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What's your favorite top 10 novels that you enjoyed or liked for certain reasons ?
Here's mine -
1- Notes from the underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
2-Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
3-The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
4 - Father's and son's - Turgenev
5 - Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
6- Resurrection - Leo Tolstoy
7-War and peace - Leo Tolstoy
8 - Mother - Maxim Gorky
9 - Dead Soul - Gogol
10 - Crime and punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I sense a pattern in your choices.
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(Dec 23, 2017, 16:29 pm)joew771 Wrote: I sense a pattern in your choices.
what pattern ?
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(Dec 23, 2017, 16:32 pm)Riichu Wrote: (Dec 23, 2017, 16:29 pm)joew771 Wrote: I sense a pattern in your choices.
what pattern ?
They are all Russian maybe?
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(Dec 23, 2017, 16:59 pm)joew771 Wrote: (Dec 23, 2017, 16:32 pm)Riichu Wrote: (Dec 23, 2017, 16:29 pm)joew771 Wrote: I sense a pattern in your choices.
what pattern ?
They are all Russian maybe?
Actually I've never read anything that i liked more then russian novels 
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In no particular order:
A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
Empire Falls - Richard Russo
The Risk Pool - Richard Russo
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
A Clash of Kings - George RR Martin
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Old School - Tobias Wolff
Franny and Zooey - JD Salinger
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Dec 23, 2017, 19:57 pm
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Since I was a bit off topic, I suppose I should give my list as well. Though I can't guarantee that it won't change next week. Pretty much in this order. Though Moby Dick is and probably always will be #1. Best book ever by far, imho.
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
I, Claudius - Robert Graves
Claudius, the God - Robert Graves
Lord of the Rings (trilogy) - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien
Pygmy - Chuck Palahniuk
Time Enough for Love - Robert Heinlein
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
Outer Dark - Cormac McCarthy
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
I've read each of those at least three times. And I hated to include 2 authors that politux picked, much less one book exactly the same, but what can I do?
But like I said, that list is likely to change if you ask me next week. I can already think of about 20 others that could be there instead.
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(Dec 23, 2017, 19:57 pm)joew771 Wrote: Since I was a bit off topic, I suppose I should give my list as well. Though I can't guarantee that it won't change next week. Pretty much in this order. Though Moby Dick is and probably always will be #1. Best book ever by far, imho.
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
I, Claudius - Robert Graves
Claudius, the God - Robert Graves
Lord of the Rings (trilogy) - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien
Pygmy - Chuck Palahniuk
Time Enough for Love - Robert Heinlein
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
Outer Dark - Cormac McCarthy
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
I've read each of those at least three times. And I hated to include 2 authors that politux picked, much less one book exactly the same, but what can I do?
But like I said, that list is likely to change if you ask me next week. I can already think of about 20 others that could be there instead.
Could you please tell me from personal viewpoint what's so great about moby dick ? I've seen alot of guys talking about it but it never attracted me...since alot of people think its the greatest novel...if you could tempt me perhaps I'll read it
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Dec 23, 2017, 20:42 pm
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(Dec 23, 2017, 20:13 pm)Riichu Wrote: Could you please tell me from personal viewpoint what's so great about moby dick ? I've seen alot of guys talking about it but it never attracted me...since alot of people think its the greatest novel...if you could tempt me perhaps I'll read it
Hmmmmm......
That's not an easy answer.
It's beautifully written for one. It flows like music.
It has powerful themes. The main one being revenge, and how seeking it can destroy a person. The white whale is a symbol. A symbol of anything you want it to be. Anything that has caused you pain in your life. The loss of a loved one. A romantic breakup. Someone slighting you at work. An embarrassing moment at school. Anything.
Everyone has been hurt or humiliated, and wanted to set it right, or get revenge on the person who wronged you. It is one of the most powerful feelings a human can experience. That novel transplants those feelings into a sea captain chasing a white whale. But they are no different than what you or I or anyone else ever feels.
But putting it in that setting also gives it a grandiose quality. A high adventure. Men battling the sea and themselves and a giant elusive creature as they travel the globe.
I don't know what else to say. It's magnificent. It's the best metaphorical novel that has ever been written.
And Queequeg is funny.
"All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick. He piled upon the whale’s white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart’s shell upon it."
Glorious.
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(Dec 23, 2017, 20:42 pm)joew771 Wrote: (Dec 23, 2017, 20:13 pm)Riichu Wrote: Could you please tell me from personal viewpoint what's so great about moby dick ? I've seen alot of guys talking about it but it never attracted me...since alot of people think its the greatest novel...if you could tempt me perhaps I'll read it
Hmmmmm......
That's not an easy answer.
It's beautifully written for one. It flows like music.
It has powerful themes. The main one being revenge, and how seeking it can destroy a person. The white whale is a symbol. A symbol of anything you want it to be. Anything that has caused you pain in your life. The loss of a loved one. A romantic breakup. Someone slighting you at work. An embarrassing moment at school. Anything.
Everyone has been hurt or humiliated, and wanted to set it right, or get revenge on the person who wronged you. It is one of the most powerful feelings a human can experience. That novel transplants those feelings into a sea captain chasing a white whale. But they are no different than what you or I or anyone else ever feels.
But putting it in that setting also gives it a grandiose quality. A high adventure. Men battling the sea and themselves and a giant elusive creature as they travel the globe.
I don't know what else to say. It's magnificent. It's the best metaphorical novel that has ever been written.
And Queequeg is funny.
"All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick. He piled upon the whale’s white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart’s shell upon it."
Glorious. Thank you soo much  I have mild aversion to non russian novels but this one looks amazing ...definitely going to read it ✌
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