"The Life of Pi" Jan Martel
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" Philip K Dick
"The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" Douglas Adams
"The Silmarillion" J R R Tolkien
"A Tale of Two Cities" Charles Dickens
"Hitler: A Study in Tyranny" Alan Bullock
"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" Mark Haddon
"Sophie's World" Jostein Gaarder
"Nightfall" Isaac Asimov
"Moby-Dick" Herman Melville
"In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex" Nathaniel Philbrick
"Fluke" James Herbert
"The Fourth Dimension and how to get there" Rudy Rucker
"Far from the Madding Crowd" Thomas Hardy
"Farmer in the Sky" Robert A. Heinlein
"The Metamorphosis" Franz Kafka
"Wuthering Heights" Emily Bronte
"From Hell" Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
"Animal Farm" George Orwell
"Slowness" Milan Kundera
I don't read novels anymore.
ReplyDeleteBut....
All Kurt Vonnegut
All PK Dick
Herman Hesse
One Flew Over A Cuckoo's Nest
Sometimes A Great Notion
On The Road
Dharma Bums
Animal Farm
1984
Brave New World
Gerald Manley Hopkins
The Magus
Macbeth
Kool Aid Acid Test
Fear and Loathing in LA
TS Elliot
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Alice in Wonderland
Pooh
Tolkien
I Ching
Salvador Dali
Gustav Jung.....
Interesting list.
ReplyDeleteWhy don't you read novels anymore?
I have read 9 out your list.
ReplyDeleteWhat about:-
The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Tale of two Cities.
Anything by Raymond Chandler.
Yes, A Tale of Two Cities is on my list. The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire... that sounds very interesting. Who wrote it?
ReplyDeleteThe thornbirds, The great gatbsy, Never Cry Wolf, Jean M Auels -Earths children series. will add to this as I think of more
ReplyDeleteApologies this is the popular title.
ReplyDeleteThe true title is
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Edward Gibbon written in 1781.
Lot to get through and somewhat ponderous but if you love History as much as I do, worth a look.
Read a couple of her books, what a writer. She takes you to places in the early history of man that are remarkable for their intensity and emotion.
ReplyDeleteI've got a book on Rome and Jean M Auel's first Earth Children book on my Amazon wish list. Cheers!
ReplyDeleteCycling Weekly and Bike Magazine. :~)
ReplyDeleteI read from valley of the Horses on before but I recently acquired Clan of the Cave bear
ReplyDelete'Indispensibable'
ReplyDeleteUm...
The Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
Marx & Engels' Manifesto
Nature's Web - Peter Marshall
Government & Politics - Anthony Giddens (college textbook, still have it)
Spycatcher - Peter Werth
Rule By Secrecy - Jim Marrs (holes, but great reference)
Jesus - A.N. Wilson
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
The Prince - Machiavelli
The Hagakure
Brave New World - Huxley
Orwell, Dostoevsky, Nietzche, Ian McEwan, Peter Hennesy, Sagan, Dawkins, Ahmed Rashid, Irvine Welsh, Edward de Bono, DBC Pierre, Chuang Tzu, Martin Millar, Carl Jung, William Gibson, Tim Leary, Will Self, RA Wilson.
I spend too much time online to find time to read books. You've seen how much can be learned from people wiser around here... trick is, when they suggest reading this or that, DO it. And go outdoors now and then :)
Novels... ? I don't read much fiction. Stephen King was the most un-put-down-able writer I ever read, The Shining... but I was 10.
My to-read list includes Leo Strauss, Barack Obama, Robert Fisk, Chomsky, John Perkins and Jeremy Narby.
Sure I missed some... but there's an overview
And Beat writers... John Lennon, Ginsberg, Kerouac... all that, got into that whole 'vibe' for a good few years
ReplyDeleteAnd Anne Rice.
ReplyDeleteDid you see the movie, with Jack Nicolson ("Heeeere's Johnnie...")? If so how did you think it compared to the book?
ReplyDeleteVery good question.
ReplyDeleteMy next piece of writing, which I intended to produce this evening, and looking at that bottle over there, I still might... was supposed to include a relevant reference. A film I saw recently... the point was made that a book, say 'War & Peace' by Tolstoy, gets better each time you read it. Why? Because you change. You bring yourself to a book. That doesn't happen with a film.
I think that also answers your question. 'Definitively'.
My A-Level English Lit. main essay was on Dracula and Frankenstein. My parents owned a video shop when I was between 8 and 21. The question of comparing literature to silver screen was a large part of that. It did ok...
Films and books are not comparable. Generally, a film of a book cannot be better than the original book... but then you have to factor in the likes of Jack Nicholson. They may well play that clip at his funeral.
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ReplyDeleteJoy Luck Club
Tuesdays with Morrie
Brain droppings --George Carlin ( comic Relief)
I am sure I will think of more books
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull
ReplyDeleteThat sounds interesting. At the moment I'm reading "The Lost Book of Enki" by Zecheriah Sitchin, who apparently extrapolated the story by translating Sumerian tablets, proving that the human race was an alien experiment. I can't say I'm convinced.
ReplyDeleteHave read about 16 0f those --I have to agree Brain droppings is essential especially after you read some of the heavier subject matter.
ReplyDeleteMight be slightly mistaken, but I believe Sitch went to school with Rockefeller. Don't tell that to the wrong people, they'll be on it like flies on shit
ReplyDeleteYes, I can see why! Lol! Interesting though...
ReplyDeleteCatch 22?
ReplyDeleteHow do you mean?
ReplyDeleteThe book.
ReplyDeleteI would HIGHLY reccommend The Fall of Lucifer by Wendy Alec - I'm IN NO WAY religious, but it's just a brilliant adaptation of the story.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.amazon.com/Fall-Lucifer-Chronicles-Brothers/dp/1591858143