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01-12-2012, 11:57 PM
"Atlas Shrugged"- Ayn Rand.
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01-13-2012, 09:14 AM
Speaking of Vargas Llosha, "Captain Pantoja and the Special Service" had me laughing so hard I was crying. "The War of the End of the World" is a masterpiece.
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01-13-2012, 02:27 PM
The Alchemist isn't a good piece of literature, but it does make people feel good about themselves, in the same vein as The Secret and Celestine Prophecy. Caters to the new-agey types. (Women)
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01-14-2012, 08:25 PM
Orwell's definitely up there with "Animal farm" or "1984"
His essays,and other novels are interesting too.Also "Down and Out in London and Paris" a powerful social document.
He wrote so clearly and precisely ;he was way up on all the political language and manipulation of populations.
Also one of my favourites:
"Player Piano " by Kurt Vonnegut
A real eye opener when it comes to the increasingly global world ,industrialisation,computerisation and mechanisation ,and keeping your humanity.
Funny..believe it or not,and way ahead of it's time ,written in1952.
I need to read more of his stuff.
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03-10-2012, 07:15 PM
bump this.
in the past month i've read:
-slaughterhouse five
-crime and punishment
-fear and loathing in las vegas
-the rum diary
and i have to say i was kind of disappointed with all of them. nothing was really that memorable. the storyline of slaughterhouse five was really well thought out but i am not a big fan of vonnegut's writing style, it just isn't very entertaining to me. crime and punishment was a good character study but i didn't really find it compelling to read. fear and loathing and the rum diary were both quick reads that were amusing for a bit but pretty forgettable.
i'm wondering what novel to start next... thinking of "atlas shrugged" just because that everyone believes that it's the greatest novel ever written. a friend who's read the book told me it's a bunch of pretentious philosophical jargon though. not sure if i should buy it or not.
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03-10-2012, 07:25 PM
Blindness - José Saramago
Deixa que essa fase é passageira, amanhã será melhor você vai ver a cidade inteira seu samba saber de cor!
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03-10-2012, 07:31 PM
thanks, i'll check it out
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03-11-2012, 08:18 AM
I'm only a couple dozen pages into Youth In Revolt, and I'm willing to put it into my top 10 already. I don't think I can name a favorite...maybe East Of Eden or The Fountainhead.
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03-11-2012, 09:31 AM
Crime and Punishment -- Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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03-11-2012, 11:47 PM
read a few pages of "the rum diary" tonight and was intrigued. i can already tell it's much better than fear and loathing.
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03-12-2012, 12:10 AM
I've got addicted to entrepreneur and self-help books now that I just don't consider novels Can someone enlighten me how novels make you a better person? Isn't it like watching a movie?
The only benefit I can sense is if you read romance novels, you can use what you read on women and talk/describe your way into making her horny for you.
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03-12-2012, 12:14 AM
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
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03-12-2012, 12:24 AM
Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
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03-12-2012, 12:42 AM
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Talk - Carl Hancock Rux
Twelve Sons - Franz Kafka
So many to list but those will do for now.
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03-12-2012, 04:00 AM
Most of Orwell's works are excellent. I return to them every couple of years.
Anthony Burgess wrote some great novels too. A Clockwork Orange is possibly my favourite novel of all time. 'Honey for the bears' was a great novel too with a lighter story line.
A few randoms I love:
Metroploe by Ferenc Karinthy
Rates of Exchange by Malcolm Bradbury
Archangel by Thomas Harris