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Priestess of Neptune Vice Captain
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 Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 5:15 am
This thread shall be a place to converse about books which one wishes to read, and to triumphantly declare that yet another book has been devoured by the voracious readers here.
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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 5:23 am
My to-read list:
Beowulf (uncredited)
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (again)
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
Walden by Henry David Thoreau (again)
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (again)
Le Modulor by Le Corbusier
Vers une Architecture by Le Corbusier
Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederich Engles (again)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Utopia or Oblivion by Buckminster Fuller
Additionally, I have finished The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka again.
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Priestess of Neptune Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 6:49 am
I recently re-read A Clockwork Orange, 1984 and Animal Farm. I just started on Anthem by Ayn Rand, and I plan on reading Atlas Shrugged soon. Gonna have to wait till I have less on my plate to start it though ><
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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 6:57 am
I hope that you have read Rand's other works - I did not find Anthem to be her best writing. I personally preferred We the Living the most, but found Atlas Shrugged to be her best technical work. I enjoyed The Romantic Manifesto less than I did Anthem.
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Priestess of Neptune Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 8:42 am
Odds are these have been mandatory reading for some of you, but none the less...
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
House of Leaves - Danielewski (See the other thread, House of Leaves - Redefining Horror Literature)
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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 8:52 am
I seem to have had the good fortune to have read anything that has been required reading prior to its being required, with the exception of the works covered in my British Novel 381 course (Pamela, The Moonstone, Henrietta, some Austen titles, etc.).
Many of my coursemates seemed to dislike novels after having to read them for class, but I found that the opposite was true (for those courses in which the professors/teachers were proficient, such as 381).
Have you read any of Huxley's other works? I have nearly completed all of them, and was not surprised to discover that Brave New World was nowhere near his best work.
Gatsby... I have not read many scholarly papers on it, but I feel as if it may be infinitely analysable.
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Priestess of Neptune Vice Captain
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ContrabassClarinetist Crew
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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 9:42 am
I've still been able to read a bit of Jane Austen despite all the essays I've had to write. I've also recently read "World Folklore for Storytellers" by Josepha Sherman and "Black Earth City" by Charlotte Hobson. I'm prying the book "I Shall Wear Midnight" from my brother's hands this week : )
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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 11:48 am
Priestess of Neptune I hope that you have read Rand's other works - I did not find Anthem to be her best writing. I personally preferred We the Living the most, but found Atlas Shrugged to be her best technical work. I enjoyed The Romantic Manifesto less than I did Anthem. I just started reading Rand >< I'll look into those after I'm done Atlas. I need to get it out of the way first ><
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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 7:31 pm
You show me someone who can read 100+ books all the way through from start to finish in one month and I'll show you someone who thinks that a haiku is a book >>;.
Anyway, I'm working on The Patriarchs and Propets, by Ellen G. White. It's not actually a novel or anything, more of an informational book that's also a review of part of "The Old Testament" in The Holy Bible.
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Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 8:45 pm
Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
The Great Divorce - C.S. Lewis
The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss (again)
The Princetta - Anne-Laure Bondoux
Codex Alera Series - Jim Butcher (again)
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Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 11:07 pm
♭♮♯ Sleeping wonder lies to me, and the lies are sweet. The Phantom of the Opera- Gaston Leroux (More than halfway done)
Brisngr- Christopher Paolini (Halfway done)
Re-read The Odyssey- Homer
♩♪♫♬
Music is sung with simple words, and simple words can save the world. ♯♮♭
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