HogNose Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 The Martian Chronicles -Ray Bradbury The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol 1-3 - Shelby Foote The Red Badge of Courage - S. Crane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECU-ALUM Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 Both versions? Because I've never read the book but the Jack version is one of the better movies I've ever seen... can't say as much for the Steven Weber version. Stephen King has said any times he doesn't like the movie because it goes too far from the book...but he did like the Steven Weber version much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rincewind Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 Stephen King has said any times he doesn't like the movie because it goes too far from the book...but he did like the Steven Weber version much better. From what I've heard the Weber version is much truer to the book... but its just an awful movie. The Jack version is a great movie whether or not it closely follows the book . :2cents: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan since a Fetus Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 Cool thread. I just started reading novels about a year ago. I read the LOTR trilogy along with the Hobbit. A couple of crappy horror books. I am currently reading the Wheel of Time series. I don't think they are classics yet, however, they are fun to read, well, other than the 80 billion different names that must be remembered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUSkinsFan Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 The Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit I read a book called The Fur Hat last year. It's a short story about life in the USSR. I had to read it for my Russian studies class and was a pretty interesting read. Night by Elie Wiesel A Time to Kill (not a classic but a damn good read) by John Grisham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECU-ALUM Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 From what I've heard the Weber version is much truer to the book... but its just an awful movie. The Jack version is a great movie whether or not it closely follows the book . :2cents: I agree with you rincewind. The Weber version (saw most of it)...it was okay...truer to the book but it was done as a miniseries and they were only able to do so much on Network TV in 1996. Jack's version...stands alone as a horror classic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Larkin Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 They Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuposse87 Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 Well, I don't know if you consider science fiction to be "classic". Starship Troopers: Robert A Heinlein. First glance, it looks like a "gosh wow shoot 'em up". Second glance, it's "kid joins the Army, becomes Man". Oh, and he "invented" powered combat armor. But there's a lot more in this book. Childhoods End: Arthur Clarke. Man is contacted by extraterrestrials. OK, the first chapter is a bit dated. (It takes place on a Pacific atoll, where the US is preparing to launch their first rocket.) But the book then jumps forward to oh, say, present day, but with ETs around, and the rest of the book takes place in the future. If you thought 2001 dealt with big, grandiose concepts, you haven't read this book. One of the greatest books I've ever read IMO, there aren't many I enjoyed as much as it. Great Gatsby The Sun Also Rises Moby Dick The God of Small Things (its a perturbing but interesting read) 1984 The karma Sutra (read the text, either you'll be impressed or you'll laugh your ass off) The Art of War Communist Manifesto (that'll rile up some feathers here, I still need to read "wealth of nations") Leviathan Common Sense (started reading it, so far so good) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slateman Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 On Killing by Dave Grossman Grossman takes a very informed and in depth look at killing, both in combat and in society. Grossman has a masters in psychology. But more than that, he is a former Army Ranger who has "seen the elephant" Grossman breaks down the body's basic responses to killing. He then attempts to explain why it is American society is so accepting of violence. Generation Kill by Evan Wright Wright was a journalist for Rolling Stone that was embedded with 2nd Recon Battalion (USMC) during the initial push into Iraq in 2003. Wright is able to follow a platoon led by Lt Nathanial Fick as they race through Iraq. If you want to know what America's current generation of fighting men is like, this is the book. Wright pulls few punches, describing both thoughtful, highly trained individuals and those individuals who are highly trained and, frankly, like the idea of killing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUSkinsFan Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 They Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienThat book was so vivid I didn't know it was fiction until I read it on the back cover... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zguy28 Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 Last of the Mohicans. Its a kind of tough read though at some points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedskinDaddy Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 Good thread. If you've got some time on your hands try some Tolstoy. Good works, but looong reads. Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary, or D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover will snap ya right back to the sensual should it come to that - what the hey... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsOrlando Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 The Red Pony - Steinbeck Dracula - Stoker Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol - Dickens A separate peace- Knowles The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis , I've read three of the books Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMike619 Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 Im going to mention books that helped me thru my childhood. I dont know how well you guys appreciate them... Call of the Wild White Fang Where the Red Fern Grows Old Yeller The Outsiders A Wrinkle in Time Lion Witch and the Wardrobe All of JRR Tolkien's books Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xameil Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 only one I haven't seen listed yet Alive. Great book, and a true story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mufumonk Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 Cool thread. I just started reading novels about a year ago. I read the LOTR trilogy along with the Hobbit. A couple of crappy horror books. I am currently reading the Wheel of Time series. I don't think they are classics yet, however, they are fun to read, well, other than the 80 billion different names that must be remembered. Jordan should have ended it after book 3. And if you think there are alot of characters in WoT.....try keeping everyone straight in the ASOIAF series by Martin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVUforREDSKINS Posted July 12, 2008 Author Share Posted July 12, 2008 Common Sense (started reading it, so far so good) Is that Thomas Paine? I think I had to read that for philosophy class or at least know parts about it....Yea I didn't do to well on that test. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVUforREDSKINS Posted July 12, 2008 Author Share Posted July 12, 2008 Call of the Wild White Fang Where the Red Fern Grows Old Yeller The Outsiders A Wrinkle in Time Lion Witch and the Wardrobe All of JRR Tolkien's books Read all of them except Call of the Wild and Old yeller. And I haven't read LOTR's I prefer the extended DVDs. The Hobbit was a great read. I really hope that gets settled and will be on the big screen soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMike619 Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 Read all of them except Call of the Wild and Old yeller. And I haven't read LOTR's I prefer the extended DVDs. The Hobbit was a great read. I really hope that gets settled and will be on the big screen soon. the LOTR books are a good read if you can get into them. Very detailed and sometimes it seems like he tries to set up the scene too much instead of just letting you use your imagination. Ol Yeller is one of my favs as a child. Im sure you know how it ends though. Call of the Wild is great too. I forgot to put down: Old man and the sea Macbeth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dockeryfan Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 A tale of 2 cities (my favorite story of all-time.) It's also my favorite of all time. I know some of his other works get more attention, but this one is so easy to read, so well constructed, so engaging, it actually is my favorite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMike619 Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 Autobiography of Malcolm X. Probably shocking to hear someone who supports the confederate flag state that but I own that book and have read it at least 4 times. It is a great story of an "uneducated thug" who picks himself up and turns himself in to one of the great leaders in American history. Whether he was NOI or he was not he was a strong man and was very influential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehogs Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 Speaking of Russian Lit has anyone actually managed to finish War and Peace...that book is damn long. Great book, although its long (no longer than some others though) the narrative - I found - made it pretty easy reading. The section that develops the story as Napolean invades Russia and the attritional battle at Borodino is great stuff. By the way, another book is 'Sunset Song' by Lewis Grassic-Gibbon, based on people who lived and worked in farms in the north east of Scotland in the early 20th century and the slow but relentless change and eventual end of a way of life as the 20th century and the first world war etc caught up with how people lived. Absolute gem of a novel. Anyone who lives in the US mid-west and has a history of farming in their family would probably understand this book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No_Pressure Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 All Quiet on the Western Front is my all time favorite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMike619 Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 also Lous L'Amour novels used to be really time consuming and take me away when I was a small fry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blondie Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 the LOTR books are a good read if you can get into them. Very detailed and sometimes it seems like he tries to set up the scene too much instead of just letting you use your imagination.Ol Yeller is one of my favs as a child. Im sure you know how it ends though. Call of the Wild is great too. I forgot to put down: Old man and the sea Macbeth Macbeth? Can't do it. I do not enjoy Shakespear. I have such a hard time reading it.......makes it not enjoyable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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