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SoLsiTO
United States573 Posts
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VaNille
Canada204 Posts
On November 27 2003 22:27 tiffany wrote: ulysses is one of the most difficult reads, and is considered the best piece of literature of this century. i also enjoy murakami's postmodernism and vonnegut is awesome. Yeah well that is subjective. I think I have an idea what you got this from, but much like the Academy of Motion Pictures, there is so much bias when the kinds of books are chosen for the 100 best novels of all time. I remember seeing the list and there were some great books that should have been on there but wasn't. Also, some should have ranked higher than others but were for some reason reversed. Anyway, I haven't read any of Joyce's works but I might pick up Ulysses some day. | ||
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eSu.Macedon
Macedonia60 Posts
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IDWIJNI-
Mexico332 Posts
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threshy
Qatar550 Posts
i don't know if you got through the first quarter or not, but if you didn't, keep at it because the rest of the book isn't written from the perspective of a retard. ulysses was honestly kind of boring and masturbatory in my opinion. more like "hey look at me I'm a genius with words" than anything else, really. then again i thought portrait of an artist as a young man was really wack too, so maybe it's just that I don't like his style. and finnegan's wake .. jeez. if you guys think 1984 is a book people use to try to look smart, you haven't seen anything yet. some people read books only to look smart--james joyce kicked it up a notch and wrote one. I guess it worked, though. I think it's odd that with so many people mentioning sci-fi/fantasy stuff that nobody's mentioned William Gibson. In my humblest of opinions he's the only real artist writing in that genre (or was--I didn't much like his latest book, although parts were reflective of his former self). Also very good is Ray Bradbury, famous for Fahrenheit 451 but very consistently good and cool and fun to read. | ||
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pyogenes
Brazil1401 Posts
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tiffany
3664 Posts
isn't all of this subjective =\ | ||
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AutumnLight
Ukraine2488 Posts
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AutumnLight
Ukraine2488 Posts
IGNORANCE IS TRUTH WAR IS PEACE  I have read 1984 like 3 years ago, not sure if these quotes are exact!P.S: BIG BROTHER IS ALWAYS WATCHING | ||
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x[ReaPeR]x
United States3447 Posts
On November 28 2003 01:56 ScRooLooSe wrote: FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS TRUTH WAR IS PEACE I have read 1984 like 3 years ago, not sure if these quotes are exact!P.S: BIG BROTHER IS ALWAYS WATCHING Shouldn't the first one be SLAVERY IS FREEDOM? But other than that, yeah. | ||
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SoL.Origin
Argentina2400 Posts
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Manifesto7
Osaka27174 Posts
I always recommend the Ender series to friends, but the books vary in their message, and their level of sophistication. | ||
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chobopeon
United States7342 Posts
only book i read twice and liked twice. | ||
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AutumnLight
Ukraine2488 Posts
I've checked and it's positive..."War is Peace" "Freedom is Slavery" "Ignorance is Strength" | ||
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Shockey
United States2615 Posts
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ex_zER0
United States200 Posts
On November 27 2003 10:18 LumberJack wrote: Ishmail The Giver Illusions: Tales of a Reluctant Messiah Demain Siddhartha i read the giver in like 7th grade | ||
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Senff
United States360 Posts
On November 27 2003 20:08 Manifesto7 wrote: - Wheel of Time, although it has gone on so long it is now virtually unreadable - George R R Martins series ( I cant remember the title, Song of Ice and Fire I think) really took over from Jordan for me -All Quiet on the Western Front + The Road Back by Erich Maria Remarque should be mandatory reading for all student I think. It illustrates a kind of history that is usually overlooked in favour of statistics and battle names in the history of the first world war. These are all excellent books. I suggest to everyone all of Orson Scott Cards books, except for the Homecoming saga. It's good in the beginning, but gets very bad near the end. The Alvin Maker series may be better than even the Ender's Game series, believe it or not. George R. R. Martin is probably my favorite author. It's Song of Fire and Ice, the series you're referring to. Easily some of the best fantasy books ever written. If you like All Quiet on the Western Front, and novels like that, I highly suggest a book called Alas, Babylon, by Pat Frank. I'm reading the Illuminatus trilogy right now, and while they're very trippy, they're pretty funny at moments. And dude, you're right about Robert Jordan. What the hell happened to that series? It went down the crapper as soon as he started writing more about the women, no offense to anyone present. The women are just so boring and ridiculously overwritten that it makes me sick. As for writing that isn't so fantasy-oriented, I like a lot of Hemmingway's novels. Old Man and the Sea was good, because it was so short and to the point. The Sun Also Rises would have been great if I hadn't had to read it for school (as such I didn't really read it at all). I actually didn't like the Grapes of Wrath, 1984, nor the Great Gatsby, and not so much because I had to read them for school. They just didn't appeal to me, really. Edit: I forgot to mention another book that struck me as incredibly good. It's called Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, by Haruki Murakami. Someone suggested him, and he indeed has an incredible insight into the human mind. It's very interesting. | ||
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AttackZerg
United States7584 Posts
On November 28 2003 08:42 Senff wrote: These are all excellent books. I suggest to everyone all of Orson Scott Cards books, except for the Homecoming saga. It's good in the beginning, but gets very bad near the end. The Alvin Maker series may be better than even the Ender's Game series, believe it or not. George R. R. Martin is probably my favorite author. It's Song of Fire and Ice, the series you're referring to. Easily some of the best fantasy books ever written. If you like All Quiet on the Western Front, and novels like that, I highly suggest a book called Alas, Babylon, by Pat Frank. I'm reading the Illuminatus trilogy right now, and while they're very trippy, they're pretty funny at moments. And dude, you're right about Robert Jordan. What the hell happened to that series? It went down the crapper as soon as he started writing more about the women, no offense to anyone present. The women are just so boring and ridiculously overwritten that it makes me sick. As for writing that isn't so fantasy-oriented, I like a lot of Hemmingway's novels. Old Man and the Sea was good, because it was so short and to the point. The Sun Also Rises would have been great if I hadn't had to read it for school (as such I didn't really read it at all). I actually didn't like the Grapes of Wrath, 1984, nor the Great Gatsby, and not so much because I had to read them for school. They just didn't appeal to me, really. Edit: I forgot to mention another book that struck me as incredibly good. It's called Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, by Haruki Murakami. Someone suggested him, and he indeed has an incredible insight into the human mind. It's very interesting. without a doubt the best post I have read in quite awhile Thank you! | ||
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x[ReaPeR]x
United States3447 Posts
On November 28 2003 06:49 ScRooLooSe wrote: nop x[ReaPeR]x I've checked and it's positive..."War is Peace" "Freedom is Slavery" "Ignorance is Strength" Damn, ah well. | ||
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poilord
Germany3252 Posts
Over the last two weeks I've read some theatre plays (Before Breakfast and The Emperor Jones by Eugene O'Neill; A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams) in order to prepare for a course I'm going to take next semester. What kind of literature have you enjoyed and would recommend reading? :p | ||
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