But did you read the entire Canon? One really has to do that in order to appreciate the complex weave of the plot-it's almost visceral.Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandis
Tolstoy, Salinger, David Foster Wallace - dammit if they were only around to witness literature flourish this way! Dream the dream.
I've read 18.. pretty proud of myself. But definitely going to use this list as a reference! Thank you so much!
Though I rank TBK far, far higher than C&P, I'm really glad that Dostoevsky is first for top 100 books and authors. And I'm glad that I randomly picked up The Idiot at the airport ahead of a 15 hour trip. Didn't know what I was in for, read it non-stop. Also, I don't mind being called a Dostoevsky fangirl... if anything that's surely a compliment?
Last edited by Brielle92; 08-20-2012 at 06:15 PM.
Took my batteries out my mysticism and put em in my thinking cap
In my top 9 would be (only the first three are in order):
The Illiad
The Odessey
Aeneid
El ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
The Divine Comedy
The 1001 Nights
Oedipus the King
Hamlet
Old Testament
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot
I think we should do a new list. I think it would be much different with the current community that is active here.
It'd be pretty cool to compare the two at least.
Vladimir: (sententious.) To every man his little cross. (He sighs.) Till he dies. (Afterthought.) And is forgotten.
Are you volunteering to compile the list?
~
"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
~
A million times no.
I agree with Mutatis.
I'd be happy to volunteer, if anyone could give me a few tips on how the current one was compiled.
I can help with that, I am the one who put together the first list.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
*feigns shock*
Who could see that coming???
Thank you both of you very much.
I think it will be interesting to see the differences (or similarities) in both lists.
Desolation> Please PM me if you have any questions or if you come across any obstacles.
~
"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
~
I just suggested it. You don't have to be a snide about it--I teach and have class, not to mention new medical problems I'm having to deal with. I just thought it'd be a fun thing for the forum to do, so please forgive me, Scher.
OK.
Just for this once.
~
"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
~
I've read
43 in total.
I've read and completed 60 books on the list. Not too shabby.
"You understand well enough what slavery is, but freedom you have never experienced, so you do not know if it tastes sweet or bitter. If you ever did come to experience it, you would advise us to fight for it not with spears only, but with axes too." - Herodotus
https://consolationofreading.wordpress.com/ - my book blog!
Feed the Hungry!
39 for me.
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
