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10 to read before the apocalypse?

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 427 ✭✭pyure


    "One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich - Solzhenitsyn,

    what a great book (cant be bothered figuring out this quote crap :p)

    dr jeckyl and mr hyde - cant remember
    dracula - stoker

    two classics from my youth, loved both of em

    funnily enough, jeckyl and hyde was written from scratch in 3 days. but when his wife read it she was so shocked he tore it up and burned the manuscript. then he re-wrote it in 3 days again :p
    useless fact from stephen kings book about the history of horror.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,333 ✭✭✭Dr Bolouswki


    In no particular order

    1. Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
    Crazy view of the future where the protaganists use a made up language - totally understandable, dark, funny and a scathing attack on the loss of individual freedom and the violence at the heart of any modern society.
    2. The Untouchable - John Banville
    Story based loosely on the Anthony Blunt spy saga - great novel, Banville's a genius - great if you're into Art, pretension, bohemian living, language and feeling like an outsider...
    3. Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
    Tolkien created a whole world before he wrote these books. Created the languages, historys, and social and cultural millieux for many different races. It reads like no other mythical tale ever written. Phenomonal.
    4. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Gacia Marquez
    For any who have known the pain of unrequited love. Beautiful and funny.
    5. The Great Shark Hunt - Hunter S Thompson
    Thompson was a maverick, drug fueled lunatic who told it like it was. Scathing satirical commentary on all aspects of American life in the 50's, 60's and 70's. I would say 'Fear and loathing in Las Vegas' but the shark hunt gives you so much more - it's his collected writings spanning almost 30 years. Great foundation in contemporary American history.
    6. Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jr.
    Horrifying. Very bleak look at New York life in the 50's. Banned for obscenity - won on appeal. Incredible.
    7. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
    Written on speed in 3 weeks. The blue print for all modern road novels - a big player in redefining of how language, grammer and structure were used in the modern novel. Was the impetous for the whole beat/hippy movement of the 50's and 60's...
    8. Naked Lunch - William S Burroughs
    Burroughs redefined the modern novel. Experimental madness full of sickening and beautiful imagery.
    9. To kill a mocking bird - Harper Lee
    Easily accessible story about two kids growing up in the southern states and their relationship with a mysterious neighbour called Boo radley. An allegory for racism and injustice in America. Brilliant.
    10. Catch 22 - Norman Heller
    Work of satirical genius. Took him 7 years and he never wrote anything nearly as good again. You can never take authority, officialdom or the business world seriously again after you read this story set in a small island off Italy during the 2nd World War. The island is a microcosm of the modern world and Heller cuts us, and our behaviour, apart with relish.

    I feel sick with the ones I'm leaving off here, but some other authors you should consider are Tim Page, Oscar Wilde, Charles Bukouswki, Shakespeare, Allen Ginsberg (Poetry - but totally hip!) John Cooper Clarke (punk poet), Thomas Pynchon, early Thomas Wolfe, Brett Easton Ellis, Seth Morgan (only wrote one book, Homeboy - hilarious!), Douglas Adams, Alexander Schivorsky, Joe Simpson (the greatest mountaineering writer ever!)... man I could go on and on...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,842 ✭✭✭s8n


    The catcher in the rye - JD salinger


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,263 ✭✭✭Caesar_Bojangle


    I was going to compile a list of 10 books but decided against it and opted for the one, which is

    The hitch hikers guide to the galaxy - just go read it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 61 ✭✭mavedic


    Lord of the Rings as above.
    Sophies World - history of philosophy, really makes you think about life. Told through the eyes of a young girl in Norway who is taught through letters left for her by a strange philosopher.
    Dune - Fantasy
    Snowcrash - great science fiction novel with cool main characters Hyro Protaganist and YT
    Watership Down
    Wuthering Heights
    Phillip Pullman trilogy
    Animal Farm
    The Alchemist
    IT by Stephen King

    These are probably not my _top_ten but there the 10 that came to mind. A lot of books on peoples lists seem to be recent enough though, is this due to memory? I know it is on my part.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,263 ✭✭✭Caesar_Bojangle


    Actually you must read this book

    Hagakure: Book of the Samurai, its a philosophical book about the samurai code of living which in a sense can be implemented in to everyday life. Boards ninjas should take note


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭DriftingRain


    http://www.mondopolitico.com/library/1984/1984.htm


    paniniter: This is a good link of Orwell. For his book 1984!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26 Vlad_Tepes


