[PJ-Comix]

What are your nominations for Best Novel Ever Written? I just don't think any novel was better written than From Here To Eternity. That book affected me at many levels.

[luvbach1]

Forgot to mention The Naked and The Dead. Very good. Norman Mailer shot his wad on that one. He had something to say in Naked, and said it. It's been so much blather ever since.

[WillaJohns]

"The Count of Monte Crisco," by Dumas

"The Floating Opera," by John Barth

[Born on the Storm King]

I am amazed nobody here mentioned The Thin Red Line and Whistle, the second and third books of James Jones's fabulous From Here to Eternity trilogy!

The best novel I ever read was Once an Eagle by Anton Myrer.

[StoneColdGOP]

The Count of Monte Cristo, and it's lesser known sequel, The King of Las Vegas probably top my list. But also on my list....

Dracula
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Wuthering Heights
War of the Worlds
The Time Machine
Red Storm Rising
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[Aquinasfan]

Brothers Karamazov. It's not as pretentious and boring as it sounds. In fact, it seems to me to be more "modern" than modern novels. Best one I've read anyway.

[rightinalabama]

Gone with the Wind
Pride and Prejudice

and for pure pleasure... any Janet Evanovich mystery!

Sorry, intellectuals!

[belleoftheball414]

My favorites, in no particular order:

Jane Eyre

Cold Mountain

Atlas Shrugged

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (a brilliant novel ( ;)

Oliver Twist

Au Revoir,

*Belle

[Argh]

Not a novel, but the best book I ever read was Dante's work now known as The Divine Comedy. For the most enjoyable read (not the same as what I thought was the best, of course), I'm with the LOTR crew here. However, you've sold me on giving From Here To Eternity a try.

[Tony in Hawaii]

I'm just wondering if Newt Gingrich ever wrote the sequel to 1945.
I'm still waiting to see how that cliffhanger ending came out.

[kev_bad]

top 10 novels ever written
10)The Maltese Faclon
9)An American Tragedy
8)1984
7)A Seperate Peace
6)To Kill a Mockingbird
5)From Here to Eternity
4)Catch-22
3)Cat's Cradle
2)The Catcher in the Rye
1)On the Road

[RosieCotton]

My absolute favorite novel, bar none, is Kristin Lavransdatter. It's also about three bazillion pages long...but as a LOTR fan, I guess that fits pretty well into my world. ;-)

[M Kehoe]

Good thread.

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