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ALL-TIME BEST NOVELS
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02 Nov 2008 Sun 04:24 am |
1- Victor Hugo Les Miserables
2- Fyoder Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamozof
3-Leo Tolstoy War and Peace
Anna Karenina
4-Jane Austen Pride and Prejude
5-James Joyce Ulysses
6- Franz Kafka Die Verwandlung
The trial
7-Viginia Wolf The Waves
8- Upton Sinclair Oil
9 –James Baldwin Go Tell it on the Mountain
10-Albert Camus The Stranger
11-John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
12-Ernest Hemingway The Snows of Kilimanjora
The Old Man and the Sea
The Sun Also Rises
13 – Yaþar Kemal Aðrýdaðý ( Aðrý Daðý) Efsanesi 14- Paul Auster Timbuktu
15- Robert Stone Dog Soldiersl
16- John Cheever Falconer
17- Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years Solutude
18- Vladimir Nabokov Lolita
19- Jean Paul Sartre Les Mots
20- Virginia Woolf To the lighthouse
Mrs.Dalloway
21- William Faulkner Light in August
The Sound and The Fury
22- Knut Hamsun Victoria
23- Graham Green The Power and the Glory
The Hearth of the Matter
24- Saul Bellow Herzog
25- Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer
26- Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook
27- Toni Morrison Beloved
28- George Orwell Animal Firm
29-F.Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
30- Margaret Mitchell Gone With the Wind
31-Yusuf Atýlgan Aylak Adam
32-Antoine de Saint-Exupery Le Petit Prince
33-Benjamin Constant Adolphe
P.S.
- “Ulyses by James Joyce (1922) was selected the best novel of the century by TIME Magazine (U.S.A.), (200.
Runners-up : One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.
- This is my own private list according to my private world literature study.
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02 Nov 2008 Sun 05:21 am |
can somebody tell me how Jane Austen (Pride and Prejud) made into that list?
(I read the book, watched the movie several times and still strying to figure out the ´moral of the story´ )
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02 Nov 2008 Sun 08:26 am |
can somebody tell me how Jane Austen (Pride and Prejud) made into that list?
(I read the book, watched the movie several times and still strying to figure out the ´moral of the story´ )
How about: Proud and prejudicial characteristics get one nowhere in the love stakes, especially if one listen´s to hearsay .
Phew . . . Elizabeth almost missed out on her destiny . . . the love of a fine figure of a man in breeches.
Of course, if you had done your research more thoroughly, you would have also read and watched Bridget Jones´s Diary and realised the modern moral: Never let a cad twang your big knickers.
Colin Firth took the role of Darcy in both stories. For those of you who don´t know who he is, he seems to be "the thinking woman´s crumpet". Something for you to aspire to Thehandsom?
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02 Nov 2008 Sun 11:54 am |
1- Victor Hugo Les Miserables
2- Fyoder Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamozof
3-Leo Tolstoy War and Peace
Anna Karenina
4-Jane Austen Pride and Prejude
5-James Joyce Ulysses
6- Franz Kafka Die Verwandlung
The trial
7-Viginia Wolf The Waves
8- Upton Sinclair Oil
9 –James Baldwin Go Tell it on the Mountain
10-Albert Camus The Stranger
11-John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
12-Ernest Hemingway The Snows of Kilimanjora
The Old Man and the Sea
The Sun Also Rises
13 – Yaþar Kemal Aðrýdaðý Efsanesi 14- Paul Auster Timbuktu
15- Robert Stone Dog Soldiersl
16- John Cheever Falconer
17- Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years Solutude
18- Vladimir Nabokov Lolita
19- Jean Paul Sartre Les Mots
20- Virginia Woolf To the lighthouse
Mrs.Dalloway
21- William Faulkner Light in August
The Sound and The Fury
22- Knut Hamsun Victoria
23- Graham Green The Power and the Glory
The Hearth of the Matter
24- Saul Bellow Herzog
25- Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer
26- Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook
27- Toni Morrison Beloved
28- George Orwell Animal Firm
29-F.Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
30- Margaret Mitchell Gone With the Wind
P.S.
“Ulyses by James Joyce (1922) was selected the best novel of the century by TIME Magazine (U.S.A.), (200.
Runners-up : One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.
I note the order of preference has changed a bit since you last posted this topic!
http://www.turkishclass.com/forumTitle_27996
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02 Nov 2008 Sun 12:47 pm |
Colin Firth took the role of Darcy in both stories. For those of you who don´t know who he is, he seems to be "the thinking woman´s crumpet". Something for you to aspire to Thehandsom?
swoon he (colin) can be my Mr Darcy any day
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02 Nov 2008 Sun 12:51 pm |
swoon he (colin) can be my Mr Darcy any day
Ouuhhhh ben de! Wet Darcy straight from the lake....... definitely sapik enough for SS
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02 Nov 2008 Sun 12:54 pm |
Ouuhhhh ben de! Wet Darcy straight from the lake....... definitely sapik enough for SS
perhaps we can ask him to be spokesperson for the SS
lesluv
Resident TC sapik, founder member of SS and Mr Darcy´s lover
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02 Nov 2008 Sun 12:56 pm |
perhaps we can ask him to be spokesperson for the SS
lesluv
Resident TC sapik, founder member of SS and Mr Darcy´s lover
Will you write to him or I?
