Some classic books
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Topic: Some classic books
Posted By: EatThatPhonebook
Subject: Some classic books
Date 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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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date 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 -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: EatThatPhonebook
Date Posted: June 12 2010 at 06:43
well, in my local bookstore they didn't have "From Whom The Bell Tolls"   And yes, Franz Kafka is the author of Metamorphosis -------------
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BaldFriede wrote:Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date 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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Posted By: Progist
Date 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 By: Logan
Date Posted: June 12 2010 at 12:19
| I've read all but Anatomy of Restlessness. I never got along that well with Hemingway, but the others are brilliant. |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: June 12 2010 at 14:26
| I think I would have enjoyed Dorian Gray even more than I did if I hadn't had to read it for school |
Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: June 12 2010 at 16:57
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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. ------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers, Un marin mort, Il dormira - Paul Éluard |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date 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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Posted By: Tarquin Underspoon
Date Posted: June 14 2010 at 00:30
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1984 is super.
Those 2 Kafka and Hemingway books can be painful, watch out  ------------- "WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!" -The Great Gig in the Sky |
Posted By: refugee
Date 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) ------------- He say nothing is quite what it seems; I say nothing is nothing (Peter Hammill) |
Posted By: Green Shield Stamp
Date Posted: June 16 2010 at 15:24
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I voted for Dorian Gray. I have a soft spot for Wilde ------------- Haiku Writing a poem With seventeen syllables Is very diffic.... |
Posted By: CyberDiablo
Date 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. ------------- Music is some kind of art. -- Anonymous |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: June 18 2010 at 16:40
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I love 1984!
I like Brave New World a lot also, but that aside.
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Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: June 19 2010 at 11:21
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. |
Posted By: SergiUriah
Date 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. ------------- http://img229.imageshack.us/i/bonfirma.jpg/"> 
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Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date 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. |
Posted By: fuyuakiworld
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 02:17
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WHERE THE HELL IS CATCHER IN THE RYE????
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 15:00
"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. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 15:31
| Only read 1984 out of those... shame on me. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 15:40
One of those books I was supposed to have read and I think sampled a bit and moved on. 1984 is an important read though as it seems to be somewhat of a playbook for those who rule over us. Other worthy reads from the book list not on there: To Kill A Mockingbird, The Jungle, Catch 22... ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 16:09
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I could never decide between Kafka and Orwell. It's hurting my brain as I speak.
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 16:32
Me neither, but they are the only two I've read so I'd probably not vote anyway. |
Posted By: Mr Greeen Genes
Date Posted: April 22 2012 at 22:01
| I've only read 1984 and The Metamorphosis from your list, so I won't vote, but I do love both. |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: April 23 2012 at 12:48
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I'll vote without having read the middle book since 1984 ranks in my top 5.
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: April 23 2012 at 22:27
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I have read three of these books (Wilde, Orwell, Kafka) and, great as the Wilde is, I also count
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