And which means that i can have my own opinion. And in my opinion Dostoevsky "is incommensurably superior" than Kafka. I am not offending the mom of nobody, mate. Take it easy.Quote:
Originally Posted by rimbaud
And which means that i can have my own opinion. And in my opinion Dostoevsky "is incommensurably superior" than Kafka. I am not offending the mom of nobody, mate. Take it easy.Quote:
Originally Posted by rimbaud
Maybe Kafka's mom? lol
She was brutally murdered by the evil Nazi. She was also a great writer. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by kelby_lake
hahahahahah, You asked for it.
Female
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Marquez
Jurassic Park - Chrichton
Junky - William S. Burroughs
The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
Anansi Boys - Gaiman
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime - Haddon
Blindness - Saramago
The Eight - Neville
The Stand - King
Henry IV, Part I
ok, i may have misunderstood, it just sounded offendingQuote:
Originally Posted by Griffith
:)
not to be misunderstood myself, I am a huge Dostoevsky fan
Bumped
I'm gonna count them up in a few days. Sit tight!
Male
Walden
Cane
The Sun Also Rises
A Farewell to Arms
Ender's Game
1984
Moby-Dick
The Plague
White Fang
I Will Fear No Evil
I'm a month late! Oh well.
Male,
off the top of my head (and not necessarily in order of the ones I liked most) :
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
ROOTS by Alex Haley
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Animal Farm by George Orwel
Finding Fish by Antwone Fisher
Soul On Ice by Eldridge Cleaver
Gone With the Wind (I'm still reading this, can I add it?)
Native Son by Richard Wright
Kindred by Octavia Butler (I love Octavia Butler)
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Again, off the top of my head. Honorary mentions : The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Queen by Alex Haley, The Fear Street Saga by R.L Stine, A Seed To Harvest series by Octavia Butler,
I'll stop now.
NO MORE SUBMISSIONS, PEEPS.
Thank you all! :)
I've done a Top 13 as a lot of novels got the same amount of votes. But our winner for women is clear:
The Female Top 13
1- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (6 votes)
2- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (3 votes)
3- The Bible (3 votes)
4- The Brothers Karamazov by Fydor Dostoevsky (3 votes)
5- The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky (3 votes)
6- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (3 votes)
7- The Catcher in The Rye by JD Salinger (2 votes)
8- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (2 votes)
9- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (2 votes)
10- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (2 votes)
11- Lord of The Rings by JRR Tolkein (2 votes)
12- The Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling (2 votes)
13- Bleak House by Charles Dickens (2 votes)
We have quite a few female Dostoevsky fans, it seems.
Not bad choices and you have an awesome username!Quote:
Originally Posted by husker du
Haha, thanks. I had a hard time picking my #10 and gave it to that Heinlein book just so my love of classic sci-fi was represented. On second thought, Tropic of Cancer probably deserves it. It's not like I'm voting for something that matters though.
I'm surprised that there was an obvious winner- and a bit surprised at the amount of Dostoevsky.
Female, in no order...
To kill a Mockingbird
The Hobbit
Gone with The Wind
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
The Northen Lights Trilogy
Middlesex
Drop out state
The Aenied
East of Eden
Grapes of Wrath