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rogueravenclaw

Book List

Mar 08, 2006 16:00

I hope to read these books sometime soon (meaning sometime in the next year or so). I keep saying I should make a list and I keep not making one. So, here's my list, not in any particular order. Please share if there's any books you love that you think I should add! Or if one of them sucks, ;P

Books I want to read:
1. Jane Eyre by Charlotte ( Read more... )

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Comments 13

nemesister March 9 2006, 01:52:59 UTC

Have you read "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas? Because if not, do! "The Three Musketeers" are good and fine but that book is awesome.
Don't you mean "1984" by George Orwell? I really have to read that book, too.
I'm reading "Jayne Eyre" at the moment btw.

rogueravenclaw March 9 2006, 02:03:11 UTC

1984 by George Orwell. Yes, that is what I meant *Face palm* I couldn't remember who wrote it and I was already on Amazon, so I did a search on there to see who the author was. As you can see it wasn't very effective... I've already fixed it!

How do you like Jane Eyre so far? I have a bunch of friends who have read it and they rave about it. They say the character development is very interesting. *shrugs*

I'll have to remember the Count of Monte Cristo *adds it to list* My brother just finished the TTM, and he loved it. We actually bought the book over the summer because I was going to read it, as did my brother. *hides head in shame for not reading the book*

nemesister March 9 2006, 11:57:24 UTC

"Jane Eyre" is a pleasure to read, really draws you in it's world. I am at the beginning of her adult life and only just met Mr. Rochester, so I have to wait and see if it'll blow me away or just be a good book. I wish I had a paper version instead of the e-book but it will do.
Oh, and if you want more good fantasy you could consider Astrid Lindgren ("The Brothers Lionheart" for example) or Michhael Ende ("The Neverending Story"). Both are the same genre and targeted age group as "Narnia", I would say, and really good.

rogueravenclaw March 9 2006, 22:49:32 UTC

Oh, and if you want more good fantasy you could consider Astrid Lindgren ("The Brothers Lionheart" for example) or Michhael Ende ("The Neverending Story"). Both are the same genre and targeted age group as "Narnia", I would say, and really good.

I love reading fun stuff like that, although I haven't read either of those series. I read a lot Tamora Pierce (Wild Magic, Trickster's Choice, Alana, etc.) when I was in 7th grade and last year I read a couple more of her series. I <3 her. I think she's in that same vein as well, except the feminist version of it, ;P

rose_acacia March 9 2006, 03:28:32 UTC

Hey, found your journal on feminisms and checked out your journal. Then I saw this post about books and couldn't be drawn away. Yay books!

The Feminine Mystique is a tough read, but worth it; it reads like a really long scientific article. It's really fascinating when you realize that this book introduced Maslow's pyramid to the American public and revitalized the psychiatric community. Not to mention the women of America.

Dude, Angels and Demons is five billion times better than The DaVinci Code. And if you still want to read more Dan Brown, Deception Point is absolutely brilliant--my favorite work of his. I believe it was written before either of the Robert Langdon books, but I'm not quite sure...

Eldest is alright, I suppose. I mean, it's an okay fantasy novel, but I'm not a big fan of Paolini. I could name a bunch of writers in that genre who deserve more of the recognition he's receiving.

Antigone. ZOMG. LOVE IT. READ IT NOW. Same goes for Fahrenheit 451Hmm...recommendations. If you haven't read them already, I'd suggest Philip ( ... )

rogueravenclaw March 9 2006, 23:08:58 UTC

The Feminine Mystique is a tough read, but worth it; it reads like a really long scientific article. It's really fascinating when you realize that this book introduced Maslow's pyramid to the American public and revitalized the psychiatric community. Not to mention the women of America.I've read the first two chapters of it online. I couldn't find the rest of it, though. I just did a project on psychoanalysis (Freud, Penis envy, etc) and I've heard this book deals a lot with dispelling what Freud said about the women's subconscious, which made me want to read it more (because quite frankly, penis envy is one crack!theory. I'm pretty sure I do not want a penis, thank you very much, ;P ( ... )

rose_acacia March 10 2006, 04:17:06 UTC

Yay for the debunking of Freud! And the genius of Dan Brown!

