05-19-2008, 05:16 PM | #31 |
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How about Paradise Lost?
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05-19-2008, 06:22 PM | #32 |
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The readers list on that randomhouse page has some really good choices, a lot of critic's lists for both books and film suffer from a bad case of fogeyism and/or snobbery.
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I agree with you about Joyce and Portrait of the Artist. I couldn't even get far enough into it to find out what happened to the moo cow. And Rocky, do yourself a favor and read Twain's Tom Sawyer. If you've read it before, read it again. That would be my suggestion.
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Count me as another vote for Huckleberry Finn. Especially if you haven't read it before.
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I would say my two favorite authors are Steinbeck and Hemingway. Hemingway is the only author that manages to make reading a classic feel manly. I liked The Sun Also Rises, really liked Old Man and the Sea, but Hemingway shines in his short stories, IMO. The Grapes of Wrath is my all-time favorite book. I also have always really liked The Great Gatsby, and am kind of pleasantly surprised it's so high on the list. Makes me feel kinda smart and stuff... |
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It's good; a little bit of a slog in the middle, but his command of language is unparalleled. I can't believe he won a Nobile Prize; not because of his quality, but because of content - his view of post-colonial Africa is very unromantic. He reads like Conrad – not very PC about native Africans. "The world is what it is, men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."
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I read To Kill a Mockingbird every summer. Try the short stories of Flannery O'Connor and her novel Wise Blood.
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