Posted on 03/02/2022 9:20:32 AM PST by C19fan
Shakespeare’s work is of another genre and shouldn’t have been included in such a limited list. He should have replaced that entry with perhaps Kafka or Dostoevsky.
I wonder if I could make any money translating Ulysses into plain text.
11: Heffner “Playboy”
I couldn’t finish Ulysses,it was a book written with a thousand quotations from a thousand different books.
For me, the Hunchback is right up there. It’s hard to get through Hugo’s digressions, but the overall effect was that I was there somehow! I don’t see how anyone can “pretend” to read a novel!
That’s because communism is depressing! Ask the Cubans!
The only book on that list that everyone should read is "1984", and oops, it isn't on there. "Hamlet" is a play, not a book. As the drunk businessman character said in "Four Weddings and a Funeral", "I didn't go [to university] myself. I couldn't see the point. When you work in the money markets, what use is Wordsworth, eh?"
I’ve read 4, 5 and 9. I thought Gatsby was a little shallow.
Moby Dick I’ve been saving for retirement. I guess I should get cracking.
Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist were very good for their style and the emotion they evoked. Ulysses is like trying to climb a very tall mountain. After a while you feel "there's some fantastic views, but God, is it tiring." "Finnegans Wake" is like trying to climb Everest - without supplemental oxygen.
Good list, 2 (several times), 3, 4, 5, 7 ( twice, once in French), 9, and random pages of 10.
Surprised that Cervante’s Don Quixote, Dumas’ Three Musketeers, Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities, and anything Voltaire not in top ten.
And the Bible; Unless of course, the books were really read.
BTW , was a Science major, most of these were high school and undergraduate subjects.
WHAT?
No Jane Austen?..............
You are so on point there.
lius Ceasar by Shakespeare was a powerful emotional work.
Agree
The purpose of long Russian novels, is to give Russians something to do when snowed in for a week by a blizzard.
Never read any of them. I read a lot of Max Magazine though.
had to read em all in skrool
I have read 3, 4 and 5 only because they were reading assignments in college Literature class.
Who can forget Orwell’s Animal Farm (Some animals are more equal than others)?
Yup I found both Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist interesting, but balked at Ulysses after perusing the fist 50 pages or so. And never attempted Finnegan’s Wake because I had heard it was even more complex than Ulysses. After finishing Finnegan’s Wake didn’t Joyce remark “I expect you to spend your life on this”. No thanks, got better things to spend my time on and I’ll happily leave its interpretation and the explanation of its significance to others.
I have read:
1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 10
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