I understand what you say about Paolini...embarrassingly enough, I own both books. *cringes* They're good time wasters, especially if you try to point out all the similarities to LOTR, Star Wars, etc. Yes, I have done this on car trips. And highlighted.

Mmmmm...Antigone...love love love. Oedipus as well, but I don't love it quite as much.

You're very welcome! I'm just glad my nerdiness has helped someone along the path of...more nerdiness. Yes.

rogueravenclaw March 11 2006, 14:32:09 UTC

especially if you try to point out all the similarities to LOTR, Star Wars, etc. Yes, I have done this on car trips. And highlighted.

lol. I do the same thing.

Only, not on car trips. I get car sick like nobody's business. Yuck.

sunnyskywalker March 13 2006, 01:58:57 UTC

Here from some link or other somewhere...

You have so many good books on this list! Pride and Prejudice is wonderful; Jane Austen has such a way with words. I loved The Name of the Rose--a murder mystery, a medieval monastery, and a myserious library? Yes! The Divine Comedy can be tough depending on the translation and the number of footnotes (too many Guidos and Guelf/Ghibelline rivalry references to keep track of), but it has so many passages that are just beautiful or fascinating or even funny. The Canterbury Tales, if it came out today, would probably be banned from schools (I mean, The Miller's Tale and The Reeve's Tale and the Wife of Bath's Prologue... sixty year olds marrying teenagers! adultery! literal arse-kissing!), but since it's a classic we get to required to read it instead. I got to translate parts of Antigone in class a few years ago (forgot all the Greek now, unfortunately), and knowing about all the weird double meanings involving marriage beds, nests, and graves makes it even cooler ( ... )

rogueravenclaw March 15 2006, 21:20:36 UTC

My lit teacher keeps telling me I need to read Name of the Rose! I was planning on reading it this summer (of course, I always have big reading plans over the summer that end up going down the drain...). Glad to see somebody else is as crazy about it as my Lit teacher is! lol. And you can't get much better than a murder mystery, a medieval monastary, and a mysterious library. I think that's something we all need in our lives (minus an actual murder, ;P).

I've read parts of The Canterbury Tales and it seems highly amusing, but with such a point! I've only read a couple of tales, but you really get a feel for what life was like in 13th century England (because that's something we all need to know!).

I'm hoping to get to Antigone next week *crosses fingers* I loved Oedipus Rex, and I most people I've talked to like Antigone even more. Sophocles has such a way with motifs (sight in Oedipus, for example, seems to hold a smilar double meaning that you described above).

Now I want to go read instead of doing homework!I know what ( ... )

sunnyskywalker April 5 2006, 06:33:59 UTC

I found an old paper I did way back in 2003 (I think) that has some interesting stuff about the Greek in Antigone. It focuses on part of the guard's speech, lines 422-433, where he talks about Antigone finding the corpse bare and shrieking like "an embittered bird." Anyway, some of the words in that passage are very odd ( ... )

beyond_pale March 19 2006, 04:11:45 UTC

What an awesome list! At this point in my life, of course, the problem is finding book I haven't read, bookcruncher I am. Of the ones I've read, this is the order in which I adore ( ... )

rogueravenclaw March 22 2006, 00:15:19 UTC

Shakespeare (Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, R&J, Lear, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, and Tempest are just my favorites; Tad Williams wrote a novel that I suppose could be called a 'fanfiction' of sorts based on The Tempest called Caliban's Hour that is both the story retold from the "villain's" POV as well as a prequel and epilogue for it; definitely worth reading)

I've read R&J, Hamlet, and part of Twelfth Night. I actually read an HP fanfic based off of Twelfth Night on ff.net. It was highly amusing. That was actually why I randomly decided to read the first couple of acts of Twelfth Night when I was stuck at school one day, ;P I've read "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead", which is also like a Shakespeare ff. You've probably read it, but I really love it, ;P

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (funny as hell, don't let anyone say otherwise!)I've read a couple of the tales and really liked them (hence, I want to read the rest of the book, and so it is on my list, ;P). Anyone who thinks that man is boring ( ... )