suda21
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Post by suda21 on May 1, 2016 11:08:20 GMT -5
So since I pick some crazy book project each summer. This summer I decided to read 100 books you need to read before you die list. So that got my thinking about the books all Snicket fans should read before they you know.... end up in a mansion fire and the library they are in is crumbling to ash right before their eyes. This is an ever growing list that people are more then welcome to add to and ill update the list as it comes along.
1) The complete works of H.P Lovecraft
2) Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
3) American Gods by Neil Gaiman
4) The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
5) The Picture of Dorian Grey and the collected works of Oscar Wilde
6) Edgar Allen Poe's Complete Works
7) Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
8) The Invisible Man by H.G Wells
9) Macbeth by William Shakespeare
10) Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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Post by Reba on May 1, 2016 12:07:20 GMT -5
Books Every Person Should Avoid Until They Die
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Post by A comet crashing into Earth on May 1, 2016 13:35:01 GMT -5
11) A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket (in my experience, Snicket fans tend to like those)
Kidding aside, I certainly love numbers 3, 5 and 7, and I've also read 8 and 10 (in fact I just finished Fahrenheit 451), and I've liked what little Poe I've read. So all things considered, the list you have so far fits me pretty well.
Snicket fans will probably tend to want to read something which praises literature, uses clever rhetorical devices, has lots of more-or-less hidden cultural (especially literary) references, involves large conspiracies - which aren't necessarily explained - and/or has an interesting narrator (and I do see a lot of those factors in the ones you've already picked). Based on that, I'd like to add:
11) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 12) The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell (you're probably all going "Now Comet's on about that book again", but I really do think it has a few traits that'd please readers of Snicket) 13) The Sally Lockhart series by Philip Pullman (I've only read the first two books, so I can't say this with absolute certainty - but still) 14) The Harry Potter series by Joanne K. Rowling
I also think Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov would be good to have on this list. I haven't read it myself, so I'll leave the actually adding it to someone who has, but Handler often cites it as the book that taught him to write a first-person narrator, in which case we have much to thank it for.
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Post by Teleram on May 1, 2016 23:34:14 GMT -5
Books Every Person Should Avoid Until They Die walk into the sea and never return
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Post by Linda Rhaldeen on May 2, 2016 19:31:26 GMT -5
Wow, Teleram's fiesty!
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on May 2, 2016 20:19:46 GMT -5
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