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ALL-TIME 15 NOVELS
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18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:24 pm |
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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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18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:25 pm |
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Quoting duda:
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. |
In my opinion and as far as I can tell, The Perfume can't be compared to any other book. It's unique. I'd suggest you to just go and read it, you won't regret it! 
Oh and by the way, I haven't seen the movie, I like the image I have in my head from reading the book, I don't want it to get spoiled.
Some people think the movie is good, others hate it, and I just don't want to know 
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18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:27 pm |
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Quoting Elisa: Oh and by the way, I haven't seen the movie, I like the image I have in my head from reading the book, I don't want it to get spoiled.
Some people think the movie is good, others hate it, and I just don't want to know |
They were perfect with Lord Of The Rings though
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18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:27 pm |
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Quoting Elisa: Oh and by the way, I haven't seen the movie, I like the image I have in my head from reading the book, I don't want it to get spoiled.
Some people think the movie is good, others hate it, and I just don't want to know |
Dont you find that with most movies adapted from novels? I always leave the cinema angry that the story has been changed, badly adapted or simply completely different from how I imagined it in my head!! 
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18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:28 pm |
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Quoting aenigma x:
This is an impossible task!! .... I missed so many  |
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Tom Wolfe for example..
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18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:28 pm |
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Jonathan Swift! Not fair... And Laurence Sterne... Mark Twain... Elsa Morante... 
May it be 115... please? I would like to add some more...
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| 26. |
18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:29 pm |
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Well... Here are my first and second top fifteen list according to the two slightly different definitions of novel.
novel: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
1. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
2. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
3. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
4. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
5. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
6. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
7. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
8. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
9. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
10. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
11. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
12. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
13. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
14. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
15. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
novel: an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story
1. Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
2. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (Ah, my dear Jan Valjean!...)
3. The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
4. Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
5. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemingway
6. The Metamorphosis - Kafka
7. The Trial - Kafka
8. War and Peace - Tolstoy
9. Ulysses - James Joyce
10. Frankenstein - Marry Shelley
11. Search of Lost Time (whole series) - Marcel Proust
12. The Iron Heel - Jack London
13. Modam Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
14. The Grapes of Wratf - John Steinbeck
15. Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov
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| 27. |
18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:30 pm |
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Quoting duda: Jonathan Swift! Not fair... And Laurence Sterne... Mark Twain... Elsa Morante...
May it be 115... please? I would like to add some more... |
Huckelbery Finn
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18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:30 pm |
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P. S. Thanks, Elisa! I didn't see your post at once. The word "unique" is enough. Sold! 
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18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:36 pm |
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Quoting AllTooHuman: 2. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (Ah, my dear Jan Valjean!...) |
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark?
Or it was Netherlands?
But we omitted Alphonse Daudet and his "Aventures prodigieuses de Tartarin de Tarascon"... French Don Quixote...
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18 Feb 2007 Sun 07:41 pm |
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Quoting AllTooHuman: 2. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
10. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
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Yes yes  and Bram Stoker's Dracula.. wonderful
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