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Worthy "Classic" Novels
Inlander:
--- Quote from: Vuk on 22 Sep 2010, 22:41 ---currently trying to make it through War and Peace. Book is so long, but I feel like it will be worth it.
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Next you should give Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman a go, if you can face up to another Russian epic. It's sort of a 20th-century World War II version of War and Peace.
scarred:
I got War and Peace for my bday and I've got a few books in line before it but I'm a little excited to start it. I know it's a slog, but fuck. That's what winter's for.
Border Reiver:
All Quiet on the Western Front - the book is phenominal
The Hobbit - Still my favourite book of all time
Henry V, MacBeth - amoungst the plays of Bill that can be read and are still compelling, better seen performed, but they still make interesting reads, and even better when you realize what a revisionist Shakespeare was
I hated Shakespeare in school, and I blame it all on the curriculum's need to have students analyse the symbolic significance of every third flippin' word and most teacher's complete refusal to either show a film of the play or the play itself, so that the students could see them for what they were - the mass public entertainment of the day. It wasn't until I saw Ken Brannagh's Henry V while waiting for Highlander to start at a double feature in university that I realized that Shakespeare might be interesting. If teenagers had to study sex like they do Shakespeare the human race would die out.
Wasteroo:
--- Quote from: Jeans on 23 Sep 2010, 05:35 ---
--- Quote from: Ozymandias on 22 Sep 2010, 19:40 ---You and me are fight.
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Ozy how can you not love Joyce
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maybe he just likes Ulysses better
negative creep:
--- Quote from: Border Reiver on 23 Sep 2010, 07:29 ---All Quiet on the Western Front - the book is phenominal
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Shit, how could I forget that?
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