How about Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
despite the fact I've read that book, at about aged 13. and read TkaM aged 12ishUzique wrote:
bloody hell you can talk.CammRobb wrote:
hah, yeah, that's pretty accurateUzique wrote:
lord of the flies is pretty much a shit book you should have read by the time you're age 13.
'im well read'.
do they still teach you to read in scotland? or is the youth pretty much resigned to plumbing diplomas and phone-centres
quiet now please
bloody hell dealing with a real scot intellectual here.
lord of the flies AND to kill a mocking bird!
it's almost like you took your english GCSE's twice or something.
hahahahahaha.
lord of the flies AND to kill a mocking bird!
it's almost like you took your english GCSE's twice or something.
hahahahahaha.
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hilariousUzique wrote:
bloody hell dealing with a real scot intellectual here.
lord of the flies AND to kill a mocking bird!
it's almost like you took your english GCSE's twice or something.
hahahahahaha.
Uzique wrote:
pretty arbitrary list
Missing one Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.
decisively not missing one hitchhiker's guide to the fucking galaxy
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I haven't read any of them, heh. Haven't even heard of most of them, come to think of it.
The closest I can come to saying I've read any of them is that my dad read The Lord of the Rings (and The Hobbit) to me when I was little. Too young to really remember it, though.
The closest I can come to saying I've read any of them is that my dad read The Lord of the Rings (and The Hobbit) to me when I was little. Too young to really remember it, though.
I'll raise you sir, with LotR at 8CammRobb wrote:
despite the fact I've read that book, at about aged 13. and read TkaM aged 12ish
Tha label on the whiskey bottle?burnzz wrote:
Hustler, Penthouse . . .SEREMAKER wrote:
what to read after 30 ???
Ultrafunkula wrote:
Tha label on the whiskey viagra bottle?burnzz wrote:
Hustler, Penthouse . . .SEREMAKER wrote:
what to read after 30 ???
Tu Stultus Es
Oh come on. It's a classic and you know it.Uzique wrote:
decisively not missing one hitchhiker's guide to the fucking galaxy
Isn't that for the resident 40+ boyos?eleven bravo wrote:
Ultrafunkula wrote:
Tha label on the whiskey viagra bottle?burnzz wrote:
Hustler, Penthouse . . .
sry björnz, atg, OH and almost '27
global warming
Tu Stultus Es
hahaha it's not even the best example of its genre. i don't think it's a classic any more than harry potter is a classic... in its ability to sell to a lot of niche fantasy/sci-fi geeks.Ultrafunkula wrote:
Oh come on. It's a classic and you know it.Uzique wrote:
decisively not missing one hitchhiker's guide to the fucking galaxy
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No Ulysses?!!
This list should be sent to the depths of hell to burn and rot. James Joyce is spinning in his grave.
off topic this was the shit
This list should be sent to the depths of hell to burn and rot. James Joyce is spinning in his grave.
off topic this was the shit
Blackbelts are just whitebelts who have never quit.
ulysses always comes up and i can guarantee 9/10 people that name-drop it haven't even read it or finished it.
a la recherche du temps perdu is an even better book... even more unread.
and finnegan's wake by joyce is his best book... but also even more unread.
ulysses is like the cliche-suggestion for those considering themselves one-slice above 'george orwell - 1984' in their culturing, lel.
a la recherche du temps perdu is an even better book... even more unread.
and finnegan's wake by joyce is his best book... but also even more unread.
ulysses is like the cliche-suggestion for those considering themselves one-slice above 'george orwell - 1984' in their culturing, lel.
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Ok, present some genre classics then?Uzique wrote:
hahaha it's not even the best example of its genre. i don't think it's a classic any more than harry potter is a classic... in its ability to sell to a lot of niche fantasy/sci-fi geeks.Ultrafunkula wrote:
Oh come on. It's a classic and you know it.Uzique wrote:
decisively not missing one hitchhiker's guide to the fucking galaxy
/guilty
I remember you posting in the best book ever thread. Although i had to google the author (i had it down as James Grant) so not too shabby.
