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There are many books that are popular that I've not yet read.
I'm currently reading Anna Karenina (more than halfway through), and next on my list are
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
War And Peace - Tolstoy
Don Quixote - Cervantes
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky.
These are all long long epic novels, and I so much can't wait to dig into them. The copy of Les Mis I have is the Penguin Classic unabridged, translated by Norman Denny and looks like a good read.
My to-read list nearly extends to infinity, as Goethe once wrote, "Art is long, time short." Books that first come to mind, however:
The Brothers Karamozov by Fyodor Dostoevksy (same as you)
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Middlemarch by George Eliot (a.k.a. Mary Ann Evans).
Currently in my to-read pile:
Italo Calvino - Cosmicomics (Loved "If on a winter's night a traveller" and "The invisible cities")
Isabel Allende - Portrait In Sepia (Saw her give a speech a few weeks ago. Feisty lady indeed. Had to read something of hers.)
Karen Armstrong - Islam: A Short History (Was utterly transfixed by "The Battle For God". Really looking forward to this one.)
Plus a bunch of other stuff.
I know that's not quite an answer to the original question, but there are SO many "classics" that I've never read and will probably never find the time to read. Off the top of my head, one book I've never read and would love to read is Nabokov's "Lolita".
Oh, and do read "Brothers Karamazov" soon. Amazing book.
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Originally Posted by bjortan
we had italo calvino on our interpretation classes. we read 'a sign in space'. i loved it. pretty confusing, especially the end.
i'd like to read something by coetzee maybe. and a new novel by umberto eco, but it's only in italian (la misteriosa fiamma della regina loana). and dr jekyll and mr hyde by stevenson. and sue's mysteries of paris. and cortazar's the winners. and queneau's exercises in style. and a looooooooooot of other things. too many books, too little time... :bawling:
I've read the first few chapters of Eco's new novel - very promising. It's about a guy who suffers from amnesia, and remembers nothing he's ever experienced - but remembers everything he's read.
"Do you know what your name is?"
"Call me... Ishmael?"
My to read list tends to infinite, but perhaps the most notable book in it is Joyce's Ulysses. I tried to make it book of the month a couple of times, but had no luck. Maybe I'll give it a shot in my summer vacations.
Everything. But what I have on my reading table: Girl Interrupted, Bel Canto, Timequake, Jacob's Room, Jude the Obscure, The Red and the Black, Ezra Pound's Selected Poems, The Handmaids Tale, The Making of Americans, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Last book read was Ulysses and after I needed about a week break.
Icarus, I'll tip my hat for even getting through that monster. It was totally beyond me when I tried it at 16 and it still terrifies me at 20.
'The Day of the Triffids' by John Wyndham
'Iron Council' by China Mieville
Oh my i have lots of books in my list.
At the moment i currently reading Jude the Obscure, then next on the list are:
The oddysey: Homer..(6th chapter now..Cris i'm making a slow progress am i :( )
The Idiots: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Gulliver Travel: Jonathan Swift
A Potrait of An Artist: James Joyce
Travel in Hyperialism (i kinda forgot the excat title since the book is at my house: Umberto Eco
Dubliners: James Joyce
Silas Marner: George Elliot
then etc
Very nice, subterranean; I am presently reading Silas Marner by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), and find it very worth the read. Enjoy!Quote:
Originally Posted by subterranean
Mono, can u give me a review after u finish? really want to know what's the story all about .. thru pm is ok :)
thanks in advance
To Read: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Voltaire's Bastards by John Ralston Saul
A Son of the Circus by John Irving
Those are on my current list, along with: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, and
Joseph Campbell's the Power of Myth
Not at all, with all that reading, It's not strange. Keep going. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by subterranean
I have a long list, including Great Expectations by Dickens, Great Gatsby, animal farm by Orwell, and Homer's Oddysey or Illiad