<p>Also, The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald
The Metamorphosis by Kafka</p>
<p>Harry Potter Series
Dan Brown Books
Man Child in the Promise Land. by <em>i forgot</em>
Halo: The fall of Reach</p>
<p>I adored the following books/series for their writing style and storyline:</p>
<p>The Lord of the Rings -- J.R.R. Tolkien
Ender's Game / Ender's Shadow -- Orson Scott Card
This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Atlas Shrugged, We the Living, and The Fountainhead -- Ayn Rand
The Screwtape Letters -- C.S. Lewis
Anna Karenina -- Leo Tolstoy
The Picture of Dorian Gray -- Oscar Wilde
Violin -- Anne Rice
The Sound and the Fury -- William Faulkner</p>
<p>Medea -- Euripides
The Crucible -- Arthur Miller</p>
<p>Confederacy of Dunces was amazing, so was The Sun Also Rises and anything Vonnegut</p>
<p>2001: A Space Odyssey was amazing. The visual image of a lone spacecraft around the orbit of Jupiter with two people and an evil computer is just breathtaking. :)</p>
<p>any book written in a CYOA style!</p>
<p>qwilde, I enjoyed The Stranger...but not as much as the Plague. I felt like The Stranger would have been better served as a short story than as a novel.<br>
Just my opinion, though </p>
<p>johnnzen: what is CYOA?</p>
<p>Ooh, and taggart: THE CRUCIBLE! I loved it. After we read it last year in AP English we saw a local theater group perform it. It was amazing.</p>
<p>Johnny Got His Gun- Dalton Trumbo
The Trial- Franz Kafka</p>
<p>I liked Crime and Punishment...but I have a confession, I listened to it on tape...well, iPod :p</p>
<p>That's blasphemy mollypockets.</p>
<p>haha, which bit? The jab at Camus or listening to C&P on my iPod? </p>
<p>sidenote: if you listen to audiobooks on your iPod, you have the option of hearing then at 133% of normal speed. Talk about efficiency!</p>
<p>how bout this for blasphemy? i din't like crime and punishment O.O.</p>
<p>I really love the classic Russian novels. Anna Karenina=the best.</p>
<p>Plus Ayn Rand. Atlas Shrugged was giant (I dropped the paperback and got a bruise on my foot) but it was totally awesome.</p>
<p>On the scale of blasphemy they are equal...right along with watching the movie or perusing through sparknotes instead of reading the book.</p>
<p>=]. I can't really call myself an objectivist, or if so, a very superficial one at best. However, I love her style and mode of presentation. Same with Fitzgerald. There aren't many literary works I'd call beautiful, but I believe the two of them at least have achieved that status in their novels.</p>
<p>I don't really like Jane Austin. I've always felt her books weren't really worth reading, being up to its bindings in flippancy and melodramatic peppiness, if that makes sense.</p>
<p>/spam</p>
<p>Eeegad! Never! Listening to an unabridged version is infinitely less horrible than watching an adapted, loosely similar version made for the silver screen (or worse....TV!).</p>
<p>I resent that.</p>
<p>Plus, I'm pretty sure Meursault had Asperger's. Seriously. That got a little old.
[I have this odd habit of diagnosing fictional characters with diseases, haha]</p>
<p>Taggart: What about Sense and Sensibility?</p>
<p>Mollypockets</p>
<p><obseravtion> I rarely see the expression "egad' in the U.S. Although, I almost entirely agree, some credit is owed to the theatrical production of Pride and Prejudice starring Keira Knightley.</obseravtion></p>
<p>It actually seems that quite a few characters suffer from ASD.</p>
<p>haha, yeah, I've been watching a lot of bbc or something I guess :p</p>
<p>And you mean just Camus' characters, or as a generality? I was actually working on an independent research project for a while (until I came to my senses, haha! no time!), attempting to show that Camus himself may have had some degree of ASD.</p>