Favourite Novels Of All Time?

Hi. I don't post often, but I've lurked around this site for over a decade.
To answer your question in no particular order:

Dune
A Fire Upon the Deep
Star Ship Troopers
Almost anything by Lois MacMaster-Bujold
Winter of the World
The Boat of a Million Years
The Stand
The Honor Harrington series (I don't like Webbers characterizations but GOD can
he do a space battle.)

Those are all that come to me now. Soon as I log off I'll probably think of
another half dozen.

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If I get to use a one-book trilogy, it's The Deed of Paksenarrian. Have several copies, one's a loaner.
That trilogy published in the 80's kicked off another 2 book prequel set, and recently the Paladin Legacy has followed. The final contracted book of the 10 book world is released May 27th.
By Elizabeth Moon.

Also Red Phoenix by Larry Bond. After he helped Clancy write Hunt for Red October, he did this one.

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The Culture.

Which'd be what a society was if I designed it.

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"You might call them soft, because they’re very reluctant to kill, and they might agree with you, but they’re soft the way the ocean is soft, and, well; ask any sea captain how harmless and puny the ocean can be."
- Cheradenine Zakalwe

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Of course, that said, I am quite fond of the GCU "Grey Area" (aka Meatfucker) and the VFP "Falling Outside the Normal Moral Constraints".

But mostly SC, primarily SC....

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Zakalwe: I thought the rules were meant to be the same for everybody.
Diziet Sma: They are. But in Special Circumstances we deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws — the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else in the universe — break down; beyond those metaphysical event-horizons, there exist... special circumstances. That's us. That's our territory; our domain.
Zakalwe: To some people, that might sound like just a good excuse for bad behaviour.
Diziet Sma: And perhaps they would be right. Maybe that is all it is. But if nothing else, at least we need an excuse; think how many people need none at all.

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-Frem

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Oh jeah, Ian M Banks. Inversions. Not exactly the most Culturesque of his novels, but my favourite.

Also enjoyed Use of Weapons

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Game of Thrones

The Hyperion/Endymion series by Dan Simmons. I really like this one. In fact, it may be time to read them again...

Pride and Prejudice (Really, any Jane Austen but this is my favorite)

I enjoyed Dune, but not an all-time fave for me. I agree about the TV series being better than the movie, even with the sad lack of Sting. I just wish they'd made the TV series 2 episodes rather than 3. The third part was too drawn out. And maybe take it easy with all the colored lighting. Still, good series.



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Welcome DBell :-)

Classics: Jane Eyre, Pride & Prejudice
Also
Foundation - Asimov
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler

It's not personal. It's just war.

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
I got your Dune right here pal!

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I do not fear God, I fear the ignorance of man.

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Originally posted by kpo:


Classics: Jane Eyre, Pride & Prejudice

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Wow, thought I was the only one here who liked that, it's why I didn't post!
Awesome!

Anything of that sort I am all over it. Little Dorrit on PBS was sooo good! Tess of the D'urbervilles, Great Expectations, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Wuthering Heights, The Old Curiosity Shop... Sometimes just listening to them speak makes me happy

I would also say the book 1984 was one of the ones that really struck me.
Last of the Dogmen was a movie, but it was one of my favorite stories of all time too, and I wish it had been a book. If books and movies became outlawed like in Fahrenheit 451, Jayne Eyre and Last of the Dogmen would be the ones I would commit to memory..


As a kid I liked 20,000 leagues under the sea, Swiss Family Robinson, and a book by Lynn Hall called Tin Can Tucker about a girl in foster care that runs when she's 16 and all she has of her history is a rodeo belt buckle and she eventually gets adopted by a couple of rodeo clowns. Also, the Misty of Chincoteague series and many of the Judy Blume books.

Add Firefly, X-files, The Unit, and Sherlock to that list and you've got about everything I've ever liked. Which leads me to the next thread title

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