Don Quixote is great. I had a lot of fun reading it. I'd like to read Gargantua and Pantagruel but first I have to delve into Shakespeare because exams are closer and closer :goof:
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Don Quixote is great. I had a lot of fun reading it. I'd like to read Gargantua and Pantagruel but first I have to delve into Shakespeare because exams are closer and closer :goof:
Evgeny Onegyn by Pushkin
I really want to read that one
Leave Don, read Catch ;)
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Originally Posted by Razeus
The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
Herzog by Saul Bellow
Don Juan by Byron
Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Oresteia by Aeschylus
Also Kant, Locke, Hume and Aristotle.
Should have it all taken care of in about a week.
I cannot recommend these more, especially Immanuel Kant and David Hume (both who also have interesting biographies). Kant I can easily call one of my favorite philosophers of all time (especially his Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Judgment, and Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals); and Hume seems the labeled-king of skepticism.Quote:
Originally Posted by blp
Aristotle seems always a classic; I think about his Nicomachean Ethics all of the time.
As for John Locke, I found his material very enlightening, but if you intend on reading his An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, I would also strongly recommend works by George Berkeley, who commented on his theories, particularly in A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonus.
Well I left Don For a bit and read "Catcher in the Rye" DANG! that was good. So vivid..I could picture every scene perfectly. Quite a moving story. I think I'm gonna save Don for next month when the college semester is out and before the summer term begins. I'll read Catch-22 and 1984 in the mean time.
Not sure what I am going to read next yet. Just started Inferno last night. Thinking maybe Paradise Lost
I have a very long list but the novels I think I can't wait to read are: Farewell to Arms by Hemmingway and Old man and the sea by Hemmingway, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, Peril at the End House by Agatha Christe and The Silmarilion by Tolikien...
You're in for a treat with the Silmarillion! It helped me having a list of all the participants but after figuring them all out it was so wonderful I went out and bought half the Lost Tales set.Quote:
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Books on my to read list are:
War and Peace
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
They seem soooo long I just haven't picked them up which is odd as I don't usually mind long books.
Solitude by Anthony Storr - just bought a used copy. The back cover says it's an "articulate meditation on solitude, creativity, and the sources of man's inner happiness and psychic wholeness." I read his The Essential Jung.
The Courage to Create by Rollo May - another recent 'cheap' buy. His Freedom and Destiny and Psychology and the Human Dilemma were worth reading...to me, at least.
With me, it's almost, what isn't on my list to read! But I have strange tastes and just now I'm on a Robert E. Howard kick. I know, not "classical lit" but dang good stories anyway! I'm finishing up Skull-Face and Other Stories, Howard's spin on the Fu Manchu type character. Then its on to Bran Mak Morn, Corman Mac Art, and The Bloody Crown of Conan. I'm not at all certain I'll like Conan, but I liked all of Howard's other characters so far (Solomon Kane, for example), so maybe Conan just gets a bad rep due to the pastiches written by other hands than Howards. :idea:
Pendragon, his Conan stories are very good and if you're keen on comics Dark Horse has a wonderful rendition of Howard's Conan stories, very true to his stories.
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Andetrson, for the 70th time!
Pendragon, the Conan stories are well worth reading, I have half of them (there's a two volume omnibus) and enjoyed them. The comics, Frank Frazetta's art and the John Millius movie are equally great.
I have some books lying around that I'd like to get round to reading :
White Jazz by James Ellroy; I've read the other three novels of the L.A. quartet, some of the best contemporary crime fiction.
The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoevsky; one of the greatest authors ever.
Amerika by Franz Kafka; I enjoyed reading The Metamorphosis last year and thought I'd endulge into some of his other stuff.
A few Terry Pratchett Discworld novels.
But as University lessons start tomorrow I'll be getting a few more reading lists so these will have to wait.
In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje (author of The English Patient) and The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. I don't have a lot of time as of now, but I'm trying to at least get through 8 books by the end of this year. :)