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Well, here's the list so far. It looks decently sized:

David Mitchell-- Cloud Atlas,
Graham Swift-- Ever After,
A. S. Byatt--Possession,
John Fowles--French Lieutenant's Woman
Margaret...

Hi literature community! I used to believe that no good novels had been written since George Orwell wrote 1984 in 1948. Then over the last year I read a host of fantastic novels that had been written...

To have him notice, speak to me as if I really mattered in his life, after twelve years with him, that's all I want or need.---As for me and my house by Sinclair Ross

I've been reading some of Dickens' work lately, and I can't help but appreciate how he brings attention to kids. He was writing to adults mostly (well, to all ages), but all the novels of his that I...

Project gutenberg only carries books in the public domain.

And I didn't realize that about tuebl

Not the same thing but, for EPUB files: tuebl.ca and projectgutenberg.com

I'll take your word for it. You know more than I do

I like Ender's Game, it's pretty great. It's not about entertainment value alone though--the book creates dialogue about morality and the role of kids in society. It was hugely influential on other...

yeah I guess it doesn't make sense to smite a paper. I chose the word because it rhymed with written. That shows that I really am depending on rhyme to move the poem forwards, like you say. I don't...

I changed it up a bit:

Oh this paper is a blight,
Oh what topic should I write?

I wish you to be smitten
I wish you to be written

Come God with your insight
Guide me in this dim fight

Hey thanks for the input, guys! I see what you mean about line 3, and you're right, lines 7 and 8 sound pretty rough. I'll change it up a bit. And I don't mind the criticism, I'm an amateur poet.

Oh this paper is such a blight,
Oh what topic should I write?
Oh God bring me some might
So that I may end this fight
SO this paper may be written
So this issue may be smitten
It makes me a...

Read In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Also, look into the True Crime Genre, there will be others there.

Hey I recently read an old classic from the non-fiction world: the Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli. As you guys probably know, it talks about what a prince should be like. He should always be willing...

Hey everyone, I finished Les Miserables and it's great! It felt like the last three hundred pages flew by. It was engaging to the point of being epically intense, and the characters were so lovable...

Also, I realized that I was reading a version translated in the 1880s. After looking at the copy my sister owns I realized hers was translated in the 1970s. In the introduction to hers, the...

Thanks for your comments. I appreciate them, and after thinking about them, I've changed my mind. Hugo is not a bad author (and although I still don't like the tangents he goes off on, maybe I need...

I'm a huge fan of the musical Les Miserables. I love the music, the story, the characters, and because the movie version is coming out soon, I decided to read the book. I wish I hadn't. When he's...

I've decided to come clean on my intentions with this piece. I was Anthony, metaphorically, and I was portraying myself through the views of someone else. I wasn't trying to bash introverts or...

I think you should watch the films I listed. Honestly, the movies made by those directors are quite mentally engaging, you should watch them and find out how deep they are. In terms of depth of...

Mutatis-Mutandi, my point was that if we see the scripts for plays and call it literature, we could in theory do the same thing with the scripts for movies. Obviously the performance itself isn’t the...

opinions? thoughts? Anyone?

If plays are considered literature why aren't movies considered literature as well? In the same way that plays are meant to be seen, but are adapted from paper, movies are meant to be seen but are...

It could become Team Yorkshire.


Poet: Ted Hughes (or Andrew Marvell because I checked Wikipedia and saw that he was also from Yorkshire)
Playwright: Alan Bennett
Novelist: Charlotte Bronte...

How about Team Dublin
Poet: William Butler Yeats
Novelist: James Joyce
Playwright: George Bernard Shaw
Others: Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett