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Forum Meta => Archive => General Discussion Archive => Topic started by: Nightloser on August 15, 2007, 09:40:40 AM
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I for one am reading Nathaniel Hawthorne-The scarlet letter, and am really enjoying it, and my favourite book is Ken Kesey-One flew over the cuckoo's nest.
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Firstly, that cynic quote is hilarious.
I'm reading Oedipus the King for school, but I'm reading Max Barry's Company for fun.
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My favorite might be Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. His writing style is painful to read for some people, but I like it.
I'm reading The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn right now. It's interesting, well-written and depressing.
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Ahh, my favorite...
Probably Alan Moore's Watchmen.
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Thanks :) Indeed Max Barry's writings are interesting, and yes...i found Moby Dick boring ;)
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Thanks :) Indeed Max Barry's writings are interesting, and yes...i found Moby Dick boring ;)
I'm not far into Company (mostly due to those accursed school readings), but I read Jennifer Government over the summer, and I loved it. I'll read Syrup later.
I didn't find Moby Dick boring, but it didn't have that particular "classic" feel, either.
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Thanks :) Indeed Max Barry's writings are interesting, and yes...i found Moby Dick boring ;)
I'm not far into Company (mostly due to those accursed school readings), but I read Jennifer Government over the summer, and I loved it. I'll read Syrup later.
I didn't find Moby Dick boring, but it didn't have that particular "classic" feel, either.
Most of the American public would have agreed with you back when Moby Dick was published, since it met with poor sales and mixed reviews. The novel only got its classic status around the 1920's/30's.
I really should read something by Max Berry, considering how I've been on NS for a while now.
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Currently I'm reading... Nothing ;D
But, Dracula by Bram Stoker was awesome. So was The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole.
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Currently reading: Clonk (by Terry Prattchet), Solaris (Stanislaw Lem)
Favourite book: Don't know really. I just read far too much books to call one my favourite.
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Fav:
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut and The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. (sp on names)
Currently:
nada, going to read one soon.
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Favs:
jPod - Douglas Copeland
Oryx & Crake - Atwood
The Jhereg series - Steven Brust
The Prince - Machiavelli
Currently:
Just picked up an unabridged copy of The Stand (King) in a thrift store today for $0.49 :clap:
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The catcher in the Rye .... :clap: i adored that book :)
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The catcher in the Rye .... :clap: i adored that book :)
I know this is almost heresy, but I despised Catcher in the Rye. And it not just that I don't have an appreciation for the classics...I read a lot of things, and I have loved books much older and much more "classic-esque". I wrote a scathing essay about the book for a summer reading program. Harlan was one of the few characters I have encountered in literature where the only emotion I felt for him was pity, and that was just after the hotel scene. He just annoyed me through the rest of the book.
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Well it's no heresy to have an opinion, and i'm glad you expressed it :)
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I dislike books that are praised simply because someone calls them classics. I think that the Hustler March edition of 2005 was a literary masterpiece and a classic. Should you read it and worship it? Hell no.
Currently I'm reading A Crown of Swords, book of the Wheel of Time, once again. My favourite award would probably be split many ways, but most fondly I think of the original Dune.
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For some reason, I really connected with The Braves by, urrr...I forget.
Currently? I just finished Journey's End and Guantanamo Bay on holiday.
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I'm currently reading The Sunborn by Gregory Benford (science fiction), A Different Universe by Robert Laughlin (popular science), and The Mind's I by everyone.
Books I return to again and again are Dune by Frank Herbert and The Stranger by Albert Camus (this last for the same reason that I pick at a sore tooth.)
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I have just finished Red Dwarf - Backwards by Rob Grant, and it was bloody brilliant.
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I'm re-reading the Harry Potter series right now - the literary equivalent of comfort food. Next up I'm going to go back over Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground, but it's light reading only for the time being.
One of my favorites would be Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card; I'd almost name it my all-time favorite, but I'm emotionally attached to too many novels for that.
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Dostoevsky is another one of my favorites. There's a lot of great Russian literature, maybe because the country's been through so much misery.
I'd also recommend Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls, a very dark comedy. The only bad thing about the novel is that Gogol wasn't happy with the manuscript and set fire to the second part of it, so there's no ending. What's left is still worth reading, though.
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Right now I am reading Lord of Chaos. the 6th book in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time.
As for my favorites, I'll have to go by genre.
High Fantasy- Lord of the Rings
Low/Realistic Fantasy- A Song of Ice and Fire, by George R. R. Martin
War/Action- Brotherhood of War, by WEB Griffin
Comedy- Tim Dorsey's Serge Storm novels
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reading: A Brave New World
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I'm halfway through Fires of Heaven (WoT again) - just finished Harry Potter.
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Recently I have been rereading alot of Steinbeck. I just finished rereading The Winter of Our Discontent. I am currently rereading Travels With Charley. I'll probably reread East of Eden next.
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I agree, Gogol has a strange kind of writing, but i just love his plays and short stories. My favourite one is The Nose, so if you get the chance, read it:) . Also from the Russian literature, try to read Puskin.
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Currently reading
„ Thermo analytical Determination of selected Calcium mineral phases as a method for condition analysis in plasters” giving me as much a headache as the title suggests.
Favourite Book “Starship Troopers” by Robert A. Heinlein
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ooooook maaan :P i don't think i get the title, not talking about reading the book :trout:
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My favorite might be Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. His writing style is painful to read for some people, but I like it.
I'm reading The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn right now. It's interesting, well-written and depressing.
I love Melville
have you read Benito Cereno-it is best if you have read his journals also I love that short story....
My favorite and don't hold it against me :(...Is Hamlet.....I love the Insanity he portrays and the revenge he gets....he also has some of the best lines in any book I've ever read....and I also like Ivanhoe as close second ....and third is Canterbury Tales ,all pop culture dribble ,I know but I love it so!!!! ;D
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I am currently reading Gai-Jin by James Clavell but my favorite book of all time has to be Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
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I love to read. I've just finished The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, it was surprisingly good actually.
My favourite books of all time is more difficult, like Allama I'm too attached to novels to name any single one my favourite. The first ones that spring to mind are To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier.
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well then....continue reading, and we will be seeing you around
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Im reading Harry Potter 2
My favorite book is Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony
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I am reading Lord of the Flies and The Double currently. My all-time favorite book is definitely Crime and Punishment.
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I didn't read Lord of the Flies, but i saw it, very good, thumbs up. The book must be awesome, much more extensive than the movie.