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FB Readers Book List ?????
| Thu, 03-27-2008 - 8:28am |
Reading the Submission thread has given me an idea...
A lot of books were discussed in that thread that I'd never heard of (the Story of O was the only one I knew).

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Lothiriel
Death: You get what everyone gets....you get a lifetime.....
Some good choices in there male...here are a few of my favorites of all time
"Tropic of Cancer" ~Henry Miller
"Under the Roofs of Paris" ~Henry Miller
"A Clockwork Orange" ~Anthony Burgess
"The Wanting Seed" ~Anthony Burgess
"The Divine Comedy" ~Dante
"The Kalevala" ~Anonomous (12th century Finnish epic)
"Beowulf" ~Anonomous
"Mans Search fo Meaning" ~Viktor Frankel
"Good Omens" ~ Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
"American Gods" ~Neil Gaiman
lol..thats enough for now!
Lothiriel
Death: You get what everyone gets....you get a lifetime.....
Is till read quite alot today. Not as much as I wish I had time for. I still try to take some time and read the serious stuff from all the greats. But I also take time to read some of the commercial best sellers.I know they are not very thought provoking and they have a perdictable formula for the plot but they are fun to read. There is a genre that I have been wanting to read for years and that is the Pulp Fiction of the 50s-60s. These books always had a risque title,( for the 50 60s)"shameless Honeymoon,The Virgin Barfly, H is for Herione, and many other cheesy titles.The covers always had a woman in a provocative pose..
Male65401
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Lothiriel
Death: You get what everyone gets....you get a lifetime.....
I have tried to get into the stuff you have mentioned but I just cant get into it. I cant even get into the Harry Potter books. Ihave not even read The Lord of the Rings trilogy.ihave tried and tried, just cant do it.
Male65401
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The sagas are great fun to read! I haven't read any in quite a few years, but I had great fun reading Njal's, Egil's and King Harald's Sagas and would love to read more of them (if time ever allowed!)
Right now, I'm going through a serious classical phase. I've been reading Thucydides history of the Pelopponesian War (kind of creepy how it parallels current events) and Livy's Early History of Rome.
I just recently finished "Like Hidden Fire" a very readable history of German efforts in WWI to stir up jihad in the Middle East and Afghanistan.
I'm also reading "The Railway Children" to my son.
Egil's saga is one of my favorites. There a book out there (quite thick) called "Sagas of Icelanders" that is an amazing collection of various sagas..I've read through it a bunch of times. I really got into reading about Thermopolye several years back..I had always been a fan of Frank Miller's 300 (this was way before the film was dreamed up) and that particular piece of Greek history has always intriqued me. I've been doing some reading on the Rom people recently as well, facinating culture.
More modern history doesn't interest me as much as the more ancient and medieval history. I feel modern hisotry mirrors so much the things that happened hundreds of years ago so much that I can't really get excited to read about it. Theres something so tangible about the older history, it affects me unlike modern history. My DH is a WW2 buff, he's facinated by artillery and war strategy, but I just could never get into it. I lose interest in history books once guns start appearing as the major weaponry used in warfare lol
Lothiriel
Death: You get what everyone gets....you get a lifetime.....
I agree with you, as I recall, Egil's Saga was the most cohesive (at least of the three I read). I first read the sagas back in HS. I was exploring epic literature at the time (especially epic poetry), it introduced me to a lot of really good stuff. I'll have to look for that collection.
My recent immersion in the Classics is largely due to my son. He was very interested in a book of Greek myths I read to him, so we started exploring together.
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