DoubtGin
11.28.10 | list is mtb ranked |
patroneyes
11.28.10 | kamasutra |
FromDaHood
11.28.10 | John Steinbeck- Of Mice and Men
Harper Lee- To Kill a Mockingbird
Ernest Hemingway- The Old Man and the Sea
JD Salinger- The Catcher in the Rye
Tim O'Brien- The Things They Carried
The Lord of the Flies- William Golding
There's more, obviously, that's just stuff I've read fairly recently and feel like listing |
eternium
11.28.10 | 1984 |
patroneyes
11.28.10 | AYN RAND - ATLAS SHRUGGED
oooooooooooooooo |
crazyblinddude
11.28.10 | Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness |
foreverendeared
11.28.10 | Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kessey
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
i could go on forever man I love literature |
TheStefan
11.28.10 | 1984
The Brothers Karamazov |
Adash
11.28.10 | SputnikBooks hurray
Metamorphosis - Kafka
A recherche de temps perdu - Proust
Madame Bovary - Flaubert
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
essentials
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DeafMetal
11.28.10 | Walden - Thoreau |
ConsiderPhlebas
11.28.10 | Georges Batailles - The Story of the Eye |
ButcheredChildren
11.28.10 | George Orwell - 1984
Emma Donoghue - Room
Michael Turner - Hard Core Logo
Cormac McCarthy - No Country For Old Men
Cormac McCarthy - The Road
Bram Stoker - Dracula
Thomas Harris - Silence Of The Lambs
Thomas Harris - Hannibal
Thomas Harris - Red Dragon
Thomas Harris - Hannibal Rising
Joe Hill - Heart-Shaped Box
Lois Lowry - The Giver
Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell To Arms
Max Brooks - World War Z
Robertson Davies - Fifth Business
John A. Keel - The Mothman Prophecies |
dreamobile
11.28.10 | The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, Death of a Salesman
some of my favorites |
Masochist
11.29.10 | Orson Scott Card - "Ender's Game"
Philip K. Dick - "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
Daniel Keyes - "Flowers For Algernon"
George Orwell - "Animal Farm" |
foreverendeared
11.29.10 | oh fuck yes to The Road. I forgot that one |
joshuatree
11.29.10 | fromdahood's recs in particular, plus
Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
William Faulkner - Light in August
Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections
Michael Chabon - The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
those would all be great, enjoyable novels for someone who doesn't speak English as a primary language. |
joshuatree
11.29.10 | also don't read ayn rand ever |
ConsiderPhlebas
11.29.10 | Referring to Thomas Harris' work as classic literature might be a stretch |
Underflow
11.29.10 | Go eat a bag of dicks; Ayn Rand is excellent. |
BigTuna
11.29.10 | John Steinbeck - East of Eden (pretty much 10x better than anything else he wrote)
Voltaire - Candide (probably translated in your first language, GET IT)
that's a good start |
Oceanus
11.29.10 | I don't recommend Heart of Darkness at all, to be honest. |
Jaskolkaaa
11.29.10 | The Great Gatsby. |
ButcheredChildren
11.29.10 | ^WOW |
Jaskolkaaa
11.29.10 | LOLOL |
joshuatree
11.29.10 | ayn rand's novels are objectively terrible
get it |
Josh D.
11.29.10 | Does it have to be fiction? |
DeafMetal
11.29.10 | sweepteh: Say swear, yo. |
SpiralBorn
11.29.10 | @sweeptehsweepz lol
and To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee |
liledman
11.29.10 | nobody has mentioned:
evelyn waugh - brideshead revisited |
Terrifyer
11.29.10 | the dictionary |
Spec
11.29.10 | One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest. One of my all time favourites. |
Butkuiss
11.29.10 | 1984
To Kill a Mockingbird
Of Mice and Men
Don Quixote (Make sure you pick up a good translation though)
The Communist Manifesto
And anything by Margaret Atwood. I'm reading Oryx and Crake as we speak. |
couldwinarabbit
11.29.10 | John Steinbeck everything he ever did
I have read so many hemingway stories in the last year. they are all so good.
