Favourite novels and writers

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For those of you here who like reading, what/who are some of your favourite novels and/or authors?

Here are some of my favourite novels:

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
The Rum Diary - Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Hard Times - Charles Dickens
The Turning - Tim Winton
FIght Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemmingway
1984 - George Orwell
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The 33 Steps - John Buchan
My Name is Asher Lev - Chaim Potok
The Book of Ecclesiastes - King Solomon
The Screwtape Letters - C. S. Lewis
Metamorphosis and Other Stories - Franz Kafka

I've got a load of other books on the shelf that I'm keen to read when I get a chance as well.

[AlmostOz]

i love the whole series of books written by raymond e feist
amazing series of books, would take you a very long time to read them all, and they are all based around the same worlds

also peter f hamilton writes the most amazing books, the reality dysfunction is a book 'opera' its that big and written on such a huge scale.

in fact those are the only two series of books i ever read theres so many of them

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What sort of genre are those authors/novels?

The idea of a novel being an opera sounds cool - I like the idea of multi-modality. I reckon there should be more of it - not just with film directors deciding to do a movie of a particular book, but actual works that are intended to be multi-modal whereby the author has control over, or is engaged in the composing of their work into different forms (I suppose you could look at 'The Wall' by Pink Floyd being one example).

[sexberrie]

i read a really great book the other day called no one belongs here more than you by Miranda July, its a collection of short stories and i couldn't put it down:)
And Bliss by Peter Carey
If I am Missing or dead - Janine Latus
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

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sexberrie said:

Bliss by Peter Carey

That is another that I've read that I probably should have put on my list above. Read it quite some time ago - might have to give it another run sometime.

[sexberrie]

Yeah i loved it.
One of the first lines in it was really good,
like harry joy was forty years old and believed what he read in the newspapers.
and then theres that bit at the beginning when bettina is describing all the shit in her life and how much she hates everything and what a horrible person she was, and then its, she was surrounded by candles and pink tablecloths.
Peter Carey is so talented.

[AlmostOz]

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What sort of genre are those authors/novels?

The idea of a novel being an opera sounds cool - I like the idea of multi-modality. I reckon there should be more of it - not just with film directors deciding to do a movie of a particular book, but actual works that are intended to be multi-modal whereby the author has control over, or is engaged in the composing of their work into different forms (I suppose you could look at 'The Wall' by Pink Floyd being one example).

peter f hamilton is sci fi while raymond e feist is fantasy.

they are operetic? in the sense that hamiltons books are huge in scale and have thought provoking ideas that may be possible in the future.

[cleanwhitesheets]

authors i like:

noam chomsky
william faulkner
tolstoy
henry miller
william finnegan
ken kesey
jack kerouac
alexander solzhenitsyn
e.r. braithwaite
nelson mandela
martin luther king jr
serj tankian
ernesto guevara
kropotkin
irvine welsh
rusty young
howard zinn
ernest hemingway

[jacofox]

hmm....my author of the moment is Kurt Vonnagut