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Post by Mattsby on Dec 6, 2022 20:20:01 GMT
@jee_vuh
The Sight & Sound list but for books, let's see your ballots
This has been going around social media, anyone wanna go for it? Bit of trouble for me, haven't read all that many of the whatnot classics...
Idk I'd prob vote for ten of these fifteen:
Revolutionary Road - (Richard Yates)
Notes from Underground - (Dostoevsky)
Don Quixote - (Miguel de Cervantes)
Ten Ever-Lovin' Blue-Eyed Years With Pogo - (Walt Kelly)
Absalom, Absalom - (William Faulkner)
Moby Dick - (Herman Melville)
Pick-Up - (Charles Willeford)
The Lottery and Other Stores - (Shirley Jackson)
Stoner - (John Williams)
1984 - (George Orwell)
Memory - (Donald Westlake)
The Stranger - (Albert Camus)
A Judgement in Stone - (Ruth Rendell)
The Devil's Dictionary - (Ambrose Bierce)
Nightwood - (Djuna Barnes)
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Post by ibbi on Dec 6, 2022 21:15:45 GMT
YES! Blood MeridianCormac McCarthyThe Grapes of WrathJohn SteinbeckLes MiserablesVictor HugoOne Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel Garcia MarquezThe Executioner's SongNorman MailerAn American TragedyTheodore DreiserThe Confessions of Nat TurnerWilliam StyronRed DragonThomas HarrisItStephen KingThe JungleUpton SinclairFrankensteinMary Shelley |
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Post by DeepArcher on Dec 6, 2022 23:32:57 GMT
Sure, I'll take a stab at it. Though at lot like with the regular S&S top 10, I will never have something I'm completely satisfied with:
The Left Hand of Darkness (Le Guin)
To the Lighthouse (Woolf)
The Road (McCarthy)
Lincoln in the Bardo (Saunders)
As I Lay Dying (Faulkner)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez)
Wuthering Heights (Bronte)
In Cold Blood (Capote)
Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut)
Pale Fire (Nabokov)
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Post by countjohn on Dec 7, 2022 3:30:29 GMT
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
1984 by George Orwell
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Pretty basic but these things are classics for a reason. Lolita and Dracula were tough cuts.
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Post by SZilla on Dec 7, 2022 4:20:27 GMT
I didn't include any plays, as that could be a whole other list.
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
1984 by George Orwell
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Stuck to one per author and left a lot off that I love. Also kept it to fiction.
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 7, 2022 11:08:42 GMT
I'd probably cheat and include short story anthologies and a book of poetry......but that's because this list is far less immediate and deeply passionate to me than films or especially music.....but the ones that moved, challenged, shaped my thoughts the most - these days anyway....with apologies to those that just miss - something by Jim Thompson, something by Simon Armitage (poet), and some specific books that I return to often even now:Diary of a Rapist (Evan S. Connell), Journey To The End of the Night (Louis-Ferdinand Céline),The Great Gatsby (F.Scott Fitzgerald), Revoutionary Road (Richard Yates), and .......one nobody would pick - ftw - Betty (Georges Simenon)
1. A Fan's Notes - Frederick Exley
2. The Stranger - Albert Camus
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver
The Portable Poe (Short Stories) - Edgar Allan Poe
Steps - Jerzy Kosinski
Twice Told Tales - Nathaniel Hawthorne
1984 - George Orwell
The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems - T.S. Eliot
Nightmare Alley - William Lindsay Gresham
Notes From The Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky |
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Post by popperthekungfudragn on Dec 7, 2022 15:43:50 GMT
If this list has to be comprised of only classics, I don't think I'll be able to participate. I'm more a fan of light literature.
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Post by sterlingarcher86 on Dec 7, 2022 22:03:05 GMT
It
East of Eden
The Prince of Tides
The Lord of the Flies
The Haunting of Hill House
A Boy's Life
Never Let me go
1984
Lonesome Dove
Deliverance
House of Leaves
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Dec 8, 2022 0:19:36 GMT
1984 by George Orwell
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Circe by Madeline Miller
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 8, 2022 0:23:57 GMT
1984 on basically every MAR list (almost) totally kicking the ass of Brave New World these days 
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Post by avnermoriarti on Dec 8, 2022 7:22:13 GMT
My literature knowledge only revolves around the classics cannon, rarely I've ventured to go other places and lately I've been more into poetry, seems like these days I have the attention span of a fly, so this is going more by feelings...
Middlemarch
Sentimental Education
Madame Bovary
The Corrections
Death in Venice
The Magic Mountain
Anna Karenina
Lost Illusions
The Great Gatsby
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Post by ibbi on Dec 8, 2022 10:24:19 GMT
totally kicking the ass of Brave New World these days It's been that way for a looooooooooooooong time, hasn't it?  Of course, Huxley's book is about insidiousness, so of course people appreciate it less  |
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Post by flasuss on Dec 8, 2022 17:05:34 GMT
In alphabetic order, limiting myself to one book by author:
1984 (Orwell)
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky)
Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (Vargas Llosa)
Lolita (Nabokov)
Madame Bovary (Flaubert)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Garcia Marquez)
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (Machado de Assis)
The Stranger (Camus)
The Trial (Kafka)
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Post by themoviesinner on Dec 8, 2022 19:25:26 GMT
Seeing (Jose Saramago)
The Republic (Plato)
Homeland (R.A. Salvatore)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
The Silmarillion (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Grapes Of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
On War (Carl Von Clausewitz)
A Hero Of Our Time (Mikhail Lermontov)
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
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Of course, Huxley's book is about insidiousness, so of course people appreciate it less 
