cat_eared_L

Mine are Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

I also like Heart of Darkness, Catch 22, Fahrenheit 451, Wuthering Heights, Hamlet, Spring Snow, The Picture of Dorian Grey...and a lot of others.

Have you read any of these books? If so, please discuss.

Also, what are your favorite books and why?

Longcat51

I love Catcher in the Rye, Fight Club, Brave New World, 1984, The Great Gatsby, Flowers for Algernon, All Quiet on the Western Front. There are probably a few books that I forgot to list.

cat_eared_L

All very good books.

The Catcher in the Rye and Great Gatsby are my favorites from that list.

I like The Catcher in the Rye because the main character is someone a lot of people can relate too. I like Holden's observations... heh.

Great Gatsby is good too. I like that Nick says in the beginning he's the only honest person he's ever really known. :P And it's sad, how poor Gatsby, gets fucked over by those rich assholes.

Longcat51

Holden as a character is very easy to relate to. He sees that the world is fucked up, though he is kinda paranoid. I really should reread the book.
But I love how it's written. He's surrounded in the whole book by people who aren't like him, it's really existential.

cat_eared_L

Yeah, it seems like he can never really connect to any of the characters. Except perhaps, his kid sister. The others can't understand him or his actions, think he's a nut, etc.

I never thought of it as existential, but you're right, it kind of is.

Speaking of existential another one of my favorite books is The Stranger, by Camus. Camus once suggested that the only philosophical question that really mattered, was rather or not to commit suicide.

Longcat51

Hmmm, I haven't heard of it. What is it about? And, I agree with that quote, that does matter the most.

cat_eared_L

Oh, it's about a guy who shoots an arab and gets put on trial for it, but everyone is more outraged by things like "He didn't cry at his mother's funeral!" than the fact that he killed a man. The main character stays apathetic til the end though. :D

Baskest Case

i have many
-Born Blue
-Catch 22
-To Kill A Mocking Bird
-If I Should Die Before I Wake
-Out of the Dust
-Torn Thread
-Defining Deulcie
-Hope Was Here
-Pictures of Hollis Wooods

these are all book i read when i was much younger but
they still are among my favorites

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Green_pixie

My favourite book is 'I capture the castle,' by Dodie Smith.

Closely followed by 'Catcher in the Rye,' 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' and 'The Bell Jar.'

Woo.

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cat_eared_L

Yay! Other people read!

The Bell Jar is one of my favorite books too. Sylvia Plath was amazing. :D