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Name five fiction books that everyone should read

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Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
Dancing at the Rascal Fair by Ivan Doig
 
Originally posted by: LordMorpheus
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
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damn good book. rented it from the library, never took it back. It was so good (and so damn hard to find in my area) that I paid the fines+book cost to keep it.
 
Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Originally posted by: Yossarian
Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
1984
Fahrenheit 451
Catch-22
Slaughterhouse Five
Moby Dick
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:thumbsup: to all of those except Moby Dick, which I thought was incredibly dull.
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The thread was not about the best books or the most exciting, but the ones everyone should read. Like it or not, Moby Dick is one of the most important novels in American history.
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your adherence to the requirements of the OP is most impressive! I still think it's boring as fvck 😉
 
Too many good ones to limit to just five.

Catch 22
Heart of Darkness
The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Great Gatsby
The Crucible
Death of A Salesman
The Jungle
Great Expectations
Oliver Twist
A Tale of Two Cities
The Canterbury Tales
Candide
The Prince
Dante's Inferno
Illiad / Odyssey

etc.
 
1) Confessions of a Shopaholic
2) She's Come Undone
3) Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
4) Last Chance Saloon
5) Mr. Vertigo
 
hop on pop

penthouse letters.... sorry to disappoint you guys, but they're made up

gay penthouse letters....cuz you don't know until you've tried...or at least beat off to it

SVH....any of the installments

and slick willy's bio.

 
the chronicles of narnia, its one of those books you should read first as a child, then as an adult, and then when you're old.
 
Catch-22
Neuromancer
Snow Crash
Great Expectations
The Stranger
LOTR
Ender's Game
1984
Lord of the Flies
Catcher in the Rye

and on and on and on...
 
The Red Badge of Courage
Moby Dick
Lolita and anything written by Nabokov

no other fiction is worth reading unless it is comedy


 
1984
Fahrenheit 451
Animal Farm
Brave New World
The Jungle

Honorable Mention:

Where the Red Fern Grows
The Iliad
Of Mice and Men
Lord of the Flies
 
Count of Monte Cristo ...get a good translation

The Brothers Karamazov ... better than Crime and Punishment

Dune... great scifi novel

Lord of the Rings
 
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