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Post by Mary Sandals on May 30, 2011 16:37:20 GMT -5
Someone in my English class based their coursework on that! I meant to look it up and read it, but never got around to it; thank you for reminding me! Ohh, I adore The Yellow Wallpaper! It's so deliciously crazy.  Also a huge, huge fan of that. I carried it around in my folder freshman year. I loved picking up on all the little things. |
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Post by brosephargh on May 30, 2011 17:09:42 GMT -5
So, this hasn't been mentioned yet, but surprisingly, I loved Tortilla Flat, by Steinbeck. It's a quasi-modern parallel of King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table story in Monterrey, southern california. It's actually a wonderful book.  |
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Post by Silva on May 30, 2011 20:20:17 GMT -5
1. The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
2. The Master and Margarita- Mikhail Bulgakov
3. The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath
4. The Catcher in the Rye- J.D. Salinger
5. East of Eden- John Steinbeck
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Post by Lady Macbeth on May 30, 2011 22:46:54 GMT -5
I don't care if they're technically children's books; His Dark Materials is my favourite trilogy ever (and of the three, The Amber Spyglass is my favourite). Second on my list is Libba Bray's Gemma Doyle trilogy: A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, and The Sweet Far Thing. They're also youth literature, but I think they're brilliant. Some others I've greatly enjoyed: - A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette - Carolly Erickson
- Maskerade - Terry Pratchett
- I, Coriander - Sally Gardner
So many children's books... and I feel like a failed armadillo for not loving more classics. Truth be told, though, I haven't read that many; such will be my mission this summer. |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on May 30, 2011 23:47:42 GMT -5
This list is entirely incomplete, but here's what's coming to mind at the moment: - Out of Africa
- Lolita
- Confessions of Lady Nijo
- Emma
- Battle Royale
- The Passion
- 1984
- The Wheel of Time
- Chronicles of the Cheysuli
I've also lately been devouring anything and everything by Brandon Sanderson. Good shit, folks. |
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Post by Zeffy on May 31, 2011 11:01:57 GMT -5
Eddings? "My Lord, I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offense against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fir which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornement for a human face. Is it possible that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?" That Eddings? Yes, that Eddings. I told you, I went on a Fantasy binge... Eddings is one of my Fantasy literature heroes, as cheesy at it sounds. I love how he could put out so many books when I've only met two people, including those on the internet, that has ever heard of him. |
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Post by Olive on May 31, 2011 11:30:18 GMT -5
Yes, that Eddings. I told you, I went on a Fantasy binge... Eddings is one of my Fantasy literature heroes, as cheesy at it sounds. I love how he could put out so many books when I've only met two people, including those on the internet, that has ever heard of him. Yeah. My ex had gotten me started on Salvatore (Drizzt was basically his father figure growing up... oh my), and after I got through... 17 or 18 of his books? He turned my onto Eddings, and I whipped through The Belgariad and The Malloreon. I stopped there because that's all that my ex owned, but when I stopped at Barnes & Noble I noticed his other series... I had to walk away before I wound up reading them all at once, because the semester was starting and I had other things to get to. So I turned to Asimov's Foundation trilogy next. Never did find time to go back to Eddings... |
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Post by callmeishmael on Jun 1, 2011 2:01:14 GMT -5
Hmm. I started then realized I had immediately listed 3 Hemingway novels, so I'm just condensing it:
-Absolutely anything by Hemingway -Hemingway Fan boy. So sue me.
-The Norse Eddas (Poetic and Prose) - Mmm. Norse Mythology. Odin<3
-Moby Dick - It's Moby Dick, people.
-Catcher in the Rye - Related to as an angsty teen
-Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series - Amazing humor
Edited to add these:
-REDWALL SERIES -I absolutely loved these. So sad he passed, RIP.
-Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Don't do drugs kids.
I'll read anything, but I tend to stick with "The Classics" as pompous as that sounds. American Classics that is. I guess that's a lie, since I really do read and enjoy anything. Just for novels I tend to enjoy American literature the most it seems. Even though I would have never said that about myself until now. Weird. Nevermind. I'm procrastinating.
