What are your "MUST READ" books?

[faust]

Do you like Milan Kundera?

I am reading [SIZE=-1]Immortality and it is quite boring and slow-gaited...
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You are joking, right?

 

[Lily530]

Memoirs of Cleopatra

 

[ultramarine]

Hum ... I still like "Alice in wonderland" and "Alice through the looking glass" ... I really do.

For poetry I go for Machado and for short stories Gustavo Adolfo Becquer ...

I love Jane Austen novels to no end and really appreciate Salman Rushdie's work ...

Cant sleep? Read "The origin of species" by Darwin ... some stuff is a bit boring but you'll be the cool guy who read and is able to chat about it at parties.

 

[ultramarine]

double post ...sowy!

 

[Shevchenko1]

Perfumer by Patric Zuskind

 

[twilight fairy]

Yes, I am repetetive but my favourite book is The Catcher in the Rye. It's helped me quite a bit - read it especially if you're a teenager.

Read Russian literature! It's beautiful! Most of it, anyhow..

 

[cheiby11]

You are joking, right?

No! Maybe the translation is better than original...

But I like another of his novels - The Joke

 

[Shevchenko1]

From Russian literature...softly-softly and easily...Evgeniy Grishkovec "shirt "

 

[faust]

Even though we have a thread like this I'll post again, just because i love literature


The Little Prince - Exupery
Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
The Fall - Camus
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Kundera
Immortality - Kundera
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson
Catcher in the Rye - Salinger

These are the absolute faves, tier 2 is much bigger

 

[twilight fairy]

From Russian literature...softly-softly and easily...Evgeniy Grishkovec "shirt "

I've never read this..Actually I've never read any Grishkovec, ahh, shame on me. But I'll improve!

Master and Margarita by Bulgakov is absolutely brilliant. I don't understand how some people find it really difficult to read though.

I've got to add Burgees' A Clockwork Orange for the quirky style of writing..

 

[eternitygoddess]

By Judith McNaught (must reads for all romance fans

Paradise
Something Wonderful

 

[cheiby11]

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude

 

[tiffany]

- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- The Famished Road by Ben Okri
- 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Haroon and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

 

[Tushka_BeLLa]

The Millionaire Code

 

[green.tea]

The Catcher in the Rye
Mrs. Dalloway
House of Leaves
Anna Karenina
Pride & Prejudice
Lord of the Flies

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

what a great taste in books!

 

[katy]

"Into Thin Air" by John Krakauer - its an account of the May 1996 or 1997 ( cant remember offhand!) disaster on Everest when a massive storm hit the top of the mountain and at least eight people were killed on the same day. Sounds a little gloomy perhaps but it is an amazing account and deals a lot with the ethics of mountain climbing and what drives people to climb mountains and go into the "death zone".

I also really liked The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold and The Perfrect Storm by Sebastian Junger - much better that the George Clooney film honest.

 

[LoveMyBoots]

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I also really liked The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold and The Perfrect Storm by Sebastian Junger - much better that the George Clooney film honest.

I found that book a bit overrated. I could go on and on about how intially I thought the book was good/average and came to loathe it, but I won't. :innnocent:

 

[Brazilian Girl]

- "The Lord of The Rings" trilogy - by J.R.R. Tolkien
- "Animal Liberation" - by Peter Singer
- "Rachel's Holiday" - by Marian Keys
- "Stargirl" - by Jerry Spinelli
- "Angels and Demons" - by Dan Brown
- "The Hobbit" - by J.R.R. Tolkien
- "100 years of Solitude" - Gabriel García Marquez
- "The Hours" - Michael Cunningham
- and the "Harry Potter" series cause they're so much fun

 

[cheiby11]

Virginia Woolf

 

[CharlottefromCA]

Some of my Favorite Books..

- The Count of Monte Cristo
- The Great Gatsby
- The Catcher in the Rye
- Sula
- A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
- Wuthering Heights
- Pride & Prejudice
- Harry Potter Series

And the books my friend keeps telling me to read that I will when I have time... DaVinci Code, Kiterunner