I've read 71 on the list (I think, I may have lost count) I tend to agree with Crime & Punishment as number one. Les Miserables in the top five? I suppose somebody has to like it!
I've read 71 on the list (I think, I may have lost count) I tend to agree with Crime & Punishment as number one. Les Miserables in the top five? I suppose somebody has to like it!
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Shocking.Originally Posted by Dark Muse
WTF?
Middlemarch ommitted (somehow).
[QUOTE=Red-Headed;814119]I've read 71 on the list (I think, I may have lost count) I tend to agree with Crime & Punishment as number one. Les Miserables in the top five? I suppose somebody has to like it
Lists of these sorts are a constant reminder of how much I am Literary illiterate.
I've only read about 17.
"...You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?..." E. A. Poe
Surprised, but delighted Crime and Punishment is no. 1. Dostoevsky has become my favorite author. I am making my way through his works as we speak, he may have changed my life.
. . . Nobody’d be different. The only thing that would be different would be you.
I've read about 70 of them. I've been reading classics all my life. Most of them are classics.
I'm currently reading Crime and Punishment. Definitely the best novel I've read so far. Part 3 Chapter 5 completely blew my mind. Trying to get through lots of the classics before I go to uni, I was always under the impression that War and Peace was considered better than C + P, but hey ho.
Surprised to see the Kite Runner in there, a good book to be sure, but not really a classic.
Against the rubber tongues of cows and the hoeing hands of men
Thistles spike the summer air
Well this list was not limited to only classics, though it so happens that Classics are classcis for a reason and thus many of the works upon the list happen to be classics, but the nominations were open to any book.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
That list makes me realized how much I need to read! I have only read 18 of those books. I am glad to see that Kurt Vonnegut made it on the list. He was a wonderful author
("Goodbye blue Monday").
To the making of lists there is no end. But it's a sign of autism.
I'm glad Brave New World is on the list. I've been in love with that book since high school.
Hi :-). When you finish reading Crime and Punishment. Watch Match Point. It's a movie by Woody Allen and it's interesting how he incorporates some of the events from the book in the movie.
Thank you so much for this DarkMuse! That's a great idea you've had and a very good job compiling all the votes.
Currently reading:
The Basque History of the World by Mark Kurlansky
I'm reading this now, and so far, I agree.
And, not to beat a dead horse, but how does Fountainhead get up so high?
(Well, I guess I know how. But, jeez!)
I adore quite a few of these (1984, Pride and Prejudice, the Republic, The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, Hamlet, Animal Farm, Candide, Jane Eyre, Anna Kerrina) but have not read so many of them! I have some of them in my library (Lord of the Flies and War and Peace are the first ones that come to mind) that I have not gotten around to reading. I'm going to print this and make a point to read all of them!
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