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Post by Tryina Denouement on Feb 18, 2017 12:32:52 GMT -5
Lol he just wants the drama, he finds drama where there is none
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Post by Teleram on Feb 18, 2017 13:56:46 GMT -5
How the hell did I miss out on this juicy drama (A: because the recent threads page is way too cluttered with those fruit polls)
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Post by Grace on Feb 18, 2017 17:15:07 GMT -5
Classic classic literature drama 🍿
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Post by Charles Vane on Feb 18, 2017 21:11:48 GMT -5
the best description ive ever heard of black sails is that its like classic historical literature but not boring
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Post by Charles Vane on Feb 18, 2017 21:12:30 GMT -5
the second best is like potc if it grew up and got good.
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Post by Reba on Feb 21, 2017 13:20:14 GMT -5
well, seeing as no one will unsticky or lock the thread, and since i don't want to be labelled a drama-er, i've improved things by creating this constructive list.
Bear’s Classic Literature List For Mild-Mannered Teens
ANCIENT
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound Aesop - Fables Virgil - Aeneid The Bible
MOYEN
Beowulf Song of Roland Chaucer - Canterbury Tales Thomas Malory - Le Morte D’Arthur
LATER
Dante - Inferno Cervantes - Don Quixote part 1 Shakespeare - Hamlet, Caesar, Othello, The Tempest, Sonnets Donne - probably just his sonnets Milton - Paradise Lost Swift - Gulliver’s Travels Defoe - Moll Flanders Voltaire - Candide Goethe - Elective Affinities, Young Werther Kleist - Marquise of O
19th CENTURY
Dickens, Hugo, Poe, Melville, Dickinson, Rimbaud, Austen, Whitman, Henry James, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, 3 Brontës, etc. Stoker - Dracula Dostoyevsky - Notes from Underground Twain - Huck Finn Thoreau - Walden
20th CENTURY
T.S. Eliot - Complete poems E.E. Cummings - Complete poems W.C. Williams - Complete poems W.B. Yeats - Complete poems F.S. Fitzgerald - Gatsby Upton Sinclair - The Jungle Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises, a Farewell To Arms Faulkner - Light In August, Sound and the Fury Salinger - Catcher in the Rye Camus - The Stranger Vonnegut - Mother Night Orwell - Animal Farm Achebe - Things Fall Apart Borges - Ficciones Solzhenitsyn - Ivan Denisovitch Kafka - The Trial Brecht - Threepenny Opera Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire Thornton Wilder - Our Town Beckett - Waiting For Godot Joyce - Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist
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Post by penne on Feb 21, 2017 16:12:21 GMT -5
ugh you would
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Post by Reba on Feb 21, 2017 16:48:23 GMT -5
i would also take it a step further
Bear’s Classic Literature List For Extremely Cool Teens
ANCIENT
The Four Novels Confucian Book of Odes The Apocrypha Plato - Republic Ovid - Metamorphoses Propertius - Elegies
MOYEN
Arnaut Daniel - Complete poems Boethius - Consolation of Philosophy Bede - Ecclesiastical History The Qur’an
LATER
Dante - Purgatorio Goethe - Faust Villon - complete poems Izaak Walton - The Compleat Angler Thomas Browne - Urne-Buriall Kant - Critique of Pure Reason
19th CENTURY
Tolstoy - Anna Karenina, complete stories Dostoyevsky - The Idiot, Crime and Punishment, Demons, The Brothers Karamazov Percy Shelley - complete poems Lord Byron - Don Juan Flaubert - Sentimental Education, Bouvard et Pécuchet Baudelaire - Les fleurs du mal Knut Hamsun - Hunger Robert Browning - complete poems Thomas de Quincey - Confessions of an English Opium Eater E.T.A. Hoffmann - The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr, The Devil’s Elixir
20th CENTURY
Proust - In Search of Lost Time Tristan Tzara - Approximate Man Kafka - The Castle, Amerika, complete stories Mann - Joseph and His Brothers, Doctor Faustus, The Magic Mountain Beckett - Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, complete plays Joyce - Ulysses, Finnegans Wake Pound - The Cantos, Personae (collected shorter poems) Gaddis - The Recognitions Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita Nabokov - Pale Fire Tutuola - The Palm-Wine Drinkard, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts Ngugi - A Grain of Wheat
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Post by Teleram on Feb 21, 2017 19:30:06 GMT -5
Dickens, Hugo, Poe, Melville, Dickinson, Rimbaud, Austen, Whitman, Henry James, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, 3 Brontës, etc. Didn't you call a couple of those writers "bloated tripe" or something?
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Post by Grace on Feb 21, 2017 20:56:55 GMT -5
Lol at least bbgurl came thru
Hopefully I'll be confident enough to make a list like this at the ripe old age of 38 (ambitious honestly)
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Post by Reba on Feb 21, 2017 22:09:04 GMT -5
Didn't you call a couple of those writers "bloated tripe" or something? i'm not an idiot, so i didn't let my personal preferences dictate the first list too much. this is stuff that i would not fault any conscientious and determined young literary mind from reading. it's all fundamentals that aren't too interesting but would help you get a head start on your early college curriculum, presumably. the second list is for an edgy alternative approach, not straying too far from the Important Works while also showing that you are a little more refined. get caught reading any book from the "BCLLFECT" and you are sure to attract at least one (1) hot lady.
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Post by soufflé on Feb 22, 2017 12:22:06 GMT -5
we can definitely bang if you've read the unnamable or heidegger, bonus points Reba good lists
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Post by Grace on Feb 22, 2017 16:49:25 GMT -5
we can definitely bang if you've read the unnamable or heidegger, bonus points Reba good lists Ugh can't wait to attract several (SEVERAL) hot ladies with this lit knowledge. (It's lit)
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Post by Tryina Denouement on Feb 25, 2017 13:18:18 GMT -5
Nice pun bro.
Also, bear, I'm surprised that you actually have good taste.
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Post by The Seer on Aug 31, 2018 6:43:30 GMT -5
Slaughterhouse-5 or The Children's Crusade -- Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle -- Kurt Vonnegut Breakfast of Champions or Goodbye, Blue Monday -- Kurt Vonnegut Orwell's Essays -- George Orwell Das Kapital -- Karl Marx Communist Manifesto -- Karl Marx Crime and Punishment -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky War and Peace -- Leo Tolstoy The Trial -- Franz Kafka The Second Sex -- Simone de Beauvoir Lolita -- Vladimir Nabokov Principia -- Isaac Newton
These are some of my favourite books, and the ones I think have contributed to human thought. I included Vonnegut because of his contribution to my personal life, but Orwell and below are more generally accepted. I would say that the most influential are tied between Principia, for its contribution to science, math, and philosophy, and Marx's works, as they created a global power, ruled half the globe for decades, and altered history more than even Franz Haber.
Also, they are all really good books, and a delight to read.
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