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Post by Jebediah on Mar 6, 2009 15:57:43 GMT -5
I read Winnie the Pooh the other week. I swear it gets better everytime I read it.
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Post by canadian mojo on Mar 6, 2009 19:40:23 GMT -5
Job: a Comedy of Justice - Heinlein (actually, most of Heinlein's adult oriented stuff is pretty good) The Handmaids Tale - Atwood The Art of War - Sun Tsu The Prince - Machievelli
I'll warn you Sky, the first two will mess with your head.
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Post by erictheblue on Mar 7, 2009 20:52:09 GMT -5
Going back a few months...
Starship Troopers by Heinlein 1984 Les Miserables
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Post by skyfire on Mar 7, 2009 21:08:05 GMT -5
Job: a Comedy of Justice - Heinlein (actually, most of Heinlein's adult oriented stuff is pretty good) The Handmaids Tale - Atwood The Art of War - Sun Tsu The Prince - Machievelli I'll warn you Sky, the first two will mess with your head. I've already read the Art of War (I borrowed it from one of my brothers a few years ago) and I have a copy of The Prince tucked away somewhere that I need to get around to.
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Post by Paradox on Mar 7, 2009 23:41:25 GMT -5
I read Slaughterhouse-Five a couple of months ago, because everyone ought to read it at least once a year. I'm currently working on or have in the hopper The Origin of Species, Gravity's Rainbow, Lolita, Catch-22, and Galapagos.
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Post by JonathanE on Mar 9, 2009 22:14:32 GMT -5
I have been reading JJ's Ulysses for about 20 years now. Friggin book is almost unreadable. Read 'War and Peace' and 'Crime and Punishment' last year, while it rained for a full week on my annual 3-week fishing trip. A good read is "Seven Days in May", which was JFK's favourite novel. For classic sci-fi, Asimov's anthologies 'I, Robot', the 'Foundation' trilogy and 'Science, Numbers and I' still shine. 'Science, Number and I' is not sci-fi, but brilliant. For a fun read, try 'Gateway', and its sequels. (The "Heechee" saga, Frederik Pohl) 'Cool War' by the same author is a good read. Heinlein's 'Stranger in a Strange Land' is still a good read, but Heinlein gets old kind of quick, like he's writing stories to titilate himself.
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Post by Aqualung on Mar 10, 2009 14:57:59 GMT -5
No classics lately, but books I've read that could be considered "classic":
To Kill a Mockingbird The Chronicles of Narnia War of the Worlds Lady Chatterley's Lover The Call of the Wild White Fang Interview With the Vampire A Separate Peace The Hiding Place Charlie and the Chocolate Factory All Quiet on the Western Front Charlotte's Web
Some of those were for school.
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Post by renaissanceblonde on Mar 10, 2009 17:00:39 GMT -5
Being a huge fantasy geek, I freely admit to reading 'Lord of the Rings' and every one of Robert E. Howard's Conan stories. I've finished 'The Castle of Otranto' yesterday, which is considered to be the first recognisably Gothic novel, and have to knock off 'Lady Audley's Secret', 'Northanger Abbey' (which I've already read), 'Dracula', and 'The Turn of the Screw' in the next six weeks. Yay for Ghosts and the Gothic (subject I'm taking at uni).
I've read 'Beowulf', 'The Canterbury Tales', 'The Illiad' and 'The Odyssey', 'Oliver Twist', 'Pride and Prejudice', more Shakespeare than I wish to recall, and a crap ton of classical verse. I especially love classical verse.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Mar 10, 2009 18:27:48 GMT -5
I've been reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, for English class. Once you get past the Hickspeak, it's actually not that bad. Pretty funny, if you're smart enough (so, like 4 or 5 people in my class, max...) to understand the jokes.
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Post by ldm on Mar 10, 2009 19:00:27 GMT -5
Jane Eyre, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Brave New World and To Kill a Mockingbird are four of my favorite books.
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Post by captainhooker on Mar 11, 2009 16:46:14 GMT -5
I've been reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, for English class. Once you get past the Hickspeak, it's actually not that bad. Pretty funny, if you're smart enough (so, like 4 or 5 people in my class, max...) to understand the jokes. Probably my favorite novel ever. I'm a sucker for Southern writers and Twain is a master. William Faulkner - Light in August Walker Percy - Lancelot (not a classic yet, but it will be - I promise) Joseph Heller - Catch 22 I've been meaning to re-read Nabokov's Lolita and finish The Tin Drum and Joseph Campbell's The Hero with A Thousand Faces (nonfiction), but it's been hard to find the time lately.
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Post by adoylelb90815 on Mar 12, 2009 20:18:28 GMT -5
My list: 1984 Fahrenheit 451 The Handmaid's Tale The Canterbury Tales Jane Eyre A Separate Peace Lady Chatterley's Lover The Prince The Decameron Bram Stoker's Dracula Interview with a Vampire To Kill a Mockingbird
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Mar 12, 2009 20:30:32 GMT -5
Captain Hooker: (You need a chest emblem, or something) That's interesting, because I absolutely HATE those kinds of books. And by "those kind," I mean pretty much anything involving southern characters & issues. I hated To Kill a Mockingbird, I wasn't particularly fond of Of Mice & Men, and so on. The fact that I can compliment Huck Finn says at least something good about it.
And it sounds really weird to say, but Mark Twain is funny as fuck.
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Post by the sandman on Mar 12, 2009 20:33:08 GMT -5
Captain Hooker: (You need a chest emblem, or something) That's interesting, because I absolutely HATE those kinds of books. And by "those kind," I mean pretty much anything involving southern characters & issues. I hated To Kill a Mockingbird, I wasn't particularly fond of Of Mice & Men, and so on. The fact that I can compliment Huck Finn says at least something good about it. And it sounds really weird to say, but Mark Twain is funny as fuck. Ya know what always bugged me about Huck Finn? The fact that Huck tried to help Jim escape slavery by heading SOUTH down the Mississippi.
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Post by HoJuSimpson on Mar 12, 2009 20:51:19 GMT -5
Great Expectations Captain Hooker: (You need a chest emblem, or something) That's interesting, because I absolutely HATE those kinds of books. And by "those kind," I mean pretty much anything involving southern characters & issues. I hated To Kill a Mockingbird, I wasn't particularly fond of Of Mice & Men, and so on. The fact that I can compliment Huck Finn says at least something good about it. And it sounds really weird to say, but Mark Twain is funny as fuck. I have to agree with you here. I like southern gothic but I read To Kill a Mockingbird in 8th grade and really wasn't all that impressed. My teacher was a melodramatic bitty and got upset when some kids laughed at George killing Lennie when we watched the 90s version film Of Mice and Men. *snicker*
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