I would suggest Chuck Palahniuk.
Any others?
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I would suggest Chuck Palahniuk.
Any others?
William Faulkner and Friedrich Nietzsche
I thought John Bunyan ("Pilgrim's Progress") was on here, but just looking I don't see anything by him.
Strongly seconded.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dante80
Also, Ray Bradbury.
Remember, has to be pre 1923.
Graham Greene
Even though he's post 1923, his work certainly qualifies as serious literature that explores moral and political issues of the modern world.
Richard Llewellyn
@ Dante80: I agree. I wish to read Thus Spake Zarathustra by Nietsche.
William S Burroughs anyone? And, yeah, definitely Chuck Palahniuk.
Thomas Pynchon!
Pre 1923? Seriously. I believe the reason why so many kids hate to read is because we place too much emphasis on the classics. I respect classic literature but shouldn't we begin to be a bit more progressive about integrating modern literature into our discussions. No disrespect to you guys who run this forum, but I mean, we're not in school.
Anyhow, here are my suggestions.
Ayn Rand
John Updike
James Michener
Works prior 1923 are in the public domain, whereas (most) literature published after is copyrighted -- one can't just put that stuff up for free.Quote:
Originally Posted by Melysnl
Following the direction anticipated by the inclusion of Aristotle and Julius Caesar, some suggestions for philosophical and historical literature:
Kant-
Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics
Critique of Pure Reason
Critique of Judgment
Critique of Practical Reason
Groundwork to the Metaphysics of Morals
Hegel-
Everything!
Thucydides-
History of the Peloponnesian War, trans by Richard Crawley
Tacitus-
Annals
Histories
Herodotus-
The Histories (not sure if the complete translation is in the public domain)
Pliny the Elder-
Naturalis Historia
Aristotle-
Any translations that remain in the public domain
John Locke-
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Some Thoughts Concerning Education
George Berkeley-
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
David Hume-
Treatise of Human Nature
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
The History of England
Jeremy Bentham
John S. Mill
Henry Sidgwick-
Ethics
Some other suggestions:
Schiller
Homer-
Iliad, trans by Alexander Pope. We have Butler's, which is better by a number of standards (readability, for example), but Pope's is surely one of the finest works in English lit.
Odyssey, trans by Pope.
Horace-
Satires, trans by John Conington
Ovid-
Amores: The Loves
Metamorphoses: Transformations, trans by Dryden, Garth, Pope, et al.
{edit: By the way, unfortunately, everything by Faulkner is post 1923.}
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Desiderius Erasmus
Arthur Schopenhauer
Raymond Carver!
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Originally Posted by YW1990
Not yet, I am afraid.Quote:
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Constantine Cavafy
Knut Hamsun
Jorge Luis Borges
Second that one and pay to see with Italo Calvino and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dante80
I also would like to include Lezama Lima, a Cuban writer for those who want to get a picture of what Cuba was when Castro kicked sordid Batista out.
I would love to have some of Kavafis works in hereQuote:
Originally Posted by Kyriakos
How about Michael Serres, of late, a philosopher who lately overcame philosophy and became one of the best postmodern thinkers on education.
I would like to see the book list if there is one
thank you
Thomas Mann, Marcel Proust and James Joyce ("Dubliners")
Paul Auster, the genius who gave us The New York Trilogy.
Where's Max Beerbohm?
In my youth I read his books with great pleasure. In those days I only had access to german translations. "Junkie" and and a short story compilation about sientology were about my favourites.Quote:
Originally Posted by robertenem
Believe, I'm in school, modern 'literature' has been the death of me. I hate school because of it. Quite frankly there is a reason why people still read classics, modern literature just doesn't compare. The most recent novel I've read in the past few years of my own accord was slaughterhouse five. I'd like to keep it that way. The way I'd see it is that the modern world just is condusive to writing. It lacks real change so literature, like everything else, just immitates itself, over and over again until everything has been recycled so may times over that it no longer retains its former sparkle but is rather tarnished by untalented writing and unquestioning minds.Quote:
Originally Posted by Melysnl
Well, a good story is a good story. I don't think the year makes any difference.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dina12
Legally they can't post certain works here that aren't their own, without permission due to copyright law.
There's good literature from every time period, including the current one.
François Rabelais.
I'd like to read Gargantua and Pantagruel. According to Wikipedia there are at least a couple of pre-20th century translations available.
Dear LitNutters--
Some day when you don't have anything to post in the writing forums, or weighing in on someone else's work, or have already played the games, or don't really feel like getting into a heavy discussion in the chat threads, take a look at the comprehensive list of authors whose complete works are available right here-- for free-- on the LitNet.
Just this past Spring I found a Lewis Carroll work I was looking for on this website and spent a most enjoyable afternoon reading-- and "lol'ing"-- a hard-to-find book by a beloved author.
This past Saturday night when I watched Katherine Hepburn's performance in Alice Adams on Turner Classic Movies, I heard the host of the broadcast remark how the book was quite different from the film version.
I took a cursory look around the apt. to see if we owned a copy of the original Booth Tarkington novel-- Nope. But guess what-- it's right here on the LitNet. I'm going to read it here online the end of the week, as soon as I finish my projects.
One thing that struck me about the movie--dating way, way back to 1935, a long time ago even for me!-- is how relevant it is to today's economic and social environment. By that I mean, don't automatically dismiss a book just because it's old or in the public domain. You can always find something enlightening and entertaining if you keep an open mind.
That's a wonderful suggestion Aunty!
How about Thomas Love Peacock and Ronald Firbank?
Oh, I didn't see this thread. Whoops.
E. L. James please.
I've just noticed that I can't see Alexander Pope among the Specific Authors.
Not everyone would like him (British understatement) but he was the poetic giant of the eighteenth century, dominating poetry until Wordsworth published Lyrical Ballads. I'm afraid I find Wordsworth boring.
He should be there.
Robert Harris!
Jodi Picoult please. :)
Hubert Selby Jr.!!!
Borges
Celine
Camus
Sartre
Vonnegut
Kafka
Bukowski
Irvine Welsh
Dostoevsky
Rushdie
John Fante
Hesse
Julio Cortazar
Heidegger
Kierkegaard
Woody Allen
David Foster Wallace
Jeff Noon
Craig Clevenger
Proust, we need Marcel Proust.
Nikolai Gogol, C.S. Lewis, George Macdonald, G.K. Chesterton.