I've got a gift certificate for Borders that I want to spend on some classic novels this weekend. I know that one I definitly want to buy is Anna Karenina by Tolstoy because I have heard so many rave reviews about it. Some of my all-time favorites are The Good Earth trilogy,Gone With the Wind, and Pride and Prejudice, and I love any kind of love story. Which ones do you guys think I should pick up?

James Joyces' Ulysses

(You may enjoy this link as an interesting resource too)

Amazing Spiderman#41.
1st. appearance of the Rhino.

Some Dino Buzzati (sp ?). It's brilliant, fresh, deep.

dostoyevsky is always good for a laugh...'crime and punishment' is very readable. i also hear 'middlemarch' is an amazing read. it's on my list.

Thanks, guys! Hey, Anxy, actually I've been meaning to read Middlemarch. I think I am gonna pick that up. The "middle" also reminded me that I wanted to read Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides.

i can't say enough about Dr. Seuss.

sinisterpentatonic said:

By far his best.

theVelvetRoper said:

I am a Fox in Sox gal, myself. Nothing like a good tweedle beetle bottle battle!

sinisterpentatonic said:

don't wait for yer neighbor!

bluesbaby said:

Oh, well if you loved Fox in Sox, you simply must read Hop on Pop!

bluesbaby said:

When beetles battle beetles in a puddle paddle battle
and the beetle battle puddle is a puddle in a bottle...
...they call this a tweetle beetle bottle puddle paddle battle muddle

i read that book almost every night to my sister

Raine said:

I knew you had to know it by heart!


I love the battles!

Anxiety said:

YOU SMELL LIKE SPAM!

How about Tarr by Wyndham Lewis?

Here's the amazon link:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/...s&v=glance

I'm pretty sure Natsume wrote that single review!

A Lil Sylvia Plath never hurt anything either...well, cept for Sylvia.....

THE BELL JAR.

Anything Shakespeare I like the dramas, myself.

Thanks, everyone. I'm making a list to bring to the store with me.

Definitely get the Anna Karenina.

bluesbaby said:

well, not in the genres you are looking for, but i will suggest my 3 faves, cause they are amazing...

the ciderhouse rules
the hours
the color purple

By the way, you can get classic novels cheap anytime!

If you have a gift certificate you should spend that bad boy on some recent cheesy hardback that you would be otherwise embarrasses to spend money on!

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Oh, oh, um...shoot.....


Catcher In The Rye!

cborgman said:

don't project. just because you excrete the gelatinous goo they use to pack the stuff...

theVelvetRoper said:

hi! I recommend to you virtually all the great russian novels of the 19th century. Russian literature is something very special.

I'd like to recommend to you:
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (Фёдор Миха́йлович Достоевский):
- Crime and Punishment (1866); from a "formal" point of view I think this is his most fulfilling effort
- The Idiot (1868)
- House Of The Dead (1862)

Nikolai Gogol:
- Dead Souls: unfortunately a fragment, planned in three parts - just two were written (the second one was not finished); terribly entertaining.
I highly recommend his short-novels, too.

[b]Iwan Gontscharow[b]:
- Oblomow: not as well known as Gogol or Dostoevsky, but absolutely worth reading. Deals with the idea of an "unnecessary" human being.

At this time I'm reading "Fathers And Sons" by Iwan Turgenjew; written in 1859, this novel deals with the idea of "nihilism" (a term that was used for the first time in literature in this book), an idea, that was spread among the young people.

The Grrreat Gatsby



Actually no that bored my panties off. Long Island and that stupid Big Brother sign mixed in with my old Literature teacher. Bleh!!

Lemme get back to you on this one.

In the meantime, I reccomend you read Noddy books by Enid Blyton

Jean-Paul Sartre - Huis Clos (see if u can get that in english)

lilmissmissy said:

i love gatsby.

i got into a big argument with my english teacher about it too. i don't think daisy is the simpleton people readers think of her as. i think it's a facade she pushes to get what she wants.

cborgman said:

:evilllol: Thinkin back you got a point!!

lilmissmissy said:

i'd have to reread it now as an adult and much more mature in my feminist beliefs and concepts of character, but it struck me as very fascinating the way everyone else tends to write her off as an idiot. i see her as more in control than anyone else in the book in a very subtle way.