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Here's an updated list of mine, that is not necessarily in any order:

William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury; Light In August; Absalom, Absalom!
Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian; Suttree; Child Of God
Franz Kafka - The Trial; The Castle
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
Herman Melville - Moby Dick; Billy Budd; The Confidence Man; Bartleby the Scrivener; Benito Careno; White Jacket
Seneca - really any of his tragedies, especially Hercules Furens, Thyestes, and Oedipus
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Demons; The Idiot
Virginia Woolf - To The Lighthouse; Mrs. Dalloway
The Bronte Sisters - Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights
Nathaniel Hawthrone - The House Of the Seven Gables
Gertrude Stein - The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow; V.
William Gaddis - The Recognitions; J R; A Frolic Of His Own

JMan

Tarzan of the Apes
Catherine, Called Birdy
Frankenstein
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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I won't get fooled to waste an hour on this; no way man.

Saoirse

Ham on Rye
Sentimental Education
Anything by the Bronte Sisters (especially Vilette, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights)
The Beggar Maid
The Tin Drum
Lolita
The Piano Teacher
The Butcher Boy
Huckleberry Finn

...and probably some other books too

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JMan wrote:

Tarzan of the Apes
Catherine, Called Birdy
Frankenstein

Now, when you say Frankenstein, you're being kinda vague - do you mean the 1818 edition or the 1823 edition? Or is it, like, an abridged version or rewrite?

Also, three out of your four books are children's books - do you just happen to have a general preference for children's books?
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Lemme educate you bitches:

Breakfast Of Champions
Blood Meridian
Generation X
The Old Man And The Sea
A Canticle For Leibowitz
House Of Leaves

Best books. Right there.
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Jackwc wrote:

Now, when you say Frankenstein, you're being kinda vague - do you mean the 1818 edition or the 1823 edition? Or is it, like, an abridged version or rewrite?

Also, three out of your four books are children's books - do you just happen to have a general preference for children's books?

What's it matter what edition? The story's freaking awesome!

Tarzan is NOT a children's book. Disney just made a kiddie version out of it, screwing up the story at the same time. Tarzan of the Apes is actually kinda violent, including baths of blood in the beginning and a split open head. Need I mention the language?

Listen to this major flaw in the book: As a kid, Tarzan found the cabin his parents built after they were marooned, though he didn't know it was HIS parents' cabin.

Tarzan found children's books with words and pictures, so he taught himself how to read and write English over the next couple decades starting with the children's books by linking the words with the pictures, and then moving on to other books. But, he could not learn how to PRONOUNCE English, because there was no way for him to know that B made the b sound, d made the d sound, etc.

The only language he could speak was the ape language, Mangani. Tarzan means "White-Skin."

As an adult, while he still didn't know how to pronounce letters, he wrote a letter to Jane. The letter read "I am Tarzan of the apes."

Inaccuracy: How could Tarzan write his own name in the Mangani translation if he didn't know how to pronounce English letters at the time?

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JMan wrote:

What's it matter what edition? The story's freaking awesome!

Tarzan is NOT a children's book. Disney just made a kiddie version out of it, screwing up the story at the same time. Tarzan of the Apes is actually kinda violent, including baths of blood in the beginning and a split open head. Need I mention the language?

Listen to this major flaw in the book: As a kid, Tarzan found the cabin his parents built after they were marooned, though he didn't know it was HIS parents' cabin.

Tarzan found children's books with words and pictures, so he taught himself how to read and write English over the next couple decades starting with the children's books by linking the words with the pictures, and then moving on to other books. But, he could not learn how to PRONOUNCE English, because there was no way for him to know that B made the b sound, d made the d sound, etc.

The only language he could speak was the ape language, Mangani. Tarzan means "White-Skin."

As an adult, while he still didn't know how to pronounce letters, he wrote a letter to Jane. The letter read "I am Tarzan of the apes."

Inaccuracy: How could Tarzan write his own name in the Mangani translation if he didn't know how to pronounce English letters at the time?

1. The edition matters big time. I mean, for starters, if it was only the story that mattered then a brief summary would be as good if not better than the whole novel. Secondofall, the two Frankenstein editions are completely different stories.

2. Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote pulp that, for the most part, was very popular among children, namely young boys. So, in a way, yeah. Violence or not - I mean, Indiana Jones and Star Wars are more or less for children too and they're both pretty violent.

3. Well, I guess you've got Edgar on that one. Keep in mind that this is the same man who wrote about magical cave portals to Mars.
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2. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
3. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

Currently reading Wuthering Heights, I like it very well so far.
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Just finished the Silmarillion again, so now I must read the LotR trilogy, the Hobbit, watch the movies, read the wikias. That books gets me so hyped with Tolkien's legendarium it's unhealthy.