Oscar Wilde-De Profundis Iread it for the first time when I was 13 and it pretty much concludes for me the meaning of life!
Alexandre Dumas-The Count of Monte Cristo....many many reasons!!!
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Oscar Wilde-De Profundis Iread it for the first time when I was 13 and it pretty much concludes for me the meaning of life!
Alexandre Dumas-The Count of Monte Cristo....many many reasons!!!
100 ways to crack an egg
http://www.endlesssimmer.com/2009/04...-crack-an-egg/
Slaughterhouse-5, The Stranger, The unbearable lightness off being
To choose between the three would be impossible
Not a novel, but Death of a Salesman is probably my favorite piece of literature. Blood Meridian is probably my favorite novel...for now.
My beloved book is The way to the peaceful Warrior, The Book that Changes lives. For Dan Millman.Quote:
Originally Posted by Can
Is there any other reader, I want to discuss it.
A favorite?
I'd have to go with the Sherlock Holmes books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The Brothers Karamazov by Dostovsky. Because it is simply the most brilliant book ever written.
:rant::rant::rant:ıt is really good :DQuote:
Originally Posted by mal4mac
Since "Dr Jekyll" I've read two more contenders - "Our Mutual Friend" by Charles Dickens and "Waverley" by Sir Walter Scott. Wonderful books!
I will read that book thanks to you :D :willy_nilly: :nod:Quote:
Originally Posted by mal4mac
Joseph Campbell: Hero With A Thousand Faces
Christopher Vogler: Writer's Journey
Kal Bashir: 2000+ stage Hero's Journey And Transformation Through A New World / State
All changed by writing life.
As this is my first post let me start by saying hello, everyone! My registration email came through today. Hurrah! :party:
I have a few favourites that I often re-read: David Copperfield (Dickens), The Secret History (Tartt), The Historian (Kostova) and Pride and Prejudice (Austen). Perhaps not the most high brow of literary works but I find them so enjoyable. A good book is a good book, I say.
Catcher has to be up there, but two scenes in Catcher bother me: Holden dancing on the bed with Phoebe, and of course Mr. Antonelli. Kinda creepy. Currently my fave and has been for the last few years: Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton - it reads with such tangibility, followed by Idoru by Gibson and always, Bridge to Teribithia. Lousy movie. I also really like The Giver. Yes, most of my faves are juvenile fiction.
You are welcomeQuote:
Originally Posted by MissBankjc
De engelenmaker by stefan brijs. It's a dutch book, but I think that it has been translated in English and some other languages. It's a very interesting book about human cloning and morals.
J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. hands down.
I used to feel like this question was akin to being asked who my favorite child is... =D
I read Harry Potter series and it is extremely good.
I think all books have different specialities...
All changes bring us different emotions in our books.
Maybe To Kil A Mockingbird?
My favourite one physically is a three volume Shakespeare. I just love handling, it's very nice. And i really like the smell of my Histoy of Western Philosphy, haha. Which I haven't even read yet.
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh. His prose is beautiful and he is funnier than P G Wodehouse.
Not far behind would be:
The Tempest
Aldous Huxley's Chrome Yellow
Robert Graves: Goodbye to all that
I think there is also a beautiful book which is called Lord of The Flies
Overall favorite probably the Castle (Kafka). But now days i prefer reading De Maupassant :)
Kafka is one small step for man while Maupassant is one giant leap for mankind. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Kyriakos
Well De Maupassant was a lot more human, and less symbolic :) Both writers were clearly very intelligent, but Kafka was
1) insane (De Maupassant became insane later on too, but it was a different kind of insanity)
2) a writer possibly of complete allegories. By which i mean that everything seems to be symbolic in his work.
3) self-destructive. He ended up killing himself with his self-reproaches and endless echoing of self-hatred.
I read Kafka for more than a decade, on a daily basis, and i can say that for me now he is still one of the most intelligent writers ever, and a massively innovative writer, but De Maupassant (of the sane phase) is simply a lot more logical and presents one with the surface of things as well as the depth of them :)
my favorite book is sherlock holmes
Well I don't think there is a book called Sherlock Holmes if you mean the one created by Arthur Conan Doyle but there are a number of novels in which he is the central character: such as, The Sign of Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles etc. Then there are short stories in The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes and The Return of Sherlock Holmes etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by HAN
I don't know how I could possibly answer this question. Its like picking a favourite parent but somehow having dozens of parents.
100 years of solitude, Heart of Darkness, The Red and the Black, and The Plague. That's as far as I can narrow it down to and I doubt I'll agree with that narrowing tomorrow.
"Five Points Someone" by Chetan Bagat
It is awesome book
Good books were written in past
My favorite decadent book is Joris-Karl Huysmanns' Against Nature (Au Rebours). My favorite modernist book is Celine's Death on the Installment Plan (Mort au Credit). My favorite decadent-historical novel is Flaubert's Salammbo. My favorite philosophical book is Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil. My favorite science fiction book is Leguin's The Dispossessed. My favorite children's book is Thurber's The Thirteen Clocks. My favorite religious books are Lao-Tzu's Tao-Te-Ching and Chuang-Tzu's book.
My current favorite novel is William Gaddis's The Recognitions, though I might easily have chosen any of Dostoyevsky's major novels or Infinite Jest or Cormac McCarthy's Suttree. The Recognitions has nearly inexhaustible depth and complexity; on the third reading I was still recognizing numerous connections and internal allusions that just went over my head the first two times through. It is also a profound meditation on authenticity and originality in art, subjects that are important to me in everyday life. It's also side-splittingly funny!
every book is very good if you can stand reading it!
I can't decide between Of Human Bondage and The Grapes of Wrath.
The Grapes of Wrath is on my list to read in a few weeks. I can't wait to tell you what I think of it! I do love Steinbeck and read more of him when I was young.Quote:
Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf
As my username as sig mmight suggest, I am a Don Quixote fan, but the works of Paul Auster are not far behind and I regard him as one of only a few living authors I truly admire.
Jane Eyre has been my favourite since I was ten years old. :yesnod:
:yesnod: The very last paragraph is my favorite out of any paragraph I've ever read, I think you'll like it. It's strangely optimistic for a book about the great depression.Quote:
Originally Posted by KCurtis
Oh ****!! Now I'm going to want to read the last paragraph! I'll have to cover it up with an index card and tape it. Sorry, OCD. That's my excuse.Quote:
Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf
That is so cool. It was one of mine too!Quote:
Originally Posted by mona amon