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[lucydanger]

bold: i read it
not: ought to
bottom: my favorites
merci, morgan.

Beowulf
Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Agee, James - A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily

Comments

[sdaemon]

I've always been of the opinion that guys like Steinbeck and Hemingway got paid by the word, and that Dickens is massively overrated.

In my current Copious Free Time, I'm reading Arturo Perez-Reverte's The Dumas Club. Its pretty damn good. Guy either really knows his literary history, or really knows how to bullshit. Either way, I'm impressed. It's the book that the dreadful piece of shit The Ninth Gate Johnny Depp movie was based on. Although I actually kinda liked the movie (up until the last 15 minutes, which utterly sucked) until I was told there was a book it was ruining.

Stanislaw Lem - Peace on Earth is utterly wonderful. I also like his Solaris and Cyberiad a lot.

My junior year of HS, I did my first term paper on Chopin's The Awakening vs Wharton's The Age of Innocence. Enjoyed the former, the latter was crap. Paper was written the night before it was due. Got an A+, with comments saying the teacher appreciated all the original thought

[sdaemon]

Oh, also Pynchon's Mason & Dixon...its fucking brilliant. Bizarre...absolutely wonderful. The Crying of Lot 49, I know I had to read, but it wasn't memorable enough to, er, be remembered. M&D, on the other hand, is great.

[lucydanger]

vanessa says:
john o'hara--appointment in samarra
henry miller--tropic of cancer
edward albee--zoo story
jd salinger--raise high the roofbeam, carpenters and seymour, an introduction
jd salinger--franny and zooey
sherwood anderson--winesburg, ohio
john cheever--the short stories of john cheever
ring lardner--roundup
kurt vonnegut--slapstick, or lonesome no more!
vladimir nabokov--lolita
ernest hemingway--for whom the bell tolls
louise fitzhugh--harriet the spy
louise fitzhugh--the long secret
eleanor estes--the moffats
lewis carroll--alice's adventures in wonderland/through the looking glass and what alice found there
truman capote--in cold blood
jean-paul sartre--les mouches (the flies)

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