favorite short novel
favorite short novel
#0favorite short novel
Posted: 9/16/04 at 6:07pmI am looking for a short novel to read (150-200-ish pages). I'm basically open to anything. So any ideas?
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Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#1re: favorite short novel
Posted: 9/16/04 at 6:14pmTommy's Tale by Alan Cumming. It's a really cool book with a bunch of juicy stuff packed into it! It's also a pretty quick read.
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#2re: favorite short novel
Posted: 9/16/04 at 6:16pm
Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck)
Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury)
The Old Man and the Sea (Hemmingway)
The Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis)
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popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#3re: favorite short novel
Posted: 9/16/04 at 6:22pmhow about The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King or The Comfort Of Strangers by Ian McEwan?
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Type_A_Tiff
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/25/04
#4re: favorite short novel
Posted: 9/16/04 at 6:52pmI second Fahrenheit 451.
"It's not always about you!!!" (But if you think I'm referring to you anyway, then I probably am.)
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"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater
"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell
touchmeinthemorning
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
#5re: favorite short novel
Posted: 9/16/04 at 6:57pmhouse of sand and fog
"Fundamentalism means never having to say 'I'm wrong.'"
-- unknown
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#6re: favorite short novel
Posted: 9/16/04 at 7:06pm
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (beautiful, as well as hysterically funny)
Perfume by Patrick Suskind (a bit over 200 pages, but brilliant)
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
The Portrait of an Artist As A Young Man by Joyce
Candide by Voltaire
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Type_A_Tiff
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/25/04
#7re: favorite short novel
Posted: 9/16/04 at 7:08pm
Good call, MC. I'd also recommend The Dubliners from Joyce, then you have a selection of short stories.
And this is where my knowledge of short novels peters out. I have to get back to "The Phantom in Manhattan". Has anyone read this? It's appallingly bad. It's supposed to supplement POTO. Why god why?!
"It's not always about you!!!" (But if you think I'm referring to you anyway, then I probably am.)
"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater
"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell
"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater
"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell
#8re: favorite short novel
Posted: 9/16/04 at 7:21pm
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
(I know Margo already said it but its one of my favorite books of all time.)
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#9re: favorite short novel
Posted: 9/16/04 at 7:24pm
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Balzac....Seamstress
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TheGirlinTheFrock
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/26/04
#10re: favorite short novel
Posted: 9/16/04 at 7:24pm
The Outsiders
One of my favorite books, i read it in one day and reread it about once every 2 months
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#11re: favorite short novel
Posted: 9/16/04 at 7:27pmWow that's so funny, The Outsiders IS my favorite book (followed by Les Mis and Dorian Gray) I just never remember how short it really is. I've read that book at least 10 times.
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Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#12re: favorite short novel
Posted: 9/16/04 at 7:33pm
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S by Truman Capote
DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE by Robert Louis Stevenson
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#13re: favorite short novel
Posted: 9/16/04 at 7:59pmTIM, by Colleen McCollough - the most beautiful love story I've ever read.
#14re: favorite short novel
Posted: 9/16/04 at 8:11pmTo Kill a Mockingbird.....
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#15re: favorite short novel
Posted: 9/16/04 at 8:16pmSLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE. Great, great, great, great novel
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#17re: favorite short novel
Posted: 9/16/04 at 9:57pm
Night (Elie Wiesel)
awesome Holocaust book (109 pages)
once you start reading its hard to stop... I read it in less than an hour
#18re: favorite short novel
Posted: 9/16/04 at 10:03pmI read Night my freshman year of High School and I honestly didn't like it.
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#19re: favorite short novel
Posted: 9/16/04 at 10:12pmThe Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst. It's an amazingly thrilling book about a man who tries to solve a mystery by teaching his dog how to talk. It's a great book!
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millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#20re: favorite short novel
Posted: 9/16/04 at 10:33pm
I only read the Outsiders once, but remember liking it. I even got the movie recently from the library.
I have a habit of starting a book and never finishing it for awhile.
I used to love American Girls and Baby-Sitters Club! They are even making an American Girls movie, thanks to Julia Roberts.
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#21re: favorite short novel
Posted: 9/16/04 at 10:35pmhaha i remember i had to read the outsiders at the end of 8th grade. It was at the end of the year so it didnt matter if we finished or not. and still to this day, i have no idea what happens in the end. hahaha thanks for all these suggestions!
"Chicago is it's own incredible theater town right there smack down in the middle of the heartland. What a great city! I can see why Oprah likes to live there!" - Dee Hoty :-D
Mythus
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
#22re: favorite short novel
Posted: 9/16/04 at 10:37pm
I can't remember how short it is, but I definitely reccommend The Last Book In The Universe by Rodman Philbrick. It's one of my favorites.
I checked, it's 224 pages...but it's still a good read.
#23re: favorite short novel
Posted: 9/16/04 at 10:49pmI love "The Last Book in the Universe"! It's a great book!
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NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#24re: favorite short novel
Posted: 9/16/04 at 10:50pmJonathan Livingston Seagull
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