Actualy i didnt wait to see Forrester to begin read books, but here's my list:
1)Iliad/Odyssey- HOMER
2)The Raven- EDGAR ALAN POE
3)1984-GEORGE ORWEL
4)The Name Of The Rose (brilliant!!!)-UMBERTO ECO
5)And finally,100 years of solitude-GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUES
(the hidden 6th book(!) AVALON LANDING by WILLIAM FORRESTER!!!
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1) The Magician - Raymond E. Feist
2) 1984 - George Orwell
3) Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (actually all the HP series :o) ) - J.K. Rowling
4) Brave new world - Aldous Huxley
5) The remains of a day - Kazuo Ishiguro
...aaaand although not in the literature dept, Andrew Tanenbaum's books, who makes CS coursebooks look appealing ;)
1) The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
2) 1984 - George Orwell
3) The Emperor Wears No Clothers - Jack Herer
4) The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressel
5) Dune - Frank Herbert
"Is that you John Wayne? Is this me?"
I don't want to nag, but it's The Remains of the Day.
I don't mean to impose, but I am the Ocean.
any book thats been turned into a movie so i can lie and say i have read it
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OH snap we have a genius among us...he reads old literature he must be smart. Tool.
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Well im only 21 years old but i ve read many books. I decided to post those 5 books only cos i couldnt choose easyly to find another choises (c'mon its only a msg board). I have over a 150 books from my mothers childage till now. These are my choises and if you don't like 'em i can't do anything about it
"Please remedy my confusion
and thrust me back to the day"
Umm, yeah; I've read some of the first literature ever to be written by humans and I wouldn't even come close to considering it among my favorites. Bigdork, your thinking is quite faulty: You assume Dream Theater hasn't read anything before Poe; furthermore, you're shoving your opinion on us all that old literature is the best literature. I've read literature from all time periods and the majority of my favorites come from the twentieth century--as in the century that just passed. Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Updike, Faulkner, Proust, Knowles, Lee, Steinbeck--to name a few. If anything, you're just trying to boast your half-witted assumption: you've read older literature than Dream Theater. Nice job! Maybe someday you'll lift your eyes beyond the slum that is your erroneous thinking tendency.
shareUmm, yeah; I've read some of the first literature ever to be written by humansOh, so all the best stuff has to be written by humans? I see how it is, and I'll thank you not to shove your speciesist viewpoints down our throats.
You're right. I'm extremely prejudice of the literature written by other forms of life. Why--just the other day an ameba that was in my pea soup recited a sonnet about marmalade that it had just written. It was terrible--so bad that I had to eat him.
Well, at least then you came by your opinion honestly. I do hope for your sake the failed scribe doesn't take negative reviews too personally, or he might give you dysentery.
-- Rob
http://robvincent.net http://nyc2600.net
The Bear-Faulkner
Exile and the Kingdom- Camus
The Three Muskateers-Dumas
The Catcher in the Rye-Salinger
Dubliners-Joyce
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so what are your favourites, bigdorkarama ?
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1- JOB: A Comedy of Justice, by Robert Heinlein
2- Neverwhere, by Neil Gainman
3- Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk
4- Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
5- A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
I've read a lot of literature from all different time periods, but I honestly prefer 20th century over any other. This is not to say that it isn't as good. Just because it's older doesn't mean it makes you smarter or anything.
Andy Dufrense, crawled through a river of *beep* and came out clean on the other side.
1) The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien (and Tolkien in general)
2) The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (Yes, I actually liked it!!!)
3) The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco (just superb)
4) Macbeth - William Shakespeare (fantastic writer)
5) Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler (No, I am not a Nazi!!!)
Duke: "Err ... 4077 M*A*S*H?"
Hawkeye: "This is the Jeep."
Choosing just five books is extremely difficult. At any one time I can't remember all of the books I have read. Something will set me off and I will suddenly remember an old classic. It's like seeing a childhood friend for the first time in years. Fantastic.
But here are five that come to mind
The Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake
Phaedrus by Plato
Lolita by Vladimir Nobokov
A good enough list to start. Some things, like Joyce's Ulysses, or Jerusalem by Blake, I don't have a complete handle on, and so don't feel enough ownership of them to call them favourites.
1) The Great Gatsby
2) Streetcar Named Desire (I know it's a play, but is still great)
3) The Godfather
4) Empire Falls
5) Lake Wobegon Summer 1956
5a) Dr. Faustus - Marlowe
1. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
2. Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
1. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien(Fellowship is my favorite of the three)
2. When the Wind Blows - James Patterson
3. Harry Potter - JK Rowling(Order of the Phoenix is my favorite of the series)
4. See Jane Run - Joy Fielding
5. Jack and Jill - James Patterson
"Why in the name of Merlin's saggy left..."
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1) On the Road - Jack Kerouac
2) A People's History of the United States: 1492 - Present - Howard Zinn
3) Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
4) Lamb - Christopher Moore
5) The Long Walk - Stephen King (as Bachman)
1) House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
2) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3) The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
4) Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
5) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
-The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck
-On the Road, Kerouac
-For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway (all Hemingway, actually)
-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Kesey
-All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque
These are just five off the top of my head; I continue to read because I hope to find better ones.
American Pastoral -- Philip Roth
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay -- Michael Chabon
White Noise -- Don DeLillo
All the Pretty Horses -- Cormac McCarthy
Mrs Dalloway -- Virginia Woolf
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1. "On the Road" - Jack Kerouac
2. "Catcher in the Rye" - J.D. Salinger
3. "Lady Chatterly's Lover" - D.H. Lawrence
4. "Naked Lunch" - William S. Burroughs
5. "Waiting for Godot" - Samuel Beckett (if this counts)
"The rest is just scribbling. Scribbling and bibbling, bibbling and scribbling." - Amadeus
1) The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
2) Semerkand - Amin Maalouf
Holden Caulfield is the best novel character =) I think Donnie Darko is the one that fits Holden as a movie character.
The Odyssey--Homer
To Kill A Mockingbird--Harper Lee
The Sound and the Fury--Wm. Faulkner
Travels With Charley--Steinbeck
Letters From the Earth--Twain
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I wouldn't imagine someone with such liberated reading interests to speak exclusively in cliches.
"those who want to keep you caged.."
"free upon the hills and plains..."
1) The Lord of the Rings
2) Ender's Game
3) The Hobbit
4) Surely You Must Be Joking Mr. Feynman