...darkly comedic WWII novel:
Catch-22 -OR- Slaughterhouse-Five?

...dystopian future novel:
Brave New World -OR- 1984?

Duuuude, A Clockwork Orange!!! No dystopian futuristic novel comes close to THAT one.

I like Catch 22 because its smarter in its humor (and, as arbitrary as it sounds, I think having seen the Slaughterhouse 5 movie before reading sullied my opinion)

I think 1984 is stronger, more daring. Brave New World to me is a little more muddled.

How about Gravity's Rainbow and Anthem?

If you are asking which is better, Gravity's Rainbow or Anthem, I'll go with GR. Anthem is a terrible book, by far the worst thing of Ayn Rand's I've ever read, which is saying something, cause I don't think anything of her's is very good.

This one is based on a conversation that LT and I were having earlier.

Which is the better Haruki Murakami book:

Hard Boild Wonderland and the End of the World or The Wind Up Bird Chronicle.

all are masterpieces by contemporary standards but...

1984 because it is the ultimate dystopia

Catch 22 because it remains the only book that I think was both hilarious and disturbing

That is quite a difficult question!!! I must say that Slaughterhouse Five had greater emotional impact and between the other two...well I guess I'll give it to BNW because it was written first.

Geez, tough call.

1984 because it of the impact it has had on our society and......

Catch 22, only because it is the book I remember the most and the absurdity of selling cotten in Italy for half the price you buy it in Egyt, because in the end, we all win........... but could be easily Slaughterhouse for:

"Billy He came slightly unstuck in time, saw the late movie backwards, then forwards again. It was a movie about American bombers in the Second World War and the gallant men who flew. Seen backwards by Billy, the story went like this:"

and we all know what happens next

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Originally posted by Crash:
...darkly comedic WWII novel:
Catch-22 -OR- Slaughterhouse-Five?

...dystopian future novel:
Brave New World -OR- 1984?

Have you read Yevgeny Zamyatin's 'We'?

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Originally posted by Crash:
...darkly comedic WWII novel:
Catch-22 -OR- Slaughterhouse-Five?

...dystopian future novel:
Brave New World -OR- 1984?

Catch-22

1984, but I really didn't like either it or Brave New World. I'd have to go with A Clockwork Orange, too.

Catch-22, although Vonnegut has to be my favorite author ever.

Brave New World, the first great book I ever read.