ITT: Perfect books

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>>8989012

Treasure Island is a perfect fucking book.

On the honest crew's side you have: captain smollett's strength and authority, Dr. Livesey's wisdom and cunning, and Jim's bravery and sheer luck.
Long John is so incredible because he possesses all of these attributes in himself alone, while not being written as a mary sue.

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Always loved adventure and fantasy.

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1984 because as I got older it grew more complex, it both taught me how to read as a kid and never became juvenile as an adult. It's a good delusion, love story, societal critique, warning, and parable. I think it's overplayed as /reddit/ and a children's book on /lit/, as I would agree with most books lumped into that category (Ender's Game, Hitchhikers, Vonnegut), and most intelligent teenagers have already read 1984 by the age of 16, but I think I'd enjoy it equally as much after moving on to works written in higher style and more grandiose ambitions.

Also, on its style, I think it is the most effective use of middle style in a novel.

>>8989079
Yeah, I've never had a novel change on me between readings as 1984. As a kid I was real in to technological control of a people. On second reading I was more impressed by the delineations of power relations. Also having sex changed it a bit.

>>8989054
Oath, great world building. Story is badass too