5 books you should read...but haven't yet...

[Ta2grrl]

Inspired by berk...

"Fountainhead" Ayn Rand
"Oliver Twist" Charles Dickens
"On the Road" Jack Kerouac
"The Bible" God et all...I have only read parts of the bible...
"Midnight's Children" Salman Rushdie

While I could easily add on another 100 books, I figured I would narrow it down to 5...feel free to add a few extras if you feel so inclined...

:)

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[JoeK32880]

Oh Jesus, this is impossible!

I've read On the Road and Oliver Twist already and you're right about those.

God. . . I'll think about it.

[Karl J Barnes]

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon(sp?)-is one that I have sworn to read,but....I read is first novel,V. and couldn't finish it(it put me to sleep).

I already have one book in my TBR pile Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany and will get to it....soon??

Possibly Finnegan's Wake though I really can't stand James Joyce's writing style at all.

Albert Camus' essaysThe Rebel would be something that I'd like to take a look at.

There are few others,but I can't, at this time, recall the titles..

[Puma]

Ulysses
Fountainhead
Something Wicked This Way Comes

and I'm not sure about the other two

[Jonathan Bogart]

Only five? Geeze....

Virgil's Georgics and Eclogues
Lady Murasaki's Tale of Genji
Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda
Al-Hamadhani's Maqamat
The Bhagavad Gita

[Aaron Kashtan]

Tages and Puma, could you explain why you want to read The Fountainhead? I did not realize that it was considered a classic or anything -- my impression is that most academic critics, at least, don't take Ayn Rand seriously.

There are hundreds of books I need to read, so I'll just select five really long and difficult books that I'm not likely to get around to reading in the immediate future.

Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus
Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past
Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

[Karl J Barnes]

Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past

This was the other novel that I should read, Ironically(?) I couldn't remember the title.

[Aaron Kashtan]

This was the other novel that I should read, Ironically(?) I couldn't remember the title.

Neither could I, and then I ate a cookie dunked in tea, and suddenly it came back to me.

(Sorry, in-joke. :))

[Ta2grrl]

Tages and Puma, could you explain why you want to read The Fountainhead? I did not realize that it was considered a classic or anything -- my impression is that most academic critics, at least, don't take Ayn Rand seriously.

There are hundreds of books I need to read, so I'll just select five really long and difficult books that I'm not likely to get around to reading in the immediate future.

Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus
Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past
Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

I'll assume you mean me and not Tages...;)

I read an excerpt of some Ayn Rand in college and quite enjoyed the ideas and the philosopy behind her writings..."The FountainHead" was recently discussed briefly between a director at my work place and myself and so immediately popped into my mind when I was thinking about my list...I am also currently reading "Atlas Shrugged"...

And I don't think that those books you should want to read would need be classics necessarily...although many scholars would define Ayn Rand as someone everyone should read at least once in a lifetime...

:)

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[Aaron Kashtan]

I'll assume you mean me and not Tages...;)

D'oh! Yes, I'm sorry. I wasn't reading very closely and I only noticed the Ta and the g.

I read an excerpt of some Ayn Rand in college and quite enjoyed the ideas and the philosopy behind her writings..."The FountainHead" was recently discussed briefly between a director at my work place and myself and so immediately popped into my mind when I was thinking about my list...I am also currently reading "Atlas Shrugged"...

And I don't think that those books you should want to read would need be classics necessarily...although many scholars would define Ayn Rand as someone everyone should read at least once in a lifetime...

Sounds reasonable. To me, the concept of a book you "should read, but haven't yet" implies that you know you ought to read the book, for your personal edification, but you're putting it off because it'll be difficult and/or unenjoyable. Books that fit that description tend to be classics.

[Jonathan Bogart]

To me, the concept of a book you "should read, but haven't yet" implies that you know you ought to read the book, for your personal edification, but you're putting it off because it'll be difficult and/or unenjoyable. Books that fit that description tend to be classics.

Man, I'm a Proust-loving snob, but if you don't enjoy a book, a stern sense of moral duty isn't going to make it any better. Life's too short.

[Davideaux]

1. Crime and Punishment
2. War and Peace
3. Great Gatsby
4. Ulysees
5. Canterbury Tales

[Infra-Man]

Only five? These are ones I will get to eventually but haven't yet:

Sense and Sensibility
Moby Dick
Crime and Punishment
Rabbit, Run
Portrait of a Lady

[Ta2grrl]

Only five? These are ones I will get to eventually but haven't yet:

Sense and Sensibility
Moby Dick
Crime and Punishment
Rabbit, Run
Portrait of a Lady

Ahh Moby Dick...I started that just recently but then I went abroad...decided I couldn't take a 500 pound book with me...

:D

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[Ta2grrl]

Man, I'm a Proust-loving snob, but if you don't enjoy a book, a stern sense of moral duty isn't going to make it any better. Life's too short.

I agree with Jonathon but I understand where Sir Drake is coming from...

I think for me it is a mixture of wanting to read something because I know it will enrich my character or my love of reading...or both...

Sometimes these are "classics"...

Sometimes not...!

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