Only five? Some of my favourites then...
The Magus - John Fowles
Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
V - Thomas Pynchon
Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter
The name of the rose - Umberto Eco
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Only five? Some of my favourites then...
The Magus - John Fowles
Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
V - Thomas Pynchon
Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter
The name of the rose - Umberto Eco
on the road
1984
perfume
american pyscho
captain corelli's mandolin
Bleak House – Dickens
The Tin Drum – Grass
Mrs Dalloway – Woolf
Generation X – Coupland
Persuasion – Austen
Humm this is a toughy!
Persuasion- Jane Austen
North and South- Elizabeth Gaskell
The Caucasian Chalk Circle- Bertholt Brecht
Oedipus Rex- Sophocles
east of Eden- John Stienbeck
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Originally Posted by Niamh
Yes, that's a good one too. Is in my top ten. :)
Of all the great Irish writers you dont even pick one? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
These are good representatives of my favorite books. There are several more I want to put on there, but I guess if it means that much to me I could just start a new account and post different books that way.
Okay, I guess I have to decide well. this is very tough.. Hmmp
Crime and Punishment- Dostoevsky
Pride and Prejudice_ Austen
The Great Gatsby- Fitzgerald
War and Peace- Tolstoy
Anna Karenina- Tolstoy :)
:blush:I know, but excluding J.M.Synge and his plays, its Irish Poets i love the most! Yeats, Kinsella, Kavanagh, Colum, Heaney, Durkin, Clarke, Moore...Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
Niamh please tell me you don't mean Thomas Kinsella?:blush:Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
I like some of his poems. There is nothing wrong with that. He is a good poet.
You misjudged my question. I know Thomas Kinsella, and it caught me by surprise that a fan would link him with Yeats.:blush:Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
Well it was only a list of Irish poets i like. There are a lot more than just them. And i didnt put them into any order. Truth be told i wouldnt consider him as highly as Yeats, but he is a good Irish poet. There are some unkown poets like Caprini and Anette Kinsella that i would like maybe a little bit more. :)
5 is very less! Please increase at least to 10. So we have more precise list.
I will think on my list btw.
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Importance of being Ernest - Oscar Wilde
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich-Maria Remarque
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
There are just to name a few. There are other authors that I like, but if I have to choose only five, I think I'll go for the ones above :D
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Night by Elie Wiesel
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Les Misérables
A Tale of Two Cities
Light in August
Invisible Cities
The Little Prince
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Stranger - Camus
Midnight's Children - Rushdie
Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
Herzog - Bellow
Deptford Trilogy - Davies
Catch 22-Heller
The Good Earth-Pearl S. Buck
The Republic-Plato
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoj
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
The Trial - Franz Kafka
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemmingway
Les Miserables by V. Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by V. Hugo
Lolita by V. Nabokov
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang
Nice, Dori; especially Turgenev :D
Shakespeare - Complete works of, or Hamlet if I must choose 1 play
Dante - Comedia
Ramayana
Leopardi - Canti+Operette Morali+Pensieri (not readily available in full translation, though a Tutti Poesa e Prosa is not uncommon for an Italian bookstore to have)
The Bible - KJV for all about a few books, but some, like Job, I prefer in the original.
When assembling a list of 100, limiting to 5 per person reduces the chances of a comprehensive list we can all argue about.:)
1. A Prayer for Owen Meany
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
4. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
5. The Octopus by Frank Norris
Really unfair what I have to leave off the list because it's only 5. This is a great idea, but with 60 or so responses you have from some of the most prolific poster on lit net, I doubt there are 100 different titles as yet. Ten each would create a larger sample (and more work for you DM), but in the end we'd have a better list that would include the usual suspects plus some pleasant surprises.
Anyway, thanks for doing this. It is fun. It will be more fun when we start tearing each other up about what makes the final list.
Don Quijote-Miguel de Cervantes
King Lear-William Shakespeare
The Sound and the Fury-William Faulkner
For Whom the Bell Tolls-Ernest Hemingway
100 Years of Solitude-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I'd REALLY like to go on, but...
Anyway, they're the first five that came to my mind!!;)
The Bible
The Divine Comedy- Dante
Don Quixote- Cervantes
King Lear- Shakespeare
The Odyssey- Homer
JBI- you've really been hooked on Leopardi, haven't you?
The Literature Network is reputed going to be eminent.
Amerika - Kafka
Empedokles - Hölderlin
Life is a Dream - Calderón
Oblomov - Gontcharov
Satyricon- Petronius
I would like to name so many more...Goethe, Homer, Ovid, Milton etc.
Wonderful idea Dark Muse. Here are my nominations (5 is way too difficult)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Muse
1) Les Miserables ~ Victor Hugo
2) Anna Karenina ~ Leo Tolstoy
3) The Great Gatsby ~ F.Scott Fitzgerald
4) The Rainbow ~ D.H.Lawrence
5) The Age of Innocence ~ Edith Wharton
The more I read, the more brilliant he seems:Quote:
Originally Posted by stlukesguild
E come il vento
Odo stormir tra queste piante, io quello
Infinito silenzio a questa voce
Vo comparando; e mi sovvien l'eterno,
E le morte stagioni, e la presente
E viva, e'l suon di lei. Cosi tra questa
Immensita s'annega il pensier mio:
E'l naufragar m'e dolce in questo mare.
And when I hear the wind come blowing through
The trees, I pit its voice against that boundless
Silence and summon up eternity,
And the dead seasons, and the present one,
Alive with all its sound. And thus it is
In this immensity my thought is drowned
And sweet to me the foundering in this sea.
L'infinito ln. 9-15 tr. Ottavio M. Casale
Hamlet, William Shakespeare
Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata
Duino Elegies, Rainer Maria Rilke
Prometheus Unbound, Percy Bysshe Shelley
Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
Lolita- Nabokov
Anna Karenina- Tolstoy
Invisible Man- Ellison
Fathers and Sons- Turgenev
Dead Souls- Gogol
1. The Brothers Karamazov-Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. The Sound and the Fury-William Faulkner
3. To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee
4. As I Lay Dying-William Faulkner
5. Catch-22-Joseph Heller
I'm trying to choose very carefully, so I'll only list the three right now that I know I'll never change my mind about.
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
The Portrait of a Lady - James
Moby-Dick - Melville
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Originally Posted by Jamesian
:D When I started reading Portrait of a Lady two weeks ago I thought about you.
The Moon and Sixpence - Maugham
The Great Gatsby - Scott Fitzgerald
Bel Ami - Maupassant
Buddenbrooks - Mann
L'assommoir - Zola
1. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
2. A Tale of Two Cities
3. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
4. Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
5. The Know-It-All - AJ Jacobs :D
Yay, I wondered if I was going to be the only one who chose L'Assomoir. :thumbs_upQuote:
Originally Posted by Brian Bean