*nods* Me, too. I'm determined to work through this entire list and anything I add. It will be ongoing for my whole life. *laughs*
Ergh, Hamlet is my least favorite Shakespeare. I get tired of people going "YOU SHOULD READ IT, OMG." Then when I tell them I have, and didn't like it, them saying I didn't get it. Puh-lease. Difference of opinion, I guess. What do you like about it?
I like "The Truth," the most, I think. Pratchett is brilliant. :)
I love Anne Rice (Hee, Rice. I actually paused and thought about adding the "Anne" just in case). She's not one of the most quality writers, but it's enjoyable reading, you know? My favorite of hers is Memnoch the Devil. I actually tell a lot of people to read that book. I think it speaks volumes.
Poe is gorgeous. I love all of his work, really. "The Raven" is perhaps one of the most fascinating things ever written. *nods*
I didn't mention Wilde, did I? I've read and adored him, so I didn't feel the need to add him. I should put him on anyway, though, and read more. *adds Crime and
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I want to read Lolita and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead but I know not where to find them. Woe.
*KEELZ Old Man and the Sea* It's about a man who likes to fish. Get over it. Hemingway is turning over in his grave laughing at all the symbols we're putting into his story, which is just about a man who likes to fish. Grrr. *had to read IT for class*
I loved "Good Omens" and "The Vampire Lestat" too, and it isn't just because Rice said so, either. LOL. Lestat is just a bloody amusing character. :P
You should try Gaiman, if you haven't already. And yes, Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray is very interesting. And no, I'm not parroting! *glares at Rice* Pfft.
And Adams! Douglas Adams! If you haven't yet, but it seems everyone has, and I'm just a really really pathetic person for not having read Adams earlier. Woe. I also quite like Eoin Colfer, partly because it's really light reading. :P
*nods* Seems like a lot of people have that on their to-do list.
I had to read it for class, too. My teacher didn't appreciate it when I started debating with him over the real literary merits of the piece, even ignoring Hemingway's decidedly simplistic style. I told him that it didn't seem to me even a very metaphorical piece, and if it was, the metaphor and symbolism was steeped to far in starkness to have an effect. He suggested, as people always do once they've been backed into a corner over a book, that "You're just too young to get it." THEN WHY ARE WE READING IT?
I like the Vampire Series, and well, I'm starting to think Good Omens does without saying. *laughs*
I've actually just began reading Gaiman. My local libraries don't have a lot of him, so I've read fringework type stuff. Coraline and Smoke and Mirrors. I think he's brilliant, though. I've read some Wilde, but I'm putting him on the list. More can't hurt. Rice has stolen all of your answers, hasn't she?
I've read most of the Hitchhiker's books. I loved So Long, And
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Lolita has been on my bookshelf for two months, staring at me. It wants me to read it, I can tell. Same with One Hundred Years of Solitude. Ditto A Tale of Two Cities and Anna Karenina. But I won't break! Not when I have almost 600 pages of The Grapes of Wrath left, and miles to go before I sleep, etc.
I read Candide in December. *shrugs* It was EH.
If you like Poisonwood Bible, try The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven by the same author. Loved them.
Yes to Douglas Adams, Eoin Colfer. Also Kurt Vonnegut, if you haven't read him.
A Confederacy of Dunces--isn't that the one by the guy who committed suicide because no one would publish his book, and then is mom got it published after he died?
*worships Pablo Neruda*
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. I just read it and it was sooooo wonderful and for days I could not stop talking about it until all of my friends wanted to kill me, or at least hit me verreh hard
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How can you sit with those things on your shelf and NOT READ THEM? *dies* If only, of only. The Steinbeck, it burnsss usss, preciouss.
What was "Eh" about it? *curious*
Will do. I'll add them to the list, actually.
I haven't, actually. He's on the list I'm looking at right now. I'll add him. *nods*
Huh. This book came up in conversation, so I'm not sure. I know that the author did indeed commit suicide, and his mother had the book published, but is that why? Interesting.
