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This must be 'The Crucible' (1953). Excellent play. I read it to a blind friend of mine in 1990, watched its movie in cinema in 1996 (newly married couple, out and about in London, hoping from cinema to cinema, watching film after film, oh yes those were the days!)Quote:
Originally Posted by Remarkable
That is a great play, I've read it a few times and I've seen it performed a few times. Arthur Miller's work is amazing. Death of Salesman is another one of my favorites.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kafka's Crow
1) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
2) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
3) A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
4) The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
5) Persuasion by Jane Austen
6) Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
7) Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
8) The Crucible by Arthur Miller
9) Wings of the Dove by Henry James
10)The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
1.Catcher in the Rye by Salinger
2.Crime and punishment by dostoevsky
3.anna karenina by tolstoy
4.huck finn by twain
5.the great gatsby by fitzgerald
6.in cold blood by capote
7.slaughterhouse five by vonnegut
8.hunchback of notre dame by hugo
9.the stranger by camus
10.the metamorphosis by kafka
hands down best ten ever correct me if i am wrong.
In no particular order
War and Peace
Les Miserables
To Kill a Mockingbird
Quo Vadis
The Lord of the Rings
A Tale of Two Cities
Wuthering Heights
Ivanhoe
Moby Dick
Lord of the Flies
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Originally Posted by LadyWentworth
I swear, Amalia, you are turning more and more into me everyday! :p :DQuote:
Originally Posted by amalia1985
OK here is my list. Maybe not a list of what should be required for everyone to read, but things I think would be beneficial to anyone and that everyone ought to read them anyway. :lol:
1. One Hundred Years of Solitude-Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
2. Slaughter House Five- Kurt Vonnegut
3. The Iliad and the Odyssey.. (I'm counting them as one)- Homer
4. The Sea Wolf- Jack London
5. A Farewell To Arms- Ernest Hemingway
6. The Inferno- Dante Alighieri
7. Treasure Island-Robert Louis Stevenson
8. Love in the time of Cholera-Gabriel Garcia Marquez (do not judge the book on the movie.. the movie did not do it enough justice)
9. Huckleberry Fin- Mark Twain
10. The Great Gatsby- F. Scott. Fitzgerald.
OK, so some of them are not quite 'classics' yet, they are all still great books.
If I could throw a number 11 on there, it would be "Sometimes A Great Notion"- Ken Kesey... Really great book
Oh and 12 would be "The Scarlet Letter" -Nathaniel Hawthorne
My top 10 would have to;
Orwell-Nineteen Eighty-Four
Shakspeare-Julius Ceaser
Salinger-Catcher in the Rye
Palahniuk-Fight Club
Hinton-The Outsiders
Harris-Silence of the Lambs
Cantor-Alexander the Great: journey to the end of the earth
Meyer-Twilight
Meyer-New Moon
Meyer-Eclipse
In no particular order:
Notes From the Underground - Dostoievsky
Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
L'Amant - Marguerite Duras
Christ Stopped at Eboli - Carlo Levi
The Sword in the Stone - TH White
Emily of New Moon - LM Montgomery
Down and Out in Paris and London - Orwell
And so many still out there...
Without giving it too much thought(because I could never decide otherwise),here are my current top 10,in no particular order:
Nausea Sartre
Steppenwolf Hesse
The Trial Kafka
Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky
The Death and the Dervish Selimovic
The Bridge on the Drina Andric
The Name of the Rose Eco
Hadji Murad Tolstoy
The Master and the Margarita Bulgakov
The Damned Yard Andric
Not to say that this list is rock-solid,though...
In no particular order, this is my Top 10
A Separate Peace
Pride and Prejudice
Father and Sons
A Tale of Two Cities
Master and Margarita
War and Peace
Dune
The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn
Les Miserables
Crime and Punishment
Emma (Jane Austen)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
The Mayor of Casterbridge (Thomas Hardy)
Kim (Rudyard Kipling)
Women in Love (DH Lawrence)
An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)
The Great Gtasby (F Scott Fitzgerald)
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather)
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
The Sheltering Sky (Paul Bowles)
The Ginger Man (JP Donleavy)
The Catcher in the Rye (JD Salinger)
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)
There are a lot of Top books of all time lists around at the moment. I thought that it would be interesting to see what your top ten books of all time are.
