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Mickey · **Posted:** Tue Jun 13, 2006 3:45 pm

Those are my two picks.

Garden of Stone · **Posted:** Tue Jun 13, 2006 3:47 pm

Mickey · **Posted:** Tue Jun 13, 2006 3:53 pm

Catcher is good, but best ever? No. Never read Gatsby.

Peeps · **Joined:** Sun Oct 17, 2004 6:15 am **Posts:** 33031

i did reports on three of those (catcher in the rye being the odd man out)

id go with gatsby

Ricardo Tubbs · **Joined:** Thu Dec 02, 2004 6:08 pm **Posts:** 8255

my favorites include:
Gatsby
A Farewell to Arms
Moby Dick
Huck Finn

jwfocker · **Posted:** Tue Jun 13, 2006 4:07 pm

Ricardo Tubbs wrote:

my favorites include:
Gatsby
A Farewell to Arms
Moby Dick
Huck Finn

Toss up between Catcher and Gatsby, Catcher had the biggest influence on American literature and in our overall writing. The idea of feeling like an outsider, lost in the world has been used countless times. Gatsby was, well, just fucking good and it's the best work in my opinion about the American dream.

diaglo · **Posted:** Tue Jun 13, 2006 5:45 pm

Catcher is one of my favorite books, and Gatsby is excellent.

To Kill a Mockingbird takes the top spot for me.

bondcfh007 · **Posted:** Tue Jun 13, 2006 6:09 pm

Catch-22, hands down, pinches.

sportsfreakpete6 · **Posted:** Tue Jun 13, 2006 6:09 pm

diaglo wrote:

Catcher is one of my favorite books, and Gatsby is excellent.

To Kill a Mockingbird takes the top spot for me.

Big Pink · **Joined:** Wed Aug 10, 2005 7:55 pm **Posts:** 1712

Thomas Wolfe - You Can't Go Home Again
Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
Salinger - Catcher in the Rye

Blind Melvana · **Posted:** Tue Jun 13, 2006 6:12 pm

Mickey wrote:

That's my pick.

Garden of Stone · **Posted:** Tue Jun 13, 2006 6:14 pm

diaglo wrote:

To Kill a Mockingbird takes the top spot for me.

That's a great one too.

Ensign9 · **Posted:** Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:58 pm

Ilium · **Posted:** Tue Jun 13, 2006 9:52 pm

Moby Dick is my pick

If I had to choose the greatest novel written in english, then Ulysses wins easily

parchy · **Joined:** Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:50 am **Posts:** 11842

Ensign9 wrote:

You obviously never read Horror at Camp Jellyjam

Go_State · **Posted:** Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:00 pm

I'll toss in another vote for Gatsby.

Mickey · **Posted:** Wed Jun 14, 2006 12:18 am

jwfocker wrote:

Ricardo Tubbs wrote:

my favorites include:
Gatsby
A Farewell to Arms
Moby Dick
Huck Finn

Toss up between Catcher and Gatsby, Catcher had the biggest influence on American literature and in our overall writing. The idea of feeling like an outsider, lost in the world has been used countless times. Gatsby was, well, just fucking good and it's the best work in my opinion about the American dream.

Ok, but the question was what is the best American written novel, not the one that had the greatest influence. Catch-22 and All The King's Men's style of prose is, in my opinion, far superior to that of Catcher. Not only that, but both novels involve a complex storyline that ties together completely in the end, so that every little occurance has a deeper meaning, a feat that Catcher doesn't even come close to.

energystar · **Posted:** Wed Jun 14, 2006 12:33 am

Ahem...

But seriously, I'll pitch this one.

jeremyvedder · **Posted:** Wed Jun 14, 2006 1:02 am

even though this isn't a novel

or

Too Big a Man Too Say · **Posted:** Wed Jun 14, 2006 1:05 am

Ensign9 wrote:

hahaha

The Greatest American Novel

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