Too many to list but that list would be topped by
Grapes of Wrath (and everything else by Steinbeck)
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Great Gatsby
Is Paris Burning
Armageddon
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Too many to list but that list would be topped by
Grapes of Wrath (and everything else by Steinbeck)
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Great Gatsby
Is Paris Burning
Armageddon
i have to admit that i am a classic lover,and thus all the books that i like may be a little old fashioned. but still i simply dote on them! my favourite book is david copperfield,charles dickens is my favourite writer, so loving his semi-autobiography seems really natural. and then, i like romeo and juliet. it is such a marvellous book, with so many beautiful sonnets and love poems. i also like oscar wilde's the picture of dorian grey,which really displays the wisdom and deep insight of a great writer.
I dont really have a favourite book, but here's a list of the books I most enjoy reading:
Brave New World
1984
Animal Farm
Jane Eyre
The Brothers Karamzov
The Idiot.......
There's more but at the moment I cant think of any :)
Ohhhhh and add A Clockwork Orange to that list! I looove that book! :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:
"The MOnkey Wrench Gang"......Edward Abbey.....1975.
This book puts a face to ecoterrorism......and in fact had (has?) a bit of a cult following.....
The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Charleston - John Jakes
1984 - George Orwell
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Remarque
I can't do one favorite either, but if I was forced, I would probably have to say Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carol
Also very much enjoyed:
Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
Mostly Harmless - (crowning jewel on a wonderful trilogy ;)) Douglas Adams
Voyage of the Dawntreader - (another favorite in a truly excellent series) C.S. Lewis
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus - Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues - Tom Robbins
Lamb: the Gospels According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Friend - Christopher Moore
I'd better stop. I could go on and on. I'm going to be pirating this thread for reading suggestions, just as soon as I can afford to buy books or can find a library and have some free time.... *sigh!*
The Bell Jar--Syvlia Plath
Pride and Prejudice-Jane Austen
Frankenstein--Mary Shelley
Gone With the Wind-Margaret Mitchell
And many others I cannot think of right now. ^_^
My favorite book is Thomas Pynchon's first novel V. The only other book I have read by him was The Crying of Lot 49 (which I thought was great as well). I picked him for an English project this year (the only reason was because I saw his name on this forum under appearing on The Simpsons heh) and wow, I was blown away. The man is amazing and V. is just an awesome story, very funny and it was so much deeper than I could have imagined after reading what some critics had to say. Before V. my favorite book was Moby-Dick, and I think V. really reminded me of Moby-Dick in the way it just seemed to contain so much knowledge. I think that once I read Gravity's Rainbow it will be my favorite but I am waiting until I graduate college so I stand a chance at understanding it. :)
We must be on the same page, good heavens could there ever be a more mindless and boring story than Moby Dick the white whale. How many pages was it again? (800+? it sure was hefty)Quote:
Originally Posted by D'Artagnan
I remember having to read it for 8th grade lit course, it was a brief intro to what we should expect of High School. Thank goodness we never read Moby Dick in any of my high school lit classes, I would have probably dropped out. haha
I am quite surprised to read and learn that many hated most of the traditional High School mandatory reads : To Kill a Mockingbird, The Scarlet Letter, The Crucible, Ethan Fromme, The Great Gatsby, A tale of Two Cities, Ragtime, Of mice and Men and alikes, I loved Dickens, Shakespeare and adored the russian authors, Tolstoy and Dostoyievsky. Ana Karenina, Antonia and Crime and Punishment are among my favorites of all time. I will always cherish The Count of Monte Cristo, it saved my sanity during the one summer I worked as a doorman, those breaks were long and just as boring, without Alexandre Dumas I would not have survived that dreaded summer job.
I adore Virginia Woolf, Orlando and Mrs. Dalloway cannot receive enough praise from me.
I don't have a favourite book too, but I in the last years I enjoyed Mordecai Richler' Barney's version....ah, and then I loved Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen and also the count of Monte Cristo!!
