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Reading my way through the Modern Library 100 Best Novels, there are actually 121 books, to get all pedantic like:

U.S.A: a trilogy
Studs Lonigan: tree books as well (excuse el àrbol,...

Thanks for your review and thoughts Prendrelemick.

Just finished the three books of 18Q4 a couple of weeks back, and was mightily impressed with them. In fact, I might go as far to say they're a...

Gilliatt,

Dear sir, how pleased I am to hear that you are contemplating Bendico has a possible appellation for your next quadruped, and I trust that there were no sour grapes in your...

What thinks you Gilliat, the last paragraph, Bendicó's final airborne imprecation with the right foreleg?

The motives for marriage of the four central characters, Dorothea, Casaubon, Rosamond, and Lydgate all have the reader convinced of folly from the word go.

Dorothea marries Casaubon hoping to...

Wiki: 'Dracula (1897) also tapped into English fears of foreign forces arriving unopposed on its shores, although between 1870 and 1903 the majority of these works assumed that the enemy would be...

Perhaps post your ideas first, then people may join in and add their suggestions.

Refresh my memory, who did the The Count bite first at the cemetery in Whitby? Was it Lucy or Mina? I think it was...

I love Caleb Garth. Caleb and Mr. Farebrother are the real salt-of-the-earth characters in the novel.
The unsung heroes.



Elliot develops Lydgate and Rosamund fantastically. Their evolving...

Nice first post Wildhoney, and a big welcome to the site.

I was intrigued by the title of the book 'I Against Osbourne'. I wonder where the author got the title from?
Could it be from the title...

I found the anti-gravity novel, 'The First Men in the Moon' by H.G. Wells impossible to put down.:rofl:

Perfectamente Borracho!

Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
First published in 1947

The Day of the Dead 1938. Geoffrey Firmin’s ex-wife Yvonne Constable has made the trip down the Calle...

Man that was da bomb!

The Gatsby notes are pimping as well Homies.

If you enjoyed 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' you might want to try 'The Man in the High Castle' by Philip K Dick.

+2 regarding J.G Ballard. He was a genius, and once becoming accustomed...

While I have to admit the novel is a tad heavy going in the first half, but once we get Jim away from the whole Patna experience and on to Patusan, what we have is a rip roaring adventure tale that...

'Ninety-Three' (Victor Hugo) is the number for some Jean-Paul Marat, Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre, Georges Jacques Danton.

'The Black Tulip' - Alexandre Dumas, père
Black...

This question just can't be answered easily. It is the same as asking who is your favorite band, or which is your favorite movie.

Here are some authors who made me think, I need to read all that...

Yudencow, Business Administration.

Some say, get your undergraduate degree as cheaply and as painlessly as possible and then select a good solid grad school and programme.
A liberal arts degree is sadly not very advantageous as I am...

I really enjoyed Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm. I will try to find A. V. Laider.

Salman Rushdie said that people dismiss the genre after only reading the word Magic, and forget the Realism part.
Two books that I personally found interesting were, The Satanic Verses and The...

You might like to read Abe Kobo's "The Woman in the Dunes" (Tsuna no Onna)

Interesting post Maxphisher. It's been years since I read though The Dubliners. I shall read "A Painful Case" again.

This line, 'the man in the brown machintosh loves a lady who is dead.' is perhaps another reference to the man. Sorry, I can't say which chapter this is in because my copy does not have the chapter...

On the subject of biscuits, towards the end of part one of Heart of Darkness, Marlow boards his steamer while waiting for his rivets to be brought up river from the coast and:

'I clambered on...

Wiki says 886,939 soldiers were killed in WW1, and 1,663,435 wounded. God only knows how many of the wounded/returning soldiers were suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

The population...