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Post by sirin on Jan 1, 2005 17:45:28 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. Not to mention Nabokov's Ada and Pale Fire. In Handler's own words: "Dear Vladimir, PALE FIRE was so awesome!!!!" Also, in THH, Snicket mentions a Mr. Sirin, a lepidopterist. Nabokov wrote under the pseudonym V. Sirin before he moved to the U.S... ...And Carmelita Spats's name is a compound of Carmen and Lolita, two of Humbert Humbert's nicknames for Dolores Haze. Finally, anything by Joyce, Proust, and Sartre would be high up on my booklist. #nosmileys#nosmileys#nosmileys#nosmileys
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Post by Yasthira on Jan 7, 2005 9:27:30 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 Hoorah! a fan of the Arthurian Legnds! But there's another one... The once and future knig, by Terrance White. It's based on Thomas Malory's Le Morte 'D Arthur, exept it's easier to understand. and there's Shalott, by Felicity Pullman, based on Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott." And Kevin Crossley-Holland's Arthur trilogy. What about Pullmans his dark materials. Songs of innocence and experience - Willam blake
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Post by Brian on Jan 9, 2005 21:39:17 GMT -5
Has nobody mentioned The Count of Monte Cristo? Arguably the best book I've ever read...
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
Anything by George Orwell
Life of Pi as a contemporary classic for sure
Also as a contemporary classic, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
I, Robot by Asimov (nothing like the movie if yu're interested) and maybe Foundation but I haven't read that
I love Shakespeare, Dickens, and all of that but I'm trying to add stuff that's een mentioned very little
The Scarlet Letter was amazing
Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy
...okay, I'll say it - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but only the first one, not the sequels
And probably the first real novel I read, what book could be better than one where you literally jump to conclusions - The Phantom Tollbooth
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Post by darkangel667 on Jan 14, 2005 22:57:09 GMT -5
I just wanted to state that I love Edgar Allan Poe's and Charles Baudelaire's works. I also love 'The Raven' which is written by EP and I'm working on one of Herman Melville's books. This is getting off topic but, I thought there were only 13 asoue books?
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Post by ersatzbeatrice on Jan 14, 2005 23:06:28 GMT -5
How about:
Les Miserables Brave New World
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Post by darkangel667 on Jan 15, 2005 17:48:49 GMT -5
i have never read that one but i'll check it out
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Post by MelonB1088 on Jan 17, 2005 9:45:10 GMT -5
Even if it's already been mentioned...
The Fantastic Journey by Issac Assimov.
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Post by Addieor on Jan 31, 2005 23:25:35 GMT -5
I think the name of this one hsort sory was The Nursery by Ray Bradbury, but I'm not sure. It was..... a thrilling horror book.
Pride &Prejudice Sense & Sesibility Wuthering Heights Secret Garden Those kind of books.
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Post by eggman on Apr 26, 2005 12:36:28 GMT -5
Life of Pi 1984 The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said To Kill A Mockingbird The 13 1/2 Lives Of Captain Bluebear The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy Bolivian Diary
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Post by Cakesniffer on Jul 4, 2005 18:03:04 GMT -5
I have to correct you. Alice In Wonderland is a movie. The correct title of Lewis Carroll's work was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
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Post by jacksonpee on Jul 15, 2005 12:05:05 GMT -5
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (i love when he discovers that no one can see him.) </joke> The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry children's classics count, right? The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl Charlotte's Web by E. B. White now tell me this: has anyone here actually read war and peace?
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Post by lucafont90 on Sept 10, 2005 22:24:56 GMT -5
The Women in White Oliver Twist Anna Karina Girl with the pearl necklace. Don Quxiote Phantom of the opera Dracula Faust Dante's Inferno Frankenstein The Wizard of Oz 1984 Animal Farm The once and future King Flowers for Algernon
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Post by Brian on Sept 11, 2005 7:05:51 GMT -5
children's classics count, right? The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl Charlotte's Web by E. B. White I would say so!! Then Roald Dahl certainly has at least one others that is deserving: namely, James and the Giant Peach. I'm not sure I mentioned The World According to Garp last time around.
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Post by Vacuum Pot on Sept 13, 2005 17:28:47 GMT -5
Life of Pi 1984 The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said To Kill A Mockingbird The 13 1/2 Lives Of Captain Bluebear The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy Bolivian Diary Isn't the Life of Pi just a few years old? I don't think that that would be considered classic literature. And as much as I love the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, it's not old enough to be considered classic literature.
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Post by Brian on Sept 13, 2005 21:18:46 GMT -5
Sure, Hitchhiker is old enough to be considered classic literature! Twenty-six years may not exactly be surviving the test of time, but it is considered a contemporary classic.
And, I hate to disagree, but just you watch - Life of Pi will be remembered for generations to come as the great human epic of our decade.
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