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Post by cyanea on Jun 1, 2011 8:05:52 GMT -5
Eddings is one of my Fantasy literature heroes, as cheesy at it sounds. I love how he could put out so many books when I've only met two people, including those on the internet, that has ever heard of him. Yeah. My ex had gotten me started on Salvatore (Drizzt was basically his father figure growing up... oh my), and after I got through... 17 or 18 of his books? He turned my onto Eddings, and I whipped through The Belgariad and The Malloreon. I stopped there because that's all that my ex owned, but when I stopped at Barnes & Noble I noticed his other series... I had to walk away before I wound up reading them all at once, because the semester was starting and I had other things to get to. So I turned to Asimov's Foundation trilogy next. Never did find time to go back to Eddings... If those series were the Elenium and Tamuli, read them read them read them! I honestly think they're a lot more entertaining than the Belgariad/Mallorean. The plot is a little less formulaic, and the reinterpretation of Medieval Europe is great. It's a little darker, and has as much political maneuvering as it does action. It's probably his best six books. If it was any other series...eh. I haven't read them yet, but haven't heard great things. If it was his "psychological thriller", turn and run in the other direction. Quickly. I couldn't get too into Foundation. I read the first book and liked it. I love Asimov, but the method of storytelling (stories taking place every couple hundred of years) left little to really get into. I might get around to reading the rest of it, but it's not high on my to-do list. |
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Post by Olive on Jun 1, 2011 8:14:02 GMT -5
Yeah. My ex had gotten me started on Salvatore (Drizzt was basically his father figure growing up... oh my), and after I got through... 17 or 18 of his books? He turned my onto Eddings, and I whipped through The Belgariad and The Malloreon. I stopped there because that's all that my ex owned, but when I stopped at Barnes & Noble I noticed his other series... I had to walk away before I wound up reading them all at once, because the semester was starting and I had other things to get to. So I turned to Asimov's Foundation trilogy next. Never did find time to go back to Eddings... If those series were the Elenium and Tamuli, read them read them read them! I honestly think they're a lot more entertaining than the Belgariad/Mallorean. The plot is a little less formulaic, and the reinterpretation of Medieval Europe is great. It's a little darker, and has as much political maneuvering as it does action. It's probably his best six books. If it was any other series...eh. I haven't read them yet, but haven't heard great things. If it was his "psychological thriller", turn and run in the other direction. Quickly. I couldn't get too into Foundation. I read the first book and liked it. I love Asimov, but the method of storytelling (stories taking place every couple hundred of years) left little to really get into. I might get around to reading the rest of it, but it's not high on my to-do list. Yeah. I'll admit, Foundation can be a little... dry. But it was one of those classics of Sci-Fi that I had to read, and since someone had been nice enough to give me the most boring, grey leather bound edition of all three, I figured I'd do it. I'm glad I did, but I don't think I'll be re-reading it ever. |
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Post by ashleeoh on Jun 1, 2011 8:49:41 GMT -5
Fiction-wise, my favorite book is Catch-22. A Clockwork Orange and Naked Lunch are tied as very close runner-ups. I also really like The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Oh! And Watership Down.
Poetry-wise, anything by Anne Carson I'll starve for. The Beauty of the Husband comes to mind first.
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Post by Fuck Yeah Dion on Jun 8, 2011 0:07:21 GMT -5
Right now, my absolute favorite is Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, followed by Don DeLillo's White Noise, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, and Don Barthelme's 60 Stories.
My favorite poetry collections are The Complete Works of Emily Dickinson, and Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg. I don't buy very much poetry.
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Post by Marina on Jun 8, 2011 0:17:00 GMT -5
Right now, my absolute favorite is Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, followed by Don DeLillo's White Noise, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, and Don Barthelme's 60 Stories. My favorite poetry collections are The Complete Works of Emily Dickinson, and Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg. I don't buy very much poetry. White Noise? I'm afraid we can no longer be tomato buddies. I hated that infernal book. |
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Post by Fuck Yeah Dion on Jun 8, 2011 0:26:20 GMT -5
Right now, my absolute favorite is Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, followed by Don DeLillo's White Noise, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, and Don Barthelme's 60 Stories. My favorite poetry collections are The Complete Works of Emily Dickinson, and Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg. I don't buy very much poetry. White Noise? I'm afraid we can no longer be tomato buddies. I hated that infernal book. A lot of my classmates did as well, but I loved it. So digressive and expansive and meandering and poignant and fucking hilarious. |
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Post by Marina on Jun 8, 2011 0:29:12 GMT -5
White Noise? I'm afraid we can no longer be tomato buddies. I hated that infernal book. A lot of my classmates did as well, but I loved it. So digressive and expansive and meandering and poignant and fucking hilarious. There were point in time when I was reading it, perhaps when Hitler was being compared to Elvis, when I thought that I would like it. But then I think my class and discussion section made me loathe it. Maybe if I read it on my own I would have like it. |
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