The_Sweetest_Thing said:
I classics too, but I'm going to have to say that Aldous Huxley's Brave New World beats Orwell 1984 any day, at least imo.
gosh that is a big call, I loved both of these books, in fact 1984 and animal farm would be in my top ten books of all time. Personally I think that 1984 beats BNW in my opinion, I think that the character play between Winston, Julia and BB in 1984 is more well defined than the characters in BNW, although I do like BNW, I just think that Orwell wins out over Huxley in the 'Dystopian' genre.............
some other great books that I have loved,
One flew over the cookoos nest- Ken Keesey
The lord of the rings- Tolkien
Women- Charles Bukowski
Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
Fiesta/The sun also rises- Ernest Hemingway
Knulp- Herman Hesse
anything by Oscar Wilde, both 'The nightingale and the rose' and 'The devoted friend', whilst they are only short stories, they are two of my most favourite pieces of writing, I just love how Wilde was able to convey so much emotion in his stories....
and I would also say anything by Roald Dahl, I am currently reading a big book of his filled with lots of short stories, he is without a doubt where Miss Rowling would of got her inspiration from. This collection of short stories that I am reading are just great, all of them have a very 'twilight zone' feel to them. Any of his children's books are great too, many of these I read as a child, but they are just fabulous. Personal faves were,
Georgies Marvellous medicine
the witches
Boy
Matilda....
and here is my list of 'classis' books that I want to read within the next 5 years ( I so wish that I could just read all day long!!!!)
Catch 22
stranger in a strange land
arabian nights
the power of one
and a couple of Aussie ones,
Johnno by David Malouf
Bliss by Peter Carey
and my all time most loathed novel was Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road' I perservered for so long with this novel, for a novel that is considered a modern classic, I just didnt get it