One of my favorites! I just bought A Cloclwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. I've seen the movie countless times, but never read the book. I also bought Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, I've been told that no self-respecting U.S. soldier could go without reading this book.Originally Posted by Dark Muse
The Crying of Lot 49, by Thomas Pynchon- Haven't gotten around to starting it yet, but I've heard it's his most accessible work and therefore probably the best way to introduce myself to his writing.
Though I have not read The Dubliners before, I have read Joyce before, and honestly I am not exactly enthusiastic about pursuing more of his work from my prior experience.
I really want to read A Clockwork Orange, but I can never find it at my bookstore.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
not to sound like a creep or anything... but PM me your address and I'll send a copy !!!
I agree with you completely... it seems like it is one of those rare books that the movie could be better than the book... Same with his previous book Empire of a Thousand Splendid Suns.. My girlfriend at the time, loved them both, so she convinced me to read them... needless to say I was horribly disappointed.. very very mediocre writing... But that explains why it was a bestseller... generally books become bestsellers nowadays because they are accessible, and easy to read for the general public, which is not a very good sign if one is looking for something of quality.. Something that could be called good Literature...
Oh yeah, and the last book I bought was Borges' Collected Fictions.... I loved Labyrinths as well as the El ALeph collection so I just had to go for the rest.... I am eagerly anticipating its arrival...
before that was Dostoevsky's A Raw Youth ( or The Adolescent).. the least well known, and in my opinion, the most underrated of his five major works... in fact one of the most underrated books I have read...
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My sister gave me a gift certificate to B&N for my bday, so I bought the 5 Novels of Flaubert B&N volume, and Dostoevsky's The Idiot. So far I've started on Flaubert's The Temptation of St Anthony, quite excellent.
it is indeed one of Dostoevsky's best
"there is an absolute
and that must be in the heart"
The Secret Agent, and the Master and Margarita
Dan Brown's Deception Point.
The source of any bad writing is the desire to be something more than a person of sense--the straining to be thought a genius. If people would say what they have to say in plain terms, how much eloquent they would be.
-S.T COLERIDGE
The last book I got was the 2008 Poet's Market (if you want to get technical....)
As far as novels...The Freedom Writers Diary by the original Freedom Writers and Erin Gruwell. (It's funny, as I read it, I realized these now young adults were from my graduating class of 1998. I doubt I would have lived through everything they've been through.)
This past summer we had to put my grandmother in a nursing home. When Mom came home after a weekend of cleaning Grandma's house, (that she lived in since 1948), she brought home several of Grandma's old books.
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Cat Who:
Talked to Ghosts
Went Underground
Lived High
Knew A Cardinal all by Lilian Jackson Braun
Earlier Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One Hundred and One Famous Poems compilation by Roy J. Cook
The Face Is Familiar by Ogden Nash
phewwwwwww
Let me win, but if I can not win, Let me be brave in the attempt -- Special Olympics Oath
Good choices!! I love The Woodlanders and Camille was quite good!
and Sir Bartholomew.. I don't know if you've read it before but Master and Margarita is just amazing!! I would recommend it to anyone...
The Second Plane - September 11: Terror and Boredom - Martin Amis
(Some essays and a couple of short stories pertaining to extremism and terrorism and the day of infamy...)
Daisy Miller - Henry James (new Penguin edition with intro by David Lodge; hopefully it uses the New York Edition text, as the previous Penguin edition did not...)
Contes du jours et de la nuit ("Stories of Day and Night") - Guy de Maupassant
Reading Myself and Others - Philip Roth
The Feminine Mystique
Shall these bones live?
last book I bought... Well that depends, the last book I bought in a shop was "The best short stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky". The last book I bought online and have received in the post was "Antigone - Sophocles" and the last book that i bought online and have yet to receive is "The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky".
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