AENIGMA
"Our very young and intelligent” and sublimely beautiful, sapik founder member of SS and Mr. Darcy´s preferred lover but misleadingly steam cleaned sister from Neverland
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02 Nov 2008 Sun 03:00 pm |
Will you write to him or I?
AENIGMA
"Our very young and intelligent” and sublimely beautiful, sapik founder member of SS and Mrs. Darcy´s profiterole lover but misleadingly steamy cleaning lady from NeverNeverland
oh darling..... no need to write, i´ll see him tonight!!!
lesluv
resident TC sapik, founder member of SS, Mr Darcy´s only lover, chief spam generator
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02 Nov 2008 Sun 03:00 pm |
swoon he (colin) can be my Mr Darcy any day
yuuuck
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02 Nov 2008 Sun 03:02 pm |
yuuuck
not your type then
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02 Nov 2008 Sun 03:04 pm |
not your type then
if Colin is your type, I dont think you and I can get on well..
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02 Nov 2008 Sun 03:06 pm |
if Colin is your type, I dont think you and I can get on well..
what a terrible shame and i´ve heard such nice things about you
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02 Nov 2008 Sun 03:08 pm |
Ouuhhhh ben de! Wet Darcy straight from the lake....... definitely sapik enough for SS
Agree! He is far to wet and defintely not naughty enough for me !!
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02 Nov 2008 Sun 03:11 pm |
Agree! He is far to wet and defintely not naughty enough for me !!
ooooh young lady.... definately a contender for the SS
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02 Nov 2008 Sun 05:00 pm |
what a terrible shame and i´ve heard such nice things about you
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02 Nov 2008 Sun 07:27 pm |
comment removed *washing my mouth with soap*
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02 Nov 2008 Sun 07:41 pm |
I´ve always thought that Yilgun´s posts are so daft because he´s very young and inexperienced. Now I´m beginning to wonder if he´s not senile and demented
I take objection to this comment and would be grateful if you would delete the last offensive sentance and please dont say you are joking as this is a subject that is not funny.
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02 Nov 2008 Sun 11:54 pm |
i would definitely add
Jose Saramagos´s "blindness"
Paul Auster´s "the book of illusions"
J.D Salinger´s "the catcher in the rye"
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02 Nov 2008 Sun 11:58 pm |
i would definitely add
J.D Salinger´s "the catcher in the rye"
I know that I SHOULD love Catcher in the Rye, but is it ok that I don´t?
Am I alone in this thought?
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03 Nov 2008 Mon 12:17 am |
i am embarassed to say that i have only read a few of these novels!! makes my christmas list easy though
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03 Nov 2008 Mon 02:47 am |
How about: Proud and prejudicial characteristics get one nowhere in the love stakes, especially if one listen´s to hearsay .
Phew . . . Elizabeth almost missed out on her destiny . . . the love of a fine figure of a man in breeches.
Of course, if you had done your research more thoroughly, you would have also read and watched Bridget Jones´s Diary and realised the modern moral: Never let a cad twang your big knickers.
Colin Firth took the role of Darcy in both stories. For those of you who don´t know who he is, he seems to be "the thinking woman´s crumpet". Something for you to aspire to Thehandsom?
Actually i ADORE the old version of the movie,i saw it when i was little,and i still love watching it
Just remembering Mrs Bennet making me laugh even when reading the novel
And that Mr. Darcy was reallyyy something !
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=2153
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03 Nov 2008 Mon 02:54 am |
i have seen this one too. i personally think it´s the character that you fall in love with. i don´t know what it is about Mr Darcy. He is perceived as a pompus ass but his arrogance is appealing in a weird sort of way....
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03 Nov 2008 Mon 03:03 am |
i have seen this one too. i personally think it´s the character that you fall in love with. i don´t know what it is about Mr Darcy. He is perceived as a pompus ass but his arrogance is appealing in a weird sort of way....
à dont know too what is it with Mr.Darcy !
Maybe because he was a gentleman all the way even with all his arrogance ?
And the commination of such character and a softened heart ...is ÃRRESÃSTÃBLE !
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03 Nov 2008 Mon 03:07 am |
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single girl in possession of her right mind must be in want of a decent man"
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03 Nov 2008 Mon 03:35 am |
lol that is Austen´s part II of Pride and Prejudice?
but i don´t think it will be as good as my imagination
Ãn that case,it wont be good as writting your own novel
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03 Nov 2008 Mon 05:36 pm |
1- Victor Hugo Les Miserables
2- Fyoder Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamazov
3-Leo Tolstoy War and Peace
Anna Karenina
4-Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
5-James Joyce Ulysses
6- Franz Kafka Die Verwandlung
The trial
7-Viginia Wolf The Waves
8- Upton Sinclair Oil
9 –James Baldwin Go Tell it on the Mountain
10-Albert Camus The Stranger
11-John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
12-Ernest Hemingway The Snows of Kilimanjaro
The Old Man and the Sea
The Sun Also Rises
13 – Yaþar Kemal Aðrýdaðý ( Aðrý Daðý) Efsanesi 14- Paul Auster Timbuktu
15- Robert Stone Dog Soldiersl
16- John Cheever Falconer
17- Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years Solitude
18- Vladimir Nabokov Lolita
19- Jean Paul Sartre Les Mots
20- Virginia Woolf To the lighthouse
Mrs.Dalloway
21- William Faulkner Light in August
The Sound and The Fury
22- Knut Hamsun Victoria
23- Graham Green The Power and the Glory
The Heart of the Matter
24- Saul Bellow Herzog
25- Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer
26- Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook
27- Toni Morrison Beloved
28- George Orwell Animal Farm
29-F.Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
30- Margaret Mitchell Gone With the Wind
31-Yusuf Atýlgan Aylak Adam
32-Antoine de Saint-Exupery Le Petit Prince
33-Benjamin Constant Adolphe
I would put -
Dr Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
on that list
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03 Nov 2008 Mon 05:58 pm |
I would put -
To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
on that list
+10000000000000
Without a doubt!
