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 Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 4:22 pm
Oakleafmeg asked for some, and I thought "Why not start a new thread so everyone will know what the question is?" So I have smile
Here's a start:
Anything by Neil Gaiman, though I think Coraline and Anansi Boys are my favorites at the moment.
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull.
Almost anything by Diana Wynne Jones. Eight Days of Luke is one of my favorites.
Anything by C. J. Cherryh. I'm particularly fond of the Foreigner series and the Fortress series.
Andre Norton is always fun.
Patricia Mckinley is amazing. All of her stuff is good. My current favorites are Tower in Stony Wood and In the Forrests of Serre.
Anything by Robin McKinley.
And I'm sure I'll think of someone else as soon as I've posted and wonder why I didn't include him or her...
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:45 pm
Another one that I just finished is the Quicksilver books Neal Stephenson. I also like Marion Zimmer Bradely, I got to meet her shortly before she died a few years ago. My son is trying to get me to read Greg Bear.
Melanie Rawn is pretty good, and that is the sum of the fun books that I have gotten to read in the past year. biggrin
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 11:00 am
Unfortunately, I can't read a lot of books who aren't related to my studies in History...
But I began to read the "saga of the assassin" of Robin Hobb, and I really like it ^^
I plan to read HP in English too this summer, I can't wait to read it in French !
And I recently finished the "trilogy of Bartimeus", written by Jonathan Stroud. It is one of my favorite Trilogy, with the one written by Pullman. The way of telling this story, with the hero's point of view and the demon's one is very original, and there is a lot of humour too ^^
Well, that's all !
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Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 7:09 am
I compeletly understand not getting to read the fun books while studying. But since my last final is in two days I can lookforwards to reading something that is not assigned to me. I am heading to the bookstore tonight to go and search for theperfect novel to read while I fly to Hawaii and have another one to read while sitting on the beach.
Part of me is thinking of reading up on Herny the VIII because the Showtime series the Tudors has gotten things so incorrect that its become fun to argue with thst show about history.
However I promised myself a fun book to read so its off to the bookstore and find something fun.
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 6:53 pm
Classic Russian and British literature. Try these authors.
BRITISH
Chaucer
Shakespeare
Marlowe
Tolkien
CS Lewis
RUSSIAN
Nabokov
Pushkin
Tolstoy
Dostoyevsky
Gogol
Chekhov
Solzhenitsyn
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 2:33 pm
Any particular favorite books by those authors, tchaikovskyandborodin?
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 1:24 pm
Hi, I was happy to see that others like Russian lit too. I particularly like Chekov and Gogol, mostly their short stories, notably Gogols "The Overcoat" but Chekov's "Little Darling" is also very good. I supsect that this fall in my Imperial Russian History class my professor will have a huge reading list waiting for me.
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Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 10:45 pm
tchaikovskyandborodin Classic Russian and British literature. Try these authors. BRITISH Chaucer Shakespeare Marlowe Tolkien CS Lewis RUSSIAN Nabokov Pushkin Tolstoy Dostoyevsky Gogol Chekhov Solzhenitsyn yeah sure Shakespeare-Hamlet, The Tempest, Macbeth, A Winter's Tale, Sonnets Chaucer-The Green Knight, Canterbury Tales Marlowe-Dr. Faustus, 22 short stories CS Lewis- The Chronicles of Narnia, The Peralandra Saga, Mere Christianity Tolkien-Children of Hurin, The Silmarillion, The Lord of the Rings series, Unfinished Tales RUSSIAN Solzhenitsyn-August 1914, The Gulag Archipeligo, Cancer Ward, One day in the life of Ivan Desiniovitch Gogol-The Nose, The Overcoat, The Diary of a Madman, 40 Short Stories, Dead Souls Chekhov-The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, Vodka Dostoyeveky-Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov Tolstoy-War and Peace, The Kreutzer Sonata, Aloysha the Pot Nabokov-Lolita Pushkin-Eugene Onegin, Poetry I hope that helps smile Have fun reading smile
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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 11:06 am
Wow! I've never read anything Russin befor that I know of. But I do like the brit. lit. list. Although I think I would add Milton, Jane Austen, Conan Doyle and Anselm Audley(modern day).
