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Which is the best novel ever written ?

 
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Harry Potter is the most effective occult/Satanism recruitment tool ever devised, and it's designed to get our youth into it at a young age.
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"War and Peace" is pretty darn good.

"Atlas Shrugged" is up there too.
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Have you read ANTHEM by Rand?
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No...I try to read what are widely considered the best novels by a variety of writers, rather than devoting my limited time to one author, especially when we are talking tome-length novels like these. (Note: I read ALL of C.S. Lewis's Narnia series though, when I was a kid. Series are different.)
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Harry Potter is the most effective occult/Satanism recruitment tool ever devised, and it's designed to get our youth into it at a young age.
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"The Stand"...not so much, but a lot of Stephen King's stuff could have the same said of it.
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Re: Which is the best novel ever written ?
"War and Peace" is pretty darn good.

"Atlas Shrugged" is up there too.
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Have you read ANTHEM by Rand?
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No...I try to read what are widely considered the best novels by a variety of writers, rather than devoting my limited time to one author, especially when we are talking tome-length novels like these. (Note: I read ALL of C.S. Lewis's Narnia series though, when I was a kid. Series are different.)
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It's like 65 pages long. Anyway, I always thought it was a great read.
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The Bible is the best book, but not a"novel". I don't know about best, but my favorite novel is Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell.
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Re: Which is the best novel ever written ?
"War and Peace" is pretty darn good.

"Atlas Shrugged" is up there too.
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Have you read ANTHEM by Rand?
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No...I try to read what are widely considered the best novels by a variety of writers, rather than devoting my limited time to one author, especially when we are talking tome-length novels like these. (Note: I read ALL of C.S. Lewis's Narnia series though, when I was a kid. Series are different.)
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It's like 65 pages long. Anyway, I always thought it was a great read.
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I'll look for it. Started "The Fountainhead" once, but never finished.
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Have you read ANTHEM by Rand?
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No...I try to read what are widely considered the best novels by a variety of writers, rather than devoting my limited time to one author, especially when we are talking tome-length novels like these. (Note: I read ALL of C.S. Lewis's Narnia series though, when I was a kid. Series are different.)
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It's like 65 pages long. Anyway, I always thought it was a great read.
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I'll look for it. Started "The Fountainhead" once, but never finished.
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Lol same here!
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Being a sci-fi fan The Stand is my all time favorite read. Any of the Dark Tower books were well worth the time spent, tho the first 3 were especially good. Stephen King, for a liberal idiot, has a real knack for story telling. I think he is a heavy pot smoker and the weed is his muse. Thinking of books like Misery and The Shining really make me appreciate his dark, twisted ability to paint a picture in ones mind. His newer stuff seems to not pack the punch of his older stories, tho I have to admit I haven't read any of his newer stuff after say Bag of Bones. Desperation and The Regulators are some of the newer ones that are worth a glance. I wouldn't consider the Bible a novel, and wouldn't waste my time with a Harry Potter book. I did read The Lord of the Rings while in jail in my youth and found that to be very enjoyable, tho if I recall correctly it is written in an early English style that was hard to follow, been awhile tho, I may not be remembering that one correctly. The Bible and a wonderful Christian woman, who I was foolish enough to let get away, are the reasons I'm not still in jail, so I have to look at that book as a life altering read, anyone struggling with life would do well to open it up and find what The Lord has to offer them.
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Lies , falsehoods and belittling is the bibles stories , believe what you want grasshopper
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The Bible is the best book, but not a"novel". I don't know about best, but my favorite novel is Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell.
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Of course it's a novel ! Show me any proof it's true , you can't ,can you ? Without quoting some bible bs to back you up . Santa will come to you in a few days , ask him !
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Dark side of the moon..easily
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No...I try to read what are widely considered the best novels by a variety of writers, rather than devoting my limited time to one author, especially when we are talking tome-length novels like these. (Note: I read ALL of C.S. Lewis's Narnia series though, when I was a kid. Series are different.)
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It's like 65 pages long. Anyway, I always thought it was a great read.
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I'll look for it. Started "The Fountainhead" once, but never finished.
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Lol same here!
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LOL...she can get a bit pedantic and gloomy, huh? She also seems to totally lack ANY sense of Christian compassion. Too much isn't good, but neither is NONE. If you like Rand, you really should give "The Dodders of the Flax" series a shot. It's like $3 on Amazon.
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Tried to read Moby Dick but needed a dictionary beside me for every other word.
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Tried to read Moby Dick but needed a dictionary beside me for every other word.
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Keep at it. It is SO important that we not be disconnected from our past!! SOOOOO important. The language gets trickier and trickier as you go back in time, but it's well worth it, and the more you do it the better it goes.
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It's like 65 pages long. Anyway, I always thought it was a great read.
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I'll look for it. Started "The Fountainhead" once, but never finished.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76012464