I still have to read so many things...
the great expectations - charles dickens in fact all books of c&d are my favourites
Tough to decide. I guess some of my favourites are:
The Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
Justine - Lawrence Durrell
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Favorite book
Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers
not a classic, but ought to be.
Least favorite
(I feel sort of cheeky saying this because I haven't read 1 percent of all books worth reading.)
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
Favs:
THE CRUCIBLE!! (Not a novel, but my favourite piece of literature EVER)
The Great Gatsby
The Silence of the Lambs
Any Shakespearean Pleay, particularly King Lear
Forgive me, I haven't read enough of the Classics.
I can't really say I've HATED any book. There are many that I have not enjoyed reading, but I can still appreciate them, such as:
Heart of Darkness (reading it was like trudging through mud- it's the longest 100 pages I've ever read, but it is brilliant nonetheless)
Faves:
Anything by Peter David (Sir Apropos of Nothing was a scream and his Star Trek novels are the best of any.)
Hamlet/Macbeth (can't choose between them!)
The Once and Future King
Bullfinch's Mythology
Really Enjoyed:
Middlesex
The Time-Traveler's Wife
The Undead and Un-whatever series (silly vampiric fun!)
Anything by Phillipa Gregory
Least Faves:
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Chuck Palahniuk
Damn, why couldnt i ahve discovered this site sooner...
there are so many posts i wish toc omment on but they are all years old.
and the number of books named. i want to read them all and i could if i had them but actually obtaining so many, ugh!!!!!
suprisingly i actually loved Emma by Austen and i want to read her other books. Hehe, im not actually finished with Emma, but i did finish it when i was 10, but so long and so many books, just cant remeber...
I also enjoyed C and P quite a bit. The "ramblings" in it were very much an imporant part of the story. and the social theories were fun as well.
There is a thread called "Revive an Old Thread" or something of the sort. LitNet is trying to bring some of the old ones back, so please feel free to comment on anything that strikes your interest.Quote:
Originally Posted by Matrim Cuathon
I share your problem of finding so many good books here to read and have the lack of time to read them.
My favorite book at the moment is as well, Crime and Punishment, if I am correct (I think I am) in assuming that was your abbreviation.
By the way, welcome to LitNet, hope you find it awesome and have fun commenting on any thread you like.
I am reading Heart of Darkness...and I am afraid I have to agree that it is rather hard to get through right now...hope it doesn't make that list of least favorite.
I would suggest staying with it. I didnt like it at first either but it kind of stays with you (like a commercial jingle you cant forget.)Quote:
Originally Posted by grace86
The Art of War by Sun Tzu.
Loved:
Lord of the Flies- William Golding
Bag of Bones- Stephen King
Gone With the Wind- Margaret Mitchell
Hogfather- Terry Pratchett
Silence of the Lambs- Thomas Harris
Hated:
Anything by Jane Austen
Hannibal Rising (though I enjoy the other books in the series)
Favorites:
Crime and Punishment
The Borther Karamazov
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikabu, this one ive never seen mentioned on this site, oh well, great book anyway.
Least Favorites:
Great Expectations
Moby Dick was a goos story buta bit bring, not saying that was a least favorite btw.
Thanks, I will keep that in mind and definitely stick with it. It's tough though because I don't have time to read it, and it is a slow read, so overall it isn't as much of a pleasure to read as it could be.Quote:
Originally Posted by Woland
Do stick with it. As I said earlier, reading it is like trudging through mud, but once you finish it, you just sort of sit there in awe of it. At least I did. It's slow, but it's profound. Even if you don't like it, you can at least appreciate it. And it's nice to understand the context of the famous words, "The Horror, the horror"Quote:
Originally Posted by grace86
Matrim Cuathon - 'there are so many posts i wish toc omment on but they are all years old.'
