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Postby rocklobster » Wed Nov 15, 2006 10:33 am

OK, with all the classics and bestsellers bashing on this site, I want to offer the other side of the opinion. What classics and bestsellers did you like?
I for example, love anything by Mark Twain and Charles DIckens.
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Postby mitsuki lover » Wed Nov 15, 2006 1:45 pm

I agree with Twain and Dickens.My favorite Twain books are:
*A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court
*The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
*The Innocents Abroad

Favorite Dickens' books:
*A Tale Of Two Cities
*The Mystery Of Edwin Drood
*Our Mutual Friend
*Hard Times

I also love the short stories of O.Henry because they always end in some sort of irony.
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*The Gifts Of The Magi
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Postby Debitt » Wed Nov 15, 2006 1:58 pm

I ADORE Hamlet with every literary fiber of my being. It's easily my favorite Shakespeare play. I really enjoyed Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Macbeth as well. Generally, I tend to like a lot of Shakespeare.

Other classics that I've enjoyed:
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- 1984
- The Great Gatsby
- The Stranger
- The Picture of Dorian Grey

:3 I can't think of any best sellers that I've read lately. My literary tastes are well rooted in the past, it would seem.
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Postby Technomancer » Wed Nov 15, 2006 6:14 pm

Here's a few:
'The Jungle' by Upton Sinclair.
'Contact' by Carl Sagan (the movie is a gross corruption of the book, do not see it).
'The Songs of the Kings' by Barry Unsworth
'Reading Lolita in Tehran' by A. Nafisi.
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Postby mitsuki lover » Thu Nov 16, 2006 12:26 pm

Hiawath by Longfellow

Beowulf

La Morte D'Arthur by Malory

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
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Postby That Dude » Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:13 pm

The Scarlet Pimpernil - Baroness Orkzsy (sp?)
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Postby Warrior 4 Jesus » Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:29 pm

1001 Arabian Nights
Frankenstein
War of the Worlds
The Time Machine
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Robinson Crusoe
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Postby mitsuki lover » Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:49 am

The Iliad
The Odyssey(both by Homer)
The Frogs by Aristophanes
The Apology by Plato
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Postby That Dude » Mon Dec 11, 2006 12:56 pm

Farenhight 451 - It was pretty good.
The Complete Works Of Josephus - This one is a very difficult read.
Swiss Family Robinson - Inspires imagination.
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Postby CreatureArt » Mon Dec 11, 2006 2:08 pm

1984 - Honestly, I'd like to read more classic literature because my experience is very small.... but this is one of the scariest books I've read. Just because it seems like such a powerful system.

The Count of Monte Cristo (sp?)- I watched and loved the movie adaption of the book when it came out, and decided to read the book. It took me quite a while to get into the book, but after about the first hundred pages I was absolutely hooked. The story went so much further than the book.
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Postby Puritan » Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:30 pm

Let's see, where to begin...

The Enchiridion - Saint Augustine
Beowulf
The Inferno - Dante
The Bondage of the Will (and other works) - Martin Luther
Institutes of the Christian Religion - John Calvin
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Or at least all of them I have read, seen, or heard)
Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
The Works of Jane Austen (Or at least what I have read)
The Works of Charles Dickens (ibid)
The Works of Jules Verne (ibid)
The Works of Mark Twain (ibid)
The War of the World and The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
The Cost of Discipleship - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William Shirer
Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury
The Once and Future King - T. H. White
1984 and Animal Farm - George Orwell
A Canticle for Liebowitz - Walter M. Miller, Jr.
The Foundation Trilogy - Isaac Asimov (Alright, not read in school usually, but certainly a best seller and won the Hugo Award for best Sci-Fi series of all time)
Starship Troopers and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein (The first is on the Army and Marine Corps reading lists and required reading at some military academies, and the second helped popularize the phrase TANSTAAFL, has won a number of awards, and is quite well regarded)

I'm just going to stop there...I plead insanity and a huge desire to read.
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Postby Maledicte » Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:33 pm

Frankenstein is probably my favorite classic novel of all time.

Other favorite classics:
-The Picture of Dorian Gray
-Jane Eyre
-Dracula
-Aesop's Fables
-The Three Musketeers
-The Count of Monte Cristo
-Les Miserables

Favorite bestsellers:
-Shogun
-the Dragonlance Chronicles, Legends trilogies
-The Dresden Files
-Thieves of Heaven
-The Historian
-Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel
-The Redwall series
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Postby Animus Seed » Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:49 am

In no particular order:

Frankenstein; or, the Modern Promethus (Mary Shelly)

The Odyssey (Homer; funny, because I hated the Iliad)

The Orestia (Aeschylus)

Seven Against Thebes (Aeschylus)

Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus)

Inferno (Dante Aligheri; reading through Purgatorio right now)

Vita Nouva (Dante Aligheri)

Phaedo (Plato)

Symposium (Plato; well,... maybe "enjoy" isn't the right word)

Dracula (Bram Stoker)

The Interesting Account of Oladah Equiano, as Told by Himself

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)

The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)

The Chronicles of Narnia (C.S. Lewis)

The Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis)

The Great Divorce (C.S. Lewis)

Beowulf

Lord of the Flies (William Golding)

Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ray Bradbury)

Farenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)

The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)

Hamlet (William Shakespeare)

A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)

Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan)

The Celestial Railroad (Nathaniel Hawthorne; not sure if it counts but it needed to come after Bunyan)

Foxe's Book of Martyrs

Fear and Trembling (Soren Kierkegaard)
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Postby rocklobster » Wed Dec 13, 2006 5:01 pm

Kierkegaard? He's pretty deep, isn't he? (I've never actually read him)
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Postby Animus Seed » Thu Dec 14, 2006 2:27 pm

It should be noted that I didn't finish Fear and Trembling. What I read, no, I did not understand in the least. It was still awe-inspiringly beautiful.