I'm by no means a very experienced reader, but if I had to pick 10 of my favourite books I've read, they'd have to be these. Obviously in no order! (And they are rather clichéd choices, so please, no judging ;) )
1. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
2. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
3. The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
4. Perfume - Patrick Süskind
5. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffry Eugenides
6. Junky - William S. Burroughs
7. Post Office - Charles Bukowski
8. Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski
9. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
10. The Rum Diary - Hunter S. Thompson
Well here is my list based on the books I have read thus far.
1. The Magus ~ John Fowles
2. Catcher in the Rye ~ J. D. Salinger
3. The Red Tent ~ Anita Diamant
4. Island of the Blue Dolphin (I know it is a kids book but I read it like three times and it really stuck with me. I loved it.) ~Scott O'Dell
5. Middlesex ~ Jeffrey Eugenides
6. Jane Eyre ~ Charlotte Brontë
7. Rainbow ~ D.H. Lawrence
8. A Passage To India ~ E.M. Forster
9. The Legend of Nightfall (Yes it is fantasy, but I thought it was brilliant, and ranks among my faveorites) ~Mickey Zucker Reichert
10. Call of the Wild ~ Jack London
Jack Kerouac - On The Road
Hunter S Thompson - The Great Shark Hunt
Bret Easton Ellis - American Pyscho
Hunter S Thompson - Hell's Angels
Charles Bukowski - The most Beautiful Woman in town
John Fante - The Bandini Quartet
George Orwell - Down and out in Paris and London
Tom Wolfe - The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test
Ah, I really like your choices Hank.
I keep meaning to check out 'The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test'.
Will do so soon hopefully :)
sometimes a great notion--kesey
catch 22---heller
absalom, absalom--faulkner
sound and the fury--faulkner
world according to garp
to the lighthouse---woolf
in search of lost time---proust
crime and punishment---dostoevski
heart of darkness---conrad
ancient evenings---mailor
Ugh I dunno--I like so many different kinds of books--and like books for so many different reasons...
How about a list of 10 books I like a lot :) ( I started making my list and decided that I'd have to do fiction and non-fiction)
Fiction
1. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
2. Sister Carrie- Theodore Dreiser
3. The Good Soldier- Ford Maddox Ford
4. Jane Eyre- Charolette Bronte
5. The Dharma Bums- Jack Kerouac
6. Pudd'nhead Wilsom- Mark Twain
7. Bridge of Sighs - Richard Russo
8. Sanctuary- William Faulkner
9. Manhattan Transfer - John Dos Passos
10. Appoinment in Samarra - John O'Hara
Non-Fiction
1. Dispatches- Michael Herr
2. They Things They Carried - Tim O' Brien
3. Home Town - Tracy Kidder
4. Friday Night Lights- Buzz Bissinger
5. In Cold Blood- Truman Capote
6. There Are No Children Here- Alex Kotlowitz
7. Rocket Boys - Homer Hickam (all three of the "Coalwood" books are awesome)
8. Young Men and Fire - Norman Maclean
9. Wait "til Next Year- Doris Kearns Goodwin
10. Executioner's Song- Norman Mailer
do it. its great!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dharmabeat
1. The Possessed - Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. Candide - Voltaire
3. The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allan Poe
4. The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
5. A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
6. Julius Caesar - Shakespeare
7. The Crucible - Arthur Miller
8. A Doll House - Henrik Ibsen
9. Faust - Goethe
10. A Living Chattel - Anton Chekhov
This is STRICTLY my personal opinion. It may very well be wrong, okay?:)
In no particular order:
1) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
2) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
3) Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
4) A Passage To India by E.M.Forster
5) Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
6) Hamlet by William Shakespeare
7) Macbeth by William Shakespeare
8) The Crucible by Arthur Miller
9) The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
10) The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
great book ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by tscherff
1) Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures
2) Blue Lagoon
3) The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death
4) Dr. Rat
5) Treasure Island
6) Survivor
7) The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath
8) Heroics for Beginners
9) The Book of Three
10) Angela's Ashes
I tend to stick to low brow texts because most literary stuff deals with common morals with which I almost never agree. Religion, guilt, honor, courage. Bah, I'd rather hear about a dog who can talk.
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Originally Posted by amalia1985
We have simillar taste in books. I acutally went back and forth with The Sun Also Rises, almost added to my last, glad to see someone else did.