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03 Nov 2008 Mon 06:01 pm |
+10000000000000
Without a doubt!
yes this one was part of our english literature curriculum
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03 Nov 2008 Mon 06:07 pm |
+10000000000000
Without a doubt!
I´m guessing you enjoyed it!
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03 Nov 2008 Mon 06:17 pm |
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
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03 Nov 2008 Mon 08:34 pm |
I´m guessing you enjoyed it!
It is my all-time favorite.
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04 Nov 2008 Tue 06:44 pm |
I know that I SHOULD love Catcher in the Rye, but is it ok that I don´t?
Am I alone in this thought?
You are absolutely NOT alone! I didn´t care for it either......but then again, I prefer modern smut to old worn out classics!
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04 Nov 2008 Tue 06:55 pm |
Risking that some will call me almost illiterate, I dare to say I don´t read ´literature´. Even Dutch ´big´ writers I have hardly read, though I read a lot, just not stuff from famous people. ´My´ writers will never be on lists like this, but does it make their books less good or valuable? Of course I know some of the books in the first topic, a few were on my list for English class in secondary school (though I admit now I cheated with only seeing video´s and reading abstracts.... Sorry to my English teacher then, Mr. Hockx  .
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04 Nov 2008 Tue 07:11 pm |
Risking that some will call me almost illiterate, I dare to say I don´t read ´literature´. Even Dutch ´big´ writers I have hardly read, though I read a lot, just not stuff from famous people. ´My´ writers will never be on lists like this, but does it make their books less good or valuable? Of course I know some of the books in the first topic, a few were on my list for English class in secondary school (though I admit now I cheated with only seeing video´s and reading abstracts.... Sorry to my English teacher then, Mr. Hockx  .
hehehe....you bed dutch! Don´t worry, I did the same thing with a few so called, "American Classics." We used to read the Cliff Notes on the book and not have to read the entire thing. I think much "Literature" is over-rated....but of course most people would think I am illiterate too!
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04 Nov 2008 Tue 07:58 pm |
Elisabeth, Trudy, I hear you - I had to read the classics at the uni but they´re not on my favourite books list (at least not most of them). There´s a Polish book titled Ferdydurke by Gombrowicz. There´s a situation when a teacher asks the question why Slowacki (a Polish poet) stirs andmiration and love in us, only to answer it that it is due to his having been a great poet. An attempt to express his lack of love and admiration for Slowacki by one of the students is perceived as a personal attack on the teacher.
There are generations that blindly follow cannons of literature, fine arts and music. What do you mean you don´t like those Big names? They´re big, wise people found them admirable and so should you
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04 Nov 2008 Tue 08:05 pm |
What do you mean you don´t like those Big names? They´re big, wise people found them admirable and so should you
Conclusion: I´m not wise. (Can´t answer for Elisabeth.... )
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04 Nov 2008 Tue 08:19 pm |
Conclusion: I´m not wise. (Can´t answer for Elisabeth.... )
Heavens NO! I am not worldly or wise! But I do love to read.......just love the occasional mindless Steven King story about some crazy town in north America.....or perhaps (God forbid) a trashy love novel....or maybe even a Non-Fiction (reading one now called Porn Generation - its´ about how porn and social liberalism is destroying civilization -Ben Shapiro) Anyway, I don´t pretend to be intellectual....so I don´t think anyone will be disappointed at my reading choices!!
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04 Nov 2008 Tue 08:26 pm |
Same here
One more thing from Ferdydurke:
"Great poetry being great and being poetry cannot fail to astonish us and thus astonishes us"
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05 Nov 2008 Wed 03:31 pm |
hehehe....you bed dutch! Don´t worry, I did the same thing with a few so called, "American Classics." We used to read the Cliff Notes on the book and not have to read the entire thing. I think much "Literature" is over-rated....but of course most people would think I am illiterate too!
Cliff Notes....I remember those... Best thing invented...
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05 Nov 2008 Wed 04:27 pm |
are you still thinking about novels? you are supposed to be crying because Mccain lost
Cliff Notes....I remember those... Best thing invented...
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05 Nov 2008 Wed 09:38 pm |
One of my favorite modern authors, Michael Crichton has died!
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07 Nov 2008 Fri 07:47 am |
such a great list.
Pride and Prejudice is the best novel of all time though.
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07 Nov 2008 Fri 12:41 pm |
Thank you, Mia...
