the desire for nostalgic tomes

[Deaf258]

For some odd reason, I feel inspired to buy and read as many titles as I can of the following:

• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• Lord of the Flies, a Novel. by William G. Golding, Edward Morgan Forster
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
• OF MICE & MEN by John Steinbeck
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Austin Warren
• One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Fahrenheit 451 : A Novel by Ray Bradbury
• Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
• Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
• The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
• Blade Runner by Philip K. Dick
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
• A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle

I know some of you like to read. If you do, please post a list of books you want to get and read also! I'd like to know!

 

[kuifje75]

I have been thinking about buying copies of some novels I read in high school, such as:

* "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
* "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
* "The Plague" by Albert Camus
* "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
* "Ulysses" by James Joyce
* "The Dubliners" by James Joyce
* "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
* "Sense and Sensiblity" by Jane Austen
* "Enemy of the People" by Henrik Ibsen
* "Peer Gynt" by Henrik Ibsen
* "Moll Flanders" by Daniel DeFoe
* "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel DeFoe
* "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

etc... will add more when I can remember more.

 

[Deaf258]

I forgot a few more!

• 1984 by George Orwell, Erich Fromm
• Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
• Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
• Metropolis by Thea Von Harbou
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Thanks for reminding me for "Pride and Prejudice" and "Sