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2razzamajazz
You can choose from this list of one thousand and one books to read before you go on a one-way ticket. How many books do you intend to digest? 12 novels per year ? In 50 years' duration , it will be 600 books.
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/952.1001_Books_You_Must_Read_Before_You_Die
This list is nothing else but novels,novels and novels. Browse the list, a person will surely have a choice of 600 titles to read in a lifetime from now, when a person, aged 25 years(born on 1988) going to be a senior citizen of 75 years, that will be Year 2063.
Some novels worth reading:
Animal Farm by George Orwell - Satirical
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - Sci-Fiction,Utopia
The War of The World by H G Wells - Sci-Fiction, Futuristic
The Death of A Salesman by Arthur Miller - Drama,play
and many more, not in 1001 Books - List.
Happy Reading.
Merry Christmas!
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/952.1001_Books_You_Must_Read_Before_You_Die
This list is nothing else but novels,novels and novels. Browse the list, a person will surely have a choice of 600 titles to read in a lifetime from now, when a person, aged 25 years(born on 1988) going to be a senior citizen of 75 years, that will be Year 2063.
Some novels worth reading:
Animal Farm by George Orwell - Satirical
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - Sci-Fiction,Utopia
The War of The World by H G Wells - Sci-Fiction, Futuristic
The Death of A Salesman by Arthur Miller - Drama,play
and many more, not in 1001 Books - List.
Happy Reading.
Merry Christmas!
3aulsmith
I think that you shouldn't tell other people what they "must read." "Must reads" come from the idea that reading, of and by itself, is "improving" and can introduce you to people who live and think differently than you do, and that that's a good thing.
I think this ignores many things:
- Getting something out of a book requires more than just reading it. You need background on the author, the philosophical milieu that they're writing from, the political milieu that they are writing about, and other people's ideas about whether the author got it "right" or not.
- You may not want to read to "improve." You might be in a job where you are constantly struggling to keep up with current knowledge. You might have a life where you are constantly exposed to people whose ideas and values are different from your own. You may want to read to escape, go some place familiar, comfortable and easy where you can leave the problems of real life behind for a couple of hours.
- One of the good things about a "must read" list is that it creates a community of people who can all talk about the same things. The question is, though, what kind of community do you want to join? There are reading lists that are essentially the reading material of liberal arts majors from the 1950s through the 1970s. There are reading lists of for those who are interested in the new diversity canon developed in the 1980s and 1990s. There are reading lists for people interested in feminist thought. There are reading lists for science fiction fans. They're all different. So you have to decide who you want to talk to.
Taking a look at your library I saw and interesting mix of quiet books and thrillers. Based on that, I can recommend two books you might want to try:
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell is much like Sarah Orne Jewett's Country of Pointed Firs, a quiet, episodic book about rural life.
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins starts off as a quiet kind of Victorian book with interesting characters but develops into a rather complex crime novel with some thriller elements, though it won't have you on the edge of your seat.
Enjoy whatever you choose to read.
I think this ignores many things:
- Getting something out of a book requires more than just reading it. You need background on the author, the philosophical milieu that they're writing from, the political milieu that they are writing about, and other people's ideas about whether the author got it "right" or not.
- You may not want to read to "improve." You might be in a job where you are constantly struggling to keep up with current knowledge. You might have a life where you are constantly exposed to people whose ideas and values are different from your own. You may want to read to escape, go some place familiar, comfortable and easy where you can leave the problems of real life behind for a couple of hours.
- One of the good things about a "must read" list is that it creates a community of people who can all talk about the same things. The question is, though, what kind of community do you want to join? There are reading lists that are essentially the reading material of liberal arts majors from the 1950s through the 1970s. There are reading lists of for those who are interested in the new diversity canon developed in the 1980s and 1990s. There are reading lists for people interested in feminist thought. There are reading lists for science fiction fans. They're all different. So you have to decide who you want to talk to.
Taking a look at your library I saw and interesting mix of quiet books and thrillers. Based on that, I can recommend two books you might want to try:
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell is much like Sarah Orne Jewett's Country of Pointed Firs, a quiet, episodic book about rural life.
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins starts off as a quiet kind of Victorian book with interesting characters but develops into a rather complex crime novel with some thriller elements, though it won't have you on the edge of your seat.