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20 Jan 2010 Wed 04:14 am |
ALL-TİME BEST NOVELS 15
For novel readers
1- Victor HUGO : Les Miserables
2- Fyoder DOSTOYEVSKY : Crime and Punishment
3-Leo TOLSTOY : War and Peace
4-James JOYCE : Ulysses
5- Franz KAFKA : Die Verwandlung
6-Albert CAMUS : The Stranger
7-John STEINBECK : The Grapes of Wrath
8-Ernest HEMINGWAY : The Sun Also Rises
9 – Yaşar KEMAL : Ağrıdağı Efsanesi –Legend of Mountain Ağrı- 10- Paul AUSTER : Timbuktu
11- Jean Paul SARTRE : Les Mots
12- William FAULKNER : The Sound and The Fury
13- Knut HAMSUN : Victoria
14- George ORWELL : Animal Farm
15- Margaret MITCHELL : Gone With the Wind
Edited (1/26/2010) by yilgun-2010
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20 Jan 2010 Wed 12:53 pm |
Talking about your classics... To kill a mockingbird!
If you´re not a reader, at least watch the movie. Especially since this seems to be a hot topic on TLC It´s a very impressive story.
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20 Jan 2010 Wed 04:41 pm |
ALL-TİME BEST NOVELS 15
For novel readers
1- Victor HUGO : Les Miserables
2- Fyoder DOSTOYEVSKY : Crime and Punishment
3-Leo TOLSTOY : War and Peace
4-James JOYCE : Ulysses
5- Franz KAFKA : Die Verwandlung
6-Albert CAMUS : The Stranger
7-John STEINBECK : The Grapes of Wrath
8-Ernest HEMINGWAY : The Sun Also Rises
9 – Yaşar KEMAL : Ağrıdağı Efsanesi –Legend of Mountain Ağrı- 10- Paul AUSTER : Timbuktu
11- Jean Paul SARTRE : Les Mots
12- William FAULKNER : The Sound and The Fury
13- Knut HAMSUN : Victoria
14- George ORWELL : Animal Firm
15- Margaret MITCHELL : Gone With the Wind
Oh, no, Yilgun, dear, NOT AGAIN!
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20 Jan 2010 Wed 05:43 pm |
You know there´s nothing new under the sun! - and I do think the addition of ´in my opinion´ would be nice - where is ´Dr Zhivago??! But Yilgun doesn´t seem to have much time for more modern literature - things don´t have to be old to be good!
Oh, no, Yilgun, dear, NOT AGAIN!
Edited (1/20/2010) by lady in red
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20 Jan 2010 Wed 11:10 pm |
You know there´s nothing new under the sun! - and I do think the addition of ´in my opinion´ would be nice - where is ´Dr Zhivago??! But Yilgun doesn´t seem to have much time for more modern literature - things don´t have to be old to be good!
Oh, no, Yilgun, dear, NOT AGAIN!
hehehe what a surprising thread, isn´t it? Don´t you know it´s in Yilgunish? It is a list, it is arbitrary and non-debatable. Should you insist on him revealing who is behind this list, you´ll hear it´s our friends linguists/literature critics/world specialist or the world media. How many times do you need to be reminded NOT to ask uncomfortable questions? Shame on you ladies!
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20 Jan 2010 Wed 11:52 pm |
Same here
One more thing from Ferdydurke:
"Great poetry being great and being poetry cannot fail to astonish us and thus astonishes us"
never could understand gombrowicz.
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21 Jan 2010 Thu 01:11 am |
Of course, I haven´t read all the best novels but the ones I remember at first blush are:
Ulyses (Joyce)
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
Father Goriot (Balzac)
Fathers and Sons (Turgenev)
Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky)
Each one of these book influenced me in a different way. I owe my nihilist side to my (mis)understanding of Turgenev´s magnificent novel.
Father Goriot is a masterpiece of depictions.
Anna Karenina represents the ultimate point reached in story telling.
You almost feel you are a part of the story when you read Crime and Punishment since you keep questioning yourself and feel as if you are facing the same venues of deceit and corruption as you drift from one episode to another in a state of sheer oblivion and complete deprivation.
Ullyses must be one of the most difficult to understand novels.
Edited (1/21/2010) by vineyards
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21 Jan 2010 Thu 02:03 am |
ALL-TİME BEST NOVELS 15
For novel readers
1- Victor HUGO : Les Miserables
2- Fyoder DOSTOYEVSKY : Crime and Punishment
3-Leo TOLSTOY : War and Peace
4-James JOYCE : Ulysses
Yilgun,
I notice the books mentioned here, with the exeption of Yaşar Kemal, are all Western novelists. Have you never read any of the great works by, for example, Lady Murasaki´s Tale of Gengi? It is considered to be the first true novel, and it was written by a woman.
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21 Jan 2010 Thu 03:11 am |
For Alameda:
Thank you very much for your review.
I have never read any novel on Chinese or Japanese literature-novel or story-.
You are right, because we are always interested in Turkish and Western Novelists.
I have no any knowledge about Japanese or Chinese literature and novelists.
My university branch is engineering but “ Literature and books” is my hobby.
This list show my favorite “all time novels” for “novel readers” as a recommendation.
I don’t like todays novels in general; in my opinion, they are not impressive and high in quality.
For examplean Brown:
Brown writes novels based on science like a real historic document.
But he is of course a good writer.His novels are very good for movie.Because he is a good historian at the same time.
I think the others novelist write average novels, not top level; but repetition novels.
I think they seem not the best level, not high in quality
I think sometimes the art of novel has died : Technology Century.
This is my opinion.
By the way, I shall look for any Japanese or Chinese novel like the novel “The Tale of Gengi” By Lady Murasaki, here in Ankara, İzmir and İstanbul.
But I would love to read “Tale of Gengi” especially someday.
Thank you again.
P.S.
