Ah this takes me back to the days of English Literature at college...whiling away the afternoon in the pub, discussing the relative merits of Mr. Huxley, Mr. Orwell, Mr. Conrad, drinking cheap red wine and smoking rough French cigarettes, exchanging witticisms and banter with the barstaff.
Ok, ok, in reality we used to have far too much continental lager and play pool all afternoon but that doesn't sound nearly as romantic, does it?
Anyway, enough of that...best books ever, you say? It is, of course, going to be rather subjective - what I rate highly might well be described as the needless genocide of perfectly good trees by someone else, but my selections would be as follows:
"Lord of the Flies" - Huxley
"One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest" - Kesey
"The Plague" - Camus
"The Dice Man" - Reinhart
"Girlfriend In A Coma" - Coupland
"1984" - Orwell
"The Bell Jar" - Plath
"The Color Purple" - Walker
"Crime & Punishment" - Dostoyevsky
"Novel With Cocaine" - Ageyev
"Naked Lunch" - Burroughs
"On The Road" - Kerouac
All fairly predictable stuff, I'm afraid, but good reads nonetheless.
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