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kenshinbebop
July 20th, 2007, 01:37 PM
I've already been through a book, and the required book, so I just need one more...I gotta choose from this list....


All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
As You Like It by Shakespear
Bleak House by Charles ****ens
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Crime and Punihment by Fyodor Dotoyevsky
David Copperfield by Charles ****ens
Farewell to Arms by Hemminway
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Oliver Twist by Charles ****ens

Which do you reccomend?

Evil_Koala
July 20th, 2007, 01:38 PM
"All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque"

Suki
July 20th, 2007, 01:38 PM
Lol there's a new book section ya know.

Holy Knight
July 20th, 2007, 03:32 PM
I'd go with all of them, but that's just me.

As it is, Crime and Punishment is the one I would recommend, but they're all a good read.

Mort
July 20th, 2007, 03:57 PM
I would second All Quite on the Western Front or and add in Oliver Twist.

Woooh
July 20th, 2007, 04:05 PM
Crime and Punishment. I wouldn't call it easy, because it's not, but it's an easy read. Like...fast, easy to get through, tough to find everything. Just sparknote it if you missed anything at the end.

kenshinbebop
July 20th, 2007, 04:09 PM
Lol there's a new book section ya know.

Lol at my stupidity. :(

Tom Servo
July 20th, 2007, 04:37 PM
Brave new world is only one of those I've read. Good read that.

Turning the tap off.

Dorktron2000
July 20th, 2007, 07:19 PM
As it is, Crime and Punishment is the one I would recommend, but they're all a good read.

First choice, but All Quiet on the Western Front and Anna Karenina are good too.

Midoriko87
July 20th, 2007, 07:25 PM
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, FOR SURE!!

Why? Well, I guess I could go into a rant about how Fyodor Dostoevsky and I are soul mates, and my #1 Mission in Life is to find his reincarnated self...

Well, it all started, like, eight years ago... Just read the book, darn you!! :angry:

KyouryokuSenshi
July 20th, 2007, 07:26 PM
I've already been through a book, and the required book, so I just need one more...I gotta choose from this list....


All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
As You Like It by Shakespear
Bleak House by Charles ****ens
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Crime and Punihment by Fyodor Dotoyevsky
David Copperfield by Charles ****ens
Farewell to Arms by Hemminway
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Oliver Twist by Charles ****ens

Which do you reccomend?

Bleak House. I read that earlier this year. Watch the new British tv series with Gillian Anderson after you read the book. God, this makes me so glad I am out of High School, I really hated that summer reading. Mostly because I am a rather slow reader and summer is too short, you should just be able to enjoy your summer. Lol.

Caine
July 21st, 2007, 03:49 AM
I despised bleak house. Wasn't too fond of C&P. Brave new world is worth reading, though like the other too, it just didn't do it for me. I ahven't read the others, but all the books on that list that I've heard of are ones that come highly recommended.

Vaikyuko
July 21st, 2007, 06:16 AM
Crime & Punishment is good, Brave New World is awesome (no main protagonist per se = brilliant)...you haven't read the complete works of Shakespeare yet?

Oh well. Go the hard route, read everything on the list. You'll be frantically reading at an amazing pace, but you'll be glad you decided to read everything, at least.

boomsnapclap
July 23rd, 2007, 12:30 AM
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque!
Or-- Oliver Twist by Charles ****ens.

C&P was good too, haha.

superplough
July 23rd, 2007, 12:54 AM
I haven't even HEARD of any of those except for Oliver Twist.

Scandiadream
July 23rd, 2007, 05:13 AM
I read "Madame Bovary" in the 12th grade.

Otherwise I recommend a ****ens one or a sci-fi one.

Vaikyuko
July 23rd, 2007, 10:42 AM
I haven't even HEARD of any of those except for Oliver Twist.

You should take a look into them. They're good stuff. I'll also raise you a Paradise Lost, by John Milton, to round out the list a bit better. ;)

MonkeyBoy0314
July 23rd, 2007, 09:29 PM
Oliver Twist, definitely

Rain
July 23rd, 2007, 11:51 PM
On the list: Brave New World
Crime and Punishment

Not on the list: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Any short story by Edgar Allan Poe

Anamin
July 24th, 2007, 10:28 AM
I've already been through a book, and the required book, so I just need one more...I gotta choose from this list....


All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
As You Like It by Shakespear
Bleak House by Charles ****ens
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Crime and Punihment by Fyodor Dotoyevsky
David Copperfield by Charles ****ens
Farewell to Arms by Hemminway
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Oliver Twist by Charles ****ens

Which do you reccomend?

Bleak House wasn't terrible. I'd probably just rent the series from the library and watch it :P It's pretty detailed, at least a couple of discs. . .

RPGQueen
July 26th, 2007, 12:09 PM
Go with All Quiet on the Western Front. Anna Karenina is good too but it is really long.

master terrence
August 11th, 2007, 07:44 PM
DO NOT READ MADAM BOVARY, it was so unpleasant and aimless!!!

I can only hope I've reached you in time. Who cares what you read, just not that one.