    Last exit to Brooklyn H.Selby JR
    Lord of the Rings Tolkien
    Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
    Les fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire
    all the books by Bret Easton Ellis
    Die Hexe von Paris
    The Cities of the Red Nights
    Junkie
    Naked Lunch
    by W.S. Bourroughs
    On the Road, Jack Kerouac


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭bringitdown


    no particular order
    1. 1984, George Orwell
    2. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
    3. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
    4. Nueromancer, William Gibson
    5. The Informers, Bret Easton Ellis
    6. The Man in High Caslte, Philip K. Dick
    7. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
    8. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
    9. Orwell In Spain (inc. Homage to Catalonia), George Orwell
    10. Catch 22, Joseph Heller


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 658 ✭✭✭Trebor


    Originally posted by Caesar_Bojangle
    Actually you must read this book

    Hagakure: Book of the Samurai, its a philosophical book about the samurai code of living which in a sense can be implemented in to everyday life. Boards ninjas should take note

    then they would be boards samurai :D

    anyway samurai are the natural enmy of the ninja as their codes are quite different.

    Haven't read enough books to have a good list but here are some that i have read.

    Magician
    Legend
    Sword of truth series, Terry Goodkind
    The Farseer Trilogy, The Tawny Man Trilogy by Robin Hobb
    Harry Potter

    can't remember anymore :eek: so they mustn't be any good :D

    must check out some of the ones that others have mentioned though


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,263 ✭✭✭Caesar_Bojangle


    As i was denied admission (well, tbh I was just to lazy to apply) to the ninja board. I feel its my obligation to go samurai on their ass. All i need is a Master to dote upon and a loyal apprentice to educate in the way of the samurai.

    Potential candidates should p.m me with their curriculum vitae.

    Closing Time Joseph heller.
    I reckon to be a superior novel to catch 22, so if you enjoyed the original, you should definitely give the sequel a read.

    Also The Motorcycle Diaries - Che Guevara is well worth a read


  • Registered Users Posts: 394 ✭✭colster


    How about

    Narcissus and Goldmund - Herman Hesse
    Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
    The Hobbit - Tolkien
    1984 - Orwell
    A Clockwork Orange - Burgess
    To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
    The Old Man and the Sea - Hemmingway
    The Alchemist - Paulo Coehlo
    Foucalts Pendulum - Eco
    The Ender Series - Orson Scott Card
    Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
    The World according to Garp - Irving
    The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 61 ✭✭mavedic


    Thats a very good list indeed. I've read the majority of them, but will make sure to read the ones I haven't yet because it looks like you've got similar taste to myself!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭Sleipnir


    Papillion - An amazing story of an amazing life.

    Band Of Brothers - life in hell.

    Schott's Original Miscellany- A tome of the most useless information known to man. a brilliant book.

    The Art Of War by Sun Tzu.

    The Lord of The Rings.

    Lord of the Flies

    The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth - Brilliantly written.

    The 4th Protocol - Frederick Forsyth - another excellent one.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭Clintons Cat


    Japanese Literature

    "An Artist of the Floating World." By Kazuo Ishiguro

    Still with the japanese flavour i would go for "The Sun Goes Down"by Jean Larteguy, as pimped over on the H&H board.

    "Mushashi"by Eiji Yoshikawa based on the life of Miyamoto Musashi.Legendary swordsman and developer of of the five rings fighting style style.
    His writings were serialised throughout the twenties in various syndications and introduced,idealised and popularised the Bushido Code to a generation of young japanese men .

    .......
    US Books

    Double Cross by Sam (jnr)And Chuck Giancana,The life and violent death of the west coasts most notorious don,Friend of the stars and Cia Fixer Sam Giancana.Its Mario Puzo's Godfather on steriods.

    "Soledad Brother"The Prison Letters of George Jackson,

    "Sieze The Time" By Bobby Seale,the history of the Black panther party.

    "Autobiography of a Pimp" by Iceberg slim,Practically invented the Blaxploitation Genre and whose writings alongside Gil Scott Heron has had the most influence upon the development and direction of hip hop music.

    "one flew over the cockoos nest" by ken kessy,Mandatory inclusion in any film/book list thread
    "
    Sci Fi

    "The Planet that wasnt there " by Isaac Asimov,Science Fact from the master storyteller.