The Tale of Genji (, Genji Monogatari?) is a classic work of Japanese literature
attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the early eleventh
century, around the peak of the Heian Period. It is sometimes called the
world´s first novel, the first modern novel, the first psychological novel or the
first novel still to be considered a classic, though this issue is a matter of
debate.
Edited (1/21/2010) by yilgun-2010
Edited (1/21/2010) by yilgun-2010
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21 Jan 2010 Thu 04:36 am |
For Alameda:
Thank you very much for your review.
I have never read any novel on Chinese or Japanese literature-novel or story-.
You are right, because we are always interested in Turkish and Western Novelists.
I have no any knowledge about Japanese or Chinese literature and novelists.
My university branch is engineering but “ Literature and books” is my hobby.
This list show my favorite “all time novels” for “novel readers” as a recommendation.
I don’t like todays novels in general; in my opinion, they are not impressive and high in quality.
For examplean Brown:
Brown writes novels based on science like a real historic document.
But he is of course a good writer.His novels are very good for movie.Because he is a good historian at the same time.
I think the others novelist write average novels, not top level; but repetition novels.
I think they seem not the best level, not high in quality
I think sometimes the art of novel has died : Technology Century.
This is my opinion.
By the way, I shall look for any Japanese or Chinese novel like the novel “The Tale of Gengi” By Lady Murasaki, here in Ankara, İzmir and İstanbul.
But I would love to read “Tale of Gengi” especially someday.
Thank you again.
P.S.
The Tale of Genji (, Genji Monogatari?) is a classic work of Japanese literature
attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the early eleventh
century, around the peak of the Heian Period. It is sometimes called the
world´s first novel, the first modern novel, the first psychological novel or the
first novel still to be considered a classic, though this issue is a matter of
debate.
You may want to try The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon, a lady of the Imperial court. It was written during Japan´s Heian period. It´s a delightful book on her impressions and thoughts on life and events. She wrote it before going to sleep. It give you a glimpse into how life was at that time. It is not a large book and the way it was written makes it a easy and pretty fast read.
You can read some of it here.
This book is a good introdction to Japanese literature
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21 Jan 2010 Thu 12:25 pm |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years Solutude
this is the best ever thing i happen to read. loved it. crazy. my type of book.
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21 Jan 2010 Thu 04:11 pm |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years Solutude
this is the best ever thing i happen to read. loved it. crazy. my type of book.
I really like his books. His stories stay with you for a long time after reading them. I enjoyed "Love in the Time of Cholera" almost as much as "One Hundred Years of Solitude."
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21 Jan 2010 Thu 05:07 pm |
I have read three books by the modern Japanese author, Haruki Murakami - ´Norwegian Wood´, ´The Wind-up Bird Chronicles´ and ´Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. Difficult to pinpoint the genre really and quite different to anything else I have read.
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21 Jan 2010 Thu 06:40 pm |
I have read three books by the modern Japanese author, Haruki Murakami - ´Norwegian Wood´, ´The Wind-up Bird Chronicles´ and ´Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. Difficult to pinpoint the genre really and quite different to anything else I have read.
Three classic Japanese books: Silence by Shusaku Endo ( link ), Snow country by Yasunari Kuwabata ( link ) and the imo best one: Totto-chan, the little girl at the window by Tetsuko Kuroyagani ( link ). My Japanese friends living here were pleasantly surprised when they saw these books at my place. The last book made one of them cry as she remembered her childhood in Japan.
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21 Jan 2010 Thu 07:44 pm |
Frederic Beigbeder - Love Lasts Three Years (L`Amoure dure trois ans)
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22 Jan 2010 Fri 01:58 pm |
My absolute favorite is "War and Peace" and I can only agree with those who consider it one of the greatest novels ever written. An epic in prose (as author himself has qualified it), the novel fascinates me with its realistic story of five aristocratic Russian families and their life under extraordinary historical circumstances, in particular Napoleon´s invasion of Russia 1812. Besides author´s view of historical events and characters (based on years of researching historical facts), several love stories and fantastic portraits (Natasha Rostova, Andrey Bolkonsky, old Prince Bolkonsky), what fascinates me mostly are vivid descriptions: battle scenes, court balls, scenes of hunting… I read this book over and over again and it is never boring to me.
My favorite of modern novels is Paulo Coelho´s “By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept”. I accept that Coelho is a controversial author and I myself don´t like his manner of using the same successful formula in every novel, but this novel, the first Coelho´s novel I´ve read, really left me breathless! Not only because of the story, characters and message, but mostly because I found every other sentence a thought, an aphorism, and it was something I have seen for the first time as writing style, and loved. I read the book in one evening, and tomorrow I took it and read it again, which I never did before. This book also remained the one of those I read every now and then and every time enjoy it as at the first reading.
I can´t resist adding a couple of quotes from Coelho´s novel:
- Everyday, God gives us the sun - and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything...
- A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth. If I have to fall, may it be from a high place.
- You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
- Sometimes happiness is a blessing - but generally it´s a conquest. The magic moment of the day changes us and makes us take off in the direction of our dreams.
- Love perseveres. It´s men who change.
- The universe always helps us fight for our dreams, no matter how foolish they may be. Our dreams are our own, and only we can know the effort required to keep them alive.
And here you can read more…
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22 Jan 2010 Fri 03:00 pm |
If you like Coelho, you´ll probably like Pamuk too. I feel there is a further link between these two and Umberto Eco. Eco strayed from usual novel form and these two followed in his foot steps. The difference being where the other two are just two laymen in matters they covered in their books, Eco has also a very strong philosophical and scientific background. He knows what he is writing better than everyone else therefore nobody speculates about him.
