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Sun Apr-27-08 10:26 PM
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What is your favorite classic novel? |
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I would have to say for me, it is "All Quiet on the Western Front". Perhaps the translation from German is the cause, but I loved the descriptive use of language. That is a book I have to read every few years.
How about you, DU?
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12. i prefer 'of mice and men' myself. |
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Tue Apr-29-08 10:20 PM
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101. I adore this book; taught it, also. "I don't need no ketchup, George." |
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Mon Apr-28-08 08:32 AM
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33. I also have to say "East of Eden" |
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This book made me laugh, cry,and feel awed.
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Mon Apr-28-08 03:47 PM
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Such a great tale on several levels.
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Tue Apr-29-08 06:26 PM
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87. Steinbeck was like that. |
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The imagery he left me with in "The Grapes of Wrath" have haunted me all these years since I read it. And "Mice and Men" Forget it. I was a puddle then after I read it. I am a puddle now just thinking about it. LOL! I did however find his book "The winter of our discontent" A little naive. Though I suppose the time it was written it had its Impact.Not so much in the grand ole year of 2004.
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Tue Apr-29-08 09:35 PM
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100. You have to be a little forgiving when you read "Winter" |
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He's old and living outside California at that point, and he's really writing in a time and place outside his comfort zone.
I'm not sure naive is the term I'd use, but it lacks the richness and texture of the earlier work. I reread it about 4 years ago; it is readable, but it's not the Steinbeck at his best. He has a love and passion for the west found in man like photographer Ansel Adams. You can envision Cannery Row and its people, eben if you've never set foot in Monterrey. The trip with the Joads is so engaging -- the roadside camping, the foreshadowing of what's to come in California, the search for used car parts to fix the Ford when the con rod breaks, and then the horrors and comforts they discover in California, and the final scene of Rose O Sharon breastfeeding the starving man (which somehow didn't make it in to the John Ford movie -- go figure) I could go on, but I'll spare you.
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108. Forgiving Steinbeck.... |
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For "The winter of our discontent" Is so easy its not even a issue. I think He is one of the most influential writers of all time.He certainly influenced me. The scene you mentioned in the final scene of the "grapes of wrath" After she sent the body of her baby on its final travels and went into the barn to nurse him. Was the very scene that has haunted me all these years.I was a kid when I read it years ago. That scene is indelibly and vividly etched on my mind for life.it was very affecting!!!
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It seems as I get older the longer and more intense some story imagery stays with me. For instance I am really glad I read "Black Beauty" and London's "The call of the wild" series when I was young and could bounce back much easier. A few years ago During the Summer. I decided to wonk out on Mark Twain. It was late at night when I, ran across one of his short stories "A Dogs Tale" OMG I not only couldn't get to sleep that night. The unwelcome story imagery still slams front and center into my thoughts at moments to this day!BTW, WARNING!!! If you are sensitive to animal cruelty tales stay away from any of mark Twains "A horse's tale"" A Cats tale" "A dog's tale" This is not for you.
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Wed Apr-30-08 08:23 AM
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107. Winter of Our Discontent is actually a Steinbeck I haven't read |
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OMG my ignorance is starting to show!
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If your ignorance is starting to show then mine is running over!LOL! There are so many books to read and so little time in which to read them in. I picked up five books written by William Faulkner, And "Franny and Zooey" written by J.D Salinger a year ago at a Planned Parenthood book sale and still haven't cracked the covers on any of them. I have been so busy with other authors.
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113. It takes me a while to get through books anymore... |
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Read a page here and there when there's free time on a trip. Makes me wonder how I managed in college!
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118. I know what you mean! |
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But every once and a while a book makes you drop everything to sit down and read it straight through. "East of Eden" did that to me so did Steinbecks "Mice and men" "Grapes of wrath" Even "The winter of our Discontent"Had me rapt. For me reading Steinbeck's books always changed me and the way I looked at the world. I felt older and more experienced if not exactly wiser.(Has talented has Steinbeck was he wasn't a miracle worker) Snort.
Fed- Up- Mom I loved the dog in 'Travels with Charley" The scene where the main character walks up and observes those housewives protesting and yelling racial slurs at the kids going to an all white school for the first time was intense.
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Wed Apr-30-08 08:46 AM
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114. Loved East of Eden. Heck, I loved Travels with Charlie. :) |
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I was a big Steinbeck fan, but haven't read his books in years. I think I need the large print version now. LOL
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But I love East of Eden and Cannery Row -- there's not much Steinbeck I don't love
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Sun Apr-27-08 10:28 PM
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2. Most of the 'classic novels' I've read are classic sci-fi. :) |
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I'm a geek, what can I say?