And Homer, Plato, Dante, Lewis, and the epistles of St. Paul are all pretty deep, too.
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Postby Needle Noggin » Sun Dec 24, 2006 4:29 am

I don't know what is or isn't a best seller, but I have read quite a few classics.

The Hobbit is my favorite book ever, I love it so much.

The Count of Monte Cristo is my second favorite book ever. I love it a lot.

The Clockwork Orange is in my top five. Fantastic book.

The Lord of the Rings is a great book.

Frankestein was good, but very wordy. I do like how the monster was actually intelligent, unlike the movies. It gave a much better experience than WHOA TH3RE IS UH MUNSTER IN HERRRR OH NOES LOL.

The Oddyssey is pretty good, if not repetitive.

Beowulf, in terms of epic poetry, I liked this 10x more than the Oddyssey. Awesome.

Animal Farm was good, I always loved Soviet Russia.

1984 is a great book, one of the best dystopia novels.

The Man in the High Castle is a great book as well. I love the setting.

Catch 22 was also good, although sometimes confusing. It is a very funny book, and I found myself laughing out loud during class while reading it, which was akward.

Farenheight 451 was good.
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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Sun Dec 24, 2006 5:40 am

A Clorkwork Orange I am currently reading for my senior term paper. It's really good although I will say Burgess' usage of a "new vocabulary" can get quite annoying.
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Postby Needle Noggin » Sun Dec 24, 2006 6:00 am

More of an "invented slang". I think Nadsat is derived from Russian.

I actually enjoyed it. You start to know exactly what everything means after a short while.
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Postby Maledicte » Mon Dec 25, 2006 2:43 am

Mr. SmartyPants wrote:A Clorkwork Orange I am currently reading for my senior term paper. It's really good although I will say Burgess' usage of a "new vocabulary" can get quite annoying.


Try to get a version with a Helpful Glossary of Terms (TM), or you can use the Internet.

I had a fun time with it myself. It gets pretty horrorshow, my droogs.
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Postby yukinon » Mon Dec 25, 2006 4:31 am

I would love to read the book, but I will never ever watch the movie again.
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Postby craner » Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:14 am

Animal Farm, 1984, Paradise Lost, Trouble with Lichen, Day of the Triffids,
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Postby CatHCG11 » Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:01 pm

The Count of Monte Christo - Alexander Dumas
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
The Chosen - Chiam Potok
The Scarlett Letter -
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Giver - Lois Lowry (I'm not sure if this is a "classic" but it's a great book)
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Postby Sai » Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:06 pm

The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Mansfield Park
Persuasion
Alice in Wonderland
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Much Ado About Nothing
The Hunchback of Notredame
Pilgrims Progress
Lorna Doone (not sure if its a classic)
The Tale of Dr. Jekell and Mr. Hyde.
Frankenstein
I forget the rest...
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Postby Mushishi » Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:13 pm

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Many legendary books have been mentioned. I give you all a bow in respect...*bows, then sinks to a grovel*

Kierkegaard is one of my favorite philosophers ever. Awe-inspiring beauty really is the only way to describe it, and I have to concede, like earlier mentioned, I didn't understand a lot of it. Sickness unto Death took my breath away.

Dostoevsky is one of my favorites also. (You'll notice a christian existentialist pattern here...heh). The Brothers Karamazov is a highly recommended read for everyone. One of my favorite classics.

I'm also a big fan of James Joyce. Especially "A portrait of the Artist As a young Man". One of my favorite books. (Though you won't see me going anywhere near contemporaries of Joyce like Faulkner after 'As I lay Dying'...blech)

And finally, I fell in love with Pearl S. Buck and her "The Good Earth".
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Postby mitsuki lover » Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:43 pm

I am finding that the older I get the more I perfer short stories and comic books to full length novels.
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Postby Taliesin » Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:08 pm

I read too much. stop encouraging me by reccomending good books. *bans self from book corner*
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Postby bigsleepj » Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:34 pm

I enjoyed Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. Apparently few people else did.
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Postby soul alive » Wed Mar 07, 2007 11:47 am

Sherlock Holmes series - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Ben Hur - Lew Wallace
Joan of Arc: Personal Recollections - Mark Twain
Tarzan series - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
Pilgrim's Regress - CS Lewis
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
'Farmer Giles of Ham' and 'the Smith of Wootton Manor' short stories - JRR Tolkien
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Black Stallion series - Walter Farley
Lad: a Dog - Albert Payson Terhune
Lassie Come Home - Eric Knight
Little House on the Prairie series - Laura Ingles Wilder

I can't think of any real recent best sellers that I've read, off the top of my head, let alone liked, so I'll leave it there for now.
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Postby yukinon » Thu Mar 08, 2007 12:30 pm

My fourth grade teacher used to read a chapter of the Little House on the Prarie series to us everyday. We made it through the whole series!
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Postby Animus Seed » Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:24 pm

I finished the Divina Commedia... thrice, now.

I must say, it is a sin to only read the Inferno.

Further readings:

Aeneid; Virgil

Laelius: On Friendship; Cicero

The First and Second Apologies; St. Justin Martyr

Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching; St. Irenaeus*

*Irenaeus is like gold right now. It's required reading in my Church Fathers class, but has been out of print for several years. I'm one of the few who has a copy. XD
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