best fiction books?

[Viva Revolution!]

What are some of the best fiction books you've ever read? They don't have to be anything to do with politics. I've heard Catch-22 and To Kill a Mockingbird are quite good?

[RedMarxist]

The Guns of the South, by Harry Turtledove.

The Hunger Games

The Communist Manifesto(just kidding-its non-fic!) :)

How Few Remain: A Novel of the second war between the states by turtledove as well(best part is Lincoln is a Marxist, and the sequel the great war:American Front has Communist African American Rebels-however no Soviet Union as the Whites Win)

Fahrenheit 451

The Stand and Under The Dome

[Pawn Power]

Catch-22 is quite hilarious.

It depends on what you like, their is really a lot of decent fiction out their. You would really have to narrow your search somehow.

[#FF0000]

The Hunger Games

I liked it better when it was called Battle Royale.

[x359594]

The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick. Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham. Report on Probability A by Brian Aldiss. Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester. The Iron Heel by Jack London. Solaris by Stanisław Lem. High Rise by J.G. Ballard. A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delaney.

[JustMovement]

OK list of random books i love:
Dune by Frank Herbert, favorite sci-fi book ive ever read and probably the book ive read the most times.
Siddartha by Herman Hesse, basically a fictional account of the life of Buddha.
Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouack, to bring out your inner hippy.
The Gambler, by Dostoevsky probably the most bad ass short story ever written, will make you want to go to the casino afterwards.

[∞]

The Bible.

[Sasha]

anything by Neil Gaiman

[thesadmafioso]

I'm rather fond of John Steinbeck in regards to fiction.

[Ose]

Sartre's Nausea and the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges are the first things that come to mind.

[Tim Finnegan]

If you're a fan of absurdist non-narrative fiction, then the John Hodgman almanacs, The Areas of My Expertise and More Information Than You Require, are simply genius.

[Who?]

This masterpiece!

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[La Comédie Noire]

The Stand, The Dark Tower series, Lord of The Rings, Watchmen, Catch 22, The BFG, anything by John Bellairs, Harry Potter series.

[Johnny Kerosene]

Siddartha by Herman Hesse, basically a fictional account of the life of Buddha.


That's a great book but it's not about Buddha. The main character is named Siddartha, and so is the Buddha, but they aren't the same person.
(The spoiler ahead spoils part of the story, so yeah.)
He meets the Buddha in the story at one point. And he later hears word of the Buddha's death.
They are most certainly not the same damn person, and this story is totally different from the Buddha's story.

[Os Cangaceiros]

"Never Mind The Pollacks", by Neil Pollack.

It's a really trashy faux-biographical novel about a music journalist and his fake adventures with everyone from Elvis to Black Flag. It's very obscene and immature, but I don't think I've ever laughed harder at another book.

[Rakhmetov]

The Bible is the Greatest fictional book in existence!

[Tenka]

The Bible is the Greatest fictional book in existence!

New Testament sucks I couldn't read past the first couple of pages. The Old Testament has funny things like God forcing some guy to have sex with the widowed wife of his brother whom God killed, and when he spills his seed on the ground God kills him too!:laugh:
But overall The Bible is pretty boring. I quite enjoyed Kallocain by Karin Boye.

[Comrade_Oscar]

The best fiction books well thats easy: THE BIBLE

[Tim Finnegan]

The Bible.

The Bible is the Greatest fictional book in existence!

The best fiction books well thats easy: THE BIBLE
WE GET IT. http://forum.blu-ray.com/images/smilies/imported/unimpressed.gif

[Smyg]

Eh, it might be that my appreciation of literature is getting poorer, but Metro 2033 might just be the goddamn best thing I've ever read.

[Zukunftsmusik]

Moby-Dick. Never read anything like it.
I'll have to recommend Cormac McCarthy as well. Outer Dark is good.