Lol same here!
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LOL...she can get a bit pedantic and gloomy, huh? She also seems to totally lack ANY sense of Christian compassion. Too much isn't good, but neither is NONE. If you like Rand, you really should give "The Dodders of the Flax" series a shot. It's like $3 on Amazon.
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That's what Rand is known for; her complete lack of altruism. She even speaks about this in her interviews. And she thought architecture was amazing and defined humanity.
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The Official 9/11 report.
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Tried to read Moby Dick but needed a dictionary beside me for every other word.
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Keep at it. It is SO important that we not be disconnected from our past!! SOOOOO important. The language gets trickier and trickier as you go back in time, but it's well worth it, and the more you do it the better it goes.
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I don't know, if the past molded this here present time then maybe the past is the reason for this fucked up time line (though, personally I don't care because I understand this human experience is a learning lesson). In other words, I'm not convinced the people in the past did such a good job.
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Tried to read Moby Dick but needed a dictionary beside me for every other word.
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Keep at it. It is SO important that we not be disconnected from our past!! SOOOOO important. The language gets trickier and trickier as you go back in time, but it's well worth it, and the more you do it the better it goes.




P.S. Melville (and many of his contemporaries) were strongly influenced by anti-Christian "higher criticism"and "Transcendentalism." While some say Melville and Hawthorne were "anti-transcendentalists" they are still steeped in that tradition.

IMHO, good books need not be EITHER strongly anti-religious or pro-religious to be good. But there have been (and continue to be) very strong anti-Christian biases at most mainstream big-time publishing companies.

IMHO..."Mpby Dick" is slightly over-rated, and there are not all these "layers of meaning" in it that some lit profs try to portray.
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Re: Which is the best novel ever written ?
*Moby*
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Not one of the choices but,

Atlas Shrugged.
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Tried to read Moby Dick but needed a dictionary beside me for every other word.
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Keep at it. It is SO important that we not be disconnected from our past!! SOOOOO important. The language gets trickier and trickier as you go back in time, but it's well worth it, and the more you do it the better it goes.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76012464


I don't know, if the past molded this here present time then maybe the past is the reason for this fucked up time line (though, personally I don't care because I understand this human experience is a learning lesson). In other words, I'm not convinced the people in the past did such a good job.
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That's why it's so important. We must read them (in addition to modeling their positive accomplishments,) to AVOID THEIR ERRORS and to attempt a better way forward.
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Harry Potter is the most effective occult/Satanism recruitment tool ever devised, and it's designed to get our youth into it at a young age.
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If the number 666 is considered evil.
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The Bible or Harry Potter ?
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Bible. It blew me away. I had no idea and regret I did not read it earlier. As I read it I could see world events jumping before my eyes. It takes a bit to get used to it but if you keep pushing yourself it is no longer difficult. The KJV is unbelievably amazing. The Book of Enoch is another good read.
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The Official 9/11 report.
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LOL...now THAT is funny...
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I'll look for it. Started "The Fountainhead" once, but never finished.
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Lol same here!
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LOL...she can get a bit pedantic and gloomy, huh? She also seems to totally lack ANY sense of Christian compassion. Too much isn't good, but neither is NONE. If you like Rand, you really should give "The Dodders of the Flax" series a shot. It's like $3 on Amazon.
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That's what Rand is known for; her complete lack of altruism. She even speaks about this in her interviews. And she thought architecture was amazing and defined humanity.
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Yep. She and Albert Speer would have been soul mates.
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The Color Purple

Duh!
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Dickens is still a king of the English novel, too.

David Copperfield
Tale of Two Cities
Great Expectations

One rare author I've made an exception for and by whom I've read several novels.
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Didn't read them all.

My favorite is the trilogy
The Three Musketeers
Twenty Years After
The Vicomte de Bragelonne
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Kind of on topic, kind of off, but if you like poetry, there are some surprisingly good poets here on GLP:

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