Your favorite book......

[Shadowrun]

My favorite book is Catch 22.

It takes place during the later stages of WW2.

The reason I like it so much I think is because of the themes in the book, distortion of justice, absurdity, personal integrity, and many others.

Some other books that i though are really worth of mention (im sure there is many others, but i just havent read them yet):

1984
The Grapes Of Wrath
Slaughterhouse-Five
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Brave New World
Animal Farm
A Clockwork Orange
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Lord of the Flies

There is this author that my friend (English Major) keeps raving about, I forget her name but i remember she is a black female and one of her books is about slavery.

[Blarg]

Alice Walker? I hope not. I thought Color Purple was miserably bad.

[Shadowrun]

It is Toni Morrison, have you ever read any of her works Blarg?

She seems to score pretty well (actually its quite amazing) with the critics.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/21/books/...nyt&emc=rss

(voted best American novel in the last 25 yrs, in 2006 by the Times)

She won a Nobel Prize in 1993.
She won a Pulitzer Prize for the book Beloved.

http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/grthungry.html
(Here she has 4 books listed as being in the top 100)

[TheDudeAbides]

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Life changing.

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Is this a level or what? If not, please elaborate [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] I am having a hell of a time quitting

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Yeah - can someone elaborate on this? Maybe it deserves its own thread, but I could use any help I can get.

[Blarg]

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It is Toni Morrison, have you ever read any of her works Blarg?

She seems to score pretty well (actually its quite amazing) with the critics.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/21/books/...nyt&emc=rss

(voted best American novel in the last 25 yrs, in 2006 by the Times)

She won a Nobel Prize in 1993.
She won a Pulitzer Prize for the book Beloved.

http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/grthungry.html
(Here she has 4 books listed as being in the top 100)

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I've never read Toni Morrison.

[KilgoreTrout]

Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut

Here's my reason:

[Kintamayama]

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.

[Austiger]

The Master and Margarita

Satan goes to Russia disguised as a professor, intercut with the story of Pontius Pilate...all the backdrop for a romance.

[riverboatking]

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1984
The Grapes Of Wrath
Slaughterhouse-Five
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Brave New World
Animal Farm
A Clockwork Orange
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Lord of the Flies



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shadow...
based on this list we have very similar taste in books.

i highly recommend jennifer government by max barry.
its a modern day brave new world chronicalling a dystopic future of totally free market capitalism and its awesome.

he also wrote a book called syrup which isn't nearly as substantial but is a really fun easy satire on the marketing industry.

his latest book the company wasn't nearly on par with the first two.

jen gov't and syrup are two of my fav books and if you like 1984 and BNW i think you'll love em too.

[evolvedForm]

My favorite book is usually the one I just finished reading. So I'll go with the Trial by Franz Kafka.

Chronicling the plight of modern man in the face of rampant beauracracy, not to mention the feeling of inner disconnectedness that comes with it, this book hits home.

Guilt is another central theme to the novel - not in the Christian sense, however. Joseph K's guilt revolves around a primordial aspect of man in which he condemns himself by virtue of his never realizing his own ideal. Perhaps it's that he can never escape death, and thus can never become God. The guilt Joseph K. experiences is similar to Heidegger's in Being and Time.


Not reccommended for those easily susceptible to depression.