What is your favorite novel?

22  2014-12-15 by Bill_Murray2014

Apart from Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty Four, although feel free to mention them if you must.

I'm just curious to see what works of fiction conspiracy theorists generally read (please don't put the Commission Report or the NIST report as your favorite work of fiction, as funny as that would be ;) ).

Edit: Feel free to mention as many as you want by the way.

Edit: I'm not specifically looking for conspiracy related novels.

39 comments

3  Ambiguously_Ironic 2014-12-15

Always tough to pick a favorite but I've been reading a lot of Richard Yates lately - criminally under-rated in my opinion.

And PKD is always good if you feel like flexing the ol' imagination muscles a bit.

2  Bill_Murray2014 2014-12-15

PKD?

2  Ambiguously_Ironic 2014-12-15

Philip K. Dick - sci-fi writer.

0  northamerimassgrave 2014-12-15

PKD = eleven popular films based on his works have been produced, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report, Paycheck, Next, Screamers, The Adjustment Bureau and Impostor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubik

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle

3  AntiAntiDrug 2014-12-15

Fahrenheit 451 or catcher in the rye. I really identified with holden, but Fahrenheit 451 struck a nerve and I started my low tech trek after reading it.

3  ThingsIveSeenandDone 2014-12-15

Isaac Asimov books, especially the foundation series, and the end of eternity.

John Steinbeck - of mice and men, and east of Eden.

3  bgny 2014-12-15

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

1  Potbrowniebender 2014-12-15

That's mine too, read it in 3 days, I love grapes of wrath as well.

2  [deleted] 2014-12-15

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1  Bill_Murray2014 2014-12-15

Nice, sounds like that book covers some pretty interesting subjects, might give it a go.

2  reputable_opinion 2014-12-15

Catch22

1  Bill_Murray2014 2014-12-15

Good choice!

2  Dude_wtf_seriously 2014-12-15

Enders Game... as a conspiracy themed book its sort of a stretch but if you read the whole series youll see that Card understood the mentality of the conspirator doing evil for the greater good.

2  neverthatone 2014-12-15

The scene when bean sees through everything in enders shadow.

2  u03u 2014-12-15

I dont know if its considered a conspiracy theory novel but I enjoyed the book, One Second After.

1  Bill_Murray2014 2014-12-15

I wasn't specifically looking for conspiracy related novels. I'll check that book out.

1  u03u 2014-12-15

William Forstchen is the author. He also released an ebook recently about an isis attack in the states.

One Second After is about an emp.

2  RDS 2014-12-15

Ishmael - Daniel Quinn

2  SquareHimself 2014-12-15

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

It's... the most gripping novel I've ever had the pleasure of reading. Absolutely brilliant.

There's nothing else like it.

1  digdog303 2014-12-15

Stranger in a Strange Land is by far my favorite. I don't read much fiction but I devour sutra translations and other books on metaphysics, botany/permaculture/homesteading and Jung derivatives.

1  neverthatone 2014-12-15

Try variable star by heinlein and spider robinson

1  VinceVenom 2014-12-15

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets!

1  bagginse 2014-12-15

Germinal by Emile Zola https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germinal_%28novel%29

1  Tchocky 2014-12-15

The Clay Machine-Gun by Viktor Pelevin.

I actually think some of you guys might like it.

1  Lo0seR 2014-12-15

Barsoom series

1  buffshark 2014-12-15

VALIS by Phillip k dick!

1  CygnusX-1996 2014-12-15

Brothers Karamazov, it has conspiracy elements if you look for them, like the Grand Inquisitor chapter, Dostoevsky was a genius who, I believe, knew what was about to happen to his country (1917).

2  Bill_Murray2014 2014-12-15

I have read Crime and Punishment, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Defo need to read Brothers Karamazov.

1  noitingocatem 2014-12-15

The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly

1  glyix 2014-12-15

Secrets of the Federal Reserve - Eustace Mullins

Pawns in the Game - William Guy Carr

The Controversy of Zion - Douglas Reed

Murder by Injection - Eustace Mullins

Autobiography of a Yogi - Paramahansa Yogananda

Bloodlines of the Illuminati - Fritz Springmeier

The Bhagavad Gita

The Quran

The Curse of Canaan - Eustace Mullins

War is a Racket - Major General Smedly D. Butler

The International Jew, the collected works by Henry Ford

The China Study - T. Colin Campbell

The Operators - Michael Hastings

No particular order

0  sterreg 2014-12-15

Pretty much all good books... but theyre not novels. Novels are fiction

1  sudo-tleilaxu 2014-12-15

Dune - by Frank Herbert

I have read the series 3 times in my lifetime.

1  anarchopotato 2014-12-15

illuminatus trilogy

1  groupthinkgroupthink 2014-12-15

Roadside Picnic - Have read it 5 times, and love it each time.

Inspired the game Stalker.

There is also a movie, however, I would recommend watching the movie after reading the book.

Also, Horus Heresy Series

1  crvsh_von_crvshingto 2014-12-15

Brave New World

1  Myoldaccounthadkarma 2014-12-15

I feel like it would be hard for me not to say 1984.

1  suspiciouswhentailed 2014-12-15

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

1  33degree 2014-12-15

Philip K Dick!!! He is the best Sci-Fi novelist of all time and the FBI started following him after his book The Pentultimate Truth came out (Plot: The masses are stuck in underground bases thinking that a nuclear war has destroyed the surface. One man doesn't believe a war ever happened so he's trying to escape to the surface and find out the truth).

His whole body of work is amazing and mind bending but I would start with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep if you've never read any of his stuff before. One of my favorite lines from his book Ubik is "One day, we won't say that 'they're spying on me through my phone', we'll say, 'My phone is spying on me'." And there's also this one:

Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.

Pick up one of his books and never look back. Here's a link to the famous Rolling Stone feature he was in in the 70s: http://2010philipkdickfans.philipkdickfans.com/articles/PKD%20Rolling%20Stone%20article.pdf

1  make_mind_free2go 2014-12-15

it's difficult to pick out one favorite novel,

i read this everyday; "The Book of Awakening" by Mark Nepo, and no it's not about conspiracy ; )

i just started "Revival" by Stephen King (now, he's a favorite!), i've read that he wants to remake "The Stand" movie,

"Wool" by Hugh Howey - i discovered this just browsing, it was very good.

"In a ruined and toxic future, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Sheriff Holston, who has unwaveringly upheld the silo’s rules for years, unexpectedly breaks the greatest taboo of all: He asks to go outside."

"Daughter of Smoke & Bone" by Laini Taylor, first book of a trilogy,

"Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.

In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously low.

And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war."

0  [deleted] 2014-12-15

1984 - George Orwell Brave New World - Aldous Huxley The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee

and many more my brain has forgotten.