Favourite Novels Of All Time?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Monday, August 3, 2026 04:34
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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...
North and South and Bleak House are also very good. I rewatch these (and Pride and Prejudice) almost as often as I rewatch Firefly. Haven't seen a great adaption of Jane Eyre yet though :-(
It's not personal. It's just war.
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Harrison Ford, Ridley Scott, Blade Runner 2.
Can they do it justice?
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Ulysses - James Joyce
A Separate Reality - Carlos Castaneda
The Teachings of Don Juan - Carlos Castaneda
Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens
Julius Caesar - Shakespeare
Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man - James Joyce
SGG
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American Gods...
Shadow of the wind...
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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
Ulysses - James Joyce
A Separate Reality - Carlos Castaneda
The Teachings of Don Juan - Carlos Castaneda
Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens
Julius Caesar - Shakespeare
Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man - James Joyce
SGG
Awesome list. I forgot about Carlos Castaneda whom I return to periodically.
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Disregard this post. Hyperlinks don't work right here....
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Sorry, you'll have to look them up yourself since this website is broken when it comes to hyperlinking wikipedia....
1. 1984 ~ George Orwell
2. Brave New World ~ Aldous Huxley
3 or 4. Jesus on Mars ~ Phillip Jose Farmer
3 or 4. Animal Farm ~ George Orwell
4 or 5. To Your Scattered Bodies Go ~ Phillip Jose Farmer
4 or 5. The Great Explosion ~ Eric Frank Russel
5. 100 Years of Solitude ~ Gabriel García Márquez
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I'm not into the whole school taught curriculum, but I did really like and even relate to Great Expectations.
Even (and possibly espeically) if you don't care for me, you shouldn't discount the last on my list.....
100 Years of Solitude ~ Gabriel García Márquez
It's likely been 10 years since I read that story.
I know, on the surface, that by name it might sound like something "right up 6ix's alley".
I assure you that it's not. It's not Sci-Fi. It's not government conspiracy theory.
It seems to be far too interesting to be "absolute truth" but it's likely a lot of truth mixed in with ancedotes.
Most everyone over 30 in the US that has access to the internet and posts here already grew up with local government controling things if not state or fedral government.
This was a story of a few generations of a village, possibly only in our wildest fantasies today, that managed to live a life of "solitude" from the rest of the world on their own merit.
It's not that they had to fight. If memory serves, at least 50 of those hundred years were spent without anyone even knowing their Name.....
All I can say is the more you might dislike me, the more you might be interested in this one.
I might even have to re-evalute my rankings, considering I've grown up.
1984 and Brave New World no longer have any hold on me.
It was just a knee-jerk reaction to list them on top......
Seriously....
Please.
Somebody here read 100 Years of Solitude and tell others about how awesome it is.
I'm a little less than credible round here these days.... :(
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Forever War in this thread, if only they read it before Afghanistan
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Wow, been a long time since I had time to read anything. In the scifi category (top down ranking):
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L'Engle
Left Hand of Darkness and short stories by Ursula
Le Guin
The first book of the Rissa trilogy, Young Rissa, FM Busby
Stranger in a Strange Land, and Podkayne of Mars by Robert Heinlein
Dune, Frank Herbert
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