So, anyone here REALLY wanna read a certain book or two, but just can't find the time to get one?
Well, some that I plan on getting around to eventually are:
- 1984
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- An American Tragedy
- The Catcher in the Rye
- Dangerous Liaisons
- Don Quixote
- Fahrenheit 451
- A Farewell to Arms
- Gone with the Wind
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The Great Gatsby
- The House of Mirth
- The Jungle
- The Invisible Man
- Lolita
- The Origin of Species
- Rebecca
- Sophie's Choice
- The Trial
- Vanity Fair
- War and Peace
- Wuthering Heights
Quote from: Whocares on August 30, 2009, 06:09:08 PM
- Don Quixote
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The Jungle
- Wuthering Heights
I've read and recommend these. Wuthering Heights is one that'll definitely keep you guessing.
Speaking of plot twists, have you read Ethan Frome?
I would like to read the Communist Manifesto sometime.
Quote from: Whocares on August 30, 2009, 06:09:08 PM
Well, some that I plan on getting around to eventually are:
- 1984
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- An American Tragedy
- The Catcher in the Rye
- Dangerous Liaisons
- Don Quixote
- Fahrenheit 451
- A Farewell to Arms
- Gone with the Wind
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The Great Gatsby
- The House of Mirth
- The Jungle
- The Invisible Man
- Lolita
- The Origin of Species
- Rebecca
- Sophie's Choice
- The Trial
- Vanity Fair
- War and Peace
- Wuthering Heights
Add
Ishmael to that list, and I think you'll be all set.
Anyway, as for me,
Twilight, I guess. Don't ask me why.
The Chronicles of Narnia. Not really sure I want to finish up the Inheritence series.
I plan on getting around to reading the whole Stephen King collection someday.
The only one on your list I have read is 1984, it was brilliant. I read it just because it was so famous but ended up really getting into it.
There are so many books I want to read, I'm reading quite a lot at the moment because I went through like half a year of reading very little.
One book I really want to read but simply can't is 'Le Morte D'Arthur' I borrowed it from the library but have to return it soon and I have only read about 20 pages. I'm usually fine with very long books but it's just the combination of it's size (1000+ pages) and the fact it is written in a sort of olde english that requires more thougt than a simple read through that has really put me off. It's a shame because what I have read is quite interesting. So that is on my list for the future.
There are lots of other books I want to read as well.
I'm rather flabbergasted that no one has criticized me for adding Lolita to my list. Either no one has any idea what it's about, or it really is as good as its reputation.
One of my friends read Lolita and said that I should pick it up too. She said that there were quite a few similarities between the main character and me.
I plan on reading through the Star Wars: Legacy of the Force books. So far the first book, Betrayal, is pretty interesting. I haven't read any Star Wars novels other than Revenge of the Sith and Labyrinth of Evil, and I figured now would be a good time to start.
Quote from: Whocares on August 31, 2009, 12:16:51 PM
I'm rather flabbergasted that no one has criticized me for adding Lolita to my list. Either no one has any idea what it's about, or it really is as good as its reputation.
I wouldn't criticize you, it's not like you're a child rapist for reading it :/
Just like I'm not a racist for having read Huckleberry Finn. I hate when people do that.
I still havent read the 3rd eragon book or the 7th harry potter book and i really want to but ive been to busy lately :(
7th book is incredible. I can't put it down!
Great Gatsby is okay. I recommend it. Don't watch the movie though, it is WEIRD.
I finished rereading the 7th Harry Potter book not too long ago. I am not ashamed to admit parts of it had me in tears; Rowling is that powerful of a writer, and I really hope I can replicate that feat with my own writing.
Well, it's not easy. I know, I'm trying. I started crying with a few parts, too. You are not the only one.
Quote from: Whocares on August 30, 2009, 06:09:08 PM
Vanity Fair...you mean, like the magazine?
I meant the classic English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray.
Quote from: 2nd Lieutenant Jean Havoc on September 01, 2009, 07:47:26 PM
Great Gatsby is okay. I recommend it. Don't watch the movie though, it is WEIRD.
Weird how? If you're talking about the version that I think you're talking about, then I'm pretty confused, since that adaptation was incredibly faithful.
I assume he refers to the version starring Robert Redford, though I'm not so sure.
Lunar Park - Bret Easton Ellis
Watchers - Dean Koontz
^^ I don't think I remember the actors' names, unfortunately. Come to think of it, I don't even remember the year. Gah! >_<;
The only defining feature I can remember from it is that Gatsby said that he hadn't met Daisy in eight years, despite that the book explicitly said that it was five years. For some reason, that bugged the heck out of me.
Robert Redford has blonde hair, if that helps you remember.
Still nothing, I'm afraid. :(
But it may very well be the one I'm thinking of, if the little blip of memory isn't deceiving me.
So, I went to the bookstore today and bought Lolita and Wuthering Heights, and I'm reading Lolita first, five chapters in so far, though these chapters ear each about two pages long. Nabokov deserves his reputation as a literary master for managing to make child molestation funny while also being incredibly satirical of both the act and the emotions that cause the act. (For anyone who ever saw American Beauty, it's kinda like that.)
1984 was such a great book.
I'm been in the mood to re-read a select favorites:
-Spoon River Anthology; Edgar Lee Masters
-Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch; Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchet
-A Tree Grows in Brooklyn/A Joy in the Morning; Betty Smith
And a few others
-The Chronicles of Amber; Roger Zelazny (I have all ten sections in a giant book)
-Diamonds are Forever; Ian Flemming (I'm reading the series. :))