I am not a big sci fi fan---but Ender's Game was great! I really, really enjoyed it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Muse
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I am not a big sci fi fan---but Ender's Game was great! I really, really enjoyed it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Muse
1.The Inferno- Dante
2.Romeo and Juliet- Shakespeare
3.The Bible
4.The Republic- Plato
5.The Catcher in the Rye- Salinger
6.Catch-22- Heller
7.On the Road- Kerouac
8.The Metamorphoses- Ovid
9.Lolita- Nabokov
10.Andromache- Racine
My pick is kind of a mixed bag or all time greats and personal faves. I'm not particularly fond of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Cervantes, Homer, Austen, etc. Most people prefer Hamlet, but I'm going to go with R&J for being Shakespeare's best.
You should definitely try Ender's Game. That's considered his best book.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Muse
1) Great Expectations - Dickens
2) Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
3) Lolita - Nabokov
4) Madame Bovary - Flaubert
5) Dracula - Stoker
6) Lord of the Flies - Golding
7) Invisible Man - Ellison
8) Ulysses - Joyce
9) The Enormous Room - Cummings
10) 1984 - Orwell
Man i posted this a long time ago!Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
Be more like;
Persuasion
Bitterbynde Saga by Cecilia Dart Thornton
Hellfire by Mia Gallagher
North and south by Elizabeth gaskell
East of Eden
Merlin Trilogy
Artemis Fowl
His Dark Materials
Deirdre of the Sorrows
Candide by Voltaire
1.Lord of the flies
2.1984
3.And then there were none
4.Treasure Island
5.Inheritence saga
6.The chronicles of Narnia
7.The BitterBynde saga
8.Children of the red king saga
9.A midsummer night's dream
10. Artemis fowl saga
In truth I love just about all the books I've read.
1. A prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
2. The end of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas
3. Special topics in calamity physics by Marisha Pessl
4. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
5. Faust - Der Tragödie erster Teil by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
6. Der Proceß by Franz Kafka
7. North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell
8. The shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
9. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
10. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoj
Um, that isn't a novel :)Quote:
Originally Posted by mortalterror
Mine, I dunno (but in no particular order)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau (which is probably actually a novella)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgeson Burnett
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
1984 by George Orwell
Today I noticed that I had placed The Divine Comedy amongst my top ten novels as well...:blush::D
1.The Red and the black by Stendhal
2.Lost Illusions by Honore de Balzac
3.Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
4.Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevski
5.Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
6.War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
7.Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
8.Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte
9.The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
10.The Egyptian by Mika Waltari
So it's my ten. But I think that that list soon will change, because I have a lots of books which I want to read...
I was about to point that out actually! :):lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by johann cruyff
books everyone should read:
- Demian, Herman Hesse
- Ishmael, Daniel Quinn, a book that will change your view of the world
- Original Wisdom, Robert Wolff
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
- 1984
- The Catcher in the Rye
- Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
- Maus, Art Spielgman
- The World According to Garp, John Irving
- Griffin and Sabine
What Kafka's Crow said. (Two hemispheres together make a world.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Kafka's Crow
I will add a list beyond the necessity of reading EVERYTHING by the above two authors first:
Franz Kafka- Pick one (the third hemisphere lol...:lol:)
Arno Schmidt- everything translated (currently 3 Volumes)
Jorge Louis Borges-- Fictions
Virginia Woolf -- To The Lighthouse
Joseph Conrad-- Pick any of his Majors
Marcel Proust-- In Search of Lost Time
David Foster Wallace-- Essays
Joyce--- Dubliners or POTAAAYM
I dunno, for the last two, maybe a major work by any 2 of: Camus, Hemingway, Nabakov, Pynchon, Bernhard, Mann, Tolstoy, or Barthelme's short stories...depending on how well grounded in the classics (or Literary IQ) the reader of the list of suggested books is intended for...
hmm here's my top ten.
Finnegans Wake-James Joyce
The Brothers Karamazov-Fyodor Dostoevsky
Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man-James Joyce
Lolita-Vladimir Nabokov
Crime and Punishment-Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ulysses-James Joyce
Lord of the Flies-William Golding
The Island of Dr.Moreau by H.G. Wells
The Stranger-Albert Camus
Pale Fire-Vladimir Nabokov
half my list is the same three writers. I need to get out more often!
Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel
Bely - Petersburg
Cervantes - Don Quixote
Rulfo - Pedro Paramo
Proust - Swann's Way
Saint-Exupéry - Terre des hommes ("Sand, Wind and Stars", hate the title translation)
Döblin - Berlin Alexanderplatz
Aquin - Next Episode
Nabokov - Lolita
Gide - The Counterfeiters
Hmmmyeah...