Enjoy whatever you choose to read.
4razzamajazz
A reader must choose the books he want to read. The 1001 books' listing is just recommenations from a book.
5Cecrow
>4 razzamajazz:, zactly. The title isn't to be taken too literally, but it's fun to see how many you can knock off. Personally I prefer 501 Must-Read Books. What I appreciate most about these lists is my attention being brought to significant authors and works I'd otherwise never have heard of much less tried, given my circle of non-reading friends and no literature degree. It's definitely broadened my horizons. Even from the 501 list though, I can't see myself reading more than 300 or so with little to no interest in the remainder.
>3 aulsmith:, gerat idea though, to recommend based on what's been read. I haven't looked but for "quiet" I'd immediately say A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and for thrillers Agatha Christie must be sampled. I don't care for the genre at all, but I'm glad I read Silence of the Lambs.
>3 aulsmith:, gerat idea though, to recommend based on what's been read. I haven't looked but for "quiet" I'd immediately say A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and for thrillers Agatha Christie must be sampled. I don't care for the genre at all, but I'm glad I read Silence of the Lambs.
6Betty.Ann.Beam
MUST READ just means you've found a book you're passionate about. Someone else may think it stinks, but they won't know if they don't open the cover.
7Betty.Ann.Beam
I just recently read A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN. I don't know how I managed to miss it over the course of over a decade. I love Thomas Harris and have read all of his books at least once. They are not for the fainthearted but SILENCE OF THE LAMBS is a no brainer.
8Betty.Ann.Beam
I love to glean novels from a variety of sources.
9thorold
>6 Betty.Ann.Beam:
It's the fundamental problem with all lists of new experiences you want to try "before you die". By definition, they are things you haven't tried yet, and you have to rely on other people's opinions to decide whether to invest your limited time. If I discovered that I only had six months (or however long it is that you get in this sort of exercise) to live, then I think I might be inclined to spend a good part of that time revisiting things that had given me pleasure in the past, rather than diving into something new and difficult. I'm sure it would be more comforting to have a pile of P.G. Wodehouse novels and a well-thumbed copy of The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918 by your bedside, when you expire, rather than Teach yourself Mandarin and a pristine copy of Finnegan's Wake with a bookmark somewhere around page 5.
It's the fundamental problem with all lists of new experiences you want to try "before you die". By definition, they are things you haven't tried yet, and you have to rely on other people's opinions to decide whether to invest your limited time. If I discovered that I only had six months (or however long it is that you get in this sort of exercise) to live, then I think I might be inclined to spend a good part of that time revisiting things that had given me pleasure in the past, rather than diving into something new and difficult. I'm sure it would be more comforting to have a pile of P.G. Wodehouse novels and a well-thumbed copy of The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918 by your bedside, when you expire, rather than Teach yourself Mandarin and a pristine copy of Finnegan's Wake with a bookmark somewhere around page 5.
10aulsmith
6: Okay, but don't you want to know something about the person who is telling you this is a great experience?
The books I'm currently passionate about are:
Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran
Julian Comstock by Robert Charles Wilson
Wind-up Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
But I'm a queer science fiction fan with a passionate interest in community functioning in stressful situations.
The little I know about you from your catalog indicates that these books aren't likely to be of much interest to you.
9. I saved a bunch of books from favorite authors for "the end," but when I got close enough to a possible end a few years ago and started reading them, I found I'd saved the minor works whose appeal was not very strong. So I'm with you, though I did find several new poets during that period by randomly pulling poetry books off shelves (my own, the local bookstore's and the library's), reading the first two poems and continuing if I found those two of interest.
The books I'm currently passionate about are:
Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran
Julian Comstock by Robert Charles Wilson
Wind-up Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
But I'm a queer science fiction fan with a passionate interest in community functioning in stressful situations.
The little I know about you from your catalog indicates that these books aren't likely to be of much interest to you.
9. I saved a bunch of books from favorite authors for "the end," but when I got close enough to a possible end a few years ago and started reading them, I found I'd saved the minor works whose appeal was not very strong. So I'm with you, though I did find several new poets during that period by randomly pulling poetry books off shelves (my own, the local bookstore's and the library's), reading the first two poems and continuing if I found those two of interest.
