What's the best novel you've ever read?
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2021-02-12 11:58 am
What's the "best" food you've ever eaten? What's the "best" place you've ever been? What's the "best" piece of music you've ever heard? What's the "best" piece of artwork you've ever seen?
There's black comedy, historical fiction, horror, fantasy, meta-fiction, mystery, romance, satire, science fiction, thrillers, and many, many more when it comes to the different types of novels out there. How might one go about comparing something like "The Ascent of Rum Doodle" to "Ironweed" or "A Christmas Carol" to "The Road"?
Raymond Chandler is wonderful, but let's face it, he wasn't in the same league as Proust. Does that mean that Proust was "better" - because his prose was superior? Does that mean that Henry James ought to be considered to be "better" than Bukowski and that Faulkner must be "better" than Will Self?
How could anybody go about beginning to draw up the criteria for how to weigh Bradbury against Dickens or Graham Greene against Murakami?
Louis-Ferdinand Céline's "Journey to the End of the Night" has been my FAVOURITE novel since I was a teenager, but it would be ridiculous to claim that it's the "best" novel I've ever read. What about Nabokov's "Pale Fire"? Malcolm Lowry's "Under the Volcano"? Günter Grass's "The Tin Drum"?
Graham Greene, Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, Cormac McCarthy, John Steinbeck, those blokes are responsible for some very exciting novels.
Evelyn Waugh is hilarious.
Murakami is magical.
How could you choose just one from all of those writers and say "This one is the best"?
You can't. Nobody can.
There is no "best" and there never can be. Not definitively anyway.
There's black comedy, historical fiction, horror, fantasy, meta-fiction, mystery, romance, satire, science fiction, thrillers, and many, many more when it comes to the different types of novels out there. How might one go about comparing something like "The Ascent of Rum Doodle" to "Ironweed" or "A Christmas Carol" to "The Road"?
Raymond Chandler is wonderful, but let's face it, he wasn't in the same league as Proust. Does that mean that Proust was "better" - because his prose was superior? Does that mean that Henry James ought to be considered to be "better" than Bukowski and that Faulkner must be "better" than Will Self?
How could anybody go about beginning to draw up the criteria for how to weigh Bradbury against Dickens or Graham Greene against Murakami?
Louis-Ferdinand Céline's "Journey to the End of the Night" has been my FAVOURITE novel since I was a teenager, but it would be ridiculous to claim that it's the "best" novel I've ever read. What about Nabokov's "Pale Fire"? Malcolm Lowry's "Under the Volcano"? Günter Grass's "The Tin Drum"?
Graham Greene, Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, Cormac McCarthy, John Steinbeck, those blokes are responsible for some very exciting novels.
Evelyn Waugh is hilarious.
Murakami is magical.
How could you choose just one from all of those writers and say "This one is the best"?
You can't. Nobody can.
There is no "best" and there never can be. Not definitively anyway.
2021-02-14 3:03 pm
1984 and Atlas Shrugged
2021-02-12 5:28 pm
1984 by George Orwell. That book becomes more and more relevant each year.
2021-02-13 11:44 am
1. Anna Karenina
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. The Great Gatsby
4. One Hundred Years of Solitude
5. A Passage to India
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. The Great Gatsby
4. One Hundred Years of Solitude
5. A Passage to India
2021-02-12 11:12 am
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.
2021-02-14 11:24 pm
1984 and Atlas Shrugged
2021-02-12 9:46 pm
I can name a few favorites, but as Andrew said, I can't label one "the best".
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome.
Pride and Prejudice and Emma by Jane Austen.
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
A Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer
Elizabeth of York by Alison Weir.
Henry VIII and his Six Wives by David Starkey.
The early Rumpole of the Bailey books by John Mortimer
One Thousand White Women: the Journals of Mary Dowd : a novel. by Jim Fergus
There was a novel about John C. Fremont that I read in the late 1980s or early 1990s that was engrossing. I can't remember the title or the author now
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome.
Pride and Prejudice and Emma by Jane Austen.
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
A Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer
Elizabeth of York by Alison Weir.
Henry VIII and his Six Wives by David Starkey.
