Brown 43 Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 How can anyone forget about one of the greatest stories of all time, A Christmas Carol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posse81 Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 Originally posted by Dr. D I think # 10 is Salinger vonnegut="salughterhouse 5" etc... You actually LIKED reading GG Marquez? I find the style obliterates the substance. He should forget all about the semi-colon. Still just my opinion, he DID win a prize after all. re: Rogue Warrior I dont think I have read anything that captures my days in the navy as I remember them to be. Funny story that is board related: San Diego 1988 Super Bowl (shoot forgot the number) Timmy Smith and all. We were sitting offshore watching on the ship. The Small, wall-mounted TV would "spasm" every radar interval. Sometimes we saw the play begin and then ZZZZZ ..."TOUCHDOWN!" we were all waiting for the replays to see what happened. Anyway, segwe to further relevance, the captain had the security forces "probed" (anally). We were watching the Redskins, the CO was sharing his meal with company of the uninvited kind, in a friendly sort of way. there was hell to pay the next day. Thing was we were 5 miles out. Dr. D, You're killing me. I was waiting for someone to bring up 100 Years of Solitude. One of the best things I have ever read, it makes sense on MANY levels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mardi gras skin Posted July 10, 2003 Share Posted July 10, 2003 Catch-22 and 1984 are by far my favorite books. After that... Huckelberry Finn (anything by Twain is worth my time) Of Mice and Men Animal Farm Lord of the Flies Job (from the Bible) Fahrenheit 451 (and the Illustrated Man/Martian Chronicles short stories, etc) The Giving Tree (really) To Kill a Mockingbird I like Clancy's first 4 or 5 books...Red Storm Rising was the best. Not a real big fan of plays, but Othello, 12 Angry Men, and A Raisin in the Sun were fine. Ok, 12 Angry Men was more than fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggo-toni Posted July 10, 2003 Share Posted July 10, 2003 Favorite play has to be Cyrano de Bergerac by Rostand I don't read fiction much (I stick to History books), but ... The Odyssey Perfume Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
number twenty-eight Posted July 10, 2003 Share Posted July 10, 2003 100 Years is fantastic, but I think the best Marquez is probably "Love in the Time of Cholera". Otherwise, all good choices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheKurp Posted July 11, 2003 Share Posted July 11, 2003 I know I haven't seen 10 plays in my lifetime and of the ones I've seen, I can't remember any. So no top 10 there. While I've read at least 10 books (I think) only a few stand out. 1. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Alexander Brown (I read this book while I stayed home from high school with the flu. It evoked rage and tears at the same time. For awhile I hated our government.) 2. Duncton Wood - William Horwood (Although it's a fictional story about moles, it's really a celebration of the light, or essential goodness of life and how an individual may always find it, however great the darkness in which he lives.) 3. Don't Stop the Carnival - Herman Wouk (One of the funniest books I've ever read.) 4. Caribbean - James Michener 5. Papillon - Henri Charriere That's it. The only ones that stand out in memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sisko Posted July 11, 2003 Share Posted July 11, 2003 A couple of things. 1) How could I have left Othello off my list of best plays ?:doh: And 2) Kurp, was Duncton Wood related in any way to Watership Down ? Just curious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spm Posted July 11, 2003 Share Posted July 11, 2003 I can't even remember ten plays, so I won't even try, although of Shakespeare I always preferred Hamlet and King Lear. I once had a class in college where I had to read every single Arthur Miller play but I can't remember a damn one now (except for the Crucible). For top ten books (in no particular order): Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy by the late great Douglas Adams In Cold Blood by Capote 100 Years of Solitude by Marquez Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce A Farewell to Arms by Hemmingway Damn this is tough! I know I've read more than five books.... 1984 by George Orwell The Lord of The Rings by Tolkien Lady Chatterly's Lover by D. H. Lawrence The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger Love in the Time of Cholera by Marquez Anyway, that's it. Marquez is easily my favorite contemporary author, even in translation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fansince62 Posted July 11, 2003 Share Posted July 11, 2003 as for plays always enjoyed Stoppard's work like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead macbeth; hamlet; othello; henry V; romeo & juliet aristophanes there's one that keeps sticking in my mind that I saw decades ago but can't remember the title of...the plot concerned 3 historical luminaries - I think Freud, Trotsky/Lenin, Einstein - crossing paths in Vienna. if anyone can help an old *art out here pls do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheKurp Posted July 11, 2003 Share Posted July 11, 2003 Originally posted by Yusuf06 Kurp, was Duncton Wood related in any way to Watership Down ? Just curious. Related in that they're both metaphors for human life and struggles. Although Watership Down was written earlier and by a different author, I read Duncton Wood first. After subsenquently reading Watership Down, I thought DW was by far the better book. I should mention that DW is the first in a series of 6 books but the deeper in the series you get, the worse the writing gets. In retrospect, I should have just read DW and not wasted my time with the rest. If you have children in the 10-year-old range and up, I would highly recommend that you gently coax them into reading this book. Trust me, they will long remember this as one of the best books they've ever read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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