    ....
    South American

    Kingdom Of the Sun God by Ian Cameroon, History of the Andes 101


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,203 ✭✭✭Excelsior


    1. The Bible - God*

    2. The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis

    3. The Koran - God*

    4. The Lord of the Rings - Tolkein

    5. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky

    6. The First Circle - Solzenhitsyn

    7. The Republic - Plato

    8. The Everlasting Man - Chesterton

    9. The Complete Works - Shakespeare

    10. Origin of Species - Darwin


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88 ✭✭Pumpkinhead


    Well...

    10 books would have to be as follows..

    01. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
    02. Dubliners - Joyce
    03. Ulysses - Joyce
    04. 1984 - George Orwell
    05. Fury - Salman Rushdie
    06. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
    07. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
    08. Writing and Difference - Jaques Derrida
    09. Dissemination - Jaques Derrida
    10. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien


    of course its ever changing...

    :(


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    The Epic of Gilgamesh
    The Prince - very misquoted
    All quiet on the western front (a must read for Sven Hessel fans)
    A book containing all of Arther C Clarke stuff.
    Middle Ages : An Economic History (can't remember exact title)

    Sovet Encyclopedia of Space
    Richards Bicycle Book
    Magician
    All you Zombies (Ok it's only a short story)

    Two books at the other end of the scale (used to be in DCU library)
    a) one million random digits (maybe use for lotto numbers ?)
    b) an atlas of finite groups


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88 ✭✭TeenStar


    has anyone read the cosmic trilogy by C.S Lewis????

    like your opinions please


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 353 ✭✭IgnatiusJRiley


    Survivor (Chuck Palahniuk) - READ IT!!
    A Confedaracy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
    Choke (also by Chuck)
    All Families are Psychotic (Douglas Coupland)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    1. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
    (first book to make me cry)
    2. The Pearl - John Steinbeck
    (traditional tale beautifully rewritten by steinbeck)
    3. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
    (so funny, the ultimate anti-hero)
    4. Tender is the Night - F Scott Fitzgerald
    5. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
    6. Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
    (Superlative satire)
    7. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
    (need anything be said)
    8. The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
    (definitive sci-fi)
    9. Hamlet - Shakespeare
    (best play ever.)
    10. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Caroll
    (Best children's book, completely written for kids minds)

    Had some trouble leaving some out
    The Go-Between - Hartley
    Posession - A.S. Byatt
    Slaughterhouse 5 and Galapagos- Vonnegut
    and many more


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7 Jaymac23


    Anything by Robert Rankin...
    Start with the Armegeddon series...
    Sort of a Flann O'Brien for the chemical generation.
    The Earthsea Trilogy by Ursala K LeGuin.
    Pretty much anything by Hunter S Thompson.
    The Shining by Stephen King in a class of its own.
    His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
    Pratchett's Oeuvre
    The Assassins Trilogy by Robin Hobb.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 51 ✭✭Eden


    I don't know if I can come up with ten but here goes...
    Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
    Life of Pi-Yann Martel
    The Turn of the Screw- Henry James
    His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
    Alice in Wonderland-Lewis Carroll
    Animal Farm-George Orwell
    A Lifes Work- Rachel Cusk
    Tales of the Unexpected- Roald Dahl
    The Chocolate War- Robert Cormier
    The Butcher Boy- Pat McCabe
    The Bible+The Koran


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Samson


    There are some great recommendations here.
    Any chance this thread could be stickied?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 47 The Devil


    my 10

    lord of the rings
    the hobbit
    it
    moby dick
    the great gatsby
    war and peace
    crime and punishment
    ulysses
    hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
    wuthering heights


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,065 ✭✭✭✭Tusky


    Filth - irvene welsh
    The Beach - Alex Garland
    The Lord Of The Rings - J.R.R Tolkien
    A Song Of Ice And Fire(series) - George R.R Martin
    A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

    they are my favourite books ( the ones that come to mind anyway )


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 128 ✭✭Q_Elexra


    I'd have to say

    Oedipus Rex (Not a book I know but it's a great play)
    Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
    The Truth - Terry Pratchett
    The Elder Gods - David & Leigh Eddings
    The Eye Of The World - Robert Jordan
    An Evil Cradling - Brian Keane
    Macbeth - William Shakespear
    How Many Miles To Babylon - Jennifer Johnston
    Pawn Of Prophesy - David Eddings
    Empire Of The Sun - JG Ballard