Other stories/authors that I like are Tamora Pierse, The Dark is Riseing Series, Anthony Horowitz, and I don't know the author or the name of the series but the titles are "The Thife", "Queen of Antolia", "King of Antolia". (I think I spelled Antolia wrong, Sorry) but the last name is Turner if that helps. I most defenetly recomend these books to everyone who likes to read!
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Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 2:11 am
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon. Confusing as anything, but amazing all the same. XD I'm planning on reading another book by Pynchon sometime soon.
White Noise by Don DeLillo is good, too.
For fantasy books, I like Patricia Briggs, Tamora Pierce, Lisa Shearin, Ilona Andrews, and Jim Butcher. Especially Jim Butcher.
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Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:39 am
tchaikovskyandborodin tchaikovskyandborodin Classic Russian and British literature. Try these authors. BRITISH Chaucer Shakespeare Marlowe Tolkien CS Lewis RUSSIAN Nabokov Pushkin Tolstoy Dostoyevsky Gogol Chekhov Solzhenitsyn yeah sure Shakespeare-Hamlet, The Tempest, Macbeth, A Winter's Tale, Sonnets Chaucer-The Green Knight, Canterbury Tales Marlowe-Dr. Faustus, 22 short stories CS Lewis- The Chronicles of Narnia, The Peralandra Saga, Mere Christianity Tolkien-Children of Hurin, The Silmarillion, The Lord of the Rings series, Unfinished Tales RUSSIAN Solzhenitsyn-August 1914, The Gulag Archipeligo, Cancer Ward, One day in the life of Ivan Desiniovitch Gogol-The Nose, The Overcoat, The Diary of a Madman, 40 Short Stories, Dead Souls Chekhov-The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, Vodka Dostoyeveky-Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov Tolstoy-War and Peace, The Kreutzer Sonata, Aloysha the Pot Nabokov-Lolita Pushkin-Eugene Onegin, Poetry I hope that helps smile Have fun reading smile Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is particularly good also. And on the Russian front, Turgenev's Fathers and Sons is good too.
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Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:42 pm
Mimisao Unfortunately, I can't read a lot of books who aren't related to my studies in History... Quote: Have you read anything by Karen Armstrong? I would suggest A History of God, A brief history of myth and Holy War. Those are all novels which fall under the category of historical/anthropoligical and comparative religion.
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Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:49 pm
tchaikovskyandborodin tchaikovskyandborodin Classic Russian and British literature. Try these authors. BRITISH Chaucer Shakespeare Marlowe Tolkien CS Lewis RUSSIAN Nabokov Pushkin Tolstoy Dostoyevsky Gogol Chekhov Solzhenitsyn yeah sure Shakespeare-Hamlet, The Tempest, Macbeth, A Winter's Tale, Sonnets Chaucer-The Green Knight, Canterbury Tales Marlowe-Dr. Faustus, 22 short stories CS Lewis- The Chronicles of Narnia, The Peralandra Saga, Mere Christianity Tolkien-Children of Hurin, The Silmarillion, The Lord of the Rings series, Unfinished Tales RUSSIAN Solzhenitsyn-August 1914, The Gulag Archipeligo, Cancer Ward, One day in the life of Ivan Desiniovitch Gogol-The Nose, The Overcoat, The Diary of a Madman, 40 Short Stories, Dead Souls Chekhov-The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, Vodka Dostoyeveky-Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov Tolstoy-War and Peace, The Kreutzer Sonata, Aloysha the Pot Nabokov-Lolita Pushkin-Eugene Onegin, Poetry I hope that helps smile Have fun reading smile Um I heart Chaucer and plan on reading more of his work over the summer (already read Canterbury Tales, House of Fame, Book of the Duchess and Parliament of Fowls) but dear he did not write Sir Gawain and The Green Knight-it was not even in the same dialect . .. but we learn about that in Chaucer classes because it is from the same general time line and it is an invaluable resource. It is kind of like Romance of The Rose, we need to read that to understand how it influences Chaucer's works but it wasn't written by him. Aside from that I completely agree with your reading list smile but I would add in the Bronte sisters and Jane Austen and maybe Fanny Burney (just, please, no Evelina).
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