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ashashash:
--- Quote from: ElectricPez on 06 Oct 2008, 01:35 ---Invisible Monsters by Chuch Palahniuk (arguably Palahniuk's greatest novel ever, and I only say arguably to avoid people bitching at me that blahblah was better)
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Agreed.
RobbieOC:
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again - David Foster Wallace
Maus - Art Spiegelman
Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud
The Last Battle - C.S. Lewis
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeline L'engle
Those are a few of my favorites. Right now I'm working on V. by Thomas Pynchon, and I'm enjoying it quite a bit.
MysticalChicken:
Huh, seems I haven't posted in here yet.
Some of my favorites:
The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Assassination Vacation, and Take the Cannoli by Sarah Vowell: The Partly Cloudy Patriot is my favorite book. It's hilarious and makes my heart swell with joy. I've read it three times and every single time I get absorbed in it to the point where I'm staying up till almost sunrise reading it and then it's like oh hey I should probably go to sleep or something huh. Upon finishing it I went out the very next day to buy Assassination Vacation. I think Vowell is my current favorite author, as well. I'm planning on buying her new book, The Wordy Shipmates.
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger: Was my favorite book before I read The Partly Cloudy Patriot. And yes, before anyone asks, I do also like Catcher in the Rye.
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett: I think I've read this maybe four or five times. In my head, Crowley looks like John Leguizamo only with a British accent. I also have American Gods but I've only read it once. I do like it though.
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire: I got this for Christmas 2004, could not put it down, and had it finished by the evening of December 26th. It's 406 pages long, not including reader's guide. I've read it four times.
I also own about 80% of everything L.M. Montgomery ever wrote; I've been a fan of hers since I was nine years old. Emily trilogy is my favorite. Ilse Burnley is my most favorite literary character ever (I even named my character in my Animal Crossing: Wild World game after her).
That's all I can think of right off hand.
onewheelwizzard:
I'm really happy that someone mentioned Tom Robbins, but it sucks that ONLY one person mentioned Tom Robbins. He is easily one of the best writers currently working in the English language today, or in fact for the past half-century.
I would rank his books in about the following order:
Skinny Legs and All
Jitterbug Perfume
Another Roadside Attraction
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Still Life With Woodpecker
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
Villa Incognito
He's the kind of author that can change your life, if you let him. I highly recommend it.
rainbowsandumbrellas:
Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston. It is one of my favorite books EVER.
Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, it is just an epic book for me. i cried when i was eight because my mother would not let me read it. But then i read it in secret. And loved it.
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