Books you wish you had written..

[Zee.]

And why?


For me, it'd be To Kill a Mockingbird.
I didn't really enjoy reading that book, to be honest - but i think it was a brave and very bold book, plus it confronted an issue that means a lot to me.

[LitNetIsGreat]

Harry Potter - loads of money!:ladysman:

[jon1jt]

Definitely Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, which came out during an exciting time in the art world, with the surrealist movement just starting to gain influence in novel writing, at least from what I've read about writers like Miller, Anais Nin, and Lawrence Durrell, all living in France during the 1930s and 40s.

[Jeremiah Jazzz]

Lolita by Nabokov, for sure. It's extremely clever and has a great amount of depth. Whether this depth be the actual plot or the wordplay that comes in and out of the piece.

[Saladin]

Any book? Ok, i know this will sound way out my league and even if i believed on karma and were reborn 10 time i wouldnt be able to write this book. But i wish that i wrote The Brothers Karamazov.:p

[Mopey Droney]

Great Expectations

[Zee.]

Oh i do not like that book... at all.

Another I wish i had written:
Watership Down

[mortalterror]

When I read it in college, I felt like Nathanael West had said exactly what I wanted to say, exactly as I would like to have said it with Miss Lonelyhearts. Recently, I was reading a drama by John Wilmot called The Farce of Sodom or The Quintessence of Debauchery which I would love to have written. It was so bold and original, that I felt like everything I had ever written was timid drivel in comparison. I'd also like to have written either of the Bill and Ted movies from the late eighties and early nineties. I can't watch either comedy without thinking, "Wow, nailed it!" I'd like to study those two in a classroom and really pick apart how they work, because they seem like modern classics to me, despite the animus academia holds for works of humor.

[JacobF]

A book I wish I had written? Well, I wish to write my own books someday, but I never read a book then said to myself "wow, I wish I wrote this book." Why would I ever wish I had written a book that was already in my hands and had been written? Unless I just wanted fame and respect. Maybe I'm looking too far into it, I don't know.

[Zee.]

You're looking too far into it.
I too would like to write my own novel.

I meant it in the sense of, you wish you had thought of such an idea as brilliant as "..."
its more of an admiration thing.

[JacobF]

You're looking too far into it.
I too would like to write my own novel.

I meant it in the sense of, you wish you had thought of such an idea as brilliant as "..."
its more of an admiration thing.

Well, Brave New World struck me with its brilliance. Probably the best satire in existence, albeit reading the first 50 pages was like trying to escape from a tar pit. Still, despite my deep admiration for it, I never wish I wrote the book. The only book I wish to write is one that is completely from my head. If I was Aldous Huxley, then okay, I'd be glad that I had written the book. But I'm not him. Just ignore me, I'm pretty exhausted.

[Zee.]

You are taking it too seriously. It's not about taking credit or wanting to put your name on an idea you didnt think of, like i said, it's just about admiration.
Brave New World - amazing. Had i wish that it had been me who thought it up? Of course.

[aBIGsheep]

The Bible.

[jon1jt]

Oh, I also wish I had written Catcher In The Rye by JD Salinger because my readers would ask me what I meant by catching children when they go over the cliff, and they might call me Holden---you know...mix me up with the main character, which would be kinda cool. ;)

[[D]]

Honestly John Steinbeck's novels show so many life related points like To Kill a Mockingbird does, so with that said i wish i wrote Steinbeck's novels.

[PabloQ]

Having grown up in the time before the Berlin Wall came down, when the US and USSR had megatons of nuclear weapons aimed at each other, I wish I had written Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut's master work of man's idiotic pursuit of the ultimate weapon.

[bazarov]

Since Brothers Karamazov are stolen, then I pick Don Quijote.

[hoope]

Les Miserables for Victor Hugo
and Christmas Carol for Charles Dickens ..

Two great novels which greatly applies my way of life & writing

[amalia1985]

Bronte's Wuthering Heights. Dark and eternal.

[JBI]

Harry Potter, though I'd publish under a pseudonym so as to avoid that rubbish associated with my name.

[LitNetIsGreat]

Harry Potter, though I'd publish under a pseudonym so as to avoid that rubbish associated with my name.

Hey that's my baby, Harry Potter by Honj Leeny. :sick:

[Tournesol]

I wish I'd written 'Zaatar Days, Henna Nights' by Maliha Masood.

I love this book, because she writes of her travels through Europe and the Middle East. It's marvelous!

[kelby_lake]

Twilight because then I'd get lots of money and I could write what I wanted!

[Kafka's Crow]

Doctor Zhivago. Thank God we live in peaceful times otherwise it would have, could have been, the story of my life. Ever fought other people's battles like they were your own?

[prendrelemick]

The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic. ( Terry Pratchett)
Not the greatest pieces of literature ever written, but I bet it was a lot of fun writing them.

[S.MacConmidhe]

In terms of underpinning philosophies: Le Mythe de Sisyphe, L'Étranger and La Peste by Albert Camus. When I found him, there was a feeling of extreme joy as I had found someone who seemed to have the same, or very similar, views as myself. Bitter-sweet though, as I would have to go off of his views rather than be original.

I had the same kind of bitter-sweet feelings towards Murphy and Watt by Samuel Beckett. I thought I had some original ideas then discovered Beckett had already done them. My ideas are always being forced to develop whenever I read anyway. But then, I read alot, which can stifle one at times.