Like you I like the first two books of Coelho and a few books by Pamuk. They are fairly easy to read and relaxing. If you have an adventerous mind that likes to take excursions into myths, you may find yourself with puzzles. I prefer to iron them out in my mind for the sake of saving some grey matter for more down-to-earth uses.
Edited (1/22/2010) by vineyards
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22 Jan 2010 Fri 11:40 pm |
You are right, I like historically based novels, with translating historical circumstances to modern ones, and that’s why I like Eco’s The Name of the Rose and some novels of Orhan Pamuk (Beyaz Kale, Benim Adım Kırmızı ) – but I can’t say I like them generally, as well as Coelho. Talking about Coelho, not only you and me, everyone I talked about his novels said that he liked mostly the first his novel he read. After the first, every new novel was a kind of repeating, which became boring with time.
Edited (1/22/2010) by slavica
Edited (1/22/2010) by slavica
[a typo (again)]
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25 Jan 2010 Mon 01:04 am |
For slavica .
How are you?
May I ask you?
About Duda, old TLC ´ member.
Has she written her last novel?
Has she found a good Turkish translator for her novel?
We are waiting here for her new novel...
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26 Jan 2010 Tue 12:23 am |
For slavica .
How are you?
May I ask you?
About Duda, old TLC ´ member.
Has she written her last novel?
Has she found a good Turkish translator for her novel?
We are waiting here for her new novel...
I sent you a PM, dear
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26 Jan 2010 Tue 12:37 am |
You are right, I like historically based novels, with translating historical circumstances to modern ones, and that’s why I like Eco’s The Name of the Rose and some novels of Orhan Pamuk (Beyaz Kale, Benim Adım Kırmızı ) – but I can’t say I like them generally, as well as Coelho. Talking about Coelho, not only you and me, everyone I talked about his novels said that he liked mostly the first his novel he read. After the first, every new novel was a kind of repeating, which became boring with time.
I agree,I am bored with Coelho.I started reading him from the warrior of the light and Veronica decides to die and I loved the books,but the more I read the more repetitive he sounded.Then I discovered all his books are based on Don Miguel Ruiz and Toltecs teaching,had a swift on Erich Emmanuel Schmitt works and Ruiz Zafon Carlos as modern liyerature is concerned.
I sleep with the Lonely londoners by Sam Selvon these days and Andrea Levy´s small island not to neglect Zadie Smith but in a meanwhile I read A.saint-Exupery and the wizard of OZ by F.Baum
Anyway all books on yilgun´s list I am familiar with agreeing on Tolstoy´s masterpiece.
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26 Jan 2010 Tue 01:42 am |
Anyway all books on yilgun´s list I am familiar with agreeing on Tolstoy´s masterpiece.
Which one? Yilgun-7´s or Yilgun-2010´s list?
I agree with you about Yilgun-2010´s list, for the first one I must admit I´m not familiar with every book from it
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26 Jan 2010 Tue 12:43 pm |
I just realised ´Animal Firm´ is on the list. Great book! Follows on from the farmyard years after the guys meet up with Alan Sugar.
13- Knut HAMSUN : Victoria
14- George ORWELL : Animal Firm
15- Margaret MITCHELL : Gone With the Wind
Edited (1/26/2010) by lady in red
[added quote to upstage modification!!]
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26 Jan 2010 Tue 01:48 pm |
I just realised ´Animal Firm´ is on the list. Great book! Follows on from the farmyard years after the guys meet up with Alan Sugar.
I know Animal Farm but have no clue about Animal Firm.
I read 1984, Animal Farm and Coming Up for Air but I barely remember the plot. It must have been 25 years.
Edited (1/26/2010) by vineyards
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26 Jan 2010 Tue 02:19 pm |
Animal Farm by George ORWELL
( Hayvan Çiftliği )
Edited (1/26/2010) by yilgun-2010
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26 Jan 2010 Tue 05:16 pm |
Animal farm and 1984 are great books, I´ve read them a number of times and always find something new in them. They seem especially true to a reader if you were raised in a totalitarian society.
We had Joyce´s Ulysses as a compulsory read back at the uni. I have to admit I never managed to get through it. It was just painful to read
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26 Jan 2010 Tue 06:13 pm |
I know Animal Farm but have no clue about Animal Firm.
It was my little joke at the expense of Yilgun´s mistake Vineyards - possibly only my fellow Brits will get it.
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27 Jan 2010 Wed 12:15 am |
It was my little joke at the expense of Yilgun´s mistake Vineyards - possibly only my fellow Brits will get it.
Don´t worry I´m not a Brit and I got it We get some Sugar on our tv here too!
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27 Jan 2010 Wed 12:21 am |
J.R. Tolkein -- Lord Of The Rings
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27 Jan 2010 Wed 08:34 am |
J.R. Tolkein -- Lord Of The Rings
+ 100
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27 Jan 2010 Wed 11:19 pm |
my vote is for"the Master and Margarita"by M.Bulhakov..the devil comes to Moscow to penetrate humans souls...wonderful read!
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30 Jan 2010 Sat 09:53 pm |
Orhan Pamuk - Kar
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30 Jan 2010 Sat 10:42 pm |
I just can´t get through a Pamuk book... the writing-style doesn´t match my reading-style I guess.
