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    Top ten works of literature ever?

    What are the top ten works of fiction ever written?
    Without going into too much thought on it, I'll rattle off my own list to hopefully stir some discussion.

    Tolstoy - War and Peace
    Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
    Cervantes - Don Quixote
    Shakespeare - Hamlet
    Melville - Moby ****
    Dickens - David Copperfield
    F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
    Gugol - Dead Souls
    Kafka - Metamorphosis
    Twain - Huckleberry Finn

    Well, I'm sure I left off an obvious choice or two, so let's hear Apolyton's picks.
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    Re: Top ten works of literature ever?

    Communist Manifesto
    Eventis is the only refuge of the spammer. Join us now.
    Long live teh paranoia smiley!

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    • #3
      Re: Re: Top ten works of literature ever?

      Originally posted by Tassadar5000
      Communist Manifesto
      well that definitely fits monkspider's criteria as being a work of fiction.....
      "I'm moving to the Left" - Lancer

      "I imagine the neighbors on your right are estatic." - Slowwhand

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      • #4
        Sme personal faves
        Crime & Punishment
        Brave New World (excluding second to last chapter - ewwww)
        Scarlet Letter
        the Tempest
        The Club Dumas
        Lord Of the Flies
        whatever… tons o' good stuff out there

        weird moment of the day - I'm listening to some philharmonic performance of silent night, supposedly, but it's got this theme from Scheherezade running all through it!
        "mono has crazy flow and can rhyme words that shouldn't, like Eminem"
        Drake Tungsten
        "get contacts, get a haircut, get better clothes, and lose some weight"
        Albert Speer

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        • #5
          Ok this is a combined effort from three of us. Myself, my husband and our friiend so here goes............in no particular order.

          1. War and Peace
          2. Shogun
          3. McBeth
          4. Charlotte's Web
          5. The Bible
          6. Grimm's Fairy Tales
          7. The Wizzard of Oz
          8. Myst of Avalon
          9. Romeo and Juliet
          10. To Kill A Mockingbird

          As you can see we've been having a bit of the holiday cheer alreaaaaaaADDDDDYYYYYYY!!
          Welcome to earth, my name is Tia and I'll be your tour guide for this trip.
          Succulent and Bejeweled Mother Goddess, who is always moisturised yet never greasy, always patient yet never suffers fools~Starchild
          Dragons? Yup- big flying lizards with an attitude. ~ Laz
          You are forgiven because you are FABULOUS ~ Imran

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          • #6
            I also feel that fairy tales should get a mention as well. My personal favorites are "Bluebeard" and "Sleeping Beauty". I'm currently in the process of writing a not so short story playing with the basic plot of Sleeping Beauty and… twisting it a bit.
            "mono has crazy flow and can rhyme words that shouldn't, like Eminem"
            Drake Tungsten
            "get contacts, get a haircut, get better clothes, and lose some weight"
            Albert Speer

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            • #7
              1. Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
              2. Brief history of time - Stephen Hawkwind
              3. Kama Sutra -Whoever wrote it
              4. 7 veljestä (7 brothers) - Aleksis Kivi
              5. Every book about checkoslovakian mole cartoon character - Zdenek Miler
              6. Contact - Carl Sagan
              7. Operation Finlandia (a book about the swedes attacking Finland in the summer 1974) - Arto Paasilinna
              8. All remaining books (about 20) written by Arto Paasilinna
              9. World Atlas - various writers
              10. HHGTTG and all it's sequels - Douglas Adams

              [edit] - oh my, how did I forget D. Adams...

              well, now it is fixed
              Last edited by aaglo; December 20, 2002, 04:48.
              I'm not a complete idiot: some parts are still missing.

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              • #8
                Fiction, eh? I suppose my list would seem somewhat unorthodox. I can't stand a lot of the "classics."

                George Orwell - "Burmese Days"
                Kurt Vonnegut - "Slaughterhouse 5"
                Joseph Heller - "Catch 22"
                Frank Herbert - "Dune"
                Isaac Asimov - "Foundation"
                Vernor Vinge - "A Deepness in the Sky"
                Douglas Adams - "Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
                Ursula K. Le Guin - "The Dispossessed"
                George R. R. Martin - "A Game of Thrones" (actually, every member of the the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series is excellent, but I'm singling out the first book)
                James Clavell - "Shogun"
                "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
                -Bokonon

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                • #9
                  Brief history of time - Stephen Hawkwind
                  I didn't know Hawking made all that up.
                  "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
                  -Bokonon

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                  • #10
                    Mostly Harmless was, in my opinion, more meaningful of a novel.
                    "mono has crazy flow and can rhyme words that shouldn't, like Eminem"
                    Drake Tungsten
                    "get contacts, get a haircut, get better clothes, and lose some weight"
                    Albert Speer

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                    • #11
                      I haven't gotten that far in the series yet. I've only read to book 4 (or maybe 3).
                      "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
                      -Bokonon

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                      • #12
                        I can only go by the ones that I have read. These are some of my favorites:

                        Gravity's Rainbow: Thomas Pynchon
                        Breakfast of Champions: Kurt Vonnegut,
                        Post Office: Charles Bukowski,
                        Skinny Legs and All: Tom Robbins,
                        Animal Farm: George Orwell,
                        Catch-22: Joseph Heller,
                        Lolita: Nabokov,
                        MacBeth: Shakespeare,
                        The Trial: Kafka,
                        The Sailor who Fell From Grace with the Sea: Yukio Mishima.

                        Does anyone else here enjoy reading T. C. Boyle?

                        I also like H.G. Wells and Jules Verne. I must have read The War of the Worlds and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, six or seven times each.

                        Currently I just started reading "The Hotel New Hampshire" by John Irving.
                        Last edited by MosesPresley; December 20, 2002, 04:43.
                        "In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
                        —Orson Welles as Harry Lime

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                        • #13
                          Ah, Brave New World, that is a great pick boyo. That reminds me of a book that should have been in my top ten, Zamyatin's "We".
                          Interesting picks, everyone.
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                          • #14
                            In no order

                            Céline- journey to the end of the night
                            Heller-catch 22
                            Huxley-brave new world
                            Vonnegut-Slaughterhouse 5
                            Orwell-1984
                            Solzjenitsin-In the first circle
                            Graves- I Claudius
                            Mailer-the naked and the dead
                            Adams-hitchiker
                            Eco- The name of the rose

                            and many others,.....
                            Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
                            Then why call him God? - Epicurus

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by MosesPresley
                              I can only go by the ones that I have read. These are some of my favorites:

                              Gravity's Rainbow: Thomas Pynchon
                              Didn't understand a flippin' word of it( needed a dictionairy, even to read it in dutch, closed it after about 10 pages :
                              The Trial: Kafka,
                              aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhh
                              This one put me of reading for 6 months,( picked it up again by reading Wilt(Sharpe) ), I did finish it though.
                              Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
                              Then why call him God? - Epicurus

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