Favorite All Time Fiction Book

[PotNoodle79]

Neal Stephenson is on top of my list. 'Cryptonomicon' my favourite Book.

Ben Aaronovitchs ' Rivers of London series is on second place.
Number 3 is 'Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde

A fellow Rivers fan! *waves*

Mine is probably IT by Stephen King. Ask me again tomorrow and it'll probably change.

 

[Statius]

me too

Which one?

 

[MrMikelobe1952]

I get it. Mine’s Huck Finn.

I just reread it after reading James. Kind of wish I'd read it before reading James.
It really is a great book, although I found the last section kind of silly.

So, I should try my own list.

I think the book I most enjoyed reading in my life was probably Catch 22. I seriously doubt it would hold up at my age, but reading it as a 20 year old, well, it just kept me laughing but also was engaging.

And the non-porn book that I masturbated to the most was Portnoy's Complaint. Again, probably because I was young when I read it and had not really read anything with well-written sex scenes before. I particulary remember when his relative, an aunt I think, took him for a massage. I wonder to what extent that contributed to my fetish for massages of that type.

How did this thread come to be revived?

 

[MyMostSecretLife]

Which one?

Oh, East of Eden by Steinbeck. Should have quoted the post.

 

[SandraMaus]

A fellow Rivers fan! *waves*

Mine is probably IT by Stephen King. Ask me again tomorrow and it'll probably change.

I read IT after I seen the first movie adaptation a few times.

 

[PotNoodle79]

I read IT after I seen the first movie adaptation a few times.

And the book is so much better

 

[SandraMaus]

And the book is so much better

Isn't it most of the time? But king never sold the rights of his stories to a Hollywood studio before finishing writing the book. Like Chrichton did with Jurassic park the lost world or Andy Weir with Hail Mary. But there were some really shitty king movie adaptations

 

[PotNoodle79]

Isn't it most of the time? But king never sold the rights of his stories to a Hollywood studio before finishing writing the book. Like Chrichton did with Jurassic park the lost world or Andy Weir with Hail Mary. But there were some really shitty king movie adaptations

Some REALLY bad ones

 

[Statius]

Oh, East of Eden by Steinbeck. Should have quoted the post.

I was just curious, listed three works. That novel though is fantastic.

 

[Wonderer67]

I think the book I most enjoyed reading in my life was probably Catch 22. I seriously doubt it would hold up at my age, but reading it as a 20 year old, well, it just kept me laughing but also was engaging.

What a book! Seeing so many people stop-lossed, there tends to be a grim firmness in how people handle the “raising of the missions.”

It was a major major major major problem!

 

[MrMikelobe1952]

What a book! Seeing so many people stop-lossed, there tends to be a grim firmness in how people handle the “raising of the missions.”

It was a major major major major problem!

Actually
Major Major Major Major

 

[UsuallyPresent]

"The Nice & Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nitt, Witch" (Better known as Good Omens) by Pratchett & Gaiman

"The Number of the Beast..." by Heinlein

First several books of Ringo's Aldenata series (Gust Front, A Hymn Before Battle, When the Devil Dances, Hell's Faire)

See also @yowser 's Ten Great Books posts from back in March

 

[Wonderer67]

Actually
Major Major Major Major

Truth!

 

[MrMikelobe1952]

Along those lines, Don Quixote

I understand why its considered a classic, but I really did not find it funny at all. The very very rare instance in which I didn't finish a book. I finished the orignial, but didn't read the second 1/2.

 

[MrMikelobe1952]

Truth!

If you tell the truth, then you're sane, and you have to keep flying.

 

[LickableWallpaper]

Rebecca- Daphne duMaurier is my fav of all time(non smut) book. Altho, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Anne of Green Gables, Wuthering Heights, The Bell Jar, The Great Gatsby are all up there. I have read many smut books so its hard to pick a favorite! Cant think of any that come to mind, I honestly read those for the scenes more so than the plot.

 

[MrPimms]

Actually
Major Major Major Major

The Drum Major as I remember.

 

[MrMikelobe1952]

The Drum Major as I remember.

No, just a major.
Right out of Basic.