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ALL-TIME 15 NOVELS
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18 Feb 2007 Sun 06:13 pm |
Quoting slavica: Quoting duda:
The Idiot, F. M. Dostoyevsky
The Posessed, F. M. Dostoyevsky
Epic of Gilgamesh
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
Second book of Migrations (Seobe, knjiga druga), Miloš Crnjanski
A Novel about London (Roman o Londonu), Miloš Crnjanski
Father Bernard the Swell (Bakonja fra-Brne), Simo Matavulj
The Song of Nibelungs (Das Nibelungenlied)
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg), Thomas Mann
Orlando Enraged (Orlando Furioso), Ariosto
Dead Souls, Nikolay Gogol
Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Vladimir Voinovich
The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince), Antoine de Saint Exupéry
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May I add Duda's list to mine? |
People used to read books huh slavica?
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18 Feb 2007 Sun 06:34 pm |
Now I would like to add Winnie the Pooh by A.A.Miln. May it be sixteen? Or children books are excluded? Or we should exclude Gilgamesh? (Be sure I didn't translate it, Sui... I do not speak Sumerian... don't have Sumerian font in my PC anyway. )
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18 Feb 2007 Sun 06:43 pm |
Hmm, I always find these kind of questions rather hard. Same problem with "top 10 albums" for example, I wouldn’t know where to start.. and I'm such a doubter..
Anyway:
F. Scott Fitzgerald – the Great Gatsby
John Irving – The World According to Garp
John Irving – Hotel New Hampshire
Richard Yates – Revolutionary Road
D.H. Lawrence - Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
Gerard Reve – De Avonden
Patrick Süskind – The Perfume
Truman Capote – In Cold Blood
J.D. Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
Haruki Murakami - South of the Border, West of the Sun
Donna Tartt - The Secret History
to be continued probably..
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18 Feb 2007 Sun 06:44 pm |
To Duda and Slavica;
You are like walking libraries!!! Its unbelievable!!!
Now i bend infront of you!
With regards your majesty!
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18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:02 pm |
Pardon me, Sui, but I am more a kind of sitting library... If I read less, I'd walk more... And I'd be slim as well.
Liked Elisa's list too... She inspired me to think more of some modern prosaists. My God, so many books, how can one decide? Now I'd like to add Malcolm Lawry and his "Under Vulcano"... and Peter Carey and his "Oscar and Lucinda"... and "The Blind Assasin" by Margaret Atwood... and... will someone stop me? Sui, Slavica, please... just stop me.
P.S. Elisa, suppose you recommend "The Parfume"? I saw it (translated! alas!) here and from the very start I have a feeling it's something worth reading. Can you compare it to something? I would like to hear somebody's personal impressions, for I don't like to read "noncertified" books.
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18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:06 pm |
Quoting duda: Pardon me, Sui, but I am more a kind of sitting library... If I read less, I'd walk more... And I'd be slim as well.
Liked Elisa's list too... She inspired me to think more of some modern prosaists. My God, so many books, how can one decide? Now I'd like to add Malcolm Lawry and his "Under Vulcano"... and Peter Carey and his "Oscar and Lucinda"... and "The Blind Assasin" by Margaret Atwood... and... will someone stop me? Sui, Slavica, please... just stop me.
P.S. Elisa, suppose you recommend "The Parfume"? I saw it (translated! alas!) here and from the very start I have a feeling it's something worth reading. Can you compare it to something? I would like to hear somebody's personal impressions, for I don't like to read "noncertified" books. |
The Perfume's movie is also made... But mostly they say no better than the book...
Also Duda to the new authors list, you can add Jean Christopher Grange, he has magnificant novels
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18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:13 pm |
This is so hard, but have made an attempt to select my favourite 15:-
Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin
Emma - Jane Austin
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Expery
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
A Passage to India - E. M. Forster
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
I, Claudius - Robert Graves
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18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:21 pm |
Quoting aenigma x: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin
Emma - Jane Austin
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
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How could I forget those two!!?? See, my list is a living, everchanging thing
Ohhhh, mr Darcy....
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18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:22 pm |
This is an impossible task!! My mind is racing now...Susan Howatch, Henry Fielding, Jonathan Swift .... I missed so many
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18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:24 pm |
Quoting Elisa:
Ohhhh, mr Darcy.... |
"IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
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