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Sun Apr-27-08 10:36 PM
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3. I love Asimov's Foundation series, as well as Clarke's Rama series |
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They definitely qualify as classics in my book!
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6. Yeah, I need to reread those, It's been so long I'm forgetting details. |
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I think I read the Rama books back in early high school, and the Foundation ones in late high school. And I graduated in 2000, so it's been a few years. :)
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It's also my favorite novel - period. :)
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Tue Apr-29-08 11:26 PM
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104. "That's some catch, that catch 22" |
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5. "To Kill a Mockingbird" |
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Sun Apr-27-08 10:47 PM
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7. I love that book as well. |
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Sun Apr-27-08 11:43 PM
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17. Yep... that's mine, too |
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I've probably re-read it a dozen times.
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Mon Apr-28-08 01:29 AM
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23. My daughter's 9th grade English class just finished |
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studying it, and I read it along with her. Embarrassed to say that was the first time I had read it. I loved it. I cried at the end when Scout is finally looking at the world from Boo Radley's point of view. Beautifully written.
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39. I love that book too. I haven't read it since grade nine. I should get it |
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97. That one would have to be mine too. |
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Sun Apr-27-08 10:55 PM
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8. Impossible. Theres a rift in ability. |
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"All Quiet on the Western Front" is literary a one hit wonder. But it's fabulous! But "Crime and Punishment" is also grant! So is "War an Peace"! This is an impossible ranking question....
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9. 'Of Mice and Men'...it's Steinbeck's finest novel, and one of the best I've ever read. |
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'Slaughterhouse Five' and 'The Great Gatsby' ranks as close seconds.
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Sun Apr-27-08 11:03 PM
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10. Dracula by Bram Stoker. |
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Sun Apr-27-08 11:06 PM
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11. For Whom the Bell Tolls. |
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I re-read it all the time.
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Tue Apr-29-08 05:00 AM
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The Old Man and the Sea as well, but FWtBT is awesome. I'm actually surprised there's not more Hemingway on this thread. That man could write a story.
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Vonnegut was the world's last literary genius.
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And Slaughterhouse Five. Great book.
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14. On the Road, Catch-22, Crime and Punishment, All Quiet on the Western Front... |
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The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Last Unicorn, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn...
Classic novels are like Pringles - once you pop, you can't stop.
Or something like that...
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Sun Apr-27-08 11:34 PM
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15. "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn", by Betty Smith. |
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Sun Apr-27-08 11:41 PM
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16. Same here. In fact, I was thinking about reading it again. Found |
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but I'd probably have to say that my absolute favorite is Anne of Green Gables.
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78. The "Gussy" pit always cracks me up. nt |
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Mon Apr-28-08 12:37 AM
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18. Just re-read "The Count of Monte Cristo" |
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I've read both the abriged and unabriged versions...think the abriged is better, honestly.
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48. Love it! I've read it 5 times, maybe... |
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...since the age of 12. A classic adventure story with one of my favorite guilty-pleasure themes: REVENGE! I've never read the abridged version. I love to wallow in the details, and the writing-- pure escapism for me. They don't write books like this anymore.
I love all the details about daily life back then that seem almost surreal in our own age. There are too many of those to count, of course, but one that comes to mind (especially in a complicated story of intrigue like this one) is how everyone was always writing letters or dashing off notes to let everyone else know about their plans. Dinner tonight? I'd better send a letter and wait for the reply! Of course, this was in the realm of the super-rich, where one always had a servant at hand to carry off another note or letter and wait for a reply.
Life moved so much more slowly then--yet for all that, this is one of the most exciting novels ever!
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Mon Apr-28-08 12:42 AM
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19. 100 Years of Solitude |
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is my favorite novel EVER!
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49. Pure magic writing. I heard a story about its conception... |
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...recently. GGM was riding a bus and the idea for the book hit him like a ton of bricks. He went straight home and into his office and told his wife, "Don't disturb me for a while." Over the next two months or so, he wrote continuously, and pretty much finished the entire thing. This may be apocryphal, but it's a great story of creative genius. I'd love to be hit be a similar ton of bricks.
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has to be one of the greatest ever. All of his books that I've read are superb, but there's something about 100 Years of Solitude that resonates.
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86. Agreed. It's genius from a special realm. |
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20. Maybe 'The Sound and the Fury.' The book that turns a dysfunctional family into a Biblical epic. |
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25. I like "As I Lay Dying" better |
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but Faulkner is up there. Don't think I could pick one.
