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Re: What do you consider to be 'classic' books/literature?
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 9:09 am
by E-F
joeki wrote:I am an avid reader of literature. I started when I was very young, like most, with Sci-Fi, but then worked my way back to the great literature of mankind. So don't consider this as another attempt at me professing my HIPSTERNESS, I'm serious!
Fairly recent
The Man-Eaters of the Kuaom
Solaris
I Am Legend
The Road
Are some of my favourites
Classics
Dr. Zjivago (pasternak)
We (Zamjatin)
La Nausée (Sartre)
Die Verwandlung (Kafka)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde)
Great Expectations (Dickens)
Pride and Prejudice (Austen) => I know, Gay.
But my favourite literature are the Russian greats (much like the Sovjet filmmakers, they are horribly underrated)
These are my true recommendations.
Crime & Punishment (Dostojevski)
The Brothers Karamazov (Dostojevski)
War & Peace (Tolstoj)
Fathers & Sons (Turgenjev)
Oblomov (gontsjarov) => BEST BOOK I HAVE READ TO DATE
Dead Souls (Gogol)
I'll leave you with those. Check out the Ruski's, they know how to write gloomy yet hopeful works.
I'd rather make love to a tearful hazel blears
Re: What do you consider to be 'classic' books/literature?
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 9:48 am
by mIrReN
Siddharta
Russian Novels (Dosto, Tolstoj, Tsjechov, Poesjkin, Toergenjev, Gogol)
Dickens - Oliver Twist/Barnaby Rudge
Kafka
Zola, Sartre and the French gang
Gunter Grass, Goethe, Mann
Could go on :s
Balzac, Dumas, Flaubert, Verlaine, Simenon, Vernes and fuck Camus
I had an obnoxious French teacher, who succeeded in making me appreciate the Frenchies
U Britts have plenty of writers as well but names fail to come to mind, it's a pretty large list I had about Englishmen
edit; Wauw Joeki, we would be best friends bookwise
Evil spirits from Dostojevski don't know how it's translated in English (the title) but in Dutch it's "Boze Geesten"
Still have to read these, good reminder
Dr. Zjivago (pasternak)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde)
Great Expectations (Dickens)
if I can find my old book to-do list I'll copy paste it ^_^
edit2 I really wish I could remember names better
Re: What do you consider to be 'classic' books/literature?
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 9:56 am
by NickUndercover
Anna Karenina (Tolstoi)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Soljenitsin)
Metamorphosis (Kafka)
Thérèse Desqueyroux + The End of the Night (Mauriac)
The Rosy Crucifixion I & II (Miller)
Memoirs of Hadrian (Yourcenar)
The Stranger (Camus)
The Plague (Camus)
Friday or the other island (Tournier)
Madame Rosa (Gary, written under the Ajar pseudonym)
The Confession of a Child of the Century (Musset)
The Art of War (Sun Tzu)
If you're looking for less modern/ more 19th century stuff check out
Chateaubriand
Hugo
Stendhal
Sainte-Beuve
Sand
Barbey d'Aurevilly
de Musset
de Vigny
All that kind of romantic shit getme
Edit: I'm sure you'd love Kundera
Re: What do you consider to be 'classic' books/literature?
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 10:00 am
by Forum
Who remembers this one? Year 8 english business
Re: What do you consider to be 'classic' books/literature?
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 10:04 am
by particle-jim
Not sure about "classics" to be honest as i dont read nearly enough but books that i've thoroughly enjoyed have included:
Robert McLiam Wilson - Ripley Bogle (the verbose and eloquent ramblings of a cambridge educated interlectual from belfast who is now homeless in london)
Will Self - Great Apes (really demanding book, certainly not an easy read... lots of psychadelic monkey sex)
errr... that's actually as many as I can think of at the moment
Re: What do you consider to be 'classic' books/literature?
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 10:42 am
by E-F
southstar wrote:Who remembers this one? Year 8 english business
lol i had to read it for gcses....
Re: What do you consider to be 'classic' books/literature?
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 12:43 pm
by cloquet
Candide - Voltaire
there's a lot of comedy, be it literary or otherwise, that's lost its edge over time. candide hasn't. had me in stitches.
Re: What do you consider to be 'classic' books/literature?
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 1:16 pm
by Forum
Re: What do you consider to be 'classic' books/literature?
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 1:44 pm
by murky21
seeing an increasing amount of dislike for Bret Easton ellis recently...dont understand why, even his recently Lunar Park and Imperial Bedrooms were heavy
Re: What do you consider to be 'classic' books/literature?
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 1:57 pm
by hugh
hairy potur
Re: What do you consider to be 'classic' books/literature?
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 1:58 pm
by gwa
catch 22
Re: What do you consider to be 'classic' books/literature?
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 2:01 pm
by hugh
Re: What do you consider to be 'classic' books/literature?
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 4:16 pm
by SCope13
Ivanhoe. Haven't read it myself, really ought to.
Re: What do you consider to be 'classic' books/literature?
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 6:05 pm
by tyger
SCope13 wrote:Ivanhoe
i've
a hoe
Re: What do you consider to be 'classic' books/literature?
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 6:56 pm
by wub
murky21 wrote:seeing an increasing amount of dislike for Bret Easton ellis recently...dont understand why, even his recently Lunar Park and Imperial Bedrooms were heavy
No dislike from my part, but I've read a lot of his stuff a lot of times and it's influences upon me don't need to be reinforced anytime soon
SCope13 wrote:Ivanhoe. Haven't read it myself, really ought to.
So you're recommending a book you've not yourself read?
gwa wrote:catch 22
Just finished it today, really enjoyed it but it was a long 500 pages. Started on the latest Lee Child/Jack Reacher novel straight after to break it up a bit with some pulp
Re: What do you consider to be 'classic' books/literature?
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 7:10 pm
by SCope13
Well it's considered a classic, so I figured I'd mention it.
Re: What do you consider to be 'classic' books/literature?
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 7:37 pm
by joeki
Don Quichoté is a classic as well. But I could not read it again, as I found it quite heartbreaking reading it in high school (yes I had no friends in High School).
Re: What do you consider to be 'classic' books/literature?
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 7:39 pm
by ehbes
mIrReN wrote:Siddharta
never post on dsf again this book was terrible
Re: What do you consider to be 'classic' books/literature?
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 7:51 pm
by cloquet
ehbrums1 wrote:mIrReN wrote:Siddharta
never post on dsf again this book was terrible
take it you're not a hesse fan?
Re: What do you consider to be 'classic' books/literature?
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 7:53 pm
by ehbes
cloquet wrote:ehbrums1 wrote:mIrReN wrote:Siddharta
never post on dsf again this book was terrible
take it you're not a hesse fan?
Not in the slightest