    COULD YOU PLESE DELETE THIS ONE


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 128 ✭✭Q_Elexra


    I'd have to say

    Oedipus Rex (Not a book I know but it's a great play)
    Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
    The Truth - Terry Pratchett
    The Elder Gods - David & Leigh Eddings
    The Eye Of The World - Robert Jordan
    An Evil Cradling - Brian Keenan
    Macbeth - William Shakespear
    How Many Miles To Babylon - Jennifer Johnston
    Pawn Of Prophesy - David Eddings
    Empire Of The Sun - JG Ballard


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,592 ✭✭✭Ancient1


    Salman Rushdie - all of his books are essential reading.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 693 ✭✭✭The Beer Baron


    The Lost World- that being Arthur Conan Doyle not the Jurassic Park sequel.
    1984- I see everyone has it here
    Stand on Zanzibar
    The Sheep Look Up
    The Old Man and the Sea
    One flew over the cuckoos nest
    Alice in Wonderland
    Burning Chrome
    2001
    Rama
    The Forever War
    The War of the Worlds
    Steppenwolf


    and eh...The Cat in the Hat


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  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Samson


    My 12 (sorry, could not bring myself to leave any of these out) recommendations, at the present juncture are:

    Cutter and Bone by Newton Thornburg (top of the list intentionally, best book I've read in years).
    American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.
    Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk.
    Catch 22 by Joseph Heller.
    The Stand by Stephen King.
    The Day of The Jackal by Frederick Forsyth.
    Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (read it in one sitting).
    Man and Boy by Tony Parsons.
    'Tis by Frank McCourt.
    Chickenhawk by Robert Mason (funniest war book since Catch 22).
    Vernon God Little by D.B.C. Pierre.
    One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.

    Much to my shame, I have read (or finished) few of the accepted "classics", hence most of my faves being comtemporary works.
    Thankfully this thread is reminding me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 188 ✭✭jerenaugrim


    In no particular order-

    A Goat's Song, Dermot Healy
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
    Where I'm Calling From, Raymond Carver
    Journals, John Cheever
    This Side of Brightness, Colum McCann
    Candide, Voltaire (really funny!)
    Short Stories, Anton Chekov (Norton or Wordsworth edition )
    His Dark Materials, Philip Pulman (God is dissolute)
    A Prayer for Owen Meaney, John Irving
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey.

    Any thoughts on any of these, anyone?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,564 ✭✭✭Typedef


    1984 - George Orwell.
    American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis.
    High Rise - JG Ballard.
    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson.
    The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje.
    A Brave New World - Aldos Huxley.
    Less then Zero - Bret Easton Ellis.
    At the Mountains of Madness - HP Lovecraft.
    The telltale heart - Edgar Allen Poe.
    (Foundation (series) - Isaac Asimov or Lord of the Flies - William Golding or A Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger).

    It's a bit difficult to read the last two outside of the box of 'school' (where I had to read them), which is crap.

    *bump*


    Maybe some more I can't think of.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 188 ✭✭jerenaugrim


    Is The English Patient any good? 'Cause the film was vacant rubbish. Pretty, but vacant.:dunno:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,604 ✭✭✭blondie83


    Fantastic Mr Fox - Roald Dahl
    Harry Potter - all of them, but especially the goblet of fire. It was really scary!
    1984 - bleak book, but brilliant.
    Brotherhood of the rose - David Morrell - favourite book of all time.
    Remote Control - Andy McNab book, 1st in a series, but in my opinion better than
    the rest of them. I just like the way it creates the character
    Nick Stone, and shows all his frailities despite the whole
    "SAS tough guy" thing
    All Quiet on the Western Front - depressingly realistic veiw of war

    can't think of any more at the moment, will update later


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,564 ✭✭✭Typedef


    Originally posted by jerenaugrim
    Is The English Patient any good? 'Cause the film was vacant rubbish. Pretty, but vacant.:dunno:



    I *know* you didn't just diss Ralph Fiennes.....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2 sue123


    Now this is very hard

    Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll
    Wild Swans by Jung Chang
    Mila 18 by Leon Uris
    Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
    Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
    Bel Canto by Anne Patchett
    Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
    In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick

    Oh can't decide between 4 others will have a think and come back :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 188 ✭✭jerenaugrim


    Originally posted by Typedef
    I *know* you didn't just diss Ralph Fiennes.....

