Book Opinion Needed Pleeeease.

[moon_dancing]

Give me a list of the top, say...ten books you think I should read before I die.

No need to put any HP books on the list, of course. But feel free to put something someone else may have already listed. The more I see it, the more I'll be sure to read it if I haven't already. =)

Thank you very much, I appreciate your help.

Soon, I'll actually update rather than keep asking for favors. *winks*

Comments

[white-tulips.livejournal.com]

Heeeey haven't heard from you in a while! I've actually just surfaced from my intent efforts in the college process and lo and behold, you updated! Anyway, I think I'm prety much done with chapter 9. Do you think you'll be able to look it over next week?

As for the books and in no specific order...
1. Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
2. Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment
3. Nabokov's Lolita (one of the best books I've ever read)
4. Sophie Kinsella's Confessions of a Shopoholic series (I kid you not, and you'll fall in love with Luke Brandon. Best beach books EVER)
5. F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
6. Sophocles' Oedipus Rex plays
7. Homer's Odyssey
8. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
9. Dante's Divine Comedy (I've only read excerpts, but they're all brilliant, so I'm assuming the rest of the 'series' is as well)
10. And, on a more childish note, Lewis Caroll's Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass

Kisses

[moon-dancing.livejournal.com]

Heeeey you. Yes, I received your email and I should be able to have it back to you by sometime this weekend if not before. I'll try to make that my "yay, I did some work, time for a break" item while working on my paper for class. =)

Ohh! Lovely book suggestions! I've actually read 1,2,5,6, and 10 but it's been aaaagges. And I've read Frankenstein a million times. One of my faves for sure. I actually tried to watch the movie, the classic from 1930 something with that Boris guy and couldn't do because it's too far off from the book. Adam just laughed at me. I got through the first...oh, five minutes and stopped. Thank you for the list, darling. I do appreciate your opinions.

Love to ya and I'll try to get Ch 9 back to you asap.
*hugs*

[white-tulips.livejournal.com]

Yay! Okay, perfect. I actually don't need it back until like mid-next week, but as soon as possible's always fab. (My goal is to update by the end of the first full week of December.)

Oh, yay! I'm glad. BAAAH I LOVE FRANKENSTEIN! It's like physically impossible to not sympathize for the monster, especially when he's living in the hut... And yes, the movie's absolutely terrible, it's so far off the book, it might as well have a completely different title.

Anytime, Miss. &hearts

[christycorr]

I second all of those, except for 4 and 8, which I've never read. *grins* Oh, have you read Catcher in the Rye?

[white-tulips.livejournal.com]

Aaah you must read Frankenstein. It's seriously a classic, and mustn't be overlooked. Shopoholic isn't exactly a necessity, but if you're ever in the mood for a beach book slash something really, really funny and a bit fluffy, it's definitely the book for you.

Yep, I had to read Catcher for summer reading before eighth grade. I wasn't too fond of it then because I'd read it while we were college tripping for my sister, but I think that if I took it out and read it again now, I'd be much more appreciative of it. I always think of his question every winter, though. "Where do the ducks go?"

[moon-dancing.livejournal.com]

Catcher in the Rye = gooood book.

[christycorr]

Colleen McCullough - Torn Birds
Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway (Michael Cunningham - The Hours)
Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting
Philip Roth - American Pastoral
J. R. R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings (*grins*)
Marion Zimmer Bradley - Mists of Avalon
Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett - Good Omens
Alexander Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo

Oh, this is hard!

[moon-dancing.livejournal.com]

Ohh! Did I challenge you?!?! I was hoping you'd reply to this. *grins* I've started the LotR but never finished them (not that they weren't good, it's just that I kept stopping and asking Adam references from the movies like soandso was this character, right? and he got annoyed so I stopped. lol). And I read The Count of Monte Cristo in a class a long time ago. Otherwise I've not read any on your list.

I will check them out.

Thank you for your opinions. =)

*love*

[christycorr]

You did. *grins* Oh, forget the movies when you read LotR--it's much more thriling that way. If Adam grows tired, though, you can always ask me! *grins* Oh, the Count was the book of my childhood--that and La reine Margot. I've reread so many of Dumas' works since then that they're almost second nature to me or something. I still have a hard time thinking of French history without mixing up his plotlines with actual historical events.

Please do! You'll probably enjoy them =)

You're welcome!

[christycorr]

Jesus Christ! *headdesk* *headdesk* *headdesk*

Thorn Birds. THORN Birds. How could I misspell that? THORN, damn it.

[moon-dancing.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay, THAT I've heard of. *laughs*

[twinsuns.livejournal.com]

I'm in the process of re-reading the LotR series right now! I just finished The Hobbit for the first time ever.

♥

[christycorr]

Ooh! What do you think of it? =)

[moon-dancing.livejournal.com]

Did you enjoy the Hobbit? If I do decide to attempt at reading it again, when should I? Before I read LotR or after?

[twinsuns.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I don't know if I'll hit ten, but I'll just throw titles out there...

If you like Science Fiction--and even if you don't--why not try out:
Ender's Game (and the rest of those series) by Orson Scott Card.*

If you'd prefer some [original] fantasy (not stuff that is practically LotR fanfiction), check out:
The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan. (But start with book one, The Eye of the World, rather than the Prequel novel, New Spring.)*
The 10th Kingdom, by Simon Moore. (This one is hilarious--oringinaly a 10-hour TV show, but still a wonderful twist on those old Grimm stories. Highly recommended for a shorter, but thoroughly enjoyable, read.)*
His Dark Materials Series, by Philip Pullman

Want something more modern? Why not
American Gods by Neil Gaimon
A Thousand Little Pieces by James Frey.

Or, a classic?
Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky*
American Gods, by Neil Gaimon
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen*
East of Eden, John Steinbeck*
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner*

Hmm, I know there are more... but enjoy!

*=my very favorite

♥

[christycorr]

His Dark Materials! I should finish that. I read the first book aeons ago... Hmm.

Neil Gaiman is love. *grins*

Oh! Science fiction! How could I forget? Missy, if you haven't read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, you should do so. ASAP!

[moon-dancing.livejournal.com]

I haven't actually read it *as she looks up and stares at the book*. It was one of Adam's favorites and he forced me to watch the movie multiple times. It was already on my 'to read' list.

=)

[twinsuns.livejournal.com]

Yeah, don't you just love that personal daemon idea?

[moon-dancing.livejournal.com]

Do you realize you rec'd over ten? *grins*

I've actually only read Crime and Punishment, and Pride and Prejudice on your list. I've read William Faulkner, but only some of his short stories and I've heard of a few others, notably John Steinbeck's East of Eden.

You've definitely given me a list full of books that have sparked my interest. I think I'll give them a go. =)

Thank you, luv.

[twinsuns.livejournal.com]

I realized two things as I was trying to go to sleep last night:

1) I thought of another book: Les Miserables by Victor Hugo.

2) I am an idiot. Next time we're both on AIM, I can send you the audio books for Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Hobbit, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow (to be read after Ender's Game), and even the opening chapters of Eye of the World. Heh...

♥

[moon-dancing.livejournal.com]

Oh! I've always wanted to see the Broadway show, heh, never thought of reading the book.

Mm, I'll have to be sure to remind you of that. *grin*

[white-tulips.livejournal.com]

Okay so I'm doing my history reading and saw 'research on blood-plasma technology and on antibacterial sulfa drugs progressed rapidly,' which randomly made me think of another book. Lol. If you haven't read To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee yet, you must do so PRONTO.

Kk. Back to Post '45.

[moon-dancing.livejournal.com]

Read the book - check
Seen the movie - check
Seen the play - check

Classic that can't be ignored, good ole Boo.

Now, how did reading 'research on blood-plasma...' lead you to Mockingbird?

Nvm. Momentarily forgot who I was talking to. *grin*

[gekko-chick.livejournal.com]

Read Ender's Game! (Just to re-iterate what I already said, because I'm procrastinating, because studying is boring. See? Look at what studying all day has done to my sentence structure!)

Orson Scott Card also has a book called Enchantment, which is much more Fantasy-ish. It's not as good as Ender's Game, but if you're really not a sci-fi person then it might be more enjoyable.

Oh, and I liked Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, if you haven't read it.
I liked it better than Da Vinci's Code actually.

[moon-dancing.livejournal.com]

You are the third person this week, not including my best friend's boyfriend who tells me everytime I see him, to read Angels and Demons and that it's way better than DaVinci's Code.

I think I better read it. =)

(yeah, that whole studying thing - there are so many way better things to do *wink*)