favorite book

[Imran Siddiqui]

Pointless? The point was that they were oppressed by a society constricting on love and our modern day values.

Imagine how you would feel if you weren't able to be publicly open with your love for your girlfriend, if you had a child by her and you couldn't even by that child's rightful father, if you had to hide your love from the world and live seperately from the woman you loved.

I think it's one of the biggest romances of the millenium.

Hence... I don't like romances . Give me something entertaining anyday. I don't want to hear about their 'feelings'. It bored me to tears and till this day I curse that horrid book and the waste of time it was.

[monolith94]

Hmmmm, I guess I'm just a *bit* more romantic than you are....

Ah well, as the romantic French say: "c'est la vie!" Remember though, it may have been a waste of time for you, but others have loved the book. Also, you can appreciate the fact that you know alot more about colonial society than you did before, such as the fact that you couldn't wear certain clothing if you were of a lower class, and so on...

[Imran Siddiqui]

I'm not saying I'm that I'm not the end all, be all, but I just hated it (and following the OP, wanted to burn it ).

Hmmmm, I guess I'm just a *bit* more romantic than you are....

Hopeless romantic perhaps . My g/f finds me to be plenty romantic.

Also, you can appreciate the fact that you know alot more about colonial society than you did before, such as the fact that you couldn't wear certain clothing if you were of a lower class, and so on...

Actually.... that is the first I heard of that. I'm serious when I say I didn't get anything out of that book. Got more of colonial society from The Crucible.

[devilmunchkin]

so many books....

hands down:
Dante' Alighieri's "inferno" (am currently adapting a screenplay from it. )

others:
Stephen King - It
Anne Rice - Cry to Heaven and Queen of the Damned

and yes....i really like the Scarlet Letter..hawthorne fans should check out his short story "Artist of the Beautiful"

My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Paradise Lost by John Milton
The Illiad and THe Oddyssey by Homer
The Aeniad by Virgil

[Imran Siddiqui]

DM, he said ONE book, not your entire collection .

[devilmunchkin]

with the size of my collection, that might as well be one book

[Imran Siddiqui]

That would be a big book, missy .

[devilmunchkin]

*shrugs* well...i am an english/writing major.

[Imran Siddiqui]

And what do you expect to do after school then? I'm sure that flipping burgers is not your first choice?

[devilmunchkin]

no. grad school. I'm taking a year off in between....if i WANTEd to i could go become a screen play writer right out of college...but i want to go get my master's and PHD. i'm hoping to find a year long internship after graduation so i can just get out of the school scene a year before i dive back into it......alot of my professors say this will stave off burn out..and i'm already burned out.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Ah, burn out. You just have to find other things (like Poly ) to counter the burn out.

Well, grad school is a damned good idea for an English major (really for any Liberal Arts major).

[Ramo]

I completely agree with Immy. I hated "The Scarlet Letter."

My fave would be "Homage to Catalonia" by Orwell.

I really love the "Songe of Ice and Fire" series by George R.R. Martin, though.

[Kassiopeia]

/me wonders if the DNA book A Salmon of Doubt has anything to do with the Celtic myth of the Salmon of Knowledge...

[S. Kroeze]

Re: so many books....

Originally posted by devilmunchkin
hands down:
Dante' Alighieri's "inferno" (am currently adapting a screenplay from it. )

others:
Stephen King - It
Anne Rice - Cry to Heaven and Queen of the Damned

and yes....i really like the Scarlet Letter..hawthorne fans should check out his short story "Artist of the Beautiful"

My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Paradise Lost by John Milton
The Illiad and THe Oddyssey by Homer
The Aeniad by Virgil

I am glad to notice that some people on Apolyton like to read a REAL book. Most seem to prefer rubbish, but this also applies for the public at large.
I find the idea to burn books disgusting. Only fascists burn books!

My favourites:
Homer: 'The Iliad', the greatest of all
The Bible -though a dark, dangerous and bloodthirsty book, the language is superb
Sophocles: 'Oedipus Rex' and 'Antigone'
Mahâbhârata, the epic of India
Tacitus: 'Annales', 'Historiae'
T'ang poetry by Wang Wei, Li Taibai, Du Fu and Bai Juyi
Béroul/G.von Strassburg: 'Tristan et Iseult' -the greatest love story ever invented
Dante: 'Divina comedia'
Shakespeare: 'Macbeth' and 'King Lear'
Tolstoy: 'War and Peace'

honourable mention:
Cervantes: 'Don Quijote'
Schiller: 'Maria Stuart'
L.Couperus: 'De boeken der kleine zielen' (The Small Souls), 1901-03
Proust: 'À la recherche du temps perdu'
Tolkien: 'The Silmarillion'

[Boris Godunov]

Literature: Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
(Runner up: Great Expectations - Charles Dickens)

Non-Fiction: A Night to Remember - Walter Lord
(Runner up: A Study of History - Alfred Toynbee)

Fiction: Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
(Runner up: The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson)

Bio: Lincoln - Gore Vidal
(Runner up: Brahms - Malcolm MacDonald)

Humor: Hitchhiker's Guide, of course!
(Runner up: Rush Limbaugh is a Big, Fat Idiot - Al Franken)