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Post by Feologild Oakes on Nov 1, 2018 0:19:03 GMT
1. The Gambler - Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( 1866 ) 2. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ( 1847 ) 3. Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens ( 1864-65 ) 4. The Idiot - Fydor Dostoyevsky ( 1869 ) 5. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ( 1869 ) 6. The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann ( 1924 ) 7. The Brothers Karamasov - Fydor Dostoyevsky ( 1880 ) 8. War with the Newts - Karel Čapek ( 1936 ) 9. Niels Klim`s Underground Travels - Ludvig Holberg ( 1741 ) 10. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen ( 1811 ) 11. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (1861) 12. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas in collaboration with Auguste Maquet (1844) 13. Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( 1866 ) 14. Les Misérables - Victor Hugo (1862) 15. A Room with a View - E. M. Forster (1908) 16. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin (1813) 17. Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy (1872) 18. The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett (1989) 19. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collin (1860) 20. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (1939)
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Post by yougotastewgoinbaby on Nov 1, 2018 2:02:51 GMT
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Post by hi224 on Nov 1, 2018 6:46:42 GMT
sublime actually, love your top few as well.
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Post by lordquesterjones on Nov 1, 2018 13:12:45 GMT
You can only have books in your list that you've actually read.
Most of them are actually quite boring, and somewhat anachronistic.
I can't see any one I would actually want to read.
Newsflash:
The Cold War is over!
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Nov 1, 2018 15:17:29 GMT
You can only have books in your list that you've actually read.
Yes and that`s why i have listed books that i have read.
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Post by amyghost on Nov 1, 2018 20:32:01 GMT
You can only have books in your list that you've actually read.
Most of them are actually quite boring, and somewhat anachronistic.
I can't see any one I would actually want to read.
Newsflash:
The Cold War is over!
I've read most of them. They didn't bore me. Thankfully, I'm not you.
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Post by lordquesterjones on Nov 2, 2018 19:44:24 GMT
You can only have books in your list that you've actually read.
Most of them are actually quite boring, and somewhat anachronistic.
I can't see any one I would actually want to read.
Newsflash:
The Cold War is over!
I've read most of them. They didn't bore me. Thankfully, I'm not you. Amen to that.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Nov 2, 2018 21:36:28 GMT
1. The Gambler - Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( 1866 ) 2. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ( 1847 ) 3. Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens ( 1864-65 ) 4. The Idiot - Fydor Dostoyevsky ( 1869 ) 5. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ( 1869 ) 6. The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann ( 1924 ) 7. The Brothers Karamasov - Fydor Dostoyevsky ( 1880 ) 8. War with the Newts - Karel Čapek ( 1936 ) 9. Niels Klim`s Underground Travels - Ludvig Holberg ( 1741 ) 10. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen ( 1811 ) 11. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (1861) 12. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas in collaboration with Auguste Maquet (1844) 13. Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( 1866 ) 14. Les Misérables - Victor Hugo (1862)15. A Room with a View - E. M. Forster (1908) 16. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin (1813) 17. Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy (1872) 18. The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett (1989)19. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collin (1860) 20. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (1939)
Strange that you would phrase it like that - "how bad do you think ...". Why would you assume that anyone would think your list is bad, when it mostly contains great classics of world literature?
Have you read the English-language ones in the original or in translation? What about the Russian ones - English translation or Norwegian translation?
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Nov 3, 2018 1:04:16 GMT
1. The Gambler - Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( 1866 ) 2. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ( 1847 ) 3. Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens ( 1864-65 ) 4. The Idiot - Fydor Dostoyevsky ( 1869 ) 5. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ( 1869 ) 6. The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann ( 1924 ) 7. The Brothers Karamasov - Fydor Dostoyevsky ( 1880 ) 8. War with the Newts - Karel Čapek ( 1936 ) 9. Niels Klim`s Underground Travels - Ludvig Holberg ( 1741 ) 10. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen ( 1811 ) 11. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (1861) 12. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas in collaboration with Auguste Maquet (1844) 13. Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( 1866 ) 14. Les Misérables - Victor Hugo (1862)15. A Room with a View - E. M. Forster (1908) 16. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin (1813) 17. Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy (1872) 18. The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett (1989)19. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collin (1860) 20. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (1939)
Strange that you would phrase it like that - "how bad do you think ...". Why would you assume that anyone would think your list is bad, when it mostly contains great classics of world literature?
