Book Meme, Now With Quotes

[kurrs]

Looks amusing enough, I'll bite.

Comments

[dustbo]

I would recommend:
Catch-22
Life of Pi
American Gods
Brave New World
The Count of Monte Cristo
1984
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Dune (last book I read, for the 4th time, so awesome)
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
The Hobbit
The Three Musketeers

+++books

huh. books. I think I've forgotten what those are.

[y_squared]

"Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. add (*) beside the ones you liked and would (or did) read again or recommend. Even if you read 'em for school in the first place."

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights (ick.ick.ick)
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities* (the only Dickens I have ever loved, but it is SO good, so much literary precision, so many levels of awesome)
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations (shudder.Like I said, I really don't like Dickens at all. Except Tale of Two Cities. The rest is just painful

[lauzeta]

You didn't like the Odyssey?

[kurrs]

I'm not in a rush to read it again. That said, I did like it.

[lauzeta]

It's better in Greek. :P

And no, I haven't read the Canterbury Tales. I consistently had conflicts with the Chaucer classes during undergrad, and am usually too stressed to read Middle English for pleasure. That said, I do *want* to read it, and own a copy in preparation for that glorious day!

[cloud_atlas]

I strongly recommend Cloud Atlas, especially considering many of the other books on the list you've read and appreciate.