Favourite Novel?

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#1  Edited By dogbox

It's a tough deliberation for me, but I always come back to Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five. The mixture of science-fiction and crippling real experiences is just sublime. It's the book I wish I wrote. What novels do the rest of GiantBomb swear by?

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#2  Edited By AltonBrown

Hey, another Vonnegut fan! My favorite is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but Slaughterhouse Five is a close second.

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#3  Edited By SofaKing

Notes from the Underground

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#4  Edited By Toxin066

Any of the books from A Song of Ice and Fire.

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#5  Edited By thatfrood
@SofaKing said:
" Notes from the Underground "
ooooooh! Nice!
I probably wouldn't have gone with that, but for favorite novel I'd probably either choose Demons by Dostoevsky or Castle by Kafka.
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#6  Edited By teeknuts

My favorite book of all time is either American Gods by Neil Gaiman or The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall. Actually, I love pretty much anything by Neil Gaiman, but Gods is my favorite.

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#7  Edited By Animasta

Probably the Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov. either that or foundation by the same author.

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#8  Edited By jaycee13

so far, my favorite novel is "dracula" but i still have lots to read. Second would be alice in wonderland for the childhood nostalgia. Reading it again now I find it quite disturbing. Its what I imagine hell to be like if it exists.

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#9  Edited By penguindust

Always tough to narrow it down, so I'll give you 5 that have been my favorite at certain periods in my life:

  1. Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird
  2. Douglas Coupland - Generation X
  3. Joseph Conrad - The Heart of Darkness
  4. Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye
  5. Albert Camus - The Stranger
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#10  Edited By dogbox
@PenguinDust:  Are you Canadian? There's something I've always wondered - do non-Canadians know about Douglas Coupland? I have all of his books!
 
@AltonBrown:Fear and Loathing and The Rum Diary are way up on my list as well!
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I like Catcher in the Rye....

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To Kill a Mockingbird, Captain Underpants....

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#13  Edited By Skald

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, The Road by Cormac McCarthy.