My top ten books of all time...hmmm,not easy,but I'll give it a go:
The Divine Comedy - Dante
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
The Death and the Dervish - Selimović
The Damned Yard - Andrić
The Trial & The Metamorphosis - Kafka
The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
Remembrance of Things Past - Proust
Thus Spake Zarathustra - Nietzsche
The Glass Bead Game - Hesse
Dead Souls - Gogol
My current top ten,novels only(I'm aware Zarathustra isn't exactly the classical novel).There are way too many plays and poems to take into account.
Mysticim of number 3
The number 3 can represent "God" or the divine, "the unknown".
Divine Comedy:
- 3 books (hell, purgatory and heaven)
- 33 chants
- Hell, purgatory and heaven are divided in 9 (3 x 3) circles, it makes a total 27 (3 x 3 x 3).
- Verse in tercet (3 lines)
rhyme:
It is written in a technique known as the original terza rima (third rhyme)
Terza rima: the center line of each tercet control both lines of marginal following tercet: ABA, BCB, CDC, DED ....
...gives the illusion of growth to infinity
My list (it includes literature and not literature):
1- Iliad (Homer)
2- Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
3- Os Lusíadas - The Lusiads - (Luis de Camões)
4- Don Quijote de la Mancha (Miguel de Cervantes)
5- Fedon (Plato)
6- The Republic (Plato)
7- The Capital (Karl Marx)
8- Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas - The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas - (Machado de Assis)
9- Quincas Borbas (Machado de Assis)
10- Odissey (Homer)
How basic Brazil, you forgot the connections to 9 as well, and 2. There are other numerical things in it as well, and other considerations. For instance, Dante met Beatrice when he was 9 (3x3), got rejected when he was 18 (9x2, symbolizing the devil to some extent), but unfortunately she died two years too soon at 25. Scholars have found tons of other numerical things within the book itself, which are generally included in any introduction.
The Divine Comedy seems to be perhaps the 3rd or so most studied book in the Western tradition, behind Hamlet and the Bible. Dante scholarship is massive, dating back to even his contemporary times.
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Originally Posted by Dark Muse
Ok, this isn't a definitive list and if you ask me again in 12 months it will have changed etc. but here it is:
Silas Marner - George Eliot
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Emma - Jane Austen
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
...Those are the ones I'm sure of :-/ I'll add more to bring the list up to 10 once I've decided.
Other candidates:
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
And if plays are allowed:
Macbeth - William Shakespeare
The importance of being earnest - Oscar Wilde
A Farewell to Arms - Hemingway
Notes From the Underground - Dostoevsky
The Fall - Camus
Ham on Rye - Bukowski
The Metamorphosis - Kafka
The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
Sentimental Education - Flaubert
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
1. The Bible
2. Homer- The Odyssey
3. Dante- The Divine Comedy
4. Shakespeare- Plays: King Lear, Hamlet, Othello, and MacBeth especially
5. Cervantes- Don Quixote
6. Proust- In Search of Lost Time
7. Blake- Collected Poems
8. Kafka- Short Stories, Tales, and Parables
9. J.L. Borges- Collected Works
10. Sterne- Tristam Shandy
The first 5 are permanent fixtures but the final 5 may change tomorrow.
another one?
Mansfield Park / Emma (tie) - Austen
the Sheltering Sky - Bowles
Wide Sargasso Sea - Rhys
To the Lighthouse - Woolf
The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
An American Tragedy - Dreiser
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - McCullers
The Rainbow / Women in Love (tie) - Lawrence
The Golden Bowl - James
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
and many others, can't think well clearly
I want to read thatQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir Bartholomew
yes, do. you'll see mr rochester in a very different light.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Muse
I consider these more personal favorites than the best.
1) Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth
2) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
5) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
6) A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
7) Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
8) The Jewish Bible by G-D and an assortment of Hebrew writers
9) 1984 by George Orwell
10) The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
I read Homebody by Orson Scott Card and enjoyed it. I haven't read anything else of his yet though
My current favourites:
1. Alighieri, D. - La Divina Commedia
An absolute number one for me. The other works are, in no particular order:
Goethe, J.W. - Faust
Shakespeare, W. - Hamlet
Dostoevsky, F.M. - Brothers Karamazov
Sophocles - Theban plays (Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone)
Ovid - Metamorphoses
Bulgakov, M. - Master and Margarita
Selimović, M. - Death and the Dervish
Homer - The Odyssey
This was much harder than it seemed :idea:
Bible
Pride & Prejudice
Persuasion
Crime & Punishment
War & Peace
East of Eden
The Great Gatsby
The Age of Innocence
To Kill a Mockingbird
Gone With the Wind