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OT - Today's Mount Rushmore (18 Sept 03) - Books
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http://dynamic2.gamespy.com/~fof/for...light=rushmore http://dynamic2.gamespy.com/~fof/for...threadid=13972 http://dynamic2.gamespy.com/~fof/for...threadid=14052 To quote the "rules": Quote:
The topic for today: what four books are most deserving of a place on a "Mount Rushmore" of literature?
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Cantebury Tales
War and Peace Crime and Punishment To Kill a Mockingbird Not that I've read more than 1 1/2 of these I'm excluding the Bible because it isn't really literature.
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1984
Germinal (from Emile Zola) The War of the Worlds La Peste (Albert Camus) |
09-18-2003, 11:19 AM | #4 |
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Um...
The old man and the sea (Hemingway) Oliver Twist (Dickens) Ulysses (Joyce) The Silmarillion (Tolkien)
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09-18-2003, 11:24 AM | #5 |
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I guess these are my 4. I may need to revise this in a few hours.
The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger 1984 - Orwell Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut A Clockwork Orange - Burgess EDIT: Thank you Primelord. In with my 2nd favorite book ever (A Clockwork Orange), out with Camus The Stranger - Camus
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09-18-2003, 11:29 AM | #6 |
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I read "The Catcher in the Rye" and really forced myself to finish it. Never really got into it.
1984 : excellent choice indeed ! The Stranger : Good choice too ! |
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The Caine Mutiny - Wouk
Catcher in the Rye - Salinger A Clockwork Orange - Burgess The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
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The Hobbit
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09-18-2003, 11:33 AM | #9 |
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The Great Gatsby
Stranger in a Strange Land Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy The Moon is a Harsh Mistress |
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I've heard that a lot. I think it's the best book I've ever read, and just today finished reading it for about the 7th or 8th time on my train ride into work. Maybe it's a matter of identifying or not identifying with Holden Caufield. |
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09-18-2003, 11:34 AM | #11 |
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Don Quixote - Miguel Cervantes
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez It would probably change if you asked me again a couple of hours from now, though. Part of the problem (and the fun, too) of these other Mount Rushmore lists is that there are typically thousands of potentially worth candidates to choose from, whereas for the real Mount Rushmore, there were only a little a half dozen plausible choices at most. |
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Brave New World Catch-22 Slaughterhouse Five Last edited by VPI97 : 09-18-2003 at 11:37 AM. |
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Paper Lion
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I'd beg to differ on that, cuervo. That's the one (the only one, at the moment) I can think of that would be a drop-dead lock. Can you explain your reasoning on why it "isn't really literature?"
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Moby Dick(got to have some Dickens on there)
Cantebury Tales Animal Farm(I think it has had more impact and more to say than 1984) To Kill a Mocking Bird |
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Well if we are really going to do religious and philisophical texts Old Testament New Testament Quran The Prince |
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Nope. Just put the four books have read every year for the past 20 years. |
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The Odyssey - Homer
1984 - Orwell Catch-22 - Heller ... the last one is extremely tough Cry, the Beloved Country (Alan Paton) The fourth one had a profound impact on me when I first read it in high school and is still one of my favorite books. Others I was pondering there... Romeo & Juliet, Brave New World, Animal Farm, The Grapes of Wrath, The Prince... but I went with one more personal to me I suppose. |
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Well, I guess it could be considered literature...but I was thinking more in terms of an original creation by a single author, rather than an anthology. A definition I found: Quote:
Hmm, I suppose the bible would fit under that definition.
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Umm.....Tigercat? BTW - primelord, thanks for reminding me that I still need to finish The Caine Mutiny. I think I stopped reading it midway about a year ago.
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I had a co-worker convince me not long ago that I needed to read the books since I enjoyed the first two movies. Well, I went through those books in no time and now I have to wait nearly a year for #6 to come out. I'm afraid that I'm going to be one of those stupid people lining up waiting for the midnight release... And for my own personal list... The Dead Zone The Dark Tower: Wizard and Glass Catcher in the Rye Friday Night Lights
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Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams I'm sure my list will change soon... |
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This is an impossible task - how do I limit it to just four? Aaargh!
Animal Farm East of Eden The Brothers Karamozov The Three Musketeers Ask me in 5 miniutes and you might get a completely different list. |
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Just don't eat all of the strawberries and you should be ok. I am not certain if The Caine Mutiny should be on the "Mount Rushmore" of books, but it is certainly a classic and I loved that book so I put it there. I also thought about putting The Grapes of Wrath or Of Mice and Men on the list. I really like Steinbeck. I noticed two people listed The Canterbury Tales and neither one spelled it right. I couldn't get through that book. The rhyming annoymed me to the point that it was all I could concentrate on. |
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"Through the Looking Glass" Lewis Carroll
"Fight Club" Chuck Palahniuk "Me Talk Pretty One Day" David Sedaris "High Fidelity" Nick Hornby
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The Bible Of Mice and Men Hamlet (okay, I know it's not really a book, but since Mt. Rushmore is in South Dakota, nobody is really going to see it and argue anyways) Lord of the Flies
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Shogun - James Clavell Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card The Hobbit - Tolken Doing this list makes me realize how many novels I have not read. (When the question was posed about book and literature, I basically thought it meant novels, so...) And yes, I am limiting my list to books I have actually read. |
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Playboy Penthouse Hustler High Society |
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Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
Hitchhiker's Guide - Adams Ender's Game - Card Animal Farm - Orwell |
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A Prayer for Owen Meaney-John Irving
Atlas Shrugged-Ayn Rand Catcher in the Rye-J.D. Salinger One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest-Ken Kesey Last edited by lcjjdnh : 09-18-2003 at 05:34 PM. |
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The Odyssey - Homer
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Twain The Canterburry Tales - Chaucer Where the Wild Things Are - Sendak
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1 Catcher in the Rye is a favorite for sure
2 Of Mice and Men is amazing and makes up for the fact that Steinbeck is famous even though he mostly wrote horribly boring drivel. 3 Animal Farm 4 Shakespeare, his collected works. |
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Dola, <----edited in Doh!
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms - Chinese Mythology beyond compare. Has shaped a culture and civilization. The Iliad - I'd rather have the Trojan war than Odysseus drifting about trying to get home. The Once and Future King - Best version of the Arthurian legend ever. Beowulf - Classic tale of a forgotten time. Note that only one of these was written in English. And you could easily substitute the French tale which is also among the most classic Arthurian tales. -Anxiety
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I'd have Dante's Divine Comedy as number 5, by the way. -Anxiety
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Blindness......Jose Saramago(nobel prize winner) The Stand....Steven King Will there really be a morning?...Francias Farmer Boyslife....Robert Mccammon My list Fahreneit 451.....Ray Bradbury Pandoras box....John Nance Painted house.....John Grisham Clear and present danger....Tom Clancy I read crap
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bbro : you do not have crap taste. Fahreneit 451 could have been in my top 4 but I had to pu some French litterature of course
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JEEZ people, this is Mount Rushmore, not a magazine stand!
War and Peace Les Miserables Don Quixote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Ok - if you have a topic for the next Mount Rushmore thread, feel free to start anew.
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the hobbit it test of the twins(i am not sure of the title but its a dragonlance book where raistlin has to choose between his beloved brother caramon and true power) |
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