    No, just none of the characters were at all sympathetic...except the guy that was being cheated on. Morally empty, if aesthetically pleasant...:rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,564 ✭✭✭Typedef


    The only guy who I wasn't sympathetic to was.. the guy getting cheated on.

    Which film did you watch?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35 graciek


    1) Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
    2) Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger
    3) Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
    4) The Hours - Michael Cunningham
    5) Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen
    6) The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

    in no particular order.........
    So many I'm forgetting!! Each has a unique quality, for example Kaysen's style is incredible, a really different way of writing, 1984- I don't need to explain, the same with the Salinger books...... The Hours is beautifully written, and Plath's book is well.....just intoxicating!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 52 ✭✭Ebony


    hmm way too hard to put in order so here are my life changing ones off the top of my head

    the virgin suicides (shows you how to be a girl in the coolest way)
    hidious kinky (beautiful narration from an eight year old)
    attonement-ian mc ewan (amazing)
    romeo+juilet(the only thing i read in school that wasnt destroyed by teaching)
    esiotrot-dahl (the sweetest love story for everyone)

    theres so many more but i cant think of now!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22 irko


    I read The godfather by Mario Puzo.It happened by an accident,when i wanted to check a couple of pages.So it strick me ,i had to read it out.Nikolaj Gogol is a good writer, try reading some of his works.Celine is also good ,i read "The journey to the end of night" or something.Sexus,by Henry Miller.This guy named Heinrich von Kleist wrote some short novels which i liked,story of Michael Kolhaas.Alice in wonderland by Lewis Caroll.Körkarlen by Selma Lagerlöf .Njals Saga is very good.It is a medieval story from Iceland.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,560 ✭✭✭Woden


    Originally posted by graciek
    Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger


    i see a lot of people recommending this and i have to ask why? i read it recently and thought it was nothing special perhaps it just went over my head but he was a whiny fecker.

    i usually read nothing of substance but i would recommend:

    Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
    The Player of Games, Iain M. Banks


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 188 ✭✭jerenaugrim


    Originally posted by irko
    I read The godfather by Mario Puzo.It happened by an accident,when i wanted to check a couple of pages.So it strick me ,i had to read it out.Nikolaj Gogol is a good writer, try reading some of his works.Celine is also good ,i read "The journey to the end of night" or something.Sexus,by Henry Miller.This guy named Heinrich von Kleist wrote some short novels which i liked,story of Michael Kolhaas.Alice in wonderland by Lewis Caroll.Körkarlen by Selma Lagerlöf .Njals Saga is very good.It is a medieval story from Iceland.

    Are u Icelandic, irko? 'Cause I've heard there's some great stuff by Icelandic writers (most literate nation in the world, apparently), so can anyone recommend anything?

    Catcher... is not Salinger's best. Try Raise High The Roofbeams, Carpenters! (a novella) or A Good Day for Bananafish (short stories).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22 irko


    No I`m not from Iceland.I Just happened to get my hands on that book.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,592 ✭✭✭Ancient1


    True, Njal's Saga is a must-read.
    Also, get a book called Sagas of Warrior Poets (edited by Diana Whaley) - it contains 5 Icelandic sagas. When you consider when they were written, they're absolutely uplifting.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35 graciek


    Originally posted by Dataisgod
    i see a lot of people recommending this and i have to ask why? i read it recently and thought it was nothing special perhaps it just went over my head but he was a whiny fecker.

    I enjoyed the book, but i do agree it's not salinger's best, i'm making my way through his books and so far i prefer franny and zooey. i lot of people say that it's just pretentious, but i think it's the kinda thing u like, or u don't like! :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28 syngin


    can't beleive that 1894 by George Orwell was not on the list


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35 graciek


    oh yeah! 1984!! good book!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10 JudasMonkey


    Requiem For a Dream-Hubert Shelby Jr.
    1984- George Orwell
    Animal Farm- George Orwell
    The Tirlogy Of 5(Hitchrikers guide etc)- Douglas Adams
    Salmon of Doubt-Douglas Adams
    Catch 22- Joesph Heller
    Jingo-Terry Pratchett
    Nothing in this book is true, But its exactly how things are-Bob Frissell
    Stupid White Men-Micheal Moore
    Siddhartha-Herman Hesse


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