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Classic book recommendations • Page 2
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RyanDS 14,073 posts
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boo 13,901 posts
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Registered 18 years agoryandsimmons wrote:
HP Lovecraft
/starts twitching
Read some Lovecraft years ago - it was awful! The man could go three pages without punctuation of any kind! -
RyanDS 14,073 posts
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Registered 13 years agoboo wrote:
ryandsimmons wrote:
HP Lovecraft
/starts twitching
Read some Lovecraft years ago - it was awful! The man could go three pages without punctuation of any kind!
Depends what you read.
The Shadow over Innsmouth I love, whereas I hated At the Mountains Of Madess. I do highly rate him, thought not to the extent that others do.
For verbiose classics try Lord Dunstany, he was the Tolkein of his time, and just as famous, but is forgotten these days. -
Ahhhh, Lovecraft. One day they'll make a decent film from one of his stories. -
Henry James is a pimp. -
boo 13,901 posts
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Registered 18 years agootto wrote:
You cheeky monkey, didn't you do exactly the same thread last year?
No, no, no. That was just looking for a list of good books to read. Now I'm looking for free stuff!
MetalDog wrote:
You paid for an ipad and now you're quibbling over the cost of books? =)
/looks a bit sheepish
Fair point.
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boo wrote:
ryandsimmons wrote:
HP Lovecraft
/starts twitching
Read some Lovecraft years ago - it was awful! The man could go three pages without punctuation of any kind!
Much like those other "awful" writers Cormac McCarthy and James Joyce. -
BadDevotions 554 posts
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Registered 20 years agoCrispyXUK64 wrote:
Never finished Dracula, I always found it's structure difficult to stick with.
agreed. I got about halfway through. it's not necessarily the structure that got me it was the language; it made the going very slow.
i have recently read these classics and can recommend them.
1984
a brave new world
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redistuo 3 posts
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Registered 11 years agoIf you're still looking
Candide - Voltaire
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
Tess of the D'urbervilles - Thomas Hardy -
This seemed a like the most appropriate thread to exhume.
Has anyone read Romance of the Three Kingdoms? I fancy giving it a go but I don't know if there's a definitive translation or if I should look for a version with maps or something. -
I tried to read it, but it's one of those ones you need to either have an eidetic memory or keep a notebook on standby to get anywhere with it. I gave up shortly after they introduced the fifty billionth character that had some impact in the story somewhere.
Very much one of those "historical books that's only worth reading it to say you've read it" ones.
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Inertia 697 posts
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Registered 11 years agoKafka - Josephine the singing mouse.
Borges - The Aleph.
Poe - A descent into the Maelstrom.
Solzhenitsyn - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
Tolstoi - The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
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meme wrote:
Ah, I did wonder. I very much doubt I'd get on with it either then, cheers.
I tried to read it, but it's one of those ones you need to either have an eidetic memory or keep a notebook on standby to get anywhere with it. I gave up shortly after they introduced the fifty billionth character that had some impact in the story somewhere.
Very much one of those "historical books that's only worth reading it to say you've read it" ones.
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