Do you have any favorite fictional literature?

[Cube]

Blue fired up the movie thread, so I thought I'd fire this one up. Both to see if anything of interest pops up, and to see how fast this thread dies around here.

Among more recent literature I'd have to say The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart, The Perfume by Patrick Süskind, House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski and American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Gaiman also released some cool short stories, Nicholas Was... being one of my favorites.

I also love most of Edgar Allan Poe's work, and to some extent M. R. James and H. P. Lovecraft as well.

Another short story that I've always found interesting, said to have been written by Hemingway, is...

For sale: baby shoes, never worn.

It sums up one of the reasons I'm a big fan of well written short stories, where with just a few words/pages you can convey a much more complex story than the work itself describes.

Let's see how many replies are posted before this thread is buried.

[Balls]

Orwell's Animal Farm.

[Imperium]

I'm a big fan of fiction, and fantasy.
So, the "Eragon" Series by Christopher Paolini
"Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
Sadly those are all popular mainstream books which almost everyone and their dog has read, I'l have to look back at my shelf to let you know what else I have read :(
I'll go ahead and throw in the first 100+ page book I read as a child was a poem book called "Where the Sidewalk Ends" yeah Idk what I was doing.



By far though, my favorite book is "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas. The guy can write.

[Deems]

Game of Thrones is a title of the first book, not the series.

[Blue]

Cube i actually could not decided weather to start a movie or literature thread, but i figured that most a lot of people do not read much books anymore, so went with the moves.

my over all favorite fiction is To Kill a Mockingbird, The Da Vinci Code and The Lord of the Rings ofc.

[Gandraman]

All Discworld books from Terry Pratchet , Good Omens by Pratchet/Neil Gaimen, Songs of ice and fire serial by R.R. Martin, The Wheel of time serial Robert Jordan, Mario Puzzo's mobsters serial. Hobit , Silmarilion by Tolkin, Ana Karenjina by Tolstoi, Harry Potter till Goblet of Fire (after that a bit booring) , Impure Blood by Borisav Stankovic... The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric (Nobel prize winning book)...

[xilef0wnz]

I'm a big fan of fiction, and fantasy.
So, the "Eragon" Series by Christopher Paolini
"Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

/agree ....
and a few books from the german author Andreas Eschbach.... for example "1 Trillion Dollar"

its about a guy who gets a random trillion dollar... and he is able to change the world with that...

[Mayore]

Tolkien

[Xaru]

The baby shoes story is so sad. :(

Oh man, I read the Dice Man a little while ago, I really liked it. The concept and the way it was written was incredible. It really got me thinking, I wanted to play the dice game...

I'm generally into fantasy, boy stuff, you know - the hero grows up into a powerful warrior and then defeats the enemy. My favorite books would be A Song of Ice and Fire and the Farseer trilogy. I like Farseer because it's written in first person and is really enjoyable to read, you grow attached to the characters. LOTR, obviously. Oh and there was this other series called Codex Alera, it's a bit like pokemon - each person gets their own element they can control, but the main character doesn't have one so he's constantly picked on and has to use his wits instead, this makes him a lot stronger than the other boys who have had to rely on their magic alone, and anyway, you'd have to read it to get it. All fairly immature, teeny fantasy stuff, but I love it. :)

[Amgseret]

50 Shades of Grey is teh shit
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Catch 22 is cool too