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31 Jan 2010 Sun 01:28 am |
I just can´t get through a Pamuk book... the writing-style doesn´t match my reading-style I guess.
Same for me.
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31 Jan 2010 Sun 10:15 am |
maybe it is a little hard to understand his style, but after 1-2 books all becomes easy - my point of view
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31 Jan 2010 Sun 03:00 pm |
I understand it, it´s just not my taste. I like to read a book for my pleasure. If going through it seems like a battle, I don´t want to read it anymore "My name is Red" was on the list of my book club, but didn´t even finish it yet. I put it somewhere in a corner and just waited for the next book to come along
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31 Jan 2010 Sun 11:23 pm |
Me too - maybe they lose a lot in translation (I did manage to finish Kar though)
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01 Feb 2010 Mon 07:16 pm |
sorry LIR but I know a kid (friend of my 17 y old daughter) who managed to read it in less than a week (and they follow a mathematical - informathics profile at highschool)
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01 Feb 2010 Mon 08:04 pm |
sorry LIR but I know a kid (friend of my 17 y old daughter) who managed to read it in less than a week (and they follow a mathematical - informathics profile at highschool)
Did I say how long it took me??? (and what´s an informathics profile????)
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01 Feb 2010 Mon 08:10 pm |
their basic activity is not literature (and still she`s only 17 y old)
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01 Feb 2010 Mon 08:59 pm |
I couldn´t really get through watching Benjamin Button either. This doesn´t mean the movie was highly intellectual or something. I just found it a good story, but a bit of a drag at points. I feel the same about Pamuk books. I just get the feeling I want to fast forward through a few bits. The problem is that I can´t do that in books
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19 May 2011 Thu 07:28 pm |
-THE METAMORPHOSİS - DEĞİŞİM
By Franz KAFKA
The story begins with a traveling salesman, waking to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect.Kafka is the one of the best writers of the 20th century.
-THE STRANGER (THE OUTSIDER), L’ ETRANGER - YABANCI
By Albert CAMUS
The title character is Meursault, an Algerian who seemingly irrationally kills an Arab man whom he recognises in French Algiers. Meursault shoots an Arab for no reason.Camus theme and outlook are often cited as examples of existentialism, though Camus did not consider himself an existentialist like J.P.Sartre.
Good novels
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23 Jun 2011 Thu 03:22 am |
THE TOP 50 BOOKS OF ALL TİME
THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS (NOVEL, STORY, PLAY, POETRY, ESSAY) FOR YOUR HOME LIBRARY
1-Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Russia
2-Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, france
3-War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Russia
4-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, United States
5-Hamlet by William Shakespeare, England
6-Selected Poems by William Shakespeare, England
7-Selected Stories by Anton P.Chekhov, Russia
8-Selected Stories by Sait Faik, Türkiye
9-The Stranger by Albert Camus, France
10-The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Czechoslovakia
11-Selected stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe, United States
12-Ulyses by James Joyce, Ireland
13-War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Russia
14-Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, Russia
15-The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol, Russia
16-Gone With the Wind by Ernest Hemingway, United States
17-The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, United States
18-Animal Firm by George Orwell, England
19-Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, France
20-The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, United States
21-In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck, United States
22-Trilogy, Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett, Ireland
23-The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, United States
24-The Wall –Le mur - by Jean-Paul Sartre, France
25-Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Russia
26-The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor M.Dostoyevsky, Russia
27-Crime and Punishment by Fyodor M.Dostoyevsky, Russia
28-Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain
29-Essays by Michel de Montaigne, France
30-Guliver Travels by Jonathan Swift, Ireland
31-Victoria by Knut Hamsun, Norway
32-Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, France
33-One Hundred years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Maquez, Colombia
34-Codin by Panait Istrati, Romania
35-The Ports of the Levant by Amin Maalouf, Lebanon
36-Ağrıdağı Efsanesi (The Ararat Legend) by Yaşar Kemal, Türkiye
37-Aylak Adam (The Loiterer) by Yusuf Atılgan, Türkiye
38-İlköğretmen- The Primary Teacher by Cengiz Aymatov, Kyrgyzstan
39-The Waste Land by T.S.Eliot, United States
40-Selected stories by Maxim Gorky, Russia
41- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, Germany
42- Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, france
43- Adolphe by Benjamin Constant, Switzerland
44- Herzog by Saul Bellow, Canada
45- An American tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, United States
46- Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, United States
47- Timbuktu by Paul Auster, United States
48- The Waves by Viginia Wolf, England
49- Oil by Upton Sinclair, United States
50- The Power and the Glory by Graham Green, England
Enjoy your readings
Edited (6/23/2011) by yilgun-2010
Edited (6/23/2011) by yilgun-2010
Edited (7/1/2011) by yilgun-2010
Edited (7/12/2011) by yilgun-2010
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24 Jun 2011 Fri 02:40 am |
THE TOP 50 BOOKS OF ALL TİME
THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS (NOVEL, STORY, PLAY, POETRY, ESSAY) FOR YOUR HOME LIBRARY
Here are the ones i read and failed to read i put a r(ead) and a f(ailed) near them please do so and lets compare our tastes.
