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>American Pastoral >Philip Roth In retrospect, this was good but not great. TurkeyLeg, I know you like his earlier stuff better, I prefer what I've read of his later stuff. I liked The Human Stain better than this.
>Animal Farm >George Orwell Ha! Nice. > >Atonement >Ian McEwan Yes. > >Beloved >Toni Morrison Song of Solomon is better. > >The Big Sleep >Raymond Chandler The Long Goodbye is better, though I'm glad to see Chandler get his due. >The Catcher in the Rye >J.D. Salinger I think this is overrated. Maybe I just don't like Salinger that much though. > >The Confessions of Nat Turner >William Styron I saw someone trashing this on here, I think it was Mr. Mech. Anyone actually read it? > >The Corrections >Jonathan Franzen I just finished re-reading it last weekend, it definitely belongs. > >The Crying of Lot 49 >Thomas Pynchon I had to read this for a class a few years ago, I couldn't make heads or tails of it. > >A Death in the Family >James Agee Ugh. > >Deliverance >James Dickey One of the better books I had to read for high school English class. I still remember the part about the main character trying to go through life by sliding/anti-friction, that hit pretty close to home. > >The Grapes of Wrath >John Steinbeck I should read this at some point. I mean, I should read a lot of things on here at some point, but this one especially. > >Gravity's Rainbow >Thomas Pynchon Geez, two Pynchon books already? > >The Great Gatsby >F. Scott Fitzgerald I should read this again. At the moment, Tender is the Night is my favorite Fitzgerald, but I do remember liking this a lot too. > > >The Heart of the Matter >Graham Greene ? I've never heard of this. > >A House for Mr. Biswas >V.S. Naipaul I liked this pretty well. Naipaul the person sounds like a real douche, but I suppose a lot of people whose work I enjoy are. > >I, Claudius >Robert Graves I was expecting a little more from this. It was still pretty cool though. > >Infinite Jest >David Foster Wallace I dunno if I'll ever motivate to read this. > >Invisible Man >Ralph Ellison I really didn't like this. I don't really like novels where everything is allegory. Animal Farm excepted. > > >L - N > >Light in August >William Faulkner I like As I Lay Dying better. Also, The Sound And The Fury, though I'm sure that'll be coming up in a few. > >Lolita >Vladimir Nabokov I prefer Pale Fire, but I don't really see how you could pass this up. > >Lord of the Flies >William Golding Absolutely. Sucks to your ass-mar. > >The Lord of the Rings >J.R.R. Tolkien Hmmmm....I dunno about this. > >Midnight's Children >Salman Rushdie Yeah! > >Money >Martin Amis I need to read this, I quite like everything I've read of his so far. > >The Moviegoer >Walker Percy I read about 5 pages of this the other week, got bored and stopped. > >Mrs. Dalloway >Virginia Woolf Can't deny it, though it seems like one of those that's greater for its influence and daring than for the actual reading experience. > >Naked Lunch >William Burroughs I dunno about this. Definitely one-of-a-kind though.
>On the Road >Jack Kerouac So overrated. > >One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest >Ken Kesey I think I like the movie a little better. But I did see it first, that can bias you.
>Pale Fire >Vladimir Nabokov Yesssssss. One of my all-time favorites.
> >Play It As It Lays >Joan Didion I've seen a lot about her lately. Janey and yogaflame (if you bother to read this far down), what's her best so far, in your opinions? > >Portnoy's Complaint >Philip Roth Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Though the punchline was pretty great. > >The Power and the Glory >Graham Greene ? How do they keep doing Graham Greene ones that I've never heard of? Where's The Quiet American, or Our Man In Havana, or The Comedians (especially The Comedians)? I guess I should seek these out though. > >Rabbit, Run >John Updike Definitely. I stopped with Rabbit Redux halfway through though. > >Red Harvest >Dashiell Hammett Wow. Good choice. Somebody on here knows their detective novels.
>The Sun Also Rises >Ernest Hemingway I like For Whom The Bell Tolls better. This was pretty good too though. > >Under the Volcano >Malcolm Lowry I read this a few months ago, it was good but I didn't love it. > >Watchmen >Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons Damn, interesting. > >White Noise >Don DeLillo I like Underworld and Libra a lot better. > >White Teeth >Zadie Smith Yes. >
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