I do however intend to read it at some point though.
I remember you posting in the best book ever thread. Although i had to google the author (i had it down as James Grant) so not too shabby.
I do however intend to read it at some point though.
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Blackbelts are just whitebelts who have never quit.
for sci-fi? Dune series is the obvious choice that is better than hitch-hiker's guide (although not 'better' of course if all you're looking for is airport-literature that will give a laugh-per-page). isaac asimov, h.g. wells and all the popular dystopian fiction are also 'better', imho.
lol m3th you had to google james joyce? you graduated from durham being that ignorant? that's like graduating from LSE with a degree in economics and then having to google 'milton friedman'. nigga plz!
lol m3th you had to google james joyce? you graduated from durham being that ignorant? that's like graduating from LSE with a degree in economics and then having to google 'milton friedman'. nigga plz!
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Raskolnikov is one indecisive person. I really hate the epilogue in that book.Metal-Eater-GR wrote:
Ah, currently reading Crime and Punishment. Big ass book.
Ah. Dune is still on my to read list. A friend of mine has read a ton of Asimov and he tried to get me to read them too but at the time I was more into horror. I guess this is a matter of taste too, kinda like with music. Since you read plenty, have you read any H.P. Lovecraft by any chance?Uzique wrote:
for sci-fi? Dune series is the obvious choice that is better than hitch-hiker's guide (although not 'better' of course if all you're looking for is airport-literature that will give a laugh-per-page). isaac asimov, h.g. wells and all the popular dystopian fiction are also 'better', imho.
I am halfway through it, really enjoying it so far. I'll tell you my thoughts once I finish itFlemishHCmaniac wrote:
Raskolnikov is one indecisive person. I really hate the epilogue in that book.Metal-Eater-GR wrote:
Ah, currently reading Crime and Punishment. Big ass book.
And Gravity's Rainbow is a cut above all those mentioned. Seriously, I still have no fucking idea what I read.Uzique wrote:
ulysses always comes up and i can guarantee 9/10 people that name-drop it haven't even read it or finished it.
a la recherche du temps perdu is an even better book... even more unread.
and finnegan's wake by joyce is his best book... but also even more unread.
ulysses is like the cliche-suggestion for those considering themselves one-slice above 'george orwell - 1984' in their culturing, lel.
I also never expect to understand Finnegan's Wake at any meaningful level, but I still managed to eek more out of it than Gravity's Rainbow.
The shape of an eye in front of the ocean, digging for stones and throwing them against its window pane. Take it down dreamer, take it down deep. - Other Families
read the brothers karamazov afterwards... aaaaah my god, tooo good. i enjoyed 'the idiot', too.Metal-Eater-GR wrote:
I am halfway through it, really enjoying it so far. I'll tell you my thoughts once I finish itFlemishHCmaniac wrote:
Raskolnikov is one indecisive person. I really hate the epilogue in that book.Metal-Eater-GR wrote:
Ah, currently reading Crime and Punishment. Big ass book.
ive read some shorter stories by h.p. lovecraft... dont really know what to say about them. strange. i associate his style with my studies of poe.
if you're a fan of science-fiction (which, alas, i am not) then i really recommend J.G. Ballard, too. very thought-provoking. i also recommend one of my professors, adam roberts, who has won quite a few sci-fi awards... im not sure what to think of his stuff, personally.
edit: nooo way can you say pynchon is more talented or a better story-writer than joyce! gravity's rainbow is pretty easy... i enjoyed the crying of lot 49. but you cannot compare! joyce was writing 50 years earlier and was already so-far-ahead of everything else re: modernism and what was around - totally unprecedented. pynchon cropped up amid an era of post-modernist writing where the whole point was to be an incoherent and jumbled as possible. joyce takes the cake any-fucking-day! david foster wallace is supremely better than pynchon at post-modernism, in my opinion too, too bad he killed himself. was gonna be this generation's greatest writer, methinks.
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