The early Rumpole of the Bailey books by John Mortimer
One Thousand White Women: the Journals of Mary Dowd : a novel. by Jim Fergus
There was a novel about John C. Fremont that I read in the late 1980s or early 1990s that was engrossing. I can't remember the title or the author now
2021-02-12 11:54 pm
best novel:
Don Quixote
best play:
A Midsummer Night's Dream
best book for children and teenagers:
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone J. K. Rowling
A Tale of Two Cities and The Lord of the Rings are also great
Don Quixote
best play:
A Midsummer Night's Dream
best book for children and teenagers:
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone J. K. Rowling
A Tale of Two Cities and The Lord of the Rings are also great
2021-02-14 9:19 am
My favorite Novel (series) is Harry Potter book three. The reason is I love the answer and story of Rowling's imagination!
2021-02-17 7:00 pm
Hi Words,
How Beautiful We Were, by Imbolo Mbue.
So begins Imbolo Mbue's powerful 2021 second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells of a people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile.
It is the best novel, I have ever read.
How Beautiful We Were, by Imbolo Mbue.
So begins Imbolo Mbue's powerful 2021 second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells of a people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile.
It is the best novel, I have ever read.
2021-02-15 4:51 am
The highlanders bride
2021-02-13 8:13 am
Catch-22 is my favorite.
2021-02-12 3:51 pm
Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
2021-02-15 4:12 pm
novel , rise and fall of trump , by pelosi and biden , good fiction and funny , like the pictures of an old witch on a broom stick yelling We will get you Trump , rather funny . wicked witch of the west .
2021-02-15 1:21 am
The Stranger- Camus
Siddhartha- Hesse
Atlas Shrugged- Rand
Candide- Voltaire
Siddhartha- Hesse
Atlas Shrugged- Rand
Candide- Voltaire
2021-02-14 4:27 pm
My #1 Novel (arrangement) is Harry Potter book three. The explanation is I love the appropriate response and story of Rowling's creative mind
2021-02-12 11:00 am
I think it was the second or third novel in the Koban series by Stephen W. Bennett.
2021-02-13 3:29 am
Les Miserables. It was excellent.
2021-02-12 1:59 pm
The Firm
might be the only book i read cover to cover
Jurasik park i didnt finish.
might be the only book i read cover to cover
Jurasik park i didnt finish.
2021-02-16 2:14 pm
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
2021-02-16 4:23 am
I've read too many great ones to rank them, but my favorite is Giuseppe di Lampedusa's "The Leopard," which I've read in both English and Italian.
2021-02-16 1:49 am
Short Stories But True by Sabino Rosa
is wonderful
is wonderful
2021-02-15 4:18 am
The Night Piece by André Alexis
2021-02-15 4:09 am
Here is a list of 12 novels that, for various reasons, have been considered some of the greatest works of literature ever written.
Anna Karenina. Greta Garbo in Anna Karenina.
To Kill a Mockingbird. To Kill a Mockingbird.
The Great Gatsby. F.
One Hundred Years of Solitude.
A Passage to India.
Invisible Man.
Don Quixote.
Beloved.
Anna Karenina. Greta Garbo in Anna Karenina.
To Kill a Mockingbird. To Kill a Mockingbird.
The Great Gatsby. F.
One Hundred Years of Solitude.
A Passage to India.
Invisible Man.
Don Quixote.
Beloved.
2021-02-14 11:57 pm
I might have a favorite, but I could never objectively rule something like that "the best".
2021-02-14 7:12 pm
Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice.
2021-02-14 12:52 am
The ***** and the policemen country
2021-02-13 7:57 am
The Brothers Karamazov
2021-02-13 7:51 am
GONE WITH THE WIND.
2021-02-16 2:03 am
Short Stories But True by Sabino Rosa
is wonderful and you can find it even likes
is wonderful and you can find it even likes
2021-02-14 5:49 pm
harry potter book
2021-02-14 5:14 pm
Jane Eyre is the best novel you've ever read?
2021-02-13 1:21 pm
A Take of Two Cities
The Scarlett Letter
To Kill A Mockingbird
Crime and Punishment
The Scarlett Letter
To Kill A Mockingbird
Crime and Punishment
2021-02-15 2:00 pm
'The merchant of Venice' by Shakespeare
2021-02-14 9:53 am
I do not read novels
2021-02-13 3:22 am
Never read one before. But yeah there are a lot of good ones.
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