The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Charleston - John Jakes
1984 - George Orwell
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Remarque
The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Charleston - John Jakes
1984 - George Orwell
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Remarque
I can't do one favorite either, but if I was forced, I would probably have to say Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carol
Also very much enjoyed:
Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
Mostly Harmless - (crowning jewel on a wonderful trilogy) Douglas Adams
Voyage of the Dawntreader - (another favorite in a truly excellent series) C.S. Lewis
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus - Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues - Tom Robbins
Lamb: the Gospels According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Friend - Christopher Moore
I'd better stop. I could go on and on. I'm going to be pirating this thread for reading suggestions, just as soon as I can afford to buy books or can find a library and have some free time.... *sigh!*
100,000 lemmings can't be wrong. ~heard from a friend
Life is the first gift, love is the second, understanding the third. ~ Marge Piercy
Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God;
but only he who sees takes of his shoes. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Bell Jar--Syvlia Plath
Pride and Prejudice-Jane Austen
Frankenstein--Mary Shelley
Gone With the Wind-Margaret Mitchell
And many others I cannot think of right now. ^_^
My favorite book is Thomas Pynchon's first novel V. The only other book I have read by him was The Crying of Lot 49 (which I thought was great as well). I picked him for an English project this year (the only reason was because I saw his name on this forum under appearing on The Simpsons heh) and wow, I was blown away. The man is amazing and V. is just an awesome story, very funny and it was so much deeper than I could have imagined after reading what some critics had to say. Before V. my favorite book was Moby-Dick, and I think V. really reminded me of Moby-Dick in the way it just seemed to contain so much knowledge. I think that once I read Gravity's Rainbow it will be my favorite but I am waiting until I graduate college so I stand a chance at understanding it.
"O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small."
We must be on the same page, good heavens could there ever be a more mindless and boring story than Moby Dick the white whale. How many pages was it again? (800+? it sure was hefty)Originally Posted by D'Artagnan
I remember having to read it for 8th grade lit course, it was a brief intro to what we should expect of High School. Thank goodness we never read Moby Dick in any of my high school lit classes, I would have probably dropped out. haha
I am quite surprised to read and learn that many hated most of the traditional High School mandatory reads : To Kill a Mockingbird, The Scarlet Letter, The Crucible, Ethan Fromme, The Great Gatsby, A tale of Two Cities, Ragtime, Of mice and Men and alikes, I loved Dickens, Shakespeare and adored the russian authors, Tolstoy and Dostoyievsky. Ana Karenina, Antonia and Crime and Punishment are among my favorites of all time. I will always cherish The Count of Monte Cristo, it saved my sanity during the one summer I worked as a doorman, those breaks were long and just as boring, without Alexandre Dumas I would not have survived that dreaded summer job.
I adore Virginia Woolf, Orlando and Mrs. Dalloway cannot receive enough praise from me.
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony". Mahatma Gandhi
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever". Gandhi
"Your dreams are all out there waiting for you; and only you can make them happen" Anonymous
I don't have a favourite book too, but I in the last years I enjoyed Mordecai Richler' Barney's version....ah, and then I loved Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen and also the count of Monte Cristo!!
I still have to read so many things...
the great expectations - charles dickens in fact all books of c&d are my favourites
Tough to decide. I guess some of my favourites are:
The Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
Justine - Lawrence Durrell
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Favorite book
Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers
not a classic, but ought to be.
Least favorite
(I feel sort of cheeky saying this because I haven't read 1 percent of all books worth reading.)
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
"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."
Favs:
THE CRUCIBLE!! (Not a novel, but my favourite piece of literature EVER)
The Great Gatsby
The Silence of the Lambs
Any Shakespearean Pleay, particularly King Lear
Forgive me, I haven't read enough of the Classics.
I can't really say I've HATED any book. There are many that I have not enjoyed reading, but I can still appreciate them, such as:
Heart of Darkness (reading it was like trudging through mud- it's the longest 100 pages I've ever read, but it is brilliant nonetheless)
I'm weary with right-angles, abbreviated daylight,
Waiting for a winter to be done.
Why do I still see you in every mirrored window,
In all that I could never overcome?
Faves:
Anything by Peter David (Sir Apropos of Nothing was a scream and his Star Trek novels are the best of any.)
Hamlet/Macbeth (can't choose between them!)
The Once and Future King
Bullfinch's Mythology
Really Enjoyed:
Middlesex
The Time-Traveler's Wife
The Undead and Un-whatever series (silly vampiric fun!)
Anything by Phillipa Gregory
Least Faves:
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Chuck Palahniuk
Damn, why couldnt i ahve discovered this site sooner...
there are so many posts i wish toc omment on but they are all years old.
and the number of books named. i want to read them all and i could if i had them but actually obtaining so many, ugh!!!!!
suprisingly i actually loved Emma by Austen and i want to read her other books. Hehe, im not actually finished with Emma, but i did finish it when i was 10, but so long and so many books, just cant remeber...
I also enjoyed C and P quite a bit. The "ramblings" in it were very much an imporant part of the story. and the social theories were fun as well.
There is a thread called "Revive an Old Thread" or something of the sort. LitNet is trying to bring some of the old ones back, so please feel free to comment on anything that strikes your interest.
I share your problem of finding so many good books here to read and have the lack of time to read them.
My favorite book at the moment is as well, Crime and Punishment, if I am correct (I think I am) in assuming that was your abbreviation.
By the way, welcome to LitNet, hope you find it awesome and have fun commenting on any thread you like.
I am reading Heart of Darkness...and I am afraid I have to agree that it is rather hard to get through right now...hope it doesn't make that list of least favorite.
"So heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss, and my heart turns violently inside of my chest, I don't have time to maintain these regrets, when I think about, the way....He loves us..."
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5xXowT4eJjY
I would suggest staying with it. I didnt like it at first either but it kind of stays with you (like a commercial jingle you cant forget.)
"Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents."
- Feste, Twelfth Night
"...till human voices wake us and we drown."
- Eliot
The Art of War by Sun Tzu.
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