Comments on: One Hundred Books

By: Erin

Erin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:40:02 +0000

To name a few off of my list:

les miserable- Victor Hugo (if you are going for long books, this one is great)

Something by Terry Pratchett (totally your sense of humor)

Moonstone- Wilkie Collins (best mystery I ever read)

Space Triology- SC Lewis (can’t remember if you read them in college or not)

Grimms Brothers Fairy Tales

Wuthering Heights- Bronte

Sherlock Holmes (the complete collection)

By: Allen and Sara

Allen and Sara — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:17:00 +0000

2 very creative contemporary fiction works:
markus zusak–the book thief
david mitchell–cloud atlas (make sure you get the right author)

some others:
madeline l’engle–wrinkle lin time
cs lewis–that hideous strength or great divorce
umberto eco–the name of the rose
john le carre–anything, but Sara recommends the constant gardener, this guy gets published a lot and his books become movies
david ives–all in the timing (it’s a play, but…)
Leslie Marmon Silko–ceremony or almanac of the dead

we’re done for now, but let us stew some more…

By: Allen and Sara

Allen and Sara — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:05:38 +0000

Orson Scott Card–Ender’s Game
Asimov–Nighftall or Foundation
Scott–Ivanhoe
hosseini–the kite runner
tennyson-idylls of the king
chaucer-choose some tales from the canterbury tales

and may we recommend just one book by any author, since you have so much reading to do. and not too much scifi/fantasy. (you’ll read that anyway once this experiment is over. i mean, i have TONS of scifi/fantasy i could recommend, but i don’t think that’s really the point, is it. because if it is, let me know and we’ll let loose!)

By: Chuck Beem

Chuck Beem — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:09:50 +0000

Also Ender’s Shadow. Fantabulous.

The Trial- Franz Kafka
A Separate Peace- Knowles
The Wings of a Falcon- Cynthia Voight
Leepike Ridge- Nathan Wilson
The Napoleon of Notting Hill – Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday-Chesterton
Picasso at the Lapin Agile- Steve Martin

By: Dana Stokes

Dana Stokes — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:19:30 +0000

One more comment after reading others…I think you can and will appreciate the magical realism of Marquez and the poster above is right about Enders Game…one of the best. :)

By: Terry Daffron

Terry Daffron — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:02:51 +0000

Man it seems that you have bitten – oops, I mean beaten me on wit.
I will say though, replace the women of the underworld silliness with Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. Truly excellent.

By: Chuck Beem

Chuck Beem — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:07:17 +0000

NAGY! You are pretty!

Home- Marilynne Robinson
Gilead- Marilynne Robinson
The Fountainhead- Ayn Rand
The Book of the Dun Cow- Walter Wangerin Junior
A Confederacy of Dunces-John Kennedy Toole
The Emperor of Ocean Park- Stephen L Carter
The Road- Cormac McCarthy
The Razor’s Edge- W Somerset Maugham
In Search of Lost Time- Marcel Proust
His Dark Materials (Trilogy)- Phillip Pullman

There’s a few.

By: Holly

Holly — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:12:27 +0000

This is the wifey. I’ve been wanting to read Life of Pi so I officially add that to the list. And you forgot Eye of the Dragon by Stephen King you loser. :P Mar Bear (if that’s your real name, sounds suspicious to me) I knew someone was going to suggest Twilight rofl! I think we should all read it and have a community discussion on why it is so darn popular with the ladies. Its psychological interaction with this culture is interesting and somewhat amusing. Anyway, I also suggest XXX-holic (manga) put out by CLAMP. And no, people, it is not porn. XXX = _ _ _ in Japanese.

By: Mar Bear

Mar Bear — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:54:18 +0000

The twilight series! DO ITTTT!!!

By: Cara McKinley

Cara McKinley — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:12:33 +0000

For some variety, try….

House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski : perhaps difficult/really depressing, but really interesting typography and idea.

His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman : interesting young adult scifi/fantasy with riffs on Paradise Lost

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood : really dark dystopian future, cleverly written.

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller : the ultimate sarcastic wartime social commentary

Life of Pi by Yann Martel : Total page turner. Boy tries to survive on a lifeboat with a tiger.

100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez : the lives of a family over 100 years as surroundings change. Magical realism.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera : super philosophical, poetic writing about love and attachment.

For good measure, I’d also suggest The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. I think she was pretty much a crazy lady but there are some themes worth reading about in the Fountainhead, about championing greatness over mediocrity.