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Post by msdemos on Sept 1, 2018 23:07:57 GMT
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Post by koskiewicz on Sept 2, 2018 2:40:32 GMT
fiction: - The Stars my Destination (Alfred Bester)
non-fiction: - The Tyranny of Words (Stuart Chase)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2018 22:21:23 GMT
My very favorite novel is War and Peace. I took a month to read it at fifty pages a day. Perfect in every way but I wish I could have read it in Russian.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Sept 3, 2018 6:14:08 GMT
Fiction: Watchmen (or Animal Farm if you don't count the former)
Non-Fiction: The Night Lives On by Walter Lord
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Sept 3, 2018 6:14:40 GMT
fiction - catcher in the rye
non-fiction - an area of darkness
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2018 8:57:45 GMT
Fiction- The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Non Fiction- Thirteen Years at the Russian Court: A Personal Record of the Last Years and Death of the Tsar Nicholas II, and His Family by Pierre Gilliard
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Sept 3, 2018 12:05:54 GMT
Fiction - Love in the Times of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, maybe
Non-fiction - not sure. Maybe Guns, Germs and Steel, or a Van Gogh biography that I read a few years ago.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2018 1:55:01 GMT
Fiction: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Non-Fiction: A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan
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Post by vegalyra on Sept 5, 2018 21:15:14 GMT
Fiction: The Iliad (I'm not much of a fiction reader but I do enjoy the Greek/Roman classics)
Non-Fiction: Winston Churchill's Second World War series
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Post by jimanchower on Oct 10, 2018 7:11:43 GMT
SAVE FERRIS Fiction is Trainspotting. I just reread it for the first time in several years and it has held up beautifully. I just get so attached to those characters they almost feel like real friends. I don’t know if I have a favorite non fiction book, I’ve read a lot of great ones. My current favorite is probably Steve Jones (Sex Pistols) autobiography. The Pistols are my favorite band and Jones is my favorite guitarist. The guy has a million great stories and his life story is incredible considering where he started from. While he’s a fuck up he’s incredibly honest and brutally self reflective. Just a great book about a great musician. |
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Post by hi224 on Oct 12, 2018 3:22:35 GMT
SAVE FERRIS Fiction is Trainspotting. I just reread it for the first time in several years and it has held up beautifully. I just get so attached to those characters they almost feel like real friends. I don’t know if I have a favorite non fiction book, I’ve read a lot of great ones. My current favorite is probably Steve Jones (Sex Pistols) autobiography. The Pistols are my favorite band and Jones is my favorite guitarist. The guy has a million great stories and his life story is incredible considering where he started from. While he’s a fuck up he’s incredibly honest and brutally self reflective. Just a great book about a great musician. here here regarding Trainspotting as well. |
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Oct 12, 2018 4:20:36 GMT
The Godfather
Harpo Speaks
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Post by hi224 on Oct 12, 2018 4:39:39 GMT
Fiction: The Iliad (I'm not much of a fiction reader but I do enjoy the Greek/Roman classics) Non-Fiction: Winston Churchill's Second World War series curious favorite character in Iliad as well?. |
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Post by vegalyra on Oct 12, 2018 13:51:00 GMT
Fiction: The Iliad (I'm not much of a fiction reader but I do enjoy the Greek/Roman classics) Non-Fiction: Winston Churchill's Second World War series curious favorite character in Iliad as well?. Thanks for the follow up question... Diomedes I suppose, even as a young kid I thought he was great. So much courage and had the most battle experience even though he was the youngest of the Achaean kings. He also was one of the few that took on the gods and even wounded Ares (with the help of Athena of course). He was virtuous but was never over confident like some of the other heroes in the story (he attacked Apollo twice but backed off once Apollo warned him not to take on the immortals). He also gave wise council to the rest of the Greeks including Agamemnon and Achilles. The night time spy mission taken on by Diomedes was also one of my favorite parts of the story. Do you have a favorite? |
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Post by hi224 on Oct 12, 2018 18:09:31 GMT
curious favorite character in Iliad as well?. Thanks for the follow up question... Diomedes I suppose, even as a young kid I thought he was great. So much courage and had the most battle experience even though he was the youngest of the Achaean kings. He also was one of the few that took on the gods and even wounded Ares (with the help of Athena of course). He was virtuous but was never over confident like some of the other heroes in the story (he attacked Apollo twice but backed off once Apollo warned him not to take on the immortals). He also gave wise council to the rest of the Greeks including Agamemnon and Achilles. The night time spy mission taken on by Diomedes was also one of my favorite parts of the story. Do you have a favorite? I always loved Hector even though he was a jerk for stealing the armor. |
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