created. Has not just the black and whites of the morality of the dark future, it really does shine.

[Mrs.McCall]

Catcher in the Rye
Color Purple
Scarlet Letter
Of Mice and Men
Honour Amongst Thieves
Lincoln Lawyer

All very good books. My favourite books are autobiographies though. :P

[le harry]

I'd have to say A Clockwork Orange, Brave New World or The Name of the Rose. I enjoyed the first two more in terms of entertainment but The Name of the Rose just simple amazed me, it's so brilliantly written.

[LuketheDuke]

Trainspotting, Catcher in the Rye, Birdsong, Couples, Misery, Adrian Mole series are among some of my faves.

Nothing wrong with some Harry Potter either!!

[Immenseman]

I'd have to say A Clockwork Orange, Brave New World or The Name of the Rose. I enjoyed the first two more in terms of entertainment but The Name of the Rose just simple amazed me, it's so brilliantly written.
Yeah, I've read both of them this year, enjoyed them a lot. Even did my Literature coursework on the latter.