Reply to: Best novel you've read?

[Lockhouse]

...I forgot Armor by John Steakley - a great under-publicised SF novel with a cult following.

[d000hg]

Never fully read any of his stuff. I read the first chapter of the first Discworld novel and it put me right off.

I might try again starting with Mort, as people seem to rate the Death books (Mort, Reaper Man, Soul Music.)

Mort and Reaper Man are certainly my favourites, I'd suggest Reaper Man as a great 1st book. There are in my view 10-12 great Disworld books and about double that again if you become a fan.

My tops would also include Small Gods, Wyrd Sisters, Sourcery, Pyramids & Equal Rites.

[d000hg]

The Hannibal Lecter books by Thomas Harris are worth reading.

[nomadd]

Surprised no-one has mentioned any of Terry Pratchett's yet.

Never fully read any of his stuff. I read the first chapter of the first Discworld novel and it put me right off.

I might try again starting with Mort, as people seem to rate the Death books (Mort, Reaper Man, Soul Music.)

[nomadd]

Anyone read The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. Can't really recommend it as I found it a tad disturbing.

Read it when it first came out, way back in the '80s.

Enjoyed it a lot.

Ditto The Bridge.

[Goatfell]

There is also HG Wells 'A Modern Utopia', decent but a bit dull at times (my prose "choice" it for A Level English Lit )

Anyone read The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. Can't really recommend it as I found it a tad disturbing.

qh

Yup, when I got "that" revelation I dropped the book. It really is quite unsettling.
A lot of his others are good though, I particularly liked Complicity, as someone else mentioned, many of them are set in Scotland. Although it's not really a novel, look out for 'Raw Spirit, In Search of the Perfect Dram', him, a MkII Jag, and a lot the cratur.

Surprised no-one has mentioned any of Terry Pratchett's yet.

[Lockhouse]

A Delahaye - Ich will!

I'm off for a hand shandy.

[quackhandle]

Just finished Brave New World.

Nineteen Eighty-Four is the next on my list for the genre.

There is also HG Wells 'A Modern Utopia', decent but a bit dull at times (my prose "choice" it for A Level English Lit )

Anyone read The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. Can't really recommend it as I found it a tad disturbing.

qh

[stek]

A Delahaye - Ich will!

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Not really into novels, but I remember fondly Camus' "L'etranger"

More recently, I read "The kindly ones".

Also he was killed in a Facel Vega, the only cool French car, part from the DS. And the Delahaye.

[stek]

Not really into novels, but I remember fondly Camus' "L'etranger"

More recently, I read "The kindly ones".

I had a book by Camus but I just used to carry it around hoping to appear windswept and interesting and get off with one the Arty girls at uni (Well, Bolton Institute of Technology).

Didn't Mark E Smith write a song about 'Camus in a Plastic Bag' or summert? The Fall are absolute shiite though so probably not...

[KaiserWilly]

Not really into novels, but I remember fondly Camus' "L'etranger"

More recently, I read "The kindly ones".

[Cliphead]

I've read quite a few of the books mentioned here, all good reads.

I got American Psycho for Kindle today and started reading, kinda weird so far and not what I would say is a page turner for the first couple of chapters.

I'll persevere.

[BabyBoomer]

Re: Best novel you've read?

Sticking to pre-war foction, therefore (mostly) downloadable for free:
Humour: Wodehouse, Saki, E F Benson, Ernest Brahmah (Kai Lung), J K Jerome, Damon Runyon, A C Macdonnel.
Thrillers/Crime: Geoffrey Household, Dornford Yates, Buchan, Erskine Childers, C S Forester (early crime, not Hornblower).
Kids but worth reading as an adult: Lewis Caroll, E E Nesbit, R L Stevenson, Kenneth Grahame, Arthur Ransome.

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[nomadd]

Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell.

qh

Just finished Brave New World.

Nineteen Eighty-Four is the next on my list for the genre.