Cool idea Dark Muse, I've stickied the thread so it remains easy to find on first page of threadsOriginally Posted by Dark Muse
Thanks a lot
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Can we do this another way? how about each person just names 10 favorites, and then we add them all to a word document, and see the occurrences of each name? That way, everyone can say what they want.
What a fabulous idea DM!!!! I wish I had thought of it. I do think that five is too small a number. I think you need to build up a significant quantity. I would have asked for twenty from everyone. But such is life. Here are my five, though it's really hard to pick only five.
The Divine Comedy
Moby Dick by Herman Meville
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Anna Karinina by Leo Tolstoy
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Oh please let us pick more.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
Candide by Voltaire
Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais
Petersburg by Bely
Petersburg Tales by Gogol
Don Quixote by Cervantes
I don't think it should be much representative with only 5 books per member though... 10 or 20 would be more like it.
EDIT: Seems like I'm not the only one of this opinion, let it be 20 or 25!
Et l'unique cordeau des trompettes marines
Apollinaire, Le chantre
Hamlet
The Brothers Karamazov
Ulysses
The Sound and the Fury
The Great Gatsby
I'm thinking we should have a larger list as well 10-20.
100 years of Solitude
Crime and Punishment
The Sound and the Fury
Junky
On the Road
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
Can we list books other members list? Are you doing this like the most tallied 100 titles Dark?
King Lear by William Shakespeare
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
Ulysses by James Joyce
Molloy by Samuel Beckett
"The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the sh1t the more I am grateful to him..."
-- Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett
Crime and Punishment
The Grapes of Wrath
War and Peace
Growth of the Soil
Hamlet
My mother is a fish.
OMG, what have I done? I've forgotten Light In August by William Faulkner. DM, you must expand this to beyond five.What a fabulous idea DM!!!! I wish I had thought of it. I do think that five is too small a number. I think you need to build up a significant quantity. I would have asked for twenty from everyone. But such is life. Here are my five, though it's really hard to pick only five.
The Divine Comedy
Moby Dick by Herman Meville
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Anna Karinina by Leo Tolstoy
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Oh please let us pick more.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
And I had to keep out Hamlet, War and Peace, Madame Bovary, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A Long Days Journey into Night, A Streetcar Named Desire, Lolita, Malone Dies, The Unnamable... The list would never end. I think it is better to keep it to five. This makes it more difficult which is half the fun!
Last edited by Kafka's Crow; 08-17-2008 at 08:57 PM.
"The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the sh1t the more I am grateful to him..."
-- Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett
I also like keeping it to 5 per member. There are numerous posters around here who take pride in the elitist label when it comes to lit - here it is in its purest form
There once was a scotsman named Drew
Who put too much wine in his stew
He felt a bit drunk
And fell off his bunk
And landed smack into his shoe ~(C) Ms Niamh Anne King
NICE!! I don't like Tolstoy so much as to put War and Peace in the first five, though, so I'll replace it with LOTR. Les Mis is next on my to-read list and I can't wait to get started on it. I just saw the movie so I'm sure I'll love it
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
Okay, I've done this before but
mine are
Madame Bovary, Flaubert
The Golden Bowl, James
Heart of Darkness, Conrad
Brideshead Revisited, Waugh
and
Grendel, by Gardner
although this was extremely difficult, I left out Proust and some others for various reasons, and picked the most emotional of impact but not too contemporary.
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