lol thanks bixa! I think I wouldn't mind spending some time there!
I can stay here indefinitely, but I'm buying furniture from someone who has to be out on the 25th so I'd rather not hire a truck on 2 occasions. I would rather do it all on one day. Worst comes to worst I spend more money than I like - not good, because my rent costs are skyrocketing with this move.
spindrift - the Wasteland - that's cool. I thought about putting that down but it's been sooo long. I'm also reminded that I haven't submitted my wildcard list yet lol ... soon I hope!
I knew something was up as I hadn't seen you on here as much, EC. I thought perhaps in the midst of finals,papers to write etc. Yes,you are welcome here too.!! Good luck with this! And don't worry about this,we're not going anywhere,and it will give Spindrift a chance to catch up with us.
Van Gogh's letters are great, aren't they, Jazz? Thank you for reminding me of them.
Some of the (non-juvenile) books I've read at least twice, the literary equivalent of comfort food, and would be glad to read once more: 1. Much of Faulkner 2. The Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brien 3. Anything about Jeeves, Bertie, Uncle Fred, Psmith, or Blandings Castle. 4. All Jane Austen 5. Vanity Fair
OK I got stuck on the non-fiction section but finally got a list! The only thing that was constant was the first one.
1. The Wasteland and Other poems, TS Eliot (I dont know if there are different versions of this but the one with Preludes in!) 2. A Testament to Youth, Vera Brittain 3. On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin 4. Shakespeare's Wife, Germaine Greer 5. Aspects of the Novel, EM Forster
Wildcards, with children's books but would love a section for them alone!
1. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist, Robert Hargreaves 2. The Book Theif, Marcus Zusak 3. My Life, Isadora Duncan 4. Peter Pan, JM Barry 5. When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, Judith Kerr
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen Yes 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien Yes 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Yes 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling Yes 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee Yes 6 The Bible Bits but only the King James version for the language 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Yes 8 1984 - George Orwell Yes 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman No 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Yes 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott Yes 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy Yes 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller Yes 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare Some 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier Yes 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien Yes 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk No 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger Yes 19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger No 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot Yes 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell Yes 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald Yes 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens Yes 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy Yes 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Yes 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh Yes 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Yes 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck Yes 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll Yes 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame No 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy Yes 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Yes 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis Yes 34 Emma - Jane Austen Yes 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen Yes 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis Yes - it's a repeat - see 33 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein Yes 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres Yes 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden Yes 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne No 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell Yes 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown Yes but under protest 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Yes 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving No 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins No 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery Yes 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy Yes 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood No 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding Yes 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan No 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel No 52 Dune - Frank Herbert Yes 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons No 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen Yes 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth Yes 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon No 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Yes 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley Yes 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon No 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Yes (my personal favourite of his works) 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck Yes 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov No 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt No 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold Yes 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas No 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac Yes 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy Yes 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding Yes 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie No 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville Yes 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens Yes 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker No 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett No 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson Yes 75 Ulysses - James Joyce No 76 The Inferno - Dante Yes 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome No 78 Germinal - Emile Zola No 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackerays Yes 80 Possession - AS Byatt No 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens Yes 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell No 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker Yes 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro Yes 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert Yes 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry Yes 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White No 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom No 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Yes 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton No 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad Yes 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery No 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks No 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams Yes 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole No 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute No 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas No 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare Yes 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory No 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo No
I think my count is 65. I have always meant to read Ulysses and in fact it was my New Year's Eve resolution in 1999 to read it before 2000.
There are a few doubles in there & some which I don't feel belong at all.
My deepest apologies and twenty lashes for me. I got all excited after reading the first page and didn't finish reading until after I posted the above. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
1. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist, Robert Hargreaves 2. The Book Theif, Marcus Zusak 3. Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill 4. Peter Pan, JM Barry 5. When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, Judith Kerr
I changed no.3 as this book popped into my head over the weekend and I couldn't stop thinking that it Shuld have been included. Not sure if I swapped the right one, oh well.
Don't think I can do this all at one go but hmmm lets see if I can just come up with a few:
1. Lucifer's Hammer - Larry Niven 2. A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Both Sci Fi, both expressions of the fears and concerns of this modern age, to my mind.
3. On the Road – Jack Kerouac 4. Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell 5. All Quiet on the Western Front 6. The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams 7. Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls 8. Death Be Not Proud - John J. Gunther - this really touched me as I was about the boy's age when reading it (he struggles with and eventually dies of a brain tumor)
Hm well I'm stumped for now by my question is...where are we going to be keeping this library and when do I move in? I'm a fast reader, all I need is a lamp and a big comfy chair!
Existentia has a life outside of this forum, plus she recently moved house. It's been discussed at length about a "time limit" for whatever list she ultimately produces. The consensus was that she was most generous to take on this thread, is doing a great job, and everyone is enjoying the thread the way it's going & is in no hurry to see it end.
I don't see it as an end, bixa. I see it as the beginning of a whole collection of new books to add to my reading list. But I apologize for appearing to be pushing too hard. I hope this thread - or another like it - continues after the big list is published.
But I am looking forward to the part where we get to rate the books on the list, and come up with a weighted list of sorts.
I think it would be interesting ... for AnyPort to make our own list of must-read books....
....how would we do that? Do you all want to hammer out a format, then have someone start a thread to make and discuss our list?
What if we decided on a deadline for each person to submit a very short list of must-reads? Then we could publish our lists simultaneously on the agreed-upon date. Having a short list would allow for easier comparison and discussion of the lists. Then the results would be grouped into the beginning of a master list, and we'd have another deadline to submit a second list, a third, etc., until we felt we had a sufficiently lengthy, solid list to send out into the world.
That would be one way of doing it. Who has other ideas, please?
I would say that each person's list should consist only of books that the person had actually read. Also, collections (Shakespeare, or the source work of any religion, for instance) should be allowed with the understanding that the submitter had not read every word of the collection. Instead of a test list of how well-read one is, we'd be making a library list of books essential to an imaginary home library.
I am reviving this thread in the hopes of building on the beginning of a list of Any Porters' favorite books that was going great guns when existentialcrisis "moved house" a year ago and dropped out of site. (That was an unintentional typo that turned out to be apropos.)
Though the thread began as a list of "must-reads" for the well-read, it fairly quickly morphed into a list of our favorite books.
Is there interest among the readers on Any Port in continuing the great beginning made by bixa, tillystar, existential crisis, and so many others, to produce a list of our best-reads or must-reads?
I was hoping that the nominees that had already been posted in the thread could be assembled in one place, perhaps in a new thread with a poll where we could vote for our favorites.
Anyone else like to see this happen? If so, chime in here. And if anyone wants to take on the task of making it happen, please step forward. Otherwise I will try to do it, but keep in mind that I am a horrible procrastinator, and also have a semi-retired husband competing for my attention and my internet time.
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