mallamp Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 Nongenre&genre: In Search of Lost Time by Prousr Infinite Jest by DFW Moby Dick by Melville Norwegian Wood by Murakami Collected Stories by Hemingway Book of New Sun by Wolfe Baroque Cycle by Stephenson Dresden Files by Butcher Malazan etc. by Erikson Song of Ice and Fire by God Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Arryn Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 21 hours ago, sologdin said: there was a hat manufacturer, no shit, that ran an ad years ago in the US for a "hemingway hat" with straps "so it won't blow off your head." stay classy, upper middle market segment milliners! Lol! Hemingway would appreciate the concision, at least. (edit: unless/until the copywriter got good reviews, at which point he'd decide they were dilettantes with small penii, and/or female.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cas Stark Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 The Great Gatsby Anna Karenina Lord of the Rings I claudius Sound and the Fury Money 1984 The Shining The House of Mirth Slaughterhouse Five Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crowjack Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 On 4/13/2016 at 2:56 PM, Cas Stark said: I claudius Robert Graves managed to produce three of the most audacious novels I have ever read. (I, Claudius; Claudius the god ; and King Jesus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhovanion Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien Mina Drömmars Stad - Per Anders Fogelström The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien Sunnanäng - Astrid Lindgren Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice Agnes Cecilia - Maria Gripe Skuggan Över Stenbänken / ...Och De Vita Skuggorna i Skogen / Skuggornas Barn / Skugg-Gömman - Maria Gripe The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett The Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3CityApache Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 The Brothers Karamazov/ The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Master and Margharita - Mikhail Bulgakov; Catch 22 - Joseph Heller; The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera; Weiser Dawidek - Paweł Huelle; The Slaughterhouse no 5/ The Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut; The Prayer for Owen Meany/ The World According to Garp - John Irving; Night Watch - Terry Pratchett; American Gods - Neil Gaiman; Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maarsen Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 On Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 5:06 PM, James Arryn said: Limiting to fiction in novel form, top of my head, further cheating by compounding and stretching to top 20, no real order: *The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco. *The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro *The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald *The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett *The Warlord Chronicles, Bernard Cornwell *Thank You Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse *Post Captain/HMS Surprise, Patrick O'Brian *Shogun, James Clavell *L.A. Confidential, James Elroy *One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn *The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien *Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, A. Conan Doyle *King Hereafter, Dorothy Dunnett *Dune, Frank Herbert *Flashman at the Charge/Great Game/Lady, George MacDonald Fraser *The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie *I, Claudius/the God, Rogert Graves *The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Asshat Hemingway *The Daughter of Time, Joephine Tey *the Karla novels, John LeCarre Nice list! But not perfect as there is no Delaney or Zelazny on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Cartman Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 Lost Horizon - James Hilton Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien The Bicentennial Man - Issac Asimov Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Malazan Book of the Fallen - Steven Erikson Harry Potter - JK Rowling Will finish this later... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feologild Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 1. The Gambler - Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( 1866 )2. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ( 1847 )3. Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens ( 1864-65 )4. The Idiot - Fydor Dostoyevsky ( 1869 )5. Niels Klim`s Underground Travels - Ludvig Holberg ( 1741 )6. The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann ( 1924 )7. The Brothers Karamasov - Fydor Dostoyevsky ( 1880 )8. War with the Newts - Karel Čapek ( 1936 )9. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ( 1869 )10. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen ( 1811 ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maarsen Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 In no particular order are some of the books I remember the best and that have stuck with me for whatever reason. The Wind in The Willows by Kenneth Grahame The Star Beast by Robert Heinlein Godel, Escher and Bach by Douglas Hofstadter Dhalgren by Samuel Delaney A Rose For Ecclesiastes and other Stories by Roger Zelazny Treasure Island by R.L. Stevenson Uncle Tom's Cabin by H.B.Stowe Anathem by Neal Stephenson The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester Red Orc's Rage by Phil Farmer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo498 Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 These I have read at least twice and/or plan to read again some time: Homer: Odyssey Dante: Divine Comedy Hugo: Les Miserables Dostoevsky: Brothers Karamazov (standing for Idiot, Crime and Punishment, Gambler, Demons as well) Mann: The Magic Mountain Bulgakov: Master and Margarita Sentimental or other favorites I have read several times and may have to read again for comfort Stevenson: Treasure Island Ransom: Swallows and Amazons Wodehouse: Jeeves and Wooster Tolkien: Lord of the Rings Great books I started but to my shame never finished and should try again (take them to the island) Tolstoy: Anna Karenina Fielding: Tom Jones Great Books I never even tried but want to read some time: Milton: Paradise Lost Cervantes: Don Quixote Musil: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris the Blade Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 As of right now (changes all the time). Crooked Little Vein - Warren Ellis Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy A Scanner Darkly - Philip K Dick Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane LA Confidential / White Jazz (can't choose between the two) - James Elroy Devil All The Time - Donald Ray Pollock Out of Sight - Elmore Leonard Raylan - Elmore Leonard The Stand - Stephen King Generation Kill - Evan Wright Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 On April 22, 2016 at 10:19 AM, Eric Cartman said: Lost Horizon - James Hilton Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien The Bicentennial Man - Issac Asimov Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Malazan Book of the Fallen - Steven Erikson Harry Potter - JK Rowling Will finish this later... Yeah I don't think you understand what the difference between a series and a single book is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aderyn Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 This might take a while... no specific order, just listing them as the names pop into mind. The Dovekeepers, Alice Hoffman The Kiterunner, Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien A Dance with Dragons, George R. R. Martin The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón Little Bee, Chris Cleave The Book Thief, Markus Zusak Kalevala, Elias Lönnrot (ed.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
all swedes are racist Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 In ascending order: Catcher In The Rye Old Custer Crafting With Cat Hair Space Raptor Butt Invasion The O'Reilly Factor For Kids The Case of the Disappearing Robo-Hilters on the Moon (A Hardy Boys Mystery) Vacuuming for Dummies A Night Time Smoke The Fart That Killed Everyone 2 The Fart That Killed Everyone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcaramini Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 Wolfe's Solar Cycle (New and Short Sun especially) Tristram Shandy Lord of Light Brothers Karamazov Temple of the Golden Pavillion Absalom, Absalom Fifth Head of Cerberus The Devil is Dead Complete stories of Flannery O'Connor Pale Fire I would have also included Wolfe's Peace and short story collections on there, but I didn't want to supersaturate the list with them. Also, the stories of Lafferty, Zelazny, Borges, Cordwainer Smith, and Sturgeon are some of my favorites, as with Faulkner's and Nabokov's collected short works. If we have to take off the stories of O'Connor, then Moby Dick will slide up there. My single favorite Wolfe novel in that sequence is On Blue's Waters, followed by Shadow of the Torturer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAROVORKIN Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Moby Dick by Herman Melville The Star Rover by Jack London War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Jurgen by James Branch Cabell Johnny Got his Gun by Dalton Trumbo Night Has a Thousand Eyes by Cornell Woolrich Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Gullivers Travels by Johnathan Swift Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teng Ai Hui Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Watership Down (my favorite book) Giants in the Earth by O.E. Rolvaag (This is more a pick of sentiment than of quality. As an assignment in 8th grade history, it sparked my love for reading, and I haven't stopped reading since.) The Hedge Knight (This was my entry point into the never ending journey that is ASOIAF, my favorite series.) The Complete Calvin and Hobbes (I loved reading this in the papers every day back in the 90s. I even read it to my daughter a couple years ago, and we still reminisce about its humor.) Stillness and Speed (a biography about my favorite footballer Dennis Bergkamp) Catch Me If You Can (Frank Abagnale is endlessly fascinating.) Happy Potter and the Goblet of Fire (my 2nd favorite series and for me this is the best book in that series) It (This is King at his best, just wish that one scene could be redacted.) The Inferior (the best book I have read this year) Have a Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks (Mick Foley also is endlessly entertaining; bonus points for not being ghost written.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hello World Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Nice necro, anyway: The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins Tales of Mystery and Imagination, Edgar Allan Poe (don't know if this applies here) Great Expectations, Charles Dickens Dune, Frank Herbert The Machine Stops, E.M. Foster Excession, Iain M. Banks The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake NOS4R2, Joe Hill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dora Vee Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 In no order: 1. The Second Apocalypse--R Scott Bakker (I'm going to be running my mouth about this one for years). 2. Lord of the Rings--JRR Tolkein 3. The Sun also Rises--Ernest Hemingway 4. Night--Elli Wiesel 5. Imperial Lady--Andre Norton and Susan Shwartz 6. Dune--Frank Herbert 7. The Dark Tower--Stephen King 8. The Hunchback of Notre Dame --Victor Hugo 9. Berserk--Kentaro Miura 10. Spring Moon--Betty Bao Lord Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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