Quitting the internet for a year. Need some books to download before I leave. Post your favorite classic book or any book you like in general.
Pic related its what I'm currently reading.
Slaughterhouse-Five
Anna Karenina
Notes from Underground
In Search of Lost Time
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Of Mice and Men
Light in August
Ham on a Rye
To the Lighthouse
Hunger
>>7334548
Tried to mix it up, with some longer books, and short ones, and more difficult ones, and easy and fun ones.
If nothing else these will sure as hell keep you busy for a year.
>>7334670
Whoops, that was my checked off version. Here's a clean copy.
Complete Shakespeare (obvsly)
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
The Book of the New Sun
Bridge of Birds
Better Angels of Our Nature
Otherwise by John Crowley
Creation by Gore Vidal
The Selfish Gene
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Plutarch's Lives
The Little Prince
Wind, Sand, and Stars
The Story of Philosophy
Kon-Tiki
Solaris
Eisenhorn
Borges Complete Fictions
>>7334673
Do you know if anyone has complied these into one zip file or torrent? I think I'm gonna do that if it doesn't exist already.
This is a great list; noted literary critic Howard Bloom lays out works he believes has the power to instill a love of literature:
Short Stories
>Ivan Turgenev "Bezhin Lea" and "Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands."
>Anton Chekhov "The Kiss" and "The Student" and "The Lady with the Dog"
>Guy de Maupassant "Madame Tellier's Establishment" and "The Horla"
>Ernest Hemingway "Hill Like White Elephants" and "God Rest You Merry, Gentleman" and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "A Sea Change"
>Flannery O'Connor "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and "Good Country People" and "A View of the Woods"
>Vladimir Nabokov's "The Vane Sisters"
>Jorge Luis Borges "Tlon, Ugbar, Orbis Tertius"
>Tommaso Landolfi "Gogol's Wife"
>Italo Calvino "Invisible Cities"
Poems
>A. E. Housman "Into My Heart an Air That Kills"
>William Blake "The Sick Rose"
>Walter Savage Landor "On His Seventy-fifth Birthday"
>Alfred Lord Tennyson "The Eagle" and "Ulysses
>Robert Browning "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"
>Walt Whitman "Song of Myself"
>Emily Dickinson "Poem 1260 - Because That You Are Going"
>Emily Bronte "Stanzas: Often Rebuked, Yet Always Back Returning"
>Popular Ballads "Sir Patrick Spence" and "The Unquiet Grave"
>Anonymous "Tom O'Bedlam"
>Shakespeare's "Sonnet 121 - Tis Better to Be Vil Than Vile Esteemed" and "Sonnet 129 - The Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame" and "Sonnet 144 - Two Loves I have, of Comfort and Despair"
>John Milton "Paradise Lost"
>William Wordsworth "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal" and "My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold"
>Samuel Taylor Coleridge "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
>Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Triumph of Life"
>John Keats "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
Novels - Part I
>Miguel de Cervantes "Don Quixote"
>Stendhal "The Charterhouse of Parma"
>Jane Austen "Emma"
>Charles Dickens "Great Expectations"
>Fyodor Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment"
>Henry James "The Portrait of a Lady"
>Marcel Proust "In Search of Lost Time"
>Thomas Mann "The Magic Mountain"
Plays
>Shakespeare "Hamlet"
>Henrik Ibsen "Hedda Gabler"
>Oscar Wilde "The Importance of Being Earnest"
Novels - Part II
>Herman Melville "Moby Dick"
>William Faulkner "As I Lay Dying"
>Nathanael West "Miss Lonelyhearts"
>Thomas Pynchon "The Crying of Lot 49"
>Cormac McCarthy "Blood Meridian"
>Ralph Ellison "Invisible Man"
>Toni Morrison "Song of Solomon"
>>7334732
Speaking of Bloom, there's always this list OP...
http://sonic.net/~rteeter/grtbloom.html
>>7334732
On top of this, throw in Dubliners and pretty much everything by Kafka. Short stories are a good way to start out if you want to eventually tackle the great, complex works later on.
Why are you leaving?
What are you going to prison for? Details now please.
>>7334498
Dostoi's Demons
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
Underworld
Twilight of The Idols
hab fun b
>>7334732
More poetry:
>Mexico City Blues
> Behind My Eyes
>Love is a Dog From Hell
>Starting From San Francisco
>The Weary Blues
>Ariel
>The Back Country
>Selected Poems by E.E Cummings
>Howl and other Poems
