Slaughter-House Five- Vonnegut
The Giver-Lowry
The Gambler-Dostoyevsky
The Trees of Pride- Chesterton
Tale of Two Cities- Dickens
Slaughter-House Five- Vonnegut
The Giver-Lowry
The Gambler-Dostoyevsky
The Trees of Pride- Chesterton
Tale of Two Cities- Dickens
Beyond the clouds, my mind wanders in the stars.
Well I am still working on my 10, but here is what I have so far.Originally Posted by Dark Muse
1. Middlesex
2. The House of Mirth
3. The Red Tent
4. The Legend of Nightfall
5. The Stranger
6. Ashes of a God
7. Decent of Inanna
8. The Divine Comedy
Last edited by Dark Muse; 09-06-2008 at 01:00 PM.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
If you need another 10, then I suggest:
L'Education Sentimentale - Flaubert
Les Celibataires - de Montherlant
The White Gaurd - Bulgakov
Une Vie - Maupassant
Of Human Bondage - Maugham
Therese Desqueyroux - Mauriac
La Bete Humaine - Zola
McTeague - Norris
Sister Carrie - Dreiser
Oblomov - Goncharov
The Da Vinci Code - Brown
Oops! That makes eleven, so I guess the last one will have to be left out.
Leave the Da Vinci Code out, what's it doing there anyways?
Et l'unique cordeau des trompettes marines
Apollinaire, Le chantre
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things - Jon McGregor
The Beach - Alex Garland
An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger
I know a lot of people really hate that book, and though I would not rank among the best things I ever read, I enjoyed it, and for me it was a real page turner. Once I started reading I did not want to put it down again.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Alright, I can concede that someone might enjoy reading it, but there is a distance between that and a top list, especially that the rest of the list was nice.
Et l'unique cordeau des trompettes marines
Apollinaire, Le chantre
And finally we agree.
At thunder and tempest, At the world's coldheartedness,
During times of heavy loss And when you're sad
The greatest art on earth Is to seem uncomplicatedly gay.
To get things clear, they have to firstly be very unclear. But if you get them too quickly, you probably got them wrong.
If you need me urgent, send me a PM
To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger
The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne
Othello - Shakespeare
British humour
read the rest of his list
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
What i was wondering, makes sense
Et l'unique cordeau des trompettes marines
Apollinaire, Le chantre
Those were the first five I chose, now I'll get to pick ten more (thank you so much!)
I really have to think about this - maybe I'll do this in two parts.
I'll add at least these to my list:
The Holy Bible
These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
A Little Princess by F.H. Burnett
Eight Cousins by L.M. Alcott
Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing. Her hair was golden as the sun's rays and her soul as clear and blue as her eyes.
Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera
Hmmmh
For five, for starters, I guess
"Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel" by Milorad Pavić.
"Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov.
"The Visit" by Dürrenmatt
"The Hours" by Cunningham
"Song of Ice and Fire" series by Martin
If you believe even a half of this post, you are severely mistaken.
ok ten this time
War and Peace - Tolstoy
The Subteraneans - Kerouac
Pere Goriot - Balzac
The Story of the Stone - Xueqin
Hamlet - Shakespeare
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
The Bell Jar - Plath
Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut
The Wings of the Dove - James
Brave New World - Huxley
Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?
I won't post my top 5 yet because I have to give it a bit more thought but guys, I have to say, these lists are awesome! I'm so amazed to see that there are an abundance of so-called "classic" works. Usually when you go to a bookstore these days all you see are the new thrillers or murder mysteries or romances, while all the "classics" and great works are tucked away somewhere in the back.
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