the myth of Gilgimesh
Siddartha
the complete works of Shakespeare
the poems of Sappho
waiting for Godot
the brothers karamazov
chop wood carry water
the way of Tao
news from nowhere
Dune
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the myth of Gilgimesh
Siddartha
the complete works of Shakespeare
the poems of Sappho
waiting for Godot
the brothers karamazov
chop wood carry water
the way of Tao
news from nowhere
Dune
My old list revisited, in no particular order:
King Lear --Shakespear
The Old Man and the Sea --Hemingway
Brave New World --Huxley
The Anead --Homer
Viper's Tangle --Mauriac
The Prince --Machiavelli (don't agree with everything here, but its a vital read i think)
A Grief Observed --Lewis
The Confessions of Saint Augustine
Great Expectations --Dickens
The Dumbwaiter --Pinter
... the list will continue to change for me
very good choice and spectrum of books Irish. There are some I have not read but will find copies as soon as I can and give them a whirl.
Hope you have a happy day.
[QUOTE=IrishCanadian]My old list revisited, in no particular order:
The Anead --Homer
Virgil...... not Homer.
My Choices would have to be:
1. Les Miserables - Hugo
2. A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens
3. Sirens of Titen - Vonnegut
4. Picture of Dorian Gray - Wilde
5. The Inferno - Dante
6. Toilers on the Sea - Hugo
7. Don Quixote - Cervantes
8. The Idiot - Dostoevsky
9. Barnaby Rudge - Dickens
10. Any one of Shakespeare's tragedies (mainly Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear)
In no particular order:
1. The Great Gatsby -F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. Jane Eyre -Charlotte Bronte
3. Dombey and Son -Charles Dickens
4. Brave New World -Aldous Huxley
5. Catcher in the Rye -J.D. Salinger
6. A Good Man is Hard to Find -Flannery O'Connor
7. Madame Bovary -Gustave Flaubert
8. Crime and Punishment -Fyodor Dostoevsky
9. Of Mice and Men -John Steinbeck
10. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -Ken Kesey
there's tens more...it's so hard to choose!
I also found "Siddharta" quite fascinating. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by simon mason
Just 10? Gee..that's tough! Ok lemme try...
Catch-22
Catcher in the Rye
Pride and Prejudice
Clockwork Orange
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norell
One Hundred Years of Solitude
An Unbearable Lightness of Being
Like Water for Chocolate
The Harry Potter series (hahahaha)
Sophie's World
just to name a few...
although varied, i find that my list is a bit on the romantic side...
1.the idiot-dostoevsky
2.posession-byatt
3.the complete works of edgar allan poe
4.dracula-stoker
5.the republic-plato
6.childe harold's pilgrimage, don juan,manfred-byron
7.the inferno-dante
8.the picture of dorian gray-wilde
9.great expectations-dickens
10.the count of monte cristo-dumas
and of course, macbeth, hamlet, othello...where would we be without the great bard?
I really love your selection with the exception of The Idiot. I felt like banging my head into the wall nine times and then actually HURTING myself going thru that one.
I'm happy to hear this, because it doesn't seem to depend on me. I'm also fighting to finish this book, but I don't know when I will reach the end...Quote:
Originally Posted by rachel
here is a hug for you and a ticket to a really good show for when you have made it!
I think Hardy's "Tess of the d'urbervilles" can make good reading if u have tht kind of patience!
Wuthering Heights
A Tale of Two Cities
All the Pretty Horses
Phantom of the Opera
Just to name a few :thumbs_up
These are a few of my personal favorites. But I go in for modern/contemporary lit, so these are not "time tested":
-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
-Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
-Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
-David James Duncan, The Brothers K
-Mark Danielewski, House of Leaves
-Daniel Boorstin, The Image
-Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night (if I can pick only one by Vonnegut)
-Dante, Inferno
-Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
-Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage