What do you read?

[nico3d]

ok there's already a thread about what we do listen
now let's start one about what do we read

here's a list of my fave books

The unbearable lightness of being - Milan Kundera
The joke - Milan Kundera
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
Steppen Wolf - Herman Hesse
Thus spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
Memoirs of a geisha - Arthur Golden
The city of joy - Dominique Lapierre
A fine balance - Rohinton Mistry
Dalai Lama's books.
Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
Gabriel García Máquez books, All of them (don't know the names in English)
Julio Cortázar (idem above)
Man and his symbols - Carl G. Jung
The shining - Stephen King
7 years in Tibet - Heinrich Harrer
Letters from Burma - Aung Sang Suu Kyi
The firm - Johnn Grisham

[Jyncus]

I read anything by Michael Crichton..
Started with his Jurrasic Park back in '94 or whenever, and just went through all of his books one at a time.
The most recent being Prey which is a fascinating book on the possibilities and developments of nano technology. =]

I also read a lot of Stephen King (Heh, The Shining..mmm, one of my favs) books.
And lastly, philosophy.. I enjoy reading theological philosophy - The Divine Comedy, Dante's Inferno, etc. Very interesting stuff.
:)

[Drizzt]

Everything that is related to forgotten realms especialy about Drizzt Do'Urden.

[Torlok2002]

negative utopia's


1984 by George Orwell
Brave new world by Aldous Huxley

[Mike-3DT]

To Kill a Mocking bird - Harper Lee
The catcher in the rye - J D Salinger
Shogun - James Clavell
The adventures of cavalier & clay - Michael chabon
The Tao of Pooh (one of my absolute favourites) Benjamin Hoff
Lord of the Rings
Harry Potter (yeah I know, but they are good fun.)
Of Mice & Men - John Steinbeck
Orwell& huxley as above,
Do androids dream of electric sheep - (blade runner) Phillip K Dick
pretty much anything by Clive Barker or Niel Gaiman
definately everything by Douglas Adams

[ross_coe]

Favourite book of all time....Lord of the Rings (worked thru it 5 times now).
Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales and other Tolkien books.
Iain Banks (fiction) or Iain M Banks (science fiction)......Use of Weapons, The Bridge, Song of Stone and Complicity (sick) are great books.
Used to read a lot of Terry Pratchett too. The Weatherwax/Ogg tales were good :)
Ian Gouldings The Inheritors was a good book too.
To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee.
Geralds Game by Stephen King (only S.King book I've read :p)

I keep meaning to get a copy of 1984 by George Orwell too.

[Sessy]

Victor Hugo, Les Miserable

Georg Bí±Ží¸®er, Dantons Tod

Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

William Shakespear, Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet

Pushkin's stories are good, his poetry is worthless if you ask me, no idea why it's so famous. Bb|CTPE/\ for example is all psychological.

All in the language and form it was written in by the way.


OH OH OH I FORGOT!

Semyonov, Julian
crime and spy novel writers, but all very thoroughly researched, of a level I'd not seen elsewhere in crime and spy novels.
read more: http://www.sovlit.com/spies/17moments.html

[Chris-3DT]

Johann Wolfang von Goethe: Faust. Der Tragödie erster Teil.

Franz Kafka: Das Schloss; Der Process; Der Verschollene.

Georg Büchner: Lenz

Paul Auster: The New York Trilogy

Max Frisch: Mein Name sei Gantenbein; Homo Faber; Stiller

J.R.R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings

Arno Schmidt: Zettels Traum.


and many others...

I'm studying general and Comapring Literature Sciences (Comparatistics) in Germany :)

[geoMan]

oh man...too many....cant name all of them...

Tolkien, Rowling, Dickens, Bronte sisters, Asimov and so many....dont tempt me write all of them!:D

[CountZero]

Funny, I lost all interest in LotR when they made the movies. Anyway, I got a few new favourites:

Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive - William Gibson
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
HItchikers Guide to the Universe - Douglas Adams

If you like science fiction the Neuromancer triology is a must!

[Profane]

...well:
Charles Baudelaire
Bruce Chatwins
Sigmund Freud
Micheal Moore (He rocks!!!)
Noam Chomsky (Must read this author)
Arthur Schopenhauer
Karl Marx
Giacomo Leopardi (1700 italian author)....
don't remember anything else....

[Chris-3DT]

Originally posted by Profane
...well:
Charles Baudelaire
Bruce Chatwins
Sigmund Freud
Micheal Moore (He rocks!!!)
Noam Chomsky (Must read this author)
Arthur Schopenhauer
Karl Marx
Giacomo Leopardi (1700 italian author)....
don't remember anything else....


Chomsky, was it literature or language sciences that he wrote about?

[nico3d]

what makes chomsky so good, profane?

[RodrigoRosa]

sigmund froid, umberto eco, karl max, william shakespeare (an incredible poet), fiodor Dostoïevsky... i like a lot philosophy

[Profane]

Originally posted by Chris-3DT
Chomsky, was it literature or language sciences that he wrote about?
yes...but he is also a philosopher and journalist ...I dunno in english...a 'critic'...He wrote 'American Power and the New Mandarins' and something about 9-11 and terrorism...(I mean he wrote a lot of books...the ones I quoted here are just my favourite)

[the_solidshadow]

aahh, i've read a lot of books, but the one im reading atm is Robinson Crusoe it's a cool book....

[RodrigoRosa]

right now i'm reading The Name Of The Rose of Umberto Eco... you guys must have seen it on the movie theaters (1993) with Sean Connery, Chirstian Slater.... direct by Jean-Jacques Annaud

[Chris-3DT]

I'm currently working on a little analysis of Kader Abdolah's De reiis van de lege flessen (The journey of empty bottles).
For that I also have to read Shakespears The Tempest and Persian mythology.

Umberto Eco's book is on my soon-to-read list just as many others...

[Downup]

I have NEVER read a book in my life.. Okey maybe

A red car

A blue car

A blue dog

A red cat..

When i was little :)

[Sessy]

Originally posted by the_solidshadow
aahh, i've read a lot of books, but the one im reading atm is Robinson Crusoe it's a cool book....

Dare I disagree?

I've read it in Russian translation many years ago - when I was 6 approximately, - a translation for adults though. I thought it good at the time.


I got myself a Penguin classics version in English of it now and it is extremely boring, the descriptions are outrageously long - at least Victor Hugo's ones are philosophical, as opposed to these.
I could probably find it interesting again in a shortened version - the endless chapter for example where he's thrown ashore and swims to and fro the ship to get supplies ("I furnish myself with many things") can be summarized: I saw the ship, the beach was real flat, so I built myself a raft and on each attempt I got closer and closer to the ship, although the tides interefered sometimes. When I got aboard, I was griefed, for I saw that had we stayed aboard, we would all have been safe. I got everything out of the ship that I could, weapons, carpenter's tools, clothing, food, gunpowder, and then a storm made it impossible to get anything more.


It's sooooo boring.

[-En-]

At the moment I'm reading Dostoyevsky's (did i spell that right?) "Crime and Punishment" for school, but I'm also reading George Orwell's "1984" and a novel called "Invisible Monsters" by Chuck palahniuk (yes, i'm reading 3 book at once).

My 2 favorite authors are easilly Chuck Palahniuk and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Cats Cradle Is one of my all time favorite books).

[Chris-3DT]

Äîñòîåâñêè would be the right spelling. Switch the code to: Cyrillics (Windows), to see this.

I've read half through it and had to shelf it to read other texts. I'll pick it up sometime soon, I think.

Liz, Robison Crusoe (and Melville's Moby Dick) are known to be just a tad too detailed. ;) It is what we can take out of them that should encourage us to read them anyway. But you know that of course. :halo:

[Sessy]

Originally posted by Chris-3DT
Äîñòîåâñêè would be the right spelling. Switch the code to: Cyrillics (Windows), to see this.

You forgot the jot at the end of the word, which is omnipresent when a male's name ends on i.

observe: http://www.belletrist.ru/images/peoplimages/zzlimag/grossman-dostoevski.jpg

[Chris-3DT]

Perhaps I shouldn't have looked it up on a bulgarian site :D

[RodrigoRosa]

Originally posted by -En-
At the moment I'm reading Dostoyevsky's (did i spell that right?) "Crime and Punishment" for school

i've already read 'Crime and Punishmente' and i found it amazing...

[niki]

I don't read books anymore, they are too much long and I leave always them to half...
once I have started to read David Copperfield of Charls Dickens... but it was so boring... I find boring the books of Hermann Hesse
I love Edgar Allan Poe...( many think that the yellow kind is literature of low level... I believe that it is stimulating for the reason)...
however I love very much the scientific magazines of astronomy and astrophysics...