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50. "AILD" is in my Top 10. |
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Just really thought provoking and well written, full of rich symbolism, which I love..."Great Gatsby" and "Grendel" are two others I love.
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Gatsby is always number two on my list as well. Beowulf is high on my list but I'd never even heard of Grendel. Must read list updated. :)
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122. strange, i was about to post that one in addition to the stranger |
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seems we have similar tastes! lord of the flies is great, but it really does show how brutal people(even kids) can be doesn't it?
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Mon Apr-28-08 01:09 AM
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22. Jane Eyre or Little Women |
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I read both as a pre-teen. They've stuck with me for the past thirty-odd years.
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24. Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers |
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or anything by Jane Austen or the Bronte sisters.
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52. Been trying to read this for two years!.... |
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...I find it revolutionary and amazing (I realize I am not the first), but it's like two other novels I really like but haven't been able to finish in the last two years: Gravity's Rainbow and Moby Dick. What I need is a six-month vacation. Alone. No phone. Paid-for.
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Or for something more contemporary perhaps "East of Eden"
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31. Pride And Prejudice, or maybe Huck Finn. n/t |
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32. "Sense and Sensibility." nt |
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In the original Fremen tongue.
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38. I loved the first few. Then they got too weird for me. nt |
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Mon Apr-28-08 10:25 AM
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41. "Rebecca" by Daphne DuMaurier; also one of my fave movies |
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Read Rebecca in freshman English in high school--I was dreading it, because I assumed any novel I'd "have to" read for class would be boring, but damn--loved it and still love it (and the movie too). Also surprised that I enjoyed Ethan Frome in high school too--I was a sucker for the twist ending. 'Course, then we had to read The Old Man and the Sea, and... :puke: :boring:
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43. *lol* Hope you haven't wasted your time on the "sequel" |
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It sucked. Thank goodness they probably can't make a movie of that trash, since they changed the ending of the book for the movie and killed Mrs Danvers off...
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this is my favorite movie and book ever
my daughter just watched it about a month ago
she called me in awe
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its not as if I never watched it lOl
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44. Mine I would have to say is |
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1984 by orwell...kinda scary how true that can be.
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46. I enjoyed reading Tess of the D'urbervilles my senior year n/t |
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I liked it so much, I went out and read The Mayor of Casterbridge and Jude the Obscure. Love his work.
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64. One of the all-time best novels ever written |
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I only read it for the first time a few months ago and regret that I'd never read it when I was younger.
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47. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith n/t |
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53. Wuthering Heights, Enchanted April, Mayor of Casterbridge |
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The Wind in the Willows, Alie in Wonderland, Slaughterhouse 5.
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110. I just started Enchanted April! |
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Mon Apr-28-08 02:08 PM
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54. "All Quiet On The Western Front" is one of my favorites, too. |
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The common humanity in the book that overcomes the expressions of the "But the Germans were the BAD guys!" mentality.
The last paragraph still gives me goosebumps and causes me to well up.
Here it is from memory:
'He fell in October, on a day that was so silent and still that the Army report for that day confined itself to the single sentence: "All quiet on the Western Front". He had fallen forward. Turning him over, one could see that he could not have suffered long; his face was calm and peaceful, as if almost glad the end had come at last.'
That's an astonishing, moving piece of writing.
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Mon Apr-28-08 02:29 PM
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55. The Catcher in the Rye. |
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The first book I read that I personally identified with.
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I remember an item in a New Yorker years ago. A small town newspaper was interviewing the head of the local theater group. Near the end it said that he hoped to stage a play the next year called "Lame is Rob."
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57. Heart of Darkness n/t |
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60. Anna Karenina, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Three Musketeers, |
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I didn't like The Great Gatsby, though. :P
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61. Maugham - "Razor's Edge" and Tolstoy - "Anna Karenina" |
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115. Yep, two of the best! |
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My first choice would be Dickens, however...
either "David Coppperfield" or "Our Mutual Friend".
Have you read the novel Atonement? It's kind of Maughamish....
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63. The Remains of the Day, War and Peace, Gone With the Wind nt |
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I've read it probably 30 times.
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66. Moby Dick, Wuthering Heights, The Great Gatsby, & Great Expectations are the monsters in my closet. |
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71. Good call on the big fish story. A wonderful read. |
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85. I think Moby Dick is still the greatest American novel. |
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92. I'm reading it now in French. |
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Mon Apr-28-08 05:39 PM
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68. The Sound and the Fury |
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Not sure how many times I have read it, probably a half dozen. I like it more each time.