@Butkuiss Oryx and Crake is pretty much my fav book ever it is amazing. I have read it like 8 times. |
musicConsumer
11.29.10 | Gullivars Travels-Jonathan Swift. It makes Jon Stewarts brand of satire look pretty amateurish.
Also ,Kafka- metamorphosis |
Butkuiss
11.29.10 | @couldwinarabbit. Wow, really? I have to say The Handmaid's Tale is my favourite book right now. Atwood is really an amazing author. I just got Oryx as a gift today, the person who gave it to me said I'd love it more than Handmaiden, and that it was "The only book she could think of weird enough for me". I'll let you know how I found it as soon as I finished; probably in a day or two. Then it's back to Don Quixote. Second attempt. |
musicConsumer
11.29.10 | ^ Really ever since I read The Hunger Artist I've been hooked |
BigTuna
11.29.10 | Steinbeck might be my favorite writer simply for East of Eden.
That being said, Of Mice and Men, Tortilla Flat, To A God Unknown, Cannery Row, The Pearl, The Grapes of Wrath, and The Winter of Our Discontent are all incredible.
/Steinbeck fanboyism |
qwe3
11.29.10 | books:
thomas pynchon - gravity's rainbow
thomas pynchon - V
katherine mansfield - the garden party (and her other short stories)
chinhua achebe - things fall apart
kazuo ishiguro - never let me go
F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
James Joyce - Dubliners
James Joyce - Ulysses
Upton Sinclair - The Jungle
Neil Gaiman - American Gods
Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
Plays
Athol Fugard - Master Harold and the Boys
Samuel Beckett - Waiting For Godot
Tom Stoppard - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (if you're reading Waiting For Godot it's kinda similar)
Henrik Ibsen - Hedda Gabler |
BigTuna
11.29.10 | Hedda Gabler is fantastic |
BigTuna
11.29.10 | and holy FUCK qwe I was just about to ask if you've heard of Master Harold and the Boys and there it was
INCREDIBLE play |
dfumagalli236
11.29.10 | run rabbit - john updike
naked lunch - william burroughs
ulysses - james joyce
dubliners - james joyce
a portrait of the artist as a young man - james joyce
picture of dorian grey - oscar wilde
a good man is hard to find - flannery o'connor
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couldwinarabbit
11.29.10 | James Joyce is really quiet good. |
Satellite
11.29.10 | Didn't read what other people rec'd BUT...
Jack Kerouac - On the Road
Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita
Albert Camus - The Stranger
Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men |
qwe3
11.29.10 | do androids dream of electric sheep is so so so so good
and yeah bigtuna master harold is one of my faves bro |
Adash
11.30.10 | qwe are you US or European?
On a side note, its interesting to see how widely interpreted 'classic literature' is here |
qwe3
11.30.10 | i'm australian adash |
Adash
11.30.10 | touche, I like your taste
+ congratulations on The Avalanches |
qwe3
11.30.10 | i don't really know what classic literature is i just put a bunch of older stuff i like and some newer stuff i reallyreally like idk |
LetoAtreides
11.30.10 | I love all of you guys for this thread.
Gonna throw Paradise Lost by John Milton out there. Older than most of the stuff recommended so far but it's excellent.
Also, Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton. |
exitsense
11.30.10 | Why is everyone recommending Joyce and other high modernist/postmodern writers to someone who says English is not his first language? Are you guys just trying to show off your superior taste in literature? I know Spanish well enough to understand and speak it, but I sure as hell wouldn't be able to digest all of BolaƱo's 2666 in its native language. |
qwe3
11.30.10 | because i didn't read the description calm the fuck down also dubliners is easy to digest |
Adash
11.30.10 | Why read Bolano when you can just read Borges?
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Buccaneer
11.30.10 | The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky [3]
Crime and Punishment
1984
Wuthering Heights
Brave New World
Dubliners
Of Mice and Men
The Handmaid's Tale
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STOP SHOUTING!
11.30.10 | "@Butkuiss Oryx and Crake is pretty much my fav book ever it is amazing. I have read it like 8 times."
just read Year of the Flood, she really is an original writer. loads of great stuff here. how about James Jones' From Here to Eternity. |
Adash
11.30.10 | dostoevskiis a bit thousand and late
Bely n Bulgakov are much much better |