Speaking of Hardy, I've just finished "The Return of the Native". As of yet, I don't know where I'd put it in the top 100, simply because I'm still pondering it. Diggory Venn's character will be the point that places it highly, though.
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Speaking of Hardy, I've just finished "The Return of the Native". As of yet, I don't know where I'd put it in the top 100, simply because I'm still pondering it. Diggory Venn's character will be the point that places it highly, though.
OK, I'll play:
1. Waiting For Godot- Beckett
2. To The Lighthouse– Woolf
3. Remembrance of Things Past– Proust
4. Heart of Darkness– Conrad
5. The Trial– Kafka
6. Crime and Punishment– Dostoevsky
7. The Sun Also Rises– Hemingway
8. Don Quixote– Cervantes
9. The Stranger– Camus
10. The Rainbow– DH Lawrence
11. As I Lay Dying– Faulkner
12. Lolita– Nabakov
13. Fictions- Borges
14. Master & Margarita– Bulgakov
15. 100 Years of Solitude– Marquez
Embarrassingly enough have NOT read Divine Comedy.
1984
Farenheit 451
Brave New World
Lord of the Rings
I, Claudius
In no particular order. I love dystopian!
I will vote for War and Peace and Candide. There are several other books I have enjoyed, but I don't think they quite reach a top five spot for me.
Little Women (incl. Part 2 a.k.a. Good Wives) - Louisa May Alcott
Little Men - Louisa May Alcott
Jo's Boys - Louisa May Alcott
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
I really prefer Animal Farm to 1984, but both are my favourite books.
The Idiot - Dostoyevsky
In search of Lost Time - Proust
The Plague - Camus
No Exit - Sartre
Goethe - Faust
i. Le Petit Prince (St. Exupery)
ii. Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut)
iii. Watership Down (Adams)
iv. Don Juan in Hell (Man and Superman, Shaw)
v. The Complete Works of Shakespeare
-- Hamlet and 1 Henry IV in particular
I have decided that this thread has been open a considerable amount of time and gave a fair chance for everyone to vote who wished to do so, so after the holidays are over, I am going to count up votes and put together the final and offical list.
Lolita - Nabokov
Invitation to a Beheading - Nabokov
The Bible
Frankenstein - Shelley
The Stranger - Camus
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Tolstoy
Don Juan - Byron (not sure if that's allowed?)
Les Miserables - Hugo
Less Than Zero - Easton Ellis
I still have 10, gimme a little time :p When are you closing, the 25th, 1st or later?
Hehe, it depends how busy I will be. I can be flexable and wait untill you have got your final vote in
As For me and My House - Sinclair RossQuote:
Originally Posted by JBI
Complete poems of John Keats
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Therese Raquin by Zola
Light in August by Faulkner
La Confezzione di Zino by Italo Svevo
Don Quixote by Cervantes
Poems of a Thousand Masters - edited by Wang Hsiang
Collected Poetry and Prose - T.S. Eliot
Faust Part 1 and 2 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There - I'll probably change my mind in the morning - but it shouldn't really matter.
Well you do not have to rush I am not that rigid with the timing, I was just worried that it would go on indefinately if I did not put some kind of time frame in place
In Cold Blood
The Fountainhead
Pride and Prejudice
Rabbit, Run
Watership Down