The Brothers Karamozov/Dostoyevsky Ulysses/Joyce All the King's Men/ Penn Warren The Metamorphisis/ Kafka Flannery O'connor's Short Stories Portrait of the Artist/ Joyce The Illiad/Odyssey (compare Joyce's to Homer's) PLays- Measure for Measure/ Shakespeare Travesties/ Thomas Stoppard Any Ibsen The Tempest HAMLET- The Greatest work ever (besides the bible), no he is not a nihilist.
Cool - I just picked this up for 50 cents the other day at half-price books. Thanks for the reminder TJ, I meant to include Atlas Shrugged as well.
I read a lot of history stuff... I like: 1) The Art of War by Sun Zu 2) The Five Rings (??) by Mushashi 3) Any thing about the Roman Empire
Yeah, I've been meaning to read Atlas Shrugged for a while. Is it action-driven, or more philosophical?
Many great choices here. I'll try to mention some that I love that haven't come up. Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian Great novel, period. Roman Blood by Steven Saylor Terrific mystery that takes place during the dictatorship of Sulla... when things started to get really interesting in Rome. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin Hugo award winning classic. If you liked Dune, you'll like this. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry If you only saw the TV mini-series... well, I envy you. You get to read a the classic western for the first time. Sharpe's Trafalgar by Bernard Cornwell Sorta in the middle of the beginning of a great series. Not a bad place to get a taste and see if you want more. You will. Watchers by Dean Koontz Another that's been around awhile and a classic thriller with a SF bent. His best, in my opinion. That's a few I could think of. All excellent, depending on what you like.
No, I haven't read all his stuff (the guy is prolific!), but "Watchers" was the best of what I've read. Didn't he do that just before "Watchers"? Hell, I may have read it and forgot. I read so much that with some authors like Koontz, certain books just stick out. You recommend it?
I do recommend Lightning (it was probably a book or two before Watchers). I also recommend his newest book "The Face". It is a departure from his recent stuff (more along the lines of a Stephen King book).
I started Chasing the Dime 2 days ago. It doesn't feel the same as the rest of his works. The Bosch books are totally different. There are 7 or 8 of them and every one of them have been excellent. He also has a book called Void Moon that I picked up on a whim. It was the reason I started reading him in the first place.
I loved the first 3 Gunslingers but then it went way down hill. It was like he started taking himself too serious or something. I used to be on the edge of my seat waiting for the next volume. Now I could care less (I didn't even finish the last book) as far as thrillers: Silence of the Lambs and Rosemary's Baby rule.......
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller The Plague - Albert Camus Being and Nothingness - Jean Paul Sartre Brave New World - Aldous Huxley Siddhartha and Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck Focault's Pendulum and The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco Hop on Pop - Dr. Seuss
