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Post by Quigley on Oct 10, 2004 10:52:37 GMT -5
I don't believe anybody mentioned "A Clockwork Orange" but I'm not sure. I want to read it.
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Post by Vacuum Pot on Oct 11, 2004 17:58:43 GMT -5
Oh man, I'm reading Anna Karenina. So good; I'm on page 36, at the part after Levin talks to Kitty at the ice skate rink and now he's havin dinner with Oblonsky. Are you reading the Oprah one? I don't believe anybody mentioned "A Clockwork Orange" but I'm not sure. I want to read it. Ooooh! I just KEPT seeing that today! Seriously, like eight times! I want to read it, too!
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Post by SnicketFires on Oct 12, 2004 20:26:11 GMT -5
I don't believe anybody mentioned "A Clockwork Orange" but I'm not sure. I want to read it. I could have sworn I posted in this thread. I said A Clockwork Orange, anyway. I don't know if you were replying to me, or not. Read it. *confused*
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Post by Quigley on Oct 14, 2004 17:46:03 GMT -5
Hahaha, yeah, I am reading the Oprah one. Everyone who sees the cover goes "Is that...her ass?" And sorry, I didn't notice the Clockwork Orange post. But I will read it.
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Post by GAY on Oct 15, 2004 23:17:17 GMT -5
Gr...I started Catch-22 but never finished...I suck.
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Post by Quigley on Oct 16, 2004 18:10:45 GMT -5
Yeah, it's a huge book. Well, no, Karenina is huge. Catch is big. I havne't read it yet and I don't know if I have the patience to sit through it.
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Post by Dismay on Oct 27, 2004 19:15:52 GMT -5
The Catcher in the Rye(pure lunacy in this book) I can't believe no-one mentioned The Wind in The Willows, which is an all-time classic. I read it in 8th grade. I loved it.
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Post by BANNED on Nov 2, 2004 14:11:16 GMT -5
the darren shan series cirque du freak the vampires assistant tunnels of blood vampire mountain trials of death the vampire prince hunters of the dusk allies of the night killers of the dawn lord of the shadows sons of destiny a series of unfortunate events the bad begining the reptile room the wide window the miseable mill the austre academy the ertaz elevator the vile village the hostile hospital the carnivoras carnivial the slippery slope the grim grotto the ?? the ? ?? the ? ?? thats about all the really good books
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Post by Dante on Nov 2, 2004 14:38:35 GMT -5
a series of unfortunate events the bad begining the reptile room the wide window the miseable mill the austre academy the ertaz elevator the vile village the hostile hospital the carnivoras carnivial the slippery slope the grim grotto the ?? the ? ?? the ? ?? You forgot the Unathorized Autobiography, and there are two books left, not three. Also, I wouldn't exactly call them classic literature.
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Post by SousChef on Nov 3, 2004 23:17:30 GMT -5
A little off the beaten path...
A Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (the english version is as good as the original, in a different way) The Illiad The Oddysey The Art of War - Sun Tzu Collected Poems - Pablo Neruda (wouldn't bother if you can't read Spanish though...) Collected works by Edgar Allan Poe... (as in, everything) The Divine Comedy - Dante
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Post by Ennui on Nov 4, 2004 14:19:48 GMT -5
My personal "couldn't do without" list:
Absolutely all novels by Evelyn Waugh The Mabinogion Malory's Morte D'Arthur Chretien De Troyes's Romances Les Fleurs Du Mal A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth Lots of Celtic stuff The Iliad and Odyssey (may well have spelt them wrong, to my shame...) Virgil's Aeneid Dante's Divine Comedy Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Shakespeare, particularly Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Henry VI, Richard the Third, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra and the Tempest
That's all for now!
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Post by Quigley on Nov 7, 2004 2:15:52 GMT -5
The Wanting Seed - Anthony Burgess.
I'm still trudging through it. It's a good book, I just haven't focused enough time on it.
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Post by asleia on Nov 29, 2004 22:32:37 GMT -5
I would definitely add The Life of Pi - Yann Martel.
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Post by xangelkimzx on Dec 18, 2004 6:12:26 GMT -5
-Tales from a thousand and one nights -Far from the madding crowd -A farewell to arms
All the others that I thought of have been already listed.
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Post by Meg Andorra Corrupts Klaus on Dec 27, 2004 18:39:46 GMT -5
It appears to me as if no one's mentioned
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. Apart from the fact that Nabokov one of the most brilliant prose stylists of recent times, Dolores Haze is iconic.
Definitely a classic.
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