|
Register | Blogging | Search | Today's Posts | Mark Forums Read |
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
08-09-2016, 06:43 PM | #1 (permalink) | |||
Music Addict
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: The Organized Mind
Posts: 2,044
|
Happy National Book Lovers Day! Share your favorite titles here!
Happy National Book Lovers Day! Here are some of my all-time favorite books. What are yours?
Spoiler for Image 1:
IMAGE 1:
Spoiler for Image 2:
Spoiler for Image 3:
Spoiler for Image 4:
I would LOVE to see your favorite books in celebration of Book Lovers Day! I've no doubt this community has some fascinating titles to share.
__________________
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
|
|||
08-09-2016, 10:39 PM | #2 (permalink) | |
carpe musicam
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Les Barricades Mystérieuses
Posts: 7,710
|
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
__________________
Quote:
"it counts in our hearts" ?ºº? “I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.” Jack Kerouac. “If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.” Aristotle. "If you tried to give Rock and Roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'." John Lennon "I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous." Keith Richards |
|
08-10-2016, 09:29 AM | #4 (permalink) |
OQB
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Frownland
Posts: 8,831
|
No book has ever hit me like 1984 when I read it a few years back. Easily my favourite novel.
__________________
Music Blog / RYM / Last.fm / Qwertyy's Journal of Music Reviews and Other Assorted Ramblings |
08-10-2016, 09:35 AM | #5 (permalink) | ||
midnite roles around
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: Raleigh, NC
Posts: 5,295
|
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee Night - Elie Weisel Brave New World - Aldous Huxley I think most of these authors are dead.
__________________
YW Fam: All MB Music Projects Under One Roof Emo/Pop Punk Journal Techno Journal Quote:
Quote:
Last edited by Tristan_Geoff; 08-10-2016 at 02:02 PM. |
||
08-10-2016, 11:08 AM | #6 (permalink) |
SOPHIE FOREVER
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: East of the Southern North American West
Posts: 35,541
|
Ray Bradbury is so goddamned overrated. He can go to hell.
Nice list ISB, Cage is always a good read. One quintessential book I haven't seen listed yet is Sebald's Rings of Saturn. A man goes on a walking tour in Suffolk and that's about it, but it blends together fact, fiction, history, and memoir very seamlessly. Also, the language is stupid beautiful.
__________________
Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. |
08-10-2016, 01:49 PM | #7 (permalink) |
Primo Celebate Sexiness
Join Date: Apr 2014
Posts: 2,662
|
The majority of my favorites are classic novels from before the 1920's. But I still like some of the new stuff.
1. Tarzan of the Apes 2. Frankenstien 3. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 4. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 5. Solaris 6. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (this is a kids' book?) 7. Catherine, Called Birdy 8. Three Days in April (hyped for the spin-off) I'm not much of a bookworm, though. Other greats IMO are Jurassic Park and The Firm and The Book of Three. I wanna say the first LOTR, but I just can't get into them. Tolkein rambles off-topic a bit too much.
__________________
I'm a pretty nice troll if you ask me. |
08-10-2016, 07:02 PM | #8 (permalink) | |
Zum Henker Defätist!!
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Beating GNR at DDR and keying Axl's new car
Posts: 48,199
|
__________________
Quote:
|
|
08-10-2016, 07:28 PM | #9 (permalink) | ||||
Music Addict
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: The Organized Mind
Posts: 2,044
|
Quote:
I haven't read Mrs. Frisby but the film is fantastically dark as well. It made a lasting impression on me as a lad. I definitely need a copy of Solaris in English. I'll have to look up how early on that was translated. I know the Russian novel, We took several decades. And regarding Frankenstein, my copy sports what is perhaps the least appropriate cover artwork of any edition I've found. Did they even read the damn thing?
__________________
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
|
||||
08-10-2016, 07:32 PM | #10 (permalink) | |
Zum Henker Defätist!!
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Beating GNR at DDR and keying Axl's new car
Posts: 48,199
|
^^^
Yeah he's a linguist/historian before a writer, which shows in the pacing of the second two books, but his mythos and its presentation is one of the most important artistic achievements of this century. He's like if Ayn Rand had written Atlas Shrugged but didn't forget to make his story entertaining.
__________________
Quote:
|
|
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|