1-Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Russia
2-Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, france r
3-War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Russia
4-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, United States
5-Hamlet by William Shakespeare, England r
6-Selected Poems by William Shakespeare, England
7-Selected Stories by Anton P.Chekhov, Russia
8-Selected Stories by Sait Faik, Türkiye
9-The Stranger by Albert Camus, France r
10-The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Czechoslovakia r
11-Selected stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe, United States r
12-Ulyses by James Joyce, Ireland f
13-War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Russia
14-Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, Russia
15-The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol, Russia
16-Gone With the Wind by Ernest Hemingway, United States
17-The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, United States
18-Animal Firm by George Orwell, England r
19-Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, France
20-The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, United States
21-In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck, United States
22-Trilogy, Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett, Ireland
23-The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, United States f
24-The Wall –Le mur - by Jean-Paul Sartre, France r
25-Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Russia
26-The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor M.Dostoyevsky, Russia r
27-Crime and Punishment by Fyodor M.Dostoyevsky, Russia r
28-Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain r
29-Essays by Michel de Montaigne, France r (some of them)
30-Guliver Travels by Jonathan Swift, Ireland
31-Victoria by Knut Hamsun, Norway
32-Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, France r
33-One Hundred years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Maquez, Colombia f
34-Codin by Panait Istrati, Romania
35-The Ports of the Levant by Amin Maalouf, Lebanon
36-Ağrıdağı Efsanesi (The Ararat Legend) by Yaşar Kemal, Türkiye r
37-Aylak Adam (The Loiterer) by Yusuf Atılgan, Türkiye r
38-İlköğretmen- The Primary Teacher by Cengiz Aymatov, Kyrgyzstan r
39-The Waste Land by T.S.Eliot, United States
40-Selected stories by Maxim Gorky, Russia
41- The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, England
42- Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, france r
43- Adolphe by Benjamin Constant, Switzerland
44- Herzog by Saul Bellow, Canada
45- An American tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, United States
46- Beloved by Toni Morrison, United States
47- Timbuktu by Paul Auster, United States
48- The Waves by Viginia Wolf, England
49- Oil by Upton Sinclair, United States
50- The Power and the Glory by Graham Green, England
Enjoy your readings
Edited (6/24/2011) by gokuyum
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24 Jun 2011 Fri 02:45 am |
I understand it, it´s just not my taste. I like to read a book for my pleasure. If going through it seems like a battle, I don´t want to read it anymore "My name is Red" was on the list of my book club, but didn´t even finish it yet. I put it somewhere in a corner and just waited for the next book to come along
In my opinion "My Name Is Red" is his best book. It is easy to read and very enjoying. If you didn´t like this never open the cover of "Black Book". I finished it and lost my sanity
Edited (6/24/2011) by gokuyum
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25 Jun 2011 Sat 08:44 am |
In my opinion "My Name Is Red" is his best book. It is easy to read and very enjoying. If you didn´t like this never open the cover of "Black Book". I finished it and lost my sanity
I read his "Istanbul" book first and enjoyed it. I didn´t read another until recently, when I read "The Black Book". I enjoyed this one too, although it was peculiar in some ways and my simple mind was disappointed with the ending lol.
I tried to read "Museum of Innocence" but had to give it up because I wasn´t enjoying the subject matter, although I can appreciate Pamuk´s skill in developing his characters.
His work that I´ve enjoyed the most is "Snow". I waited for over a month for "My Name is Red" to become available from the library but, after reading about 100 pages, I´ve had to give up on it. I will return to it later though. It´s a busy time of year at work and, as I was reading, I found myself wondering what I had just read on the page because my mind drifted to work matters. I´ll give it another try when I´m on holiday. So, the fault there is mine, not Pamuk´s.
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28 Jun 2011 Tue 02:48 pm |
I read his "Istanbul" book first and enjoyed it. I didn´t read another until recently, when I read "The Black Book". I enjoyed this one too, although it was peculiar in some ways and my simple mind was disappointed with the ending lol.
I tried to read "Museum of Innocence" but had to give it up because I wasn´t enjoying the subject matter, although I can appreciate Pamuk´s skill in developing his characters.
His work that I´ve enjoyed the most is "Snow". I waited for over a month for "My Name is Red" to become available from the library but, after reading about 100 pages, I´ve had to give up on it. I will return to it later though. It´s a busy time of year at work and, as I was reading, I found myself wondering what I had just read on the page because my mind drifted to work matters. I´ll give it another try when I´m on holiday. So, the fault there is mine, not Pamuk´s.
Reminds me of The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing - I can say that is the most tedious boring book I have ever "tried" to read in my life!! It would not be on my recommended list!! Doubt if I will ever return to it
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03 Jul 2011 Sun 08:35 am |
hmmm....I liked My Name is Red, but much preferred his New Life. Black Book was fine, but New Life is my favorite of his books. I´ve read most all his works up to Istanbul, which was interesting as a sort of historic/biographic novel, but had no where near the impact of his other more surreal works.
In my opinion "My Name Is Red" is his best book. It is easy to read and very enjoying. If you didn´t like this never open the cover of "Black Book". I finished it and lost my sanity
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05 Jul 2011 Tue 08:59 am |
In my opinion "My Name Is Red" is his best book. It is easy to read and very enjoying. If you didn´t like this never open the cover of "Black Book". I finished it and lost my sanity
I agree you about "My Name is Red". But few months ago I read and enjoyed very much "The Museum of Innocence"..indeed it is not like the others books of Pamuk but I liked it much more than ´Snow´ or "Black Book"; anyway, even Pamuk is not vey well known in my country he is a great writer
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