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Re: The best novel you have never read
« Reply #20 on: 07:03 PM | Tuesday, March 22, 2011 »
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Believe it or not, Anna Karenina was a lightning quick read for me. Totally absorbing novel. I'd read War and Peace in a heartbeat.
Surprised to see so many people moving on to other Conrad works... I guess everyone liked Heart of Darkness a lot more than I did... 
I had to read Heart Of Darkness in high school, I did not enjoy it very much either.
Can anyone pitch to me what Infinite Jest is about? Please 
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add me, always lookin for new friends
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Re: The best novel you have never read
« Reply #21 on: 07:03 PM | Tuesday, March 22, 2011 »
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Fight Club- Chuck Palahniuk
Rant- Chuck Palahniuk
LA Confidential- James Elroy
The Road- Cormac McCarthy
The Gunslinger-Stephen King
Failed to read title. I actually have read these. Uh sorry 
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Re: The best novel you have never read
« Reply #22 on: 03:03 AM | Wednesday, March 23, 2011 »
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There are lots of great books I have no real interest in reading (many Stephen King novels and literary classics fall into this category). This is the list of books I'd actually like to tackle some day:
Dune
The rest of the Song of Ice & Fire books (I've ONLY read A Game of Thrones)
No Country For Old Men
The Road
Gravity's Rainbow (based on Vince's review)
Neuromancer
All Tomorrow's Parties
Divine Comedy
Frankenstein
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Re: The best novel you have never read
« Reply #23 on: 12:03 PM | Wednesday, March 23, 2011 »
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David Copperfield
Money: A Suicide Note
Our Mutual Friend
The Tin Drum
And until recently Journey to the End of the Night, which was excellent!
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Re: The best novel you have never read
« Reply #24 on: 11:03 AM | Thursday, March 24, 2011 »
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Dragonlance
The Historian
The Shadow of the Wind
I'm sure there's more, but that's all that is coming to me.
I am reading The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, and that has been interesting so far...and could turn into one of the best novels I've read.
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« Reply #25 on: 12:03 AM | Sunday, March 27, 2011 »
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I'd like to give Miltons Paradise Lost ago one day.
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Mike Smith
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Re: The best novel you have never read
« Reply #26 on: 01:03 PM | Sunday, March 27, 2011 »
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War and Peace
Sound and the Fury
Anything by Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment
Les Miserables
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Matt H.O.W.L.
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Re: The best novel you have never read
« Reply #27 on: 05:03 PM | Wednesday, March 30, 2011 »
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Infinite Jest
I got about 400 pages in and got tennis elbow in the pleasure center of my brain.
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Alejandroh
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« Reply #28 on: 06:03 PM | Wednesday, March 30, 2011 »
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I got about 400 pages in and got tennis elbow in the pleasure center of my brain.
I almost picked Infinite Jest up at used bookstore this weekend, but decided against it, I don't know if I'm going to like it
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Strong is the force.
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Re: The best novel you have never read
« Reply #29 on: 07:03 PM | Wednesday, March 30, 2011 »
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Here's Times List of the 100 Best Novels. Great inspiration for books you really ought to have read
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Re: The best novel you have never read
« Reply #30 on: 07:03 PM | Wednesday, March 30, 2011 »
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is on there! As are books by Flann O'Brien ( At Swim-Two-Birds) and, of course, Hemingway.
Stick with us, we'll getcha there! 
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Re: The best novel you have never read
« Reply #31 on: 09:03 PM | Wednesday, March 30, 2011 »
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is on there! As are books by Flann O'Brien ( At Swim-Two-Birds) and, of course, Hemingway.
Stick with us, we'll getcha there!
I'm sorta counting on it!
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Re: The best novel you have never read
« Reply #32 on: 07:04 PM | Saturday, April 16, 2011 »
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Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions
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Matt H.O.W.L.
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Re: The best novel you have never read
« Reply #33 on: 08:04 PM | Saturday, April 16, 2011 »
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Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions
Fix that ASAP. 
The asterisk will never be the same.
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Re: The best novel you have never read
« Reply #34 on: 08:04 PM | Saturday, April 16, 2011 »
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Probably A Prayer for Owen Meany; I've read most of Irving's other books but for some reason with this one, I've never followed through and abandoned it at least three times.
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Re: The best novel you have never read
« Reply #35 on: 09:04 AM | Sunday, April 17, 2011 »
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Fix that ASAP.
The asterisk will never be the same.
Somehow, that's what everyone remembers after reading that book.
Jim
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Re: The best novel you have never read
« Reply #36 on: 10:04 AM | Sunday, April 17, 2011 »
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Somehow, that's what everyone remembers after reading that book.
Jim
I've read it several times and remember most of it, but I think he was a genius for using the graphic elements in there.
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« Reply #37 on: 08:04 AM | Monday, April 18, 2011 »
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Les Miserables (started, never finished)
A Clockwork Orange (been sitting on the shelf for years)
Naked Lunch
Gone with the Wind
Asimov's Foundation series
Emma
Gormenghast
Lyonesse
Watchmen
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