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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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