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69. _O Pioneers!!_ I love that book! nt |
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70. "The Good Soldier" by Ford Madox Ford |
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Think of it as a very long chat by the fireside. Conceptually it introduces the concept of an unreliable narrator. Ford was active during the same period as Conrad and James, though they both found him boorish at times.
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72. Anyone here read V.S. Naipaul? "A House for Mr. Biswas" is prob best book I've ever read. |
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Mon Apr-28-08 08:17 PM
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73. Mikhail Bulgakov - Master and Margarita |
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Read it in English first, not trying to read it in the original Russian.
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Tue Apr-29-08 09:06 PM
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94. I read that years ago, I think I need to read it again. I liked it. nt |
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Mon Apr-28-08 08:39 PM
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74. For pure entertainment value |
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The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins. The original page-turner and one of the best of that genre.
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Tue Apr-29-08 09:07 PM
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95. that is a good book, and so is "The Moonstone" same author. nt |
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Mon Apr-28-08 08:43 PM
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75. Does Confederacy of Dunces count? |
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Ignatius J. Reilly is a personal hero of mine.
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116. Ooh, I think that should have been on the cult classics list! |
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Mon Apr-28-08 10:18 PM
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76. The Counterfeiters. nt |
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89. I loved/hated this book |
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it disturbs me.....
I am an underdog person.... so of course piggy was my hero
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Tue Apr-29-08 03:01 AM
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79. "One Flew Over the Coo-koo's Nest" |
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SO different from the movies. Agonizing tale that calls out to the modern world in its questioning of the wisdom of reshaping our world on our immediate whims.
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84. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig |
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It's described as an "inquiry into values" which it is but it is also a very good story about a man's search for meaning in his life. It was a truly life-changing book for me.
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the Illiad and the Odyssey
loved it
along with
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1984 was disturbing
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Tue Apr-29-08 06:38 PM
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91. Wives and Daughters and North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell |
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I can't really choose between all my favorite novels.
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112. I saw the British mini-series of Wives and Daughters years ago |
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Now I'm thinking I need to read that book. Thanks for the reminder. :)
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119. You should, it is wonderful |
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(so was the adaptation). But as a warning: the book has no ending, as Gaskell died when she was writing the last chapters. :(
The miniseries of North and South is really good too. :)
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93. I don't have a single favorite. I'm kind of promiscuous. |
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:blush:
I can start listing a few that I fell in love with while reading, but it would be kind of pointless, because I'm sure to leave many out.
Oh... all right:
Frankenstein Middlemarch Tropic of Cancer Moby Dick Huckleberry Finn Candide Tom Jones Grapes of Wrath Lolita Ada Berlin Alexanderplatz Fathers and Sons Madame Bovary Vanity Fair Naomi The Awakening Moll Flanders
Etc., etc., etc...
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96. as in the kind that is often required reading? |
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Jane Eyre To Kill A Mockingbird Huckleberry Finn
would be my favorites. I maintain no home library is complete without these, the complete works of Shakespeare, Gone With the Wind and The Godfather.
I don't consider GWTW and Godfather classic novels as much as just romping good reading.
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117. Thats very good but VERY disturbing. |
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Have you read The Plague by Camus? Also very good but very disturbing
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121. nope, but i've been meaning to for a very long time |
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i'll have to make time for it :hi:
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102. For sheer brilliance, "Wuthering Heights". For its humanity, "Of Mice and Men". For its sociology, |
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103. oh, geez.... depends on what counts as "classic" and what counts as a "novel" |
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I love Kafka's novels.
I also love 'Tristram Shandy' - that is maybe the only one that I'm crazy about that I would count as 'classic' - I'm not sure if anything from the past 100 years is old enough to be a proven classic. If so, yeah, Kafka. Someone else mentioned 'To Kill a Mockingbird', which I think is great, but I'm not sure that it's really a novel - maybe a novella? 'Gravity's Rainbow' may now be a classic, but 'Mason & Dixon' is better, though probably not a classic.
It doesn't matter anyway, because I forgot how to read.
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Tue Apr-29-08 11:31 PM
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105. Thomas Hardy's 'Return of the Native' |
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So vivid I was ON Egdon Heath!
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Tolstoy. Having read a helluva lot of Tolstoy, and his biography several times, and his wife's biography, it makes the tale all that much more fascinating.
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111. A Tale of Two Cities |
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Haven't read it in years and years, though. I need to go back and read it again.
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Wed Apr-30-08 05:39 PM
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120. Rebecca, Jane Eyre, Tree Grows in Brooklyn, For Whom the Bell Tolls, |
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I never can decide and I have at least 10 more....
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