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reading Proust at a tractor pull


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I heard someone use the phrase "like reading Proust at a tractor pull". And that got me thinking... I've never read any Proust... or Shakespeare... or a lotta that standard stuff.

 

So what "standards" that everyone's read, have you never read?

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Moby Dick - Herman Mellville (if you can get past the "stuffy" language style

it's a great story)

Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

 

Not exactly classics in the same class with Proust and Dickens et al, but must reading for any avid reader:

 

"Gone With The Wind" - Margaret Mitchell

"Peyton Place" - Grace Metallious

"Winds of War" - Herman Wouk

"War and Remembrance - Herman Wouk (sequel to Winds of war; best WWII epics you'll ever read.

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I've never read any Proust, but I did read quite a bit of Shakespeare. Other than that, I have read:

 

1984 & Animal Farm

Fahrenheit 451

Brave New World

Les Miserables

Lord of the Flies

Beowulf

Canterbury Tales (what's left of them)

Catcher in the Rye

a crapload of Mark Twain

and a whole bunch of other stuff in AP English when I was in HS.

 

One I would recommend against reading is 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Maybe it was just me, but it was pretty much the most boring book I've ever read.

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"Classics" I've read (and remember off the top of my head):

 

Crime and Punishment

The Brothers Karamazov

War and Peace

Dead Souls

Leaves of Grass

The Great Gatsby

Moby Dick

East Of Eden

Naked Lunch

On The Road

The Caine Mutiny

1984

Animal Farm

Player Piano

Slaughterhouse 5

The Stranger

Post Office

Tropic of Capricorn

The Old Man and the Sea

Principles of Mathematics - (Russell)

Republic

Lord of the Flies

Catcher in the Rye

Of Mice and Men

White Fang

Huck Finn

Catch 22

A people's history of the united states - zinn

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What? No love for Beowolf?
:confused:

 

Prepare for me to impart some knowledge on Grendel and Grendel's Mother. . . on second thought, I know a lot of you (like myself) are at work right now and it would be best if you stayed awake, so I will refrain.

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Scarlett Letter - Hawthorne

Executioner's Song - Mailer

Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck

Rabbit Run - Updike

Catch 22 - Heller

To Kill A Mockingbird - Lee

In Cold Blood - Capote

Nausea - Sartre

No Exit - Sartre

Walden - Thoreau

Native Son - Wright

People's History of the U.S.- Zinn

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I've just started in Brideshead Revisited by Waugh, and I still need to make a start in Ulysses by Joyce.

 

To compensate for this, I have read every novel Thomas Hardy has ever written at least twice, including his biographies by Gittings and Millgate.

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I've just started in Brideshead Revisited by Waugh, and I still need to make a start in Ulysses by Joyce.


To compensate for this, I have read every novel Thomas Hardy has ever written at least twice, including his biographies by Gittings and Millgate.

 

Is that the same Thomas Hardy that made the really really fine ale? I believe it is. Dayum. :wave:

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Nah. Grapes of Wrath holds that Title.

 

I would reccommend however, The Great Gatsby, the Old Man and the Sea and Alas Babylon.

 

 

All Classics, all great books. Three of my favorites. There are a ton of others though.

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