What are your all-time favorite novels??

Wodehouse has a fascist character he regularly lampoons - he is not Nazi

Oh wait I forgot...100 Years of Solitude duhhhh, read it at 13 and it exploded my little brain

And I also forgot Tristram Shandy!!! Shit!!! That's top 5 for sure.

FUCK how could I forget Shandy

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Except when he was doing propaganda broadcasts for the Germans?

Roderick Spode is a great character, and a very precise skewering of Oswald Moseley.

Despite what Wodehouse may have gone on to do.

Reading the transcripts of the broadcasts now and I can see there might've been another side to it but really, unless he was doing them at gunpoint, it was ill-advised. Anyway like I said this has nothing to do with his merits as a writer.

You.

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sigh. [saying something is] not equal to [saying it's special].

My favourite poet had a bit of a problem with the old "not doing propaganda broadcasts for fascist regimes" thing too.

John Hegley?

The fact that I have to include every book B.S. Johnson ever wrote over and above almost everything else kind of forced me to exclude some of the other books which I will love forever - both Tristram Shandy and Don Quixote would be in there, along with Pale Fire and Ben Marcus' Notable American Women (I prefer The Age of Wire and String but it's sometimes marketed as short stories - it is better taken as a novel, I think).

xp I think he means me.

Who the heckers is Ezra Hash?

Oh I think Possession might be one of my fave novels ever too.

Ezra Octothorpe

lol on american keyboards, the pound stirling sign on the 3 key comes out as a hash when shift-pressed

Wtf, you guys call it a hash?

Yeah. And we call muffins snuggle-dumplings.

wait isn't that what we call "the pound sign?" makes sense that you'd have to call it something else in england!

Britain makes a hash of it again amirite

I think Diary of a Nobody by Grossmith deserves an honourable mention of all novels not yet listed.

Thing is that Three Men In A Boat completely pwns Diary Of A Nobody in the whole Victorian lulz stakes, without remorse or mercy

Haven't read it though.

(Have just ordered on amazon.)

Wait, Americans, we are talking about this sign: #, right? The slanty noughts and crosses board? You don't call that a pound sign do you?

Mr. Hoy, let me know when you stop lolling. I predict some point mid-2010.

Noodle: yes, we do

Oh wow. Mind blown.

ok, now i get the confusion. for a minute i thought britain had converted to an all-hash economy.

lol that'd be the day eh

(also i think twitter is going to cement 'hash' for # in the american vernacular.)

this is like my bafflement at the number of British posters on the "TACOS vs HOT DOGS" thread who were like "uh what's a taco"

Srsly? There's no excuse for that other than wilful ignorance.

oh hang on was it pinefox?

can deal with tacos, not so corndogs, i look at a corndog and i want to drink tea and watch cricket until i've forgotten it ever invaded my consciousness

Corndogs are aight, I don't ever crave one tho.

Ishmael Reed - Mumbo Jumbo
Alfred Bester - the Stars My Destination
GGM - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None
Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited

hoos cheated - i would have immediately put jesus' son by denis johnson too, but it's really a short story collection, not a novel

i also forgot
factotum by bukowski
behind the scenes at the museum - kate atkinson
wide sargasso sea - jean rhys
hey, nostradamus - douglas coupland

oh hang on was it pinefox?

hahaha no, it wasn't pinefox! (actually it was only one person who said it twice but still)

But we have Chiquito's and everything! Tell you the truth I'm not sure if they do tacos but taco shells are freely available from most supermarkets.

I wouldn't vote on that poll anyway because all Britishes hotdogs are without exception terrible.

As is all Britishes Tex-Mex food I imagine.

Not Mrs Vague's cornbread tho. That's pretty good.

I ate at this place near Covent Garden that was actually pretty tasty! They had like a billion different tequilas and was a lot of fun.

(mexican food, I should clarify; their fajitas were v.v. good)

i love how even a thread on books can turn into a thread on tacos

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Yeah I'm sure London's got some dece places. Hull not so much.

if salinger's franny & zooey and seymour:an introduction/raise high the roofbeam, carpenters then i'll add both those to my list, as well

*count as novels

yeah those count