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10 to read before the apocalypse?
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Hi, I be new. And I came to the lit forum first. . .such a nerd
My ten are
1. Catch 22, by Joseph Heller
2. Franny and Zooey, by J.D. Salinger
3. American Pastoral, by Phillip Roth
4. The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
5. All of the 'Wit' books, compiled by Des McHale (just for fun)
6. Santa Evita, by Tomas Eloy Martinez
7. Death and the Penguin, by Andrey Kurkov
8. The Collected Dorothy Parker
9. The Complete Tales of the Unexpected, by Roald Dahl
10. Devil in a Blue Dress, by Walter Mosley.0 -
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It's too difficult to list ten, and most of the ten I'd list have been taken,
Grapes of Wrath, Wasp Factory, The Pearl, Selfish Gene, Animal Farm, 1984. So I'll have to list some others that I don't think have appeared yet, but are well worth reading, the authors may be same as some others above - some titles I've missed as well, I'm sure!
1) If This is a Man / The Truce - Primo Levi - Jewish Chemists account of his life in Bruckhaneur (?) and his journey home, very moving.
2) Crime and Punishment - Fydor Dostoevsky - Excellent view of guilt / paranoia and the punishment you can cause yourself.
3) Schopenhauer's Telescope - Gerard Donovan - Very interesting power play.
4) This Demon Hanted World - Carl Sagan - Brilliant series of could be talks on the simplicity of taking the scientific approach to life and not accepting unbelievable claims.
5) Don Quixote - Cervantes - Hillarious
6) The Gormenghast Trilogy - Mervin Peake - well only the first two, very good small world satire in the best tradition of Johnathan swift.
7) The Trial - Franz Kafka - The book written about Guantanemo style arrest and detention, before the protaginists were born - seems Blunckett read it too!
8) The Lottery and Other Stories - Shirley Jackson - Misstress of the macbre, she is the author that King wishes he used to be! Very human, but dark stories, kind o the Alan Bennett of dark tales
9) Talking Heads - Alan Bennett - indeed anything by this wry observer of humanity, these are all monologues, with interesting twists and turns in thier tellins.
10) The Myth of Sisyphus
- Albert Camus - a tretise on the futility os suicide.
There are hundreds more, nay thousands, but who has time!0 -
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FAVOURITE BOOKS OF ALL TIME
Fire and hemlock – Diana Wynne Jones
Howls moving castle – Diana Wynne Jones
GOOD READS
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
To the lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
Women in love – DH Laurence
In the skin of a lion + the English patient – Michael Oondatjje
Little women – Louisa May Alcott
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
Frankenstein – May Shelley
Jude the obscure – Thomas Hardy
The Oresteia - Aeschylus
Captain Corellis mandolin - Louis de Bernières0 -
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East of Eden--Steinbeck
anything/everything by PG Wodehouse
Frannie and Zooey (way better than Catcher in the Rye)--Salinger
The Changeover (way better than Harry Pisser)--Margaret Mahy
Far from the Madding Crowd--Hardy
The Last Unicorn (nothing like the cartoon film)--Peter S Beagle
The Pickwick Papers--Dickens
Don Quixote--Cervantes
The Old and New Testaments and the Koran (you must have a great and forgiving sense of humor to read these) (as literature...not great; but as examples of superb marketing...they don't don't make 'em like this anymore...at least not recently)--authors: some very crazy, strange men
The Time Machine--Wells
Crime and Punishment--Dostoevsky
oops...that's 11...hopefully the apocalypse will hold out long enough...0 -
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A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer : True story about a young boy in America who was brutally abused by his mother. He was the third worst abused child in the history of the US. Its impossible to believe that a mother could do this to another human let alone her own child. Heart rendering and tear jerking, impossible to belive, impossible to put down. (and its trilogy so read all three)
The Hannibal Lector Trilogy by Thomas Harris : The man is a genius to be able to create a genius such as Dr. Hannibal Lector. The three books Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs, and Hannibal do follow each other but can very easily be read as singles. The best of the three is Hannibal. Longest one too! But definately the best. For those of you who have only seen the movies the books are so much better. The movies are nothing like the books, so much is left out of the movies, the story is the same, and some of the dialogue is taken straight from the novels but there is so much more to the books, a much more twisted, sadistic and tangled story. Absolutely brilliant!
Dracula by Bram Stoker : Very good book. Extremely difficult to get into with the old English and big complicated words, (seriously wicked complicated English even for accomplished Englishy people) (as I am obviously not!) but once you do get into it its really good. And its not half as pornographic as the film!!!! Its more about Johnathon Hark's relationship with Drac and the relationship Drac developed with Hark's wife.
Fixed 1, 2, & 3 from Today FM (Ray D'arcy) : Funny and educational! What more can I say!!??
thats eight books for ya! cant think of any more at the mo! Enjoy! 0 -
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"Dracula by Bram Stoker : Very good book. Extremely difficult to get into with the old English and big complicated words, (seriously wicked complicated English even for accomplished Englishy people) (as I am obviously not!) but once you do get into it its really good. And its not half as pornographic as the film!!!! Its more about Johnathon Hark's relationship with Drac and the relationship Drac developed with Hark's wife."
Hi Le Rack, have you read Frankenstein .. in my opinion it's a much better book than Dracula (which I felt died a bit ... excuse the pun .. in the middle).
Frankenstein is an absolute classic ... I'll never forget reading it for the first time, I nearly jumped out of my skin, and the tragedy, woah ... Mary Shelley was only nineteen when she wrote it ... wow, a masterpiece.
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