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I'm thinking really good here, not just quite good.
> Black Glove wrote:
> Thus Spake Zarathustra, Fred Nietzsche
>
> I started reading this about a month ago and never got back to
> it.
It is a bit excessive in poetic metaphors. I was obsessed with it for a number of years, reading it over and over, spellbound by it. These days I'm indifferent, but I'd put it in my top 100 list.
> Thus Spake Zarathustra, Fred Nietzsche
I started reading this about a month ago and never got back to it.
> ......?
They are all well-known works by well-known writers.
Blindness by Saramago is being made into a movie (starring Daniel Craig) in 2008.
Empire of the Sun - J.G. Ballad
Papillon - Henri Charriere
In Durance Vile - John Brown (Trust me, it's better than the title suggests!)
Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson
Around the World in 80 Days - Michael Palin
I know it's supposed to be focused on novels, but what the hell, I felt like making things a bit more autobiographical and non-fiction-esque!
> It's such a subjective thing, and I too haven't read that much,
> but four classic books I'd put on a top list would be
>
> Blindness, Jose Saramago
Serious.
> Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
Serious.
> Thus Spake Zarathustra, Fred Nietzsche
Serious.
> Monkey, Wu Ch'eng-en
......?
Blindness, Jose Saramago
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
Thus Spake Zarathustra, Fred Nietzsche
Monkey, Wu Ch'eng-en
> Wurd.
How could a one word post make me laugh so hard?
Hopefully this Summer I'll find some time to finish off a few books I've been part-way through for ages, as well as start and finish a few more I got given recently.
I really don't know what I consider 'classic'. I haven't read a vast number of books others would consider 'classics', and in order to feel 'qualified' to talk of classic books I feel I should've read more that others consider the height of literature. I just know what books I enjoyed reading and that's that really.
Every, single, word