New Dawn goes literary!

[New Dawn]

I wonder what I should read now?

[Sir Osis of Thuliver]

You need something masculine to counteract that Austen...

Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises is my suggestion.

[New Dawn]

Ah, you are so right. Before you answered I started with 'To Have and Have Not'. It's definitely a different style and action from Austen...

[cugel the clever]

The novels already mentioned are great.  I would add:

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
1984 by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Lord of the Rings (trilogy) by JRR Tolkein
Dune by Frank Herbert
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Pincher Martin by William Golding

There are so many great novels....... hard to create a "short list".  Keep in mind that I'm a socialist and I also like speculative fiction, so my preferences are skewed in those directions.

[New Dawn]

Thank you, cugel. I've already read the two Orwell books you mentioned and Tolkien (the trilogy as well as The Hobbit and Silmarillion). I'll put the rest on my 'I-will-see-if-if-I-will-read-list'. I doubt I will read 'Dune' due to it's size -is it 1000 pages? - but I might change regarding that. Is Pincher Martin better that Goldings more well known books (Lord of the Flies and Rites of Passage)?

[New Dawn]

Btw, Peace, I've read 'The Good Earth' as per your recommendation and i must say it was a pure joy to read it. A very interesting story and also an interesting writing style. I really liked it.

[Peacemaker]

I'm glad you liked it.

[cugel the clever]

Hi New Dawn - I would rank Lord of the Flies as Golding's best novel.  IMHO it is one of the great novels in all of english literature.  I would rank Pincher Martin as his second best novel.  It is a profoundly intense stream-of-conscience character study of a human facing adversity.  I emerged from reading this novel possibly more surprised and shaken than any I've ever read.  I strongly suggest that you read Dune.... it is in-dact about 400 pages so it is a reasonable read.  Many science fiction fans rank it as the finest science fiction novel ever written and I would certainly rank it in my top-five.

[New Dawn]

Thanks again Cugel.  I will seriously consider reading Dune then.  Lord of the Flies is already on my list but I will add Pincher Martin to that list too.

[welder572]

Animal Farm and 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea are good ones.

[New Dawn]

Ah, you are right there. I have allways liked Jules Verne. And Animal farm - as well as 1984 - is a good read.

[WarrenG]

'Ive tried, i can never get past all the boring crap at the beginning of a novel, I recommend something by Darren Shan

[New Dawn]

I have now read 'Of Mice and Men' and 'East of Eden' so I can now check John Steinbeck on my list. I really liked the first one.

I am currently reading the third and last book in the Millennium series by the late Swedish author Stieg Larsson.

[New Dawn]

Have any one of you read any of the Millennium books (or seen the film)?

[Peacemaker]

Which Millennium film?