Recommendations of Classic Books
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Re: Recommendations of Classic Books
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Totally agree about theses two, but Canery Row by Steinbeck has to be my favourite and Hocus Pocus by Vonnegut.mattjo1 wrote:I suggest you try a lot of Vonnegut, and a few of Steinbeck. Those are popular classical authors, and I recommend "Tortilla Flat", and "Slaughterhouse Five".
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Another writer well worth reading and more than once is F. Scott Fitzgerald. Clearly his life and experiences run through all his works, but not just anyone could write of their turmoil and the times they are living in with such talent. Although I was charged with absorbing every detail and nuance of The Great Gatsby for a paper in college (who wasn't?), it is not at all my favorite. (I am sure that there are literary experts keeling over everywhere and certainly, if were not already deceased, so would be my English professor!!) I really liked best "Tender is the Night." It just seemed to say more to be about their life and who they were. I have read a lot of his work beyond just those of his works that are his "best sellers" and he is one of the great talents.
I also like Dorothy Parker, although she was not the prolific book writer that Fitzgerald was. She was a very unique woman and her stories, and especially her one-liners, show a great deal of talent and imagination. She was humorous and biting, while of course being a very sad and unhappy person.
I really appreciate the classic mysteries as well, but could not find the right section for these classic authors. Might have missed that. Any help to get to the right place appreciated. I really like the great mystery authors of the past. Looking forward to discussions on those as well.
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Sorry I don't get this - a classic can be from any era. Even this decade. It is a book that is held as a momentous work by literary critics. And can be any genre. such as Si fi - Do Robots dream of electric sheep? by Philip K Dick.Cupids_Psyche wrote:Can we perhaps have a little clarification of the word 'Classic'? i.e before 1800, 1800s, 1900s, genre etc.
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it is a classic book
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and i definatley agree it is complex
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but it is also interesting
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I see no reason why contemporary writers can be "classic" also - in a hundred years some of them will be on everyone's list! Anything by Graham Greene (I am currently reading The Quiet American) and Kazuo Ishiguro (I've just finished reading Never Let Me Go - which I read three times in one week, to pick up all the nuances I'd missed). Last week I was reading Third Shift - Pact, part of the Wool series by Hugh Howey, another favourite author. And staying with the scifi genre, I must include Day of the Triffids by John Wyndam. I'll read just about anything by Isaac Azimov, or Somerset Maughan, novels or short stories. This is just a very short list of favourites. So many books, so little time!
Just as a postscript, I'd like to give a plug to Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. This is hard science fiction, but with a creepy, mystical feel to it - a whole planet made up of a strange ocean - an ocean that is both alien and sentient.
Bi Bi for now, and happy reading everyone!