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EatThatPhonebook 
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Posted: June 12 2010 at 05:49 |
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Actually Anatomy Of Restlessness isn't quite a classic, but these are the books that I'm planning on reading this summer.
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BaldFriede
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Posted: June 12 2010 at 05:59 |
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There are better Hemingway books than "A Farewell to Arms", in my opinion. I like "For Whom the Bell Tolls" a lot.
By "Metamorphosis" you probably mean "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka
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EatThatPhonebook
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Posted: June 12 2010 at 06:43 |
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: June 12 2010 at 07:30 |
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I've read two of those and have Nineteen Eighty-Four on my bookshelf to read.
Somewhere (I have no idea where), I have a copy of For Whom the Bell Tolls. I think my brother may have borrowed it (actually, it was never mine in the first place).
Out of those two, I'd say The Metamorphosis. Although The Picture of Dorian Grey is also one of my favourites.
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Progist
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Posted: June 12 2010 at 12:15 |
Dorian Gray for me; funny, terrifying and incredibly prosaic. Has always been one of my fave books. Good to see it on your list 
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Posted: June 12 2010 at 12:19 |
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I've read all but Anatomy of Restlessness. I never got along that well with Hemingway, but the others are brilliant.
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Triceratopsoil
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Posted: June 12 2010 at 14:26 |
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I think I would have enjoyed Dorian Gray even more than I did if I hadn't had to read it for school
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Tsevir Leirbag
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Posted: June 12 2010 at 16:57 |
The Metamorphosis, for me.
For those who love it, I suggest Master and Margarita, by Mikhaïl Boulgakov and L'écume des jours by Boris Vian.
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Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira
- Paul Éluard
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: June 12 2010 at 21:50 |
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As an aside, the Swiss band Memoriance wrote an album called L'écume des Jours d'Apres Boris Vian. It's also a very good album.
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Tarquin Underspoon
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Posted: June 14 2010 at 00:30 |
1984 is super.
Those 2 Kafka and Hemingway books can be painful, watch out  |
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refugee
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Posted: June 14 2010 at 03:42 |
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I can’t choose between Dorian, 1984 and Metamorphosis, but you’re going to read all of them anyway, so you don’t need my vote. And I second the Boris Vian suggestion. I was hooked when I read this line:
His golden comb separated the silky mop into long honeyed strands like
the furrows that a happy farmer’s fork ploughs through apricot jam. ("Froth of the Daydream" page 1)
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He say nothing is quite what it seems;
I say nothing is nothing
(Peter Hammill)
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Green Shield Stamp
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Posted: June 16 2010 at 15:24 |
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I voted for Dorian Gray. I have a soft spot for Wilde
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Haiku
Writing a poem
With seventeen syllables
Is very diffic....
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CyberDiablo
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Posted: June 17 2010 at 07:12 |
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I read 1984 2 years ago, The Picture of Dorian Gray last year and Metamorphosis this year. All of the three are perfect classics. Don't know 'bout the rest.
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Moogtron III
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Posted: June 18 2010 at 16:40 |
I love 1984!
I like Brave New World a lot also, but that aside.
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fuxi
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Posted: June 19 2010 at 11:21 |
 BaldFriede wrote:
There are better Hemingway books than "A Farewell to Arms", in my opinion. I like "For Whom the Bell Tolls" a lot.By "Metamorphosis" you probably mean "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka
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Let's not be snobbish. We're talking about "Die Verwandlung". Some English translations are entitled "Metamorphosis" and some "The Metamorphosis", so take your pick. Similarly, Basho's "Oku no Hosomichi" has been translated as "The Narrow Road to the Far North", "The Narrow Road to the Interior" and even "Narrow Roads to Far Towns". Each translation has its merits.
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SergiUriah
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Posted: June 20 2010 at 03:26 |
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I recommend here Mijail Bulgákov "The Master and Margarita", and amazing classic. One of the best books I have ever read.
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WalterDigsTunes
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Posted: June 20 2010 at 03:36 |
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I don't care for fiction, but I seem to have been compared to Dorian Grey by some people.
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fuyuakiworld
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Posted: December 29 2011 at 02:17 |
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WHERE THE HELL IS CATCHER IN THE RYE????
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BaldFriede
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Posted: December 29 2011 at 15:00 |
fuyuakiworld wrote:
WHERE THE HELL IS CATCHER IN THE RYE????
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"The Catcher in the Rye" may be a modern classic, but I did not like it at all. I hated Holden Caulfield, and liking a book the hero of which one hates is close to impossible. I loved "Crime and Punishment", but because I liked Raskolnikov. I could sympathize with him. I can't sympathize with Holden Caulfield at all.
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The Quiet One
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Posted: December 29 2011 at 15:31 |
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Only read 1984 out of those... shame on me.
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