10 to read before the apocalypse?

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Freebee09 wrote: »

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte.

It's life changing

most of the books by the bronte sisters, were written from actual events and the folk law of haworth,one person realy did try and dig up the grave of a loved one, in haworth church yard,

The_Kew_Tour

many history readers would have read this but "Berlin" by Anthony Beevor is great book for all history lovers just finished reading it and excellent book for all.

Denerick

adrian280582 wrote: »

many history readers would have read this but "Berlin" by Anthony Beevor is great book for all history lovers just finished reading it and excellent book for all.

Whats it about? Never heard of it. (This question brought to you by an anorak wearing history nerd.)

silvine

+1 for Stalingrad by Beevor.

Lands Leaving

Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Camus - L'Etranger/The Outsider
Easton Ellis - Less Than Zero
Didion - Play it as it Lays
Roth - Portnoy's Complaint
Virgil - The Aeneid
Waugh - Vile Bodies
Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5
Mailer - An American Dream
Kafka -Metamorphosis

I think thats a good mix of comedy and tragedy. Can't be too downbeat at the apocalypse!

danny979

I like "sherlock Homlme" " Gone with the wind", "To whom the bell ring", "Wuthering Hill" Nortre Dame and some works like that.:cool:

RolandIRL

almost anything by stephen king esp the dark tower series. read the book insomnia first by him. ties in to it a good bit as well as the stand - best apocalyptic book out there - and eyes of the dragon. all link to the dark tower.

Ka is a wheel.

enry

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Notes from the underworld (dostoevsky)


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Anything from Fyodor Dostoevsky such as demons, the idiot, and of course crime and punishment are worth reading he is exceptional. On saying that notes from the underground/world depending on your translation is short, accessible and fantastic.
I like the classics, however, for the ladies read the godfather you won’t be sorry and i never lie to the ladies

surime

Wow, looks like irish people do read books! I am afraid I was working with dick heads then. Sad.
My 10 favorites :

1. "The black obelisk" Erich Maria Remarque -genius
2. "Disgrace" John Maxwell Coetzee
3. "The magic mountain" Tomas Mann
4. " The wind-up bird chronicle" Haruki Murakami
5. "The grass is singing" Doris Lessing
6. "Crime and punishment" Fiodor Dostojevsky
7. "The plague" Albert Camus
8. "Its me Eddie" Edwuard Limonov - very intresting "story" by russian author about his life in NY.
9. "Solaris" -something from where I come from -Poland! by Stanislaw Lem - SF genius!
10. and "as" 10 there will be whole work by another Polish author Ryszard Kapuscinsky. I dont know what's available in english in Ireland ,but I really really recomend his books:

• Another Day of Life (Jeszcze dzień życia) (1976)
• The Soccer War (Wojna futbolowa) (1978)
• The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat (Cesarz) (1978)
• Shah of Shahs (Szachinszach) (1982)
• Imperium (Imperium) (1993)
• The Shadow of the Sun (Heban) (2001)
• Travels with Herodotus (Podróże z Herodotem) (2007[17])
• Encountering the Other: The Challenge for the Twenty-First Century (Spotkanie z innym jako wyzwanie XXI wieku) (2007[18])
• I Wrote Stone: The Selected Poetry of Ryszard Kapuściński (2007

Salman Rushdie wrote about him: "One Kapuściński is worth more than a thousand whimpering and fantasizing scribblers. His exceptional combination of journalism and art allows us to feel so close to what Kapuściński calls the inexpressible true image of war".[4]
Although he was frequently mentioned as a favorite to win the Nobel Prize in literature, it was never awarded to him. In a 2006 interview with Reuters, Kapuściński said that he wrote for "people everywhere still young enough to be curious about the world."

randomguy

surime wrote: »

Wow, looks like irish people do read books! I am afraid I was working with dick heads then. Sad.
My 10 favorites :

1. "The black obelisk" Erich Maria Remarque -genius
2. "Disgrace" John Maxwell Coetzee
3. "The magic mountain" Tomas Mann
4. " The wind-up bird chronicle" Haruki Murakami
5. "The grass is singing" Doris Lessing
6. "Crime and punishment" Fiodor Dostojevsky
7. "The plague" Albert Camus
8. "Its me Eddie" Edwuard Limonov - very intresting "story" by russian author about his life in NY.
9. "Solaris" -something from where I come from -Poland! by Stanislaw Lem - SF genius!
10. and "as" 10 there will be whole work by another Polish author Ryszard Kapuscinsky. I dont know what's available in english in Ireland ,but I really really recomend his books:
Kapuściński said that he wrote for "people everywhere still young enough to be curious about the world."

Interesting...
I've a copy of the newer english translation of The Magic Mountain on my shelf - maybe i'll get around to reading it soon.
I really really liked Travels with Herodotus - for the classical history and context more than for his own travels - if I was to read just one more Ryszard Kapuscinsky, what would you recommend?
And is The Black Obelisk better than All Quiet on the Western Front? That's the only Remarque I've read, and while I thought it was good, I wouldn't be rushing out to buy anything else by him.
(I'm presuming that you are not really that surprised to find that Irish people read - having lived in a fair few countries, I'd say we are pretty high up the table for the consumption of literature).