I never even noticed Matrim (so you're more net alert than I am) and I began commenting on 'old' threads. I don't think it matters too much because in a sense everything on here is 'live' and even replying to questions posted some time ago, while it may not help the original poster, may help someone else. I've noticed lots of similar queries from young students and schoolchildren appearing over and over. Maybe I'll be smacked on the ethereal wrist for saying this but I think you should pass a comment on anything you find interesting.
What a shame that no one here appreciates Moby Dick (and all the while commends the literary merit of Ender's Game).
Moby Dick is a wonderful book - one of the best ever written. Melville's ponderings of the nature of reality are fascinating.
Favourite . . . um, well, here are some I really really liked and/or loved . . .
*Little Women
*The Moscow Vector
*Crimes of the Century
*Edge of Light (I know, a romance book, but it's sooo much more than that to me)
*Where Many Rivers Meet (poems by David Whyte-love "The Well of Grief"- and am currently reading)
*The Hell with Love: Poems to Mend a Broken Heart (one of my all time favourite poetry anthologies- have gone back to it many many times . . .)
I'm sooo daft . . . the Bible . . . there isn't another book I read every day, quote so often, try to live by, learn from to such an extreme extent, talk about as often as I do, am as inspired by, or uplifted and reassured by as the Bible . . . no book has ever offered to me as much as it has and will continue to offer . . . The Lord is . . . my shepherd . . . my strength . . . my shield . . . my comfort . . . my light . . . my salvation . . . my hope . . . my all in all . . .
No book could be as lovely and important to me as it is . . . it's answers and guidance I seek first (or try to - I usually make a big mess of things when I don't!) some aspect of it is applicable in every situation
My favourite book is without a question The Bible
Remember The Bible is an anthology and there are differing versions of it rather than one single agreed version. I read it every day also.
Well said: I agree fully.Quote:
Originally Posted by GimmyDiamond
here's the link to the book of judas if anyone is interested:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lo...geographic.com
I saw it on the National Geographic Channel and I decided to go find a version I can read.
Personally, from an atheist perspective, I found the bible to be quite dull. I enjoyed Hesiod's Theogony much more than Genesis, and Homer's Iliad far more than the Israelites in Egypt. I guess the text speaks to different people in different ways. You perhaps may find wonder and meaning in its words, but from a non believer's perspective, the writing in my opinion is quite dull.
The books I truly loved, in no particular order
The Name of the Rose -- Umberto Eco. Absolutely brilliant
The Count of Monte Cristo -- Alexandre Dumas
The Odyssey -- Homer. Odysseus' quest to get home is magnificent, and a timeless classic.
Candide -- Voltaire. Brilliant.
plays:
Twelfth Night by Shakespeare
The Miser by Moliere
The Crucible by Arthur Miller (I think he wrote it, I don't remember)
Oedipus Trilogy by Sophacles
Electra by Euripides (I think he wrote that, I may have mixed up Greek play writes)
Probably though, if I had to choose one book to stick with, it would have to be The Name of the Rose. That book captures the early 14th century church almost perfectly, and the plot is just brilliant.
Yes, The Crucible was written by Arthur Miller
but Electra was written by Sophocles.
My favorites are:
Walden by H.D.Thoreau
Notes from Underground by Dostoyevsky
Greetings
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy.
Uh-huh. But they're tolerable, especially when you get to the last words of the last sentences. :p No seriously, Dostoyevsky couldn't have done without Raskolnikoff having a deranged mindset. It wouldn't be an adventurous one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Admin
I don't have a favorite book. I like lots of books but I can't seem to find a "favorite", I just realized.
Perhaps ''A dreamer's tales and other stories'' by Lord Dunsany
I too would find it difficult to name an absolute favourite, but one book I often read and re-read is The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter - there's something about it I can't quite put my finger on, but I love it and enjoy it every time I read it.
Ulysses by Joyce, with The Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson in 2nd.