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 Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 12:56 am
what would be the ultimate collection? What books or authors would be stocked as standard?
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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 2:19 pm
1st editions of everything from the 'Epic of Gilgamesh' to 'Eat. Pray. Live.' in tact from every country and civilization and from clay tablets and papyrus to printed books. That would be heaven.
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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 2:23 pm
Kazuo Ishiguro would be there, and Horatio Alger and Ayn Rand would never have been heard of.
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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 2:40 pm
phantomkitsune Kazuo Ishiguro would be there, and Horatio Alger and Ayn Rand would never have been heard of. What do they write? I'd never heard of them before until I was doing some research and discovered today that at least two of them are on the bestsellers list xP
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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 3:12 pm
All of them are, I think, in different areas. Kazuo Ishiguro writes speculative fiction, but very literary speculative fiction. Never Let Me Go is his most recent, and it's just . . . perfectly crafted.
Horatio Alger was around the turn of the last century, and wrote a ton of absolutely identical pieces of rags-to-riches scrap that was serialized in magazines. Gave people hope or whatever. Physically painful to read.
And Ayn Rand is best described as an extraordinarily depressing Libertarian. The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged are her novels. She espouses Objectivism and Ethical Egoism, the latter of which is objectionable because she rejects ethics of altruism. Basically she's colossally depressing heavy reading.
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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 5:31 pm
Quote: Kazuo Ishiguro would be there, and Horatio Alger and Ayn Rand would never have been heard of. I've read some of Horatio Alger's stuff. I wish I had my life back it was so terrible to read!!
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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 8:19 pm
Sonny: I know, right?
Pratchett would be there. And Gaiman. And you'd be able to find both the Aziraphale and the Crowley covers readily.
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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 10:04 pm
phantomkitsune All of them are, I think, in different areas. Kazuo Ishiguro writes speculative fiction, but very literary speculative fiction. Never Let Me Go is his most recent, and it's just . . . perfectly crafted. Horatio Alger was around the turn of the last century, and wrote a ton of absolutely identical pieces of rags-to-riches scrap that was serialized in magazines. Gave people hope or whatever. Physically painful to read. And Ayn Rand is best described as an extraordinarily depressing Libertarian. The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged are her novels. She espouses Objectivism and Ethical Egoism, the latter of which is objectionable because she rejects ethics of altruism. Basically she's colossally depressing heavy reading. oh yes! I thought i recognised Ayn Rand but couldn't see in my notes... i have Atlas Shrugged in my "to read" pile lol. I'll bear that in mind then when I get to it xP
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Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 8:18 pm
What else is in your to read pile?
And in the non-fiction section, there'd be James Rachels and William Lecky and Elizabeth Abbott. And I'm not sure if The Republic counts, as it's a Socratic dialogue and generally fictionalized, but good reading anyway, so Plato would be in there somewhere. And Johannes Kepler, all of his non-fiction and Somnium as well.
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Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 12:23 am
phantomkitsune What else is in your to read pile? And in the non-fiction section, there'd be James Rachels and William Lecky and Elizabeth Abbott. And I'm not sure if The Republic counts, as it's a Socratic dialogue and generally fictionalized, but good reading anyway, so Plato would be in there somewhere. And Johannes Kepler, all of his non-fiction and Somnium as well. The complete works of shakespeare A couple of hemmingway books A few books on myths and legends Some Torey Hayden that I've not got around to reading yet A couple of Cornelia Funke A couple of books on the art of writing and such (I'll probably add them to my recommedation list as I have done with the last two - the white ladder diaries and How not to write a novel) M is for Magic (Gaiman) Wicked (Maguire) The Editor's Wife (Chambers) Complete Sherlock Holmes There's actually loads more just not enough time in the day to get through it, but i just keeping seeing more books I want to read gonk
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 4:21 pm
I've read some of Shakespeare, but I love watching it so much more. I went to one performance of Two Gentlemen of Verona that was updated to be set in the 50s, but with all the original dialogue. And there's this one director who's done movies of Romeo and Juliet and MacBeth with all original dialogue but updated sets, and those were amazing. Notably because MacBeth basically turned into drug-porn.
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Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:33 am
phantomkitsune Notably because MacBeth basically turned into drug-porn. Haha! Awesome! I'd so love to see that... biggrin
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Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 1:55 pm
This is the version you'd be looking for. Terrible reviews, but honestly most of them are probably from people who think of Shakespeare as high-minded and literary, not as a dirty old man who wrote phallic sonnets to young boys. And Shakespeare's sonnets would totally be in the bookstore.
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Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 12:29 am
phantomkitsune This is the version you'd be looking for. Terrible reviews, but honestly most of them are probably from people who think of Shakespeare as high-minded and literary, not as a dirty old man who wrote phallic sonnets to young boys. And Shakespeare's sonnets would totally be in the bookstore. that's so true! biggrin Looking forward to watching it razz
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Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 4:12 pm
I realize that several people have already put this down as an answer (I havent looked yet razz ) but every book created that I could ever possibly enjoy. heart
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