classic literature (ancient and not so ancient)
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Topic: classic literature (ancient and not so ancient)
Posted By: Guests
Subject: classic literature (ancient and not so ancient)
Date Posted: March 07 2011 at 14:45
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This is fairly self-explanatory. Vote for your favorite book of those listed, or vote for none of them; if you have a recommendation, please share because I love books and am always looking for new reading material. I haven't read all of the books listed BTW; I am in the middle of Don Quixote, and so far I think my vote will go to that one. |
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: March 07 2011 at 14:56
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Oh, I expected a poll on classical literature. In classical literature, my tastes are Shakespeare> Homer > Cervantes > Vergil > Horatio > Ronsard > Ovid > Petronius > Xenophon > Ariosto, and others. Or something like that. I haven't read anything from them in years, I miss that. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: March 07 2011 at 14:59
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^ did the inclusion of Harry Potter tip you off |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: March 07 2011 at 15:03
Looking again at the poll, all first four poll options represent classical literature and culture, but the others not at all; they seem to be rather "classics". And also, why including scientifical literature? Anywayz don't mind me, I'm just the typical Internet nerd, ready to argue on anything.  |
Barking Weasel wrote:Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: March 07 2011 at 15:10
| Strange list. Voted for Heart of Darkness. |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: March 07 2011 at 16:21
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strange list indeed. no Dante, no Goethe, no Moliere, no Shakespeare. since no-one voted for Candide yet my vote will go there
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: March 07 2011 at 16:47
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I can't stand a lot of these books. Candide narrowly over Harry Potter. I don't know how anyone can enjoy Darwin's writing. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: March 07 2011 at 16:53
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I've only read Cervantes out of those, and Bukowski but not that book.
No vote.
(I also thought that the poll options were odd hehe)
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: March 07 2011 at 17:14
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^ Just trying to gauge reading interests here from a broad perspective. Although not all of these books are true "classics," some of them are. The others fit a more narrow demographic, and I include them mostly in jest rather than expecting them to be taken seriously as all-time great books. |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: March 07 2011 at 17:16
| ^no, I find it fine ecleticism, but having a title "Classic Literature" made some us be surprised a bit. |
Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: March 07 2011 at 19:05
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I'm voting https://www.facebook.com/pages/Books-R-Gay/101948563177368?ref=ts" rel="nofollow - books r gay out of protest for the poll options. I do like Heart of Darkness quite a bit, though.
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: March 07 2011 at 19:07
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Who on earth is Buckley?
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Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: March 07 2011 at 19:14
Only http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Buckley,_Jr." rel="nofollow - one of the most influential Americans of the second half of the 20th century . ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: March 07 2011 at 19:16
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some how I never gott to read Don Quixote but it is one of the best ever, but I constantly forgett the authors name, which is kind of funny, that one of the best books have an almoust forgettable name, or takes alot to remember it, It just don't pop up straight away -------------  
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: March 07 2011 at 19:18
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I have read the Great Gatsby, does that one count -------------
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: March 07 2011 at 22:19
Who?  -------------
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Posted By: omri
Date Posted: March 08 2011 at 07:59
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Stange list indeed ! I understand that these are books you read and enjoyed and you seak for good books recomendations from us. Therefore I voted "none of the above" and here are some great books I recommend :
Falkner - Abshalom, Abshalom
Dostoyevsky - Idiot
John Barth - The floating Opera
Richler - Solomon Gorsky was here
Johnathan Trooper - Joe book
Carlos Puentes - The death of Artemio Kroos.
Mario Vargas Jose - The town and the dogs (and greetings for getting the nobel price at last Mr. Jose !)
Konrad - Nostromo
Gogol - Dead souls
Heinrich Mann - The citizen
Andre Brink - Roumors about rain (I believe it's your turn next year)
Alias Huri - Bab al shams
Wally Lamb - My brother's guard
Heinrich Bell - Biliard at 9:30
I think that will do for a while. ------------- omri |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: March 08 2011 at 08:31
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Of the book options, I chose Candide, as it is an outstanding satire on Leibniz. Strange list. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: fuyuakiworld
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 01:36
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WHERE IS CATCHER IN THE RYE????
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 02:16
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:) ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 08:59
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Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: December 29 2011 at 09:37
terrible, terrible book. |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: January 24 2012 at 08:53
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Oddie See? ------------- 
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: January 24 2012 at 11:03
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An arduous non-fiction work of modern science is literature? Great theory, but nobody actually wants to read the damn book.
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: January 24 2012 at 12:39
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Out of these, The Odyssey. Back in the HS days but I recall enjoying it. Though I never heard of the Golden Ass I voted for it just cause
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Posted By: Sheavy
Date Posted: January 27 2012 at 23:04
I thought that was Ray Bradbury or Tom Wolfe. ------------- 
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Posted By: Sheavy
Date Posted: January 27 2012 at 23:07
I haven't read most of these, but I voted anyway  . I stopped reading Don Quixote because I just couldnt get into it, I hate Harry Potter, and The Odyssey and Heart of Darkness are close, but I'll give it to Heart of Darkness because it the horror, the horror. Haven't read any of the rest, although I've read some of Bukowski's poetry.-------------
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: January 28 2012 at 08:02
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It is very hard to name a book. The Most original book I came across though (and the most expensive one I ever bought; it cost 289 DM at the time I bought it) is the "Codex Seraphinianus" by Luigi Serafini.
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Posted By: The_Jester
Date Posted: January 28 2012 at 16:55
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Candide was incredible. Read it in one day. ------------- La victoire est éphémère mais la gloire est éternelle! - Napoléon Bonaparte |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: January 28 2012 at 17:42
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Well it's only like 100 pages. I'm not sure that indicates its quality.
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: January 28 2012 at 22:30
A hardcore conservative who wrote a book about Yale? Oh that sounds wonderful If I want something to contemplate suicide over |
Posted By: Sheavy
Date Posted: January 29 2012 at 00:06
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: January 29 2012 at 09:10
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I just came in here to post that. He was an intellectual dwarf and a shockingly terrible human being. People found intelligent mostly because: A) He exuded arrogance B) British accent ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: January 29 2012 at 11:19
Soooo if you posted that to convince me otherwise sorry Or you want me to committ suicide, if so shame! I've done nothing to you  edit: being a political nerd I already knew who Buckley was, so yeah that opinion is not new to me or made up on the spot...I already knew how much I disliked him! |
Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: January 29 2012 at 11:58
Seeing the last option, I started searching for your posts. ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: Sheavy
Date Posted: January 29 2012 at 12:35
Lol. Neither. Just thought you'd find that..... interesting.... -------------
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Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: January 29 2012 at 17:04
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Well I was an English Lit major, long ago. I would list the authors I have read but I'd come off like some pompous ass, sort of like William Buckley, who basically had the intellect of a grapefruit (no offense meant to grapefruits). But...Homer, The Bible, Chaucer, Shakespeare. That is The Canon. All my favorite contemporary authors, save Pynchon, have killed themselves in fairly recent years. Hunter S. Thompson. Gone. David Foster Wallace. Gone. It seems the really intelligent ones just finally say "f**k it" and check out on their own terms.
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