Have you read the English-language ones in the original or in translation? What about the Russian ones - English translation or Norwegian translation?
I have read most of them in Norwegian translation, The only once i did not read in Norwegian is Under The Greenwood Tree which i read in English and Pride and Prejudice which i read in Danish. Even if i have no problem reading English i do prefer to read in Norwegian.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Nov 3, 2018 2:11:56 GMT
Ashamed to say that I've only read one of those; Crime and Punishment. I thought it was brilliant.
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Post by louise on Nov 11, 2018 16:30:12 GMT
Well, one of them, Pride and Prejudice, might be in my top 20if I did one. I like Great Expectations, and Under the Greenwood Tree. War and Peace was quite absorbing. A Room.witha View was okay. Wuthering Heights is quite entertaining in a way. Sense and Sensibility is quite good, though I don't like it nearly as much as P&P. I have not read any of the others.
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Post by llanwydd on Nov 11, 2018 16:47:08 GMT
Of all these books I have only read War and Peace and Great Expectations. The former is by far my favorite novel and the latter deserves all the praise it gets. I only got about 50 pages into Brothers Karamazov before I nearly died of boredom, so I cannot really say how bad that or any other books on your list are.
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Post by OldSamVimes on Nov 18, 2018 12:57:46 GMT
You can only have books in your list that you've actually read.
Most of them are actually quite boring, and somewhat anachronistic.
I can't see any one I would actually want to read.
Newsflash:
The Cold War is over!
First you imply he's a liar. Then you out yourself as a person with a short attention span who gets 'bored'. Then you seem to imply that writers like Fydor Dostoyevsky are no longer relevant because 'The Cold War is over!' You should save time and simply post 'I'm stupid'.
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Post by lordquesterjones on Nov 18, 2018 15:54:01 GMT
You can only have books in your list that you've actually read.
Most of them are actually quite boring, and somewhat anachronistic.
I can't see any one I would actually want to read.
Newsflash:
The Cold War is over!
First you imply he's a liar. Then you out yourself as a person with a short attention span who gets 'bored'. Then you seem to imply that writers like Fydor Dostoyevsky are no longer relevant because 'The Cold War is over!' You should save time and simply post 'I'm stupid'. LMAO!
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Post by OldSamVimes on Nov 18, 2018 17:31:16 GMT
First you imply he's a liar. Then you out yourself as a person with a short attention span who gets 'bored'. Then you seem to imply that writers like Fydor Dostoyevsky are no longer relevant because 'The Cold War is over!' You should save time and simply post 'I'm stupid'. LMAO!
I'm surprised four sentences wasn't beyond your attention span. Maybe they can condense Dostoyevsky novels into four sentences for you?
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Post by lordquesterjones on Nov 18, 2018 17:34:10 GMT
LMAO!
I'm surprised four sentences wasn't beyond your attention span. Maybe they can condense Dostoyevsky novels into four sentences for you? Certainly!
It's cold.
Communism sucks.
I love someone out of my league.
We all die.
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Post by OldSamVimes on Nov 18, 2018 17:36:03 GMT
I'm surprised four sentences wasn't beyond your attention span. Maybe they can condense Dostoyevsky novels into four sentences for you? Certainly!
It's cold.
Communism sucks.
I love someone out of my league.
We all die.
OMG, thank you so much. You're precious.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Nov 18, 2018 18:30:37 GMT
I'm surprised four sentences wasn't beyond your attention span. Maybe they can condense Dostoyevsky novels into four sentences for you? Certainly!
It's cold.
Communism sucks.
I love someone out of my league.
We all die.
Oh my every word you just said was wrong also i fail to see what Fyodor Dostoyevsky has to do with Communism. I mean you do know that he was born, lived and died in Imperial Russia. And that he died 66 years before the cold war started. And he died 37 years before the communist revolution and 44 years before the USSR was established. Russian history is generally set to start in 862 when Kiev Rus was founded by Rurik. And out of those 1156 years, communist Russia (USSR) existed for 69 years that is what about 5% of Russias history.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Nov 19, 2018 22:43:28 GMT
Haven't read any of them.
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Post by needysboy on Nov 20, 2018 1:24:17 GMT
I admire that, four Dostoevsky novels in your top 20.
I know I should like him, but I find Dostoevsky quite ponderous. I made it through The Idiot, but that's it.
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