By Norwegian authors:
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson, althoug I like Til Sibir (To Siberia) better. Don't know if it's translated.
Gå. Eller kunsten å leve et vilt og poetisk liv by Tomas Espedal. Don't think it's translated, so you should all start learning Norwegian, because that's a really good novel. Guess the title in English would be something like Walking. Or; the art of living a wild and poetic life

[o well this is ok I guess]

Honestly, I really loved House of Leaves. I haven't read something so much like a labyrinth since, er, Borges "Labyrinths".

[x359594]

20th century American fiction I: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser. The USA Trilogy by John Dos Passos. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein. The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller.

[Sixiang]

What are some of the best fiction books you've ever read? They don't have to be anything to do with politics. I've heard Catch-22 and To Kill a Mockingbird are quite good?

Catch-22 is absolutely hilarious if you like dark/black comedy, as I do. If you read that and like it, I cannot recommend Kurt Vonnegut enough, who like Heller is a master of that style of comedy writing. To Kill a Mockingbird is decent, but I think that Truman Capote actually takes the cake for southern gothic. But anyways,

My favorite fiction novels:
-1984, by George Orwell
-Animal Farm, by George Orwell
-Native Son, by Richard Wright
-Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
-Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck
-Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
-Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut

I could make that list much longer, but I tried to keep it short.

[Pawn Power]

20th century American fiction I: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser. The USA Trilogy by John Dos Passos. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein. The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller.

I wouldn't recommend anything on this list except maybe the Hemingway.

[Pawn Power]

We revlefters really like white men as authors!

[∞]

We revlefters really like white men as authors!

What a racist thing to notice.

[Sixiang]

Richard Wright is my second favorite fiction writer, and was a black man.

[x359594]

I wouldn't recommend anything on this list except maybe the Hemingway.

The Making of Americans is the best title of a representative sample. If you don't love Gertrude Stein you don't love literature; she taught Hemingway everything he knew about writing.

[x359594]

We revlefters really like white men as authors!

Since when did Gertrude Stein and Willa Cather become white men?

[Pawn Power]

The Making of Americans is the best title of a representative sample. If you don't love Gertrude Stein you don't love literature; she taught Hemingway everything he knew about writing.

Never read that, but I will take your word of it.

[Pawn Power]

Since when did Gertrude Stein and Willa Cather become white men?

The exceptions prove the rule.

[Summerspeaker]

My favorites do generally connect with politics: The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin, Trouble on Triton by Samuel Delany, Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy, and Neuromancer by William Gibson. Le Guin's other science fiction and the Earthsea Series are also excellent.

[Tim Finnegan]

The exceptions prove the rule.
That isn't what that phrase means (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule).

[Pawn Power]

That isn't what that phrase means (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule).

The general rule is that revleft really likes white men as authors. Someone pointed out -- "but these two authors aren't white men!" -- thus proving the rule. One wouldn't have to prove that white men are very much present in our lists of authors because, well, they are very much obviously present.

Thanks Tim!

edit: typos and grammar

[Tim Finnegan]

The general rule is that revleft really like white men as authors. Someone pointed out -- these two authors aren't white men" -- thus proving the rule. One wouldn't have to prove that white men are very much present in our lists of authors because, well, they are very much obviously present.

Thanks Tim!
Touché. ;)

[RedTrackWorker]

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

G. by John Berger

From A to X by Berger (British Marxist art critic turned artist, his writings on art, such as Ways of Seeing, are great too)

anything by Claude McKay (Jamaican-American sometimes-Marxist writer; I've read everything but Gingertown and his unpublished novel, he's most well known for his poem If we must die (http://wsu.edu/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/mckay.html))

anything by Dostoevsky

God's Bits of Wood by Sembene

Petals of Blood by Thiong'o

[∞]

The Quran.
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[RED DAVE]

Any novel by Dickens.

RED DAVE

[RED DAVE]

20th century American fiction I: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser. The USA Trilogy by John Dos Passos. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein. The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller.
I wouldn't recommend anything on this list except maybe the Hemingway.And why not?

RED DAVE

[Pawn Power]

And why not?

RED DAVE

I guess I find most of those authors/books boring. I'm not going to say they are bad or one shouldn't recommend them, just that I wouldn't.