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Posted on 7/21/15 at 11:29 pm to Hoyt
the electric kool aid acid test
Posted on 7/21/15 at 11:29 pm to Hoyt
I would add The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, other then that this is a great list.
Posted on 7/21/15 at 11:39 pm to PANTHER
I am currently reading "Into thin air".
I can not put it down. Great book.
I can not put it down. Great book.
Posted on 7/21/15 at 11:43 pm to Hoyt
quote:
Best selling book of all time so I guess a lot of people
A book about talking snakes, people walking on water and fitting every species of animal on earth on a boat is the best selling book of all time
For some really weird reason I feel like our species failed on that one
Posted on 7/21/15 at 11:45 pm to Hoyt
The Aubrey / Maturin series by Patrick O'Bryan.
Posted on 7/21/15 at 11:48 pm to PANTHER
quote:I've read this book once a decade since I was a teenager. Kortina got my original copy. I have since replaced it and it's on my 2015 reading list.
I would add The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,....
This post was edited on 7/21/15 at 11:49 pm
Posted on 7/22/15 at 12:15 am to soccerfüt
On top of many books people have listed in this thread. Most of these are older, and not necessarily all are books, but:
The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
The Tale of the Rhine-Gold & Lohengrin - Richard Wagner
Faust - Johan Wolfgang von Goethe(though, I dont like Goethe's redemption of the character, unlike older versions)
The Song of Roland - Turold
The Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Children's Crusade
The Ramayana, aka The Sacred Poem of India
Le Cid by Pierre Corneille
The Tale of Igor's Campaign - 12th century Russian Epic
The Kalevala
Aeneid - Virgil
Beowulf
The Adventures of Alexander Selkirk
The Ballad of East and West - Rudyard Kipling
One Thousand and One Nights - or The Arabian Nights
A Wanderer's Song by John Masefield
Miska and the Man-With-The-Iron-Head
Tudor Ap Einion
East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon
Rhodopis
Many of these are epics, collections of short stories, plays, or folk/fairy tales. All I am thankful to have read, because I learned much from each one.
My only oddball choice is,
The Lonesome God's by Louis L'Amour. If it had any other setting than the American West, it would be widely considered one of the greatest books in American Literature, imo.
Honestly, the list of "must reads" is probably more than someone can read in a lifetime. Unless they were to read without ceasing.
The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
The Tale of the Rhine-Gold & Lohengrin - Richard Wagner
Faust - Johan Wolfgang von Goethe(though, I dont like Goethe's redemption of the character, unlike older versions)
The Song of Roland - Turold
The Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Children's Crusade
The Ramayana, aka The Sacred Poem of India
Le Cid by Pierre Corneille
The Tale of Igor's Campaign - 12th century Russian Epic
The Kalevala
Aeneid - Virgil
Beowulf
The Adventures of Alexander Selkirk
The Ballad of East and West - Rudyard Kipling
One Thousand and One Nights - or The Arabian Nights
A Wanderer's Song by John Masefield
Miska and the Man-With-The-Iron-Head
Tudor Ap Einion
East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon
Rhodopis
Many of these are epics, collections of short stories, plays, or folk/fairy tales. All I am thankful to have read, because I learned much from each one.
My only oddball choice is,
The Lonesome God's by Louis L'Amour. If it had any other setting than the American West, it would be widely considered one of the greatest books in American Literature, imo.
Honestly, the list of "must reads" is probably more than someone can read in a lifetime. Unless they were to read without ceasing.
This post was edited on 7/22/15 at 12:16 am
Posted on 7/22/15 at 1:32 am to Hoyt
Bo Knows Bo - by Bo Jackson
Posted on 7/22/15 at 1:33 am to VaBamaMan
What about The Giver?
Posted on 7/22/15 at 1:44 am to PrideofTheSEC
quote:
The Giver
I find other books, tales, and poems convey what The Giver was trying to convey, but in a more beautiful way, and with more depth to it.
Posted on 7/22/15 at 1:47 am to VaBamaMan
Dune series-Frank Herbert
J.R.R. Tolkeins work
A Clockwork Orange-Anthony Burgess
J.R.R. Tolkeins work
A Clockwork Orange-Anthony Burgess
Posted on 7/22/15 at 1:54 am to VaBamaMan
quote:Favorite line:
Faust - Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
quote:
He calls it Reason--thence his power's increased, To be far beastlier than any beast.
Posted on 7/22/15 at 2:07 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
While I don't love Faust. It's a fantastic lesson, and a lot of its wisdom is lost on today's culture.
Posted on 7/22/15 at 5:52 am to Hoyt
Infinite Jest tops my list
Some good ones mentioned:
Illuminatus!
Fields of Fire
Slaughterhouse Five
Blood Meridian
Confederacy of Dunces
Hitchhiker's Guide
Catch 22
I'll throw in:
Cryptonomicon
Winter's Tale
A Soldier of the Great War
Gravity's Rainbow
Jitterbug Perfume
Some good ones mentioned:
Illuminatus!
Fields of Fire
Slaughterhouse Five
Blood Meridian
Confederacy of Dunces
Hitchhiker's Guide
Catch 22
I'll throw in:
Cryptonomicon
Winter's Tale
A Soldier of the Great War
Gravity's Rainbow
Jitterbug Perfume
Posted on 7/22/15 at 6:12 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
quote:
Too many to list. I would say the greatest books ever written, ones which truly reach the sublime and discover what men really are( that is the point of reading- to learn about men) in no order
1) 100 years of Solitude
2) The sound and the fury
3) Heart of Darkness
4) The Brothers Karamazov- I personally regard this as the single greatest novel ever written
5) Witness- Greatest biography in American history.
6) The law- Bastiat
7) Blood Meridian
8) The Fatal Conceit
9) Moby Dick
10) As I lay Dying
The first four I listed are probably the most profound novels ever written.
Great list. I would add
The magus
Metamorphosis
Slaughterhouse 5
East of eden
A clockwork orange
This post was edited on 7/22/15 at 6:14 am
Posted on 7/22/15 at 6:53 am to vuvuzela
David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, in that order.
Posted on 7/22/15 at 7:31 am to TigerPanzer
The Godfather is very hard to put down once opened.
Posted on 7/22/15 at 1:35 pm to Hoyt
Anything by Masters & Johnson !
Posted on 7/22/15 at 2:10 pm to ElderTiger
A lesson before dying
Highly recommend
Highly recommend
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