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PrintableIstenSzek said: is that your fav Shakespeare? i never really turned on to him until i read MacBeth. wow. i have copies of that all about, i
think there's even one in the toillet downstairs, lol. Need I be stupified anymore?    | |
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slicksight said: IstenSzek said: is that your fav Shakespeare? i never really turned on to him until i read MacBeth. wow. i have copies of that all about, i
think there's even one in the toillet downstairs, lol. Need I be stupified anymore?  and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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TheResistor said: The trick to reading as much as I do is simple: get rid of your television.
I've been without a television for almost seven years... Kudos to you -- I need to get rid of mine. I definitely watch too much junk. That damn TV just fascinates me! Anyway.... (in no particular order) A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving The World According to Garp - J.I. A Seperate Peace - John Knowles The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera Slowness - M.K. The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt: Anne Rice The Alchemist - Paulo Coehlo The Law of Love - Laura Esquivel http://elmadartista.tumblr.com/ http://twitter.com/madartista | |
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Wow, lots of good reading suggestions on here.
My favorites in no order Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen I Robot - Isaac Asimov Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Rowling The Hobbit - Tolkien Pygmalion - (Not quite fair it's a play) - George Bernard Shaw Evgeniy Onegin - Pushkin A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 1984 - George Orwell | |
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1. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
2. The Wizard of Oz - Frank L. Baum 3. Le Petit Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery 4. To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf 5. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 6. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne 7. The Cather in the Rye - JD Salinger 8. Urashimaso - Minako Oba 9. The Plague - Albert Camus 10. The Old Man and The Sea - Ernest Hemingway 11. Sula - Toni Morrison | |
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heartbeatocean said: 4. To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf oh, i love that book so very very much when i finished it i immediately began reading it again.  and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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2the9s said: 2the9s said: There are a lot of good guides and annotations etc. out there that can help you through the book, though I would recommend staying clear of the annotations and sticking to the guides, especially Harry Blamires' Bloomsday Book, which is basically a plot summary. Blamires can help you get through the actual reading of the book, though for a book that shows how carefully written and downright fun Ulysses can be read anything Hugh Kenner has written about it, especially Joyce's Voices or his Ulysses (Kenner did a very bold thing giving his own critical study of Joyce's book the same title as the thing he studies.) Kenner is brilliant. Remember, Ulysses is a book about a guy walking around Dublin while his wife is having an affair with another man. He is aware of this. And his wife is aware that he is aware of this. And then there's Stephen... I can't believe I left House of Leaves off my top ten, or The Count of Monte Cristo, or Valis! And by the way, you shut up! You've read more of Proust than I'll ever read!! lol...You know my intention was only to read Volume I but the prose got so good and the characters were just so fascinating that I just wanted more. You know how when you finish a book, you kind of feel sad because it's over. Well, this thing would never end and you get to see, in detail, the character's full arc. Plus, I used the reading to coincide with my Zen practice. 
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This book is one of my favortie:
A Different Drummer by William M. Kelley First published some 30 years ago, this is the story of Tucker Caliban, a black Southerner who one day salts his fields, burns down his house, kills his livestock and, with his wife and child, sets off a mass exodus of his mythical state's entire black population. I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at the dirt. | |
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Sweeny79 said: ThreadBare said: Sure thing. Randomly listed:
1) Black Betty by Walter Mosley 2) The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 3) A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving 4) The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison 5) Faust by Goethe 6) Go Tell It on the Mountain by Baldwin 7) The Pursuit of Alice Thrift by Elinor Lipman 8) Day of Confession by Allan Folsom 9) Widow for One Year by John Irving 10) A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe I almost put that on my list, A Prayer for Owen Meany is really good too. Yeah, Hotel New Hampshire is one of the few books to ever have me laughing out loud to the point of causing a scene -- all within the first few pages. Irving has a true gift. | |
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ThreadBare said: Yeah, Hotel New Hampshire is one of the few books to ever have me laughing out loud to the point of causing a scene -- all within the first few pages. Irving has a true gift.
