Next on my reading list, definitely next on my reading list!Originally Posted by promtbr
Next on my reading list, definitely next on my reading list!
"The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the sh1t the more I am grateful to him..."
-- Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett
I've read 21 fully, and parts of about 4Thanks for compiling list.
Metemorphosis- is that The Metamorphosis or Ovid's Metamorphoses?
How many votes did the top and bottom get? I only remember some of the titles being mentioned about once.
I fail to see how Mockingbird is better than Lolita, but I guess the list only indicates popularity. Slightly annoyed that Brideshead Revisited is so low- it's just so quintessentially English
I've read: (In order of greatness, lol)
Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamazov
Notes from Underground
The Idiot
Poor Folk
The House of the Dead
The Gambler
The Double
The salvation of the world is in man's suffering. - Faulkner
It would the The Metamophosis by KafkaI've read 21 fully, and parts of about 4
Metemorphosis- is that The Metamorphosis or Ovid's Metamorphoses?
How many votes did the top and bottom get? I only remember some of the titles being mentioned about once.
The top ten books had:
1:17
2:14
3 & 4:13
5, 6, 7: 12
8: 11
9 & 10: 10
Most the chunk in the middle had between 8-5
Then 4-3
and after I went through all the 3's the list had not yet completed 100, so some of the very last had 2
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Congratulations Muse for finally completing the list!! You put a lot of time and effort into it! Weldone!
I've read 24 of them.
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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heh, I'm proud of myself...I've read/am reading 24.
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
Blasphemy!!!
Demons are good, but nowhere near Crime and Punishment or Idiot.
It's not just my personal opinion; Crime and Punishment is 1st on this list and Idiot is 26th. That's surely not a coincidence, amount of bookworms votes makes it very objective.
May I ask what classics said that?
But please, read Demons; I've finished rereading it last week and it's really great and interesting.
Last edited by bazarov; 01-04-2009 at 05:47 PM.
At thunder and tempest, At the world's coldheartedness,
During times of heavy loss And when you're sad
The greatest art on earth Is to seem uncomplicatedly gay.
To get things clear, they have to firstly be very unclear. But if you get them too quickly, you probably got them wrong.
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Oooooo....raspberries!
Now's the time when I remember to thank DarkMuse.
Thank you, Darkmuse!
So now I can whine more! Yay!
I find it a bit curious that out of Hesses works, Siddharta made it into the list. What about "Glass Bead Game"? "Demian"? "Steppenwulf"? Well, Siddharta was okay, but I wouldn't have thought of it as his best.
Still, I wonder what would be THE PERFECT LIST for books by those members who seem to be lit-majors or something similar.
If you believe even a half of this post, you are severely mistaken.
Steppenwulf, and The Glass Bead Game were nominated, they just did not make enough to get on the list.
I have to say personally I thought Siddhartha was amazing, it is ranked among my favorites. Though I have not read much by Hesse besides that.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Great List! Seems like my own tally was right!
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I was rather surprised by that. Probably because I don't like "Siddharta"
Also, I regret seeing Cunningham didn't make it. Maybe the next time
Currently reading:
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
nice list. im new here and its my first time to post a message
only 9 on my shelf and the count of monte cristo is the only one i was able to finish till the last page but anyway i have all the time in the world to read all of those
this kind of list will always be opened for debate. for me, Flaubert is by far a greater author than Dostoievsky or Orwell.
and my opinion is to put into brackets the original title of the books (for example: The Stranger I guess is Camus' L'Etranger) to avoid the association the books written in English language.
Last edited by DisPater; 01-12-2009 at 03:33 AM.
the main idea with the books is that there are too many not worthy to be read.
Question was which is the best book, not who is the best writer.
At thunder and tempest, At the world's coldheartedness,
During times of heavy loss And when you're sad
The greatest art on earth Is to seem uncomplicatedly gay.
To get things clear, they have to firstly be very unclear. But if you get them too quickly, you probably got them wrong.
If you need me urgent, send me a PM
ok. "Madame Bovary" is a much greater book that "1984", "Crime and Punishment", "Les Miserables" and "Brothers Karamazov".
later edit:
I don't want to start a discussion here about which is the greatest novel and author. I just wanted to say that this kind of list always will provoke some "talks" because we all have our own personal ways to see a book.
Last edited by DisPater; 01-12-2009 at 10:53 AM.
the main idea with the books is that there are too many not worthy to be read.
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