Books everyone should have read.

[purves grundy]

Most of these recommendations have turned shit now. Not classics at all.

 

[Firky]

there is only one book

the outsider

 

[yield]

One person's rubbish is anothers treasure and all that. Harold Bloom and others have tried to write a canon but didn't do too well.

there is only one book

the outsider

Camus or Colin Wilson?

 

[Firky]

camus

 

[Firky]

ACtually just read everything camus, and bukowski have ever written and hate humanity for ever, maybe some richie edwards poems too

 

[chainsaw cat]

Also Sprach Zarathustra by Nietzsche in German, Macchiavelli's The Prince in Italian and Art of War by Sun Tzu in Chinese...

Ponce.

They were all translated some time ago, as was Utopia. And The Ginger Man was written in English. Catch 22 likewise, admittedly by an American. All Quiet on the Western Front. Riddley Walker. Don Quixote. All the Shakespeare I've read so doubtless the rest of it. Hitchhikers guide... the Iron Dragons Daughter. Tom Jones. Frankenstien. Joe Haldeman. William Brown and Billy Bunter. Kafka. All of 'Alice'. All of Orwell. Brave new World. Goodby to all That, fridaynight and saturday morning, Warriors for the Working Day.


Read no-one younger than youself or you think 'fuck 'em'.

Oooh, if only I could spend me time just reading drinking and shagging.....


... sadly that's only for the super rich and the super poor.


I wish my list wasn't so crass.

 

[Firky]

good to see satanic verses on here, great book even if it is very 'bean', i don't give a fuck, great read

and becayse of that am gonna say the divine comedy, only ever read extracts of it because it is a bit um... well twattish but it is so carefully crafted that it could be art

 

[Mr Retro]

Glad to see there is plenty of intellectual willy waving on the thread.

Expected it when I saw the thread title and have not been disappointed.

 

[N_igma]

Glad to see there is plenty of intellectual willy waving on the thread.

Expected it when I saw the thread title and have not been disappointed.

Ludwig Feuerbach-The Essence of Christianty.

 

[purves grundy]

Religion and The Rise of Capitalism - RH Tawney
Fear and Trembling - Soren Kierkegaard

 

[MysteryGuest]

The Count of Monte Cristo - not intellectual, and a thumping good read too! With the bonus plus point that it's huge, and a Penguin Classic, so it looks as if you're reading something intellectual when you're on the tube.

 

[London_Calling]

Also Sprach Zarathustra by Nietzsche in German, Macchiavelli's The Prince in Italian and Art of War by Sun Tzu in Chinese...

Can you imagine saying that around a table in the pub . . . only on the Internet !


Back to the real world, I like this list - a touch feminie in the round (and why not!), but what a thumping good set of reads:

Another vote for Crime and Punishment and also:

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald
The Three Muskateers by Alexandre Dumas
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

 

[Onslow]

Well, Animal Farm has arrived! hurrah

I haven't had chance to look at it propery due to it arriving in the middle of a busy weekend but what I will say is that I didnt expect it to be so short! A 100 pages I think. I'm going to get stuck into it tonight and I dare say I might even finish it, or the majority of it in one sitting. I like the cover art too.