I've read some Neruda, and loved it, so I want to read more. *grins*
Ooh, I'll probably concur, then, my twin. *laughs*
I think "all of them" should definitely count.
*swears that she wrote her Gollum-ness before she read that part*
Candide? It just didn't interest me very much. It was a very foppish (haha I've never used that word) boy going around the world and doing things. I guess I just wasn't mature enough to understand the satire.
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Ergh, Hamlet is my least favorite Shakespeare. I get tired of people going "YOU SHOULD READ IT, OMG." Then when I tell them I have, and didn't like it, them saying I didn't get it. Puh-lease. Difference of opinion, I guess. What do you like about it?
I like "The Truth," the most, I think. Pratchett is brilliant. :)
I love Anne Rice (Hee, Rice. I actually paused and thought about adding the "Anne" just in case). She's not one of the most quality writers, but it's enjoyable reading, you know? My favorite of hers is Memnoch the Devil. I actually tell a lot of people to read that book. I think it speaks volumes.
Poe is gorgeous. I love all of his work, really. "The Raven" is perhaps one of the most fascinating things ever written. *nods*
I didn't mention Wilde, did I? I've read and adored him, so I didn't feel the need to add him. I should put him on anyway, though, and read more. *adds Crime and ( ... )
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*KEELZ Old Man and the Sea* It's about a man who likes to fish. Get over it. Hemingway is turning over in his grave laughing at all the symbols we're putting into his story, which is just about a man who likes to fish. Grrr. *had to read IT for class*
I loved "Good Omens" and "The Vampire Lestat" too, and it isn't just because Rice said so, either. LOL. Lestat is just a bloody amusing character. :P
You should try Gaiman, if you haven't already. And yes, Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray is very interesting. And no, I'm not parroting! *glares at Rice* Pfft.
And Adams! Douglas Adams! If you haven't yet, but it seems everyone has, and I'm just a really really pathetic person for not having read Adams earlier. Woe. I also quite like Eoin Colfer, partly because it's really light reading. :P
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I had to read it for class, too. My teacher didn't appreciate it when I started debating with him over the real literary merits of the piece, even ignoring Hemingway's decidedly simplistic style. I told him that it didn't seem to me even a very metaphorical piece, and if it was, the metaphor and symbolism was steeped to far in starkness to have an effect. He suggested, as people always do once they've been backed into a corner over a book, that "You're just too young to get it." THEN WHY ARE WE READING IT?
I like the Vampire Series, and well, I'm starting to think Good Omens does without saying. *laughs*
I've actually just began reading Gaiman. My local libraries don't have a lot of him, so I've read fringework type stuff. Coraline and Smoke and Mirrors. I think he's brilliant, though. I've read some Wilde, but I'm putting him on the list. More can't hurt. Rice has stolen all of your answers, hasn't she?
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I read Candide in December. *shrugs* It was EH.
If you like Poisonwood Bible, try The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven by the same author. Loved them.
Yes to Douglas Adams, Eoin Colfer. Also Kurt Vonnegut, if you haven't read him.
A Confederacy of Dunces--isn't that the one by the guy who committed suicide because no one would publish his book, and then is mom got it published after he died?
*worships Pablo Neruda*
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. I just read it and it was sooooo wonderful and for days I could not stop talking about it until all of my friends wanted to kill me, or at least hit me verreh hard ( ... )
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What was "Eh" about it? *curious*
Will do. I'll add them to the list, actually.
I haven't, actually. He's on the list I'm looking at right now. I'll add him. *nods*
Huh. This book came up in conversation, so I'm not sure. I know that the author did indeed commit suicide, and his mother had the book published, but is that why? Interesting.
I've read some Neruda, and loved it, so I want to read more. *grins*
Ooh, I'll probably concur, then, my twin. *laughs*
I think "all of them" should definitely count.
*swears that she wrote her Gollum-ness before she read that part*
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Candide? It just didn't interest me very much. It was a very foppish (haha I've never used that word) boy going around the world and doing things. I guess I just wasn't mature enough to understand the satire.
Gollum! Gollum!
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