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    "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad,...

    "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."

    One Hundred Years of Solitude

    This...
  2. I read the story now. It's terrifying. Try...

    I read the story now. It's terrifying.

    Try The Janissaries of Emillion by Basil Copper, or How Love Came to Professor Guildea by Robert Hichens. You'll get creeped out by them too.
  3. It is said that the inspiration for the story...

    It is said that the inspiration for the story came to Ms. LeGuin from the following William James quote:




    The story metaphorically states the fact that the happiness of the society is built...
  4. This is one of the most disturbing and beautiful...

    This is one of the most disturbing and beautiful stories ever written. It haunts you long after you finish it.
  5. The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa. The...

    The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa. The graphic scenes of torture were suffocating.

    The Collector by John Fowles. A damsel in distress story where the protagonist is the villain, and...
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    Poll: I'm late in jumping into this conversation, and...

    I'm late in jumping into this conversation, and have not read all the posts, but I'm curious: has a novel ever been written in the second person?

    Ramsey Campbell has written a short story that...
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    They are definitely not literature, but very well...

    They are definitely not literature, but very well narrated and Lisbeth Salander is a truly unique heroine. I found the books to lack focus in parts (except for the third) and the descriptions of...
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    The U.S.A Trilogy by John Dos Passos, maybe?

    The U.S.A Trilogy by John Dos Passos, maybe?
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    Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger. ...

    Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger.

    Why? Because I loved The Time Traveller's Wife by the same author.
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    The cartoon, IMO, missed out some of the grandeur...

    The cartoon, IMO, missed out some of the grandeur of the novel. The animals (especially Baloo) are made to look like comedians, rather than the magnificent characters they are in the book. It is a...
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    Any post here is necessarily subjective, so I am...

    Any post here is necessarily subjective, so I am talking of the books which took my breath away.

    One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    The...
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    The Collector by John Fowles

    The Collector by John Fowles
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    Honorificabilitudinitatibus

    Honorificabilitudinitatibus
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    I read The Grapes of Wrath as a teenager as I was...

    I read The Grapes of Wrath as a teenager as I was convalescing from a bout of viral fever, because there was nothing else to read: and I fell in love with the book. So much so that anything I've...
  15. In my opinion, we can never experience reality,...

    In my opinion, we can never experience reality, only the internal picture of it that we form through the data filtered in through our senses. Even if we assume that this is a good approximation of...
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    I should warn you first that the following is...

    I should warn you first that the following is based exclusively on my tastes.

    The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

    The Uses of Enchantment by Bruno Bettelheim

    Man and His...
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    Bertie Wooster... and Right Ho, Jeeves. Gussie...

    Bertie Wooster... and Right Ho, Jeeves.

    Gussie Fink-Nottle's drunken speech at the village school has to be one of the funniest passages in world literature.
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    Actually, I found the topiary animals more...

    Actually, I found the topiary animals more frightening. Our local park had an area similar to the one described in the book, and after reading it, I could not stay in that area alone at dusk! It...
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    I am a fan of classic horror, but I've stopped...

    I am a fan of classic horror, but I've stopped enjoying horror since the early works of Stephen King. Of his later works, only The Green Mile worked for me.

    It's a bit sad to see that M.R.James...
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    Sticky: Hello everyone! I'm Nandakishore Varma and I...

    Hello everyone!

    I'm Nandakishore Varma and I am from India, from the southern Indian state of Kerala. Currently I am working in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. I am a...
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