The Top 100 books nominated by Canadian readers in an online poll conducted by Indigo Books in which they were asked to name their favourite books of all time:
1 The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
2...
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The Top 100 books nominated by Canadian readers in an online poll conducted by Indigo Books in which they were asked to name their favourite books of all time:
1 The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
2...
the idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karazamov FD
Candide Voltaire
Lord Jim Joseph Conrad
Nostromo Joseph Conrad
Don Quixote Cervantes
the Portrait of an Artist as a Young man James Joyce...
What is the strangest novel you ever read?
lonesome dove by Larry Mcmurty came close and so did poor folk by Fyodor Dostoevsky but neither actually brought tears
Worst book I've read the Alchemist
Melville's billy budd and Moby Dick. I remember the part in Moby Dick where they rub oil over each others hand can't remember the exact wording but it has to be the gayest paragraph I have ever read.
pioneer, go home by Richard Powell
who gives a ****? people do it it should be in novels good or bad
Atlantic Canada
To Kill a mockingbird
the giver
the oddessey
lord of the flies
knight
romeo and juliet
stone angel
lotr the fellowship
I like reading her though I don't agree with much of her philosophy, I liked watching her phil donahue interview on youtube. He asked her something about proving that there was no god and she said...
The lonesome Dove series is by far the best i've come across. I also like Shane by Jack Schaffer.
Not sure if its what your looking for but Fifth Business by Robertson Davies is my favorite Canadian novel first of a trilogy also the cunning man by him is good.
Acel brought out his tobacco sack. Hungry Men Edward Anderson
The brothers karamazov
The Stand
The talisman
Atlas Shrugged
War and Peace
All long Can't Remember which is the longest
can't really remember but the dog in the Talisman by Stephen King
Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea or The sun Also Rises
Faulkner Go Down Moses
Steinbeck I like East of Eden but Grapes of Wrath is a good place to start.
Poor Folk by fyodor dostoevsky
Desolation Row by Jack Kerouac
A Thompson
B Kerouac
C Bukowski
D Kesey
I just finished reading the confidence man by melville, does anyone know any good novels on the subject?
Maybe you should start with homer, remember my english teacher talking about how people would wish each other well by saying "death to your enemies" and how that way of thinking was common before...
I could be wrong but I think some authors are just boring to certain people, I read everything I can get my hands on from conrad,joyce,faulkner, and miller to stephen king and louis lamour. I don't...
and the hippos were boiled in their tanks jack kerouac and william burroughs
too fat to fish artie lange
down to the dirt joel thomas hynes
inferno dante
fifth buisness robertson davies
a wild...
david copperfield oliver twist and heart of darkness though I do like conrad lord jim and the secret agent were good.
any opinions on "and the hippos were boiled in their tanks by jack kerouac and william burroughs. Was very interesting to me would like to hear what others thought of it
tropic of cancer was funny especially the part about the bidet in the whorehouse.