CONFESSION: I cheated on my Top Ten and added some other books that I also love. Really, Irving holds at least 4 spaces in my Top 10. http://elmadartista.tumblr.com/ http://twitter.com/madartista | |
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whodknee said: 2. Another Country (or Go Tell it on the mountain)-- James Baldwin
James Baldwin is a fairly new discovery for me, I only read my first books by him last year - "If Beale St. Could talk" and "Giovanni's Room". liked them both very much. really very good writing. what do you recommend i read next by him? and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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In no particular order;
Kruistocht In Spijkerbroek by Thea Beckman The Name Of The Rose by Umberto Eco The Shipping News by Annie Proulx Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos De Laclos Atonement by Ian McEwan Out by Natsuo Kirino The Lord Of The Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson The World According to Garp by John Irving |
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HamsterHuey said: In no particular order;
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx Atonement by Ian McEwan The World According to Garp by John Irving  I read all these and loved them.
I really loved "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver, and "Oryx and Crake" by Margaret Atwood, I have read so many books I have trouble thinking of them. | |
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That's a difficult question... These are the books that come to mind.
'If on a winternight a traveler' by Italo Calvino 'Alles in het klein' by Eriek Verpaele 'Gloed' (can't remember the English title) by Sandor Marai 'The secret history' by Donna Tartt 'Love in times of cholera' by Marquéz 'L'amant' by Marguerite Duras 'Hasse Simonsdochter' by Thea Beckman and 'Jip en Janneke' by Annie M.G. Schmidt (I can't just leave out children's books) 'Disgrace' by Coetzee 'Vergeten straat' by Louis Paul Boon | |
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brownsugar said: IstenSzek said: sounds very interesting. i'll write down the title!  its one of those books you can't put down for another day. i think i was up til about 2 or 3 am finishing it.This book is made into a film, isn't it? sorry, just swa you mentioned the movie-edit [Edited 5/14/06 4:26am] | |
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HamsterHuey said: The Name Of The Rose by Umberto Eco The Shipping News by Annie Proulx Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
we should start a second hand bookstore or something. we could be drinking coffee and fingering books all day long, reading everything that we acquire. oh and flirting with customers.  and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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charlottegelin said: "Oryx and Crake" by Margaret Atwood
i keep picking that up and putting it back in stores. is it good? i'm still undecided. and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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IstenSzek said: HamsterHuey said: The Name Of The Rose by Umberto Eco The Shipping News by Annie Proulx Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
we should start a second hand bookstore or something. we could be drinking coffee and fingering books all day long, reading everything that we acquire. oh and flirting with customers. We actually should... |
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HamsterHuey said: IstenSzek said:
we should start a second hand bookstore or something. we could be drinking coffee and fingering books all day long, reading everything that we acquire. oh and flirting with customers. We actually should... you both have good taste in literature | |
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Natisse said: HamsterHuey said: We actually should... you both have good taste in literature You mean EXCELLENT! |
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HamsterHuey said: Natisse said: you both have good taste in literature You mean EXCELLENT! yeah that too | |
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Natisse said: HamsterHuey said: You mean EXCELLENT! yeah that too and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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HamsterHuey said: Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
Last night, watching an Annette Bening movie, I thought of how much I've liked the film adaptations of this. I should read the book! http://elmadartista.tumblr.com/ http://twitter.com/madartista | |
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IstenSzek said: Natisse said: yeah that too ;  | |
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Natisse said: IstenSzek said: ;   | |
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slicksight said: Natisse said: ; hey now. don't pick on Tisse, she gives great hugs, in real life too and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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IstenSzek said: slicksight said: hey now. don't pick on Tisse, she gives great hugs, in real life too thank you hon slicksight  | |
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IstenSzek said: charlottegelin said: "Oryx and Crake" by Margaret Atwood
i keep picking that up and putting it back in stores. is it good? i'm still undecided. I borrowed it from the library. I love science fiction so this was right up my alley. It has things in it that I keep thinking about, now more than a year since I read it. I love books that unfold in my minds eye as effortlessly as watching a movie - this one, though I wouldn't say was easy reading, when I think back on it, I can SEE the scenes. | |
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I'm soo excited I just received HOUSE OF LEAVES in the mail. I can't wait to finish my other book so that I can start on this one.
M MyeternalgrattitudetoPhil&Val.Herman said "We want sweaty truckers at the truck stop! We want cigar puffing men that look like they wanna beat the living daylights out of us" Val"sporking is spooning with benefits" | |
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