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No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
The Spider's House - Paul Bowles
Quiet Days in Clichy - Henry Miller

Faulkner by far! Beckett is not even a close runner-up for me.

For me it's either "The Wild Palms" by William Faulkner or "The Sound of Waves" by Yukio Mishima.

This is funny: I've been waiting to read Moby Dick! I'm actually reading it right now although, at first, I thought it would be one of those "I'll leave it for later" books that you never get around...

Hey guys, I'm quite new to this forum and have been hanging about at the book discussions for the last few months. Anyways, yesterday I became KIND OF inspired (in my own way, I guess) and wrote my...

I actually just wrote my first piece of fiction. I had been reading a book (Faulkner's If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem) and I was suddenly extremely inspired. The scene that came to me was based on...

I would actually recommend the books and the movies to ALL of my friends, just let them choose whether they'd like to watch the movies or read the books first, it really doesn't matter.

"Hopscotch" by Julio Cortázar would be a great start, it's the book that got ME into literature.

Lord of the Rings=Literature
Harry Potter=Fantasy
Although I do think the HP books are well written I don't think they're literature, I just think they're fantasy books.
I prefer The Lord of the...

Hmm, top ten to read. I'd agree that JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are definitely top tens, but I would add The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner to some of you people's lists, as well...

Do In Cold Blood, such a good read! I liked the way Capote kept going back and forth between the two stories (the murderers' story and the family's story) at the beggining of the book. I think that...

I go with the Frank Zappa quote here:
“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
I agree with this quote.
Even though I go to university and do receive...

He might have read it, but he probably lacked all comprehension of the Inferno. It was probably all scrambled words to the child, or maybe he read one of those abridged and filled-with-pictures...

I'm with those who think 1984 is one of the best books they've read, it's a harrowing experience!

I re-read books if I read them a long time ago and suddenly they are assigned as "to-do" reading in one of my university classes, I do that so that if I don't remember a part it's refreshed in my...

I read recommendations from friends and relatives. If not, I go to amazon.com and just read some of the reviews of books, as well as those "lists" that people make recommending books to everyone and...

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Carcía Márquez
The Sheltering Sky by...

MIMESIS by Erich Auerbach, it's the best lit criticism book I've ever read, not only does it compare, contrast, and criticize but it also puts the works of art in its context. Amazing, try it out.

I think it's pretty obvious from A Farewell to Arms that Hemingway saw humankind as a self-destructing species and that there are only those that are saved by love that can flee this...

I loved this book as well. I thought the way it was written is the most powerful of all the statements made. The prose is stream-of-consciousness-like so we get a real insight on what the character...

Yep, I'm a newbie! Hi everyone! Well, I'm rereading Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer for the third time now! I enjoy this book so much, it's so personal, Miller is amazing; it feels like you've...