Denerick

Here is my revised list, considering I forget what was on my old one (I posted it recently enough and all)

In no particular order:

1) Name of the Rose, Eco
2) Catch 22, Heller
3) Baudalino, Eco
4) Aubrey/Maturin series, O'Brien (This alone accounts for 21 books
5) Bonfire of the Vanities, Wolfe
6) Rob Roy, Scott
7) Point Counter Point, Huxley
8) To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee
9) Lord of the Rings, Tolkien
10) The Picture of Dorian Grey, Wilde

Jan_Itor

i know this isn't really a proper book, but if your a sports fan -

Roy Keane's book.

Denerick

Jan_Itor wrote: »

i know this isn't really a proper book, but if your a sports fan -

Roy Keane's book.

:eek:

Wrong forum mate.

surime

randomguy wrote: »

Interesting...
I've a copy of the newer english translation of The Magic Mountain on my shelf - maybe i'll get around to reading it soon.
I really really liked Travels with Herodotus - for the classical history and context more than for his own travels - if I was to read just one more Ryszard Kapuscinsky, what would you recommend?
And is The Black Obelisk better than All Quiet on the Western Front? That's the only Remarque I've read, and while I thought it was good, I wouldn't be rushing out to buy anything else by him.
(I'm presuming that you are not really that surprised to find that Irish people read - having lived in a fair few countries, I'd say we are pretty high up the table for the consumption of literature).

Sorry for understimeting Irish people.. I was just frustrated with people around me , but thats probably because of the jobs I have to to here..
So, by Kapuscinsky I realy recomend :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_of_the_Sun

and about Remarque... "All quiet on the western front" is one of his books i didnt enjoy -because is to much about war and solders life..and
"Black obelisk" and " Arch of thriumph" are just about ... human soul -beautiful , almost every sentence from those books is so deep..

Jan_Itor

Denerick wrote: »

:eek:

Wrong forum mate.

fine then Lord of the Rings, Lord of the Flies, The Kite Runner?

surime

I dont get it. My posts keep dissapearing and I cant log myself in sometimes.. Do you have the same problems?

surime

Now - I wrote this:

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Originally Posted by randomguy
Interesting...
I've a copy of the newer english translation of The Magic Mountain on my shelf - maybe i'll get around to reading it soon.
I really really liked Travels with Herodotus - for the classical history and context more than for his own travels - if I was to read just one more Ryszard Kapuscinsky, what would you recommend?
And is The Black Obelisk better than All Quiet on the Western Front? That's the only Remarque I've read, and while I thought it was good, I wouldn't be rushing out to buy anything else by him.
(I'm presuming that you are not really that surprised to find that Irish people read - having lived in a fair few countries, I'd say we are pretty high up the table for the consumption of literature).

Sorry for understimeting Irish people.. I was just frustrated with people around me , but thats probably because of the jobs I have to to here..
So, by Kapuscinsky I realy recomend :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_of_the_Sun

and about Remarque... "All quiet on the western front" is one of his books i didnt enjoy -because is to much about war and solders life..and
"Black obelisk" and " Arch of thriumph" are just about ... human soul -beautiful , almost every sentence from those books is so deep.. "

-and when I am trying to return to page 43 where that is if I go from my posts on my statistics its no longer there.. (?)
I'm confused..

surime

Helllooooooooo? What happened here? :cool:

pixiegaga

I know these are for children but Philip Pullmans trilogy:

-Northers Ligths
-The Subtle Knife
-The Amber Spyglass

This will sound odd but i read them whan I was about...ten or eleven and they changed my life...i only recently realised what an impact they had on me and my beliefs, I always reread them!! Wouldnt reccommend giving them to children tho kinda heavy books but my teacher gave them to me so I guess that ok..:O my fav books frm childhood!

footing

If we're moving on to "children's books"(though Pullman is surely a writer for all ages) then "Wind in the Willows" is my all-time favourite.

pixiegaga

well i dont think they can be classed as childrens books either but ya they are stocked in the childrens section but i found an old copy of the subtile knife in our secondary school?? very odd....

yes i forgot to kill a mockingbird too...and bel canto has a massive impact

footing

Just shows - good books are ageless!

pixiegaga

ya i can see myself reading those books even when im finished college....make me feel like im small again

pixiegaga

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy

and how can you forget...Alice in Wounderland by Lewis Carrol! it was magical

Elenxor

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. I read this many years ago, would love to read it again. Anyone know who wrote it? Appreciate any info. Thanks.

Tabnabs

I'm struggling to get ten but,

Das Boot by Lothar-Günther Buchheim - Couldn't put the book down, outstanding.

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque- Infamous title and a most memorable read

Lord of the Rings - the movie's have cheapened the experience (IMHO) but it's a classic trilogy

Njáls saga, the most enjoyable of the Icelandic offerings.

The Incredible Voyage by Tristan Jones - sailing, travel, life and humour.

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame - only read this as an adult but wasn't disappointed.

The Long Way by Bernard Moitessier - sailing alone around the world in the 60's, the thoughts of a crazy French man.

The Hobbit, Tolkien - it's a little gem of a book and thus far unspoilt by the big screen, read it now before the apocalypse arrives!

Swampy

I'd have to agree with some of the previous people.

Magician
Sho-gun
Noble House

Cicero

the alchemist by paulo coelho

...give me a while and I'll edit this and come up with another 9...

hermunkla

The Mayan Prophecies. The Cassandra Crossing. 10 Rillington place.

Novella

To Kill A Mockingbird.
The Catcher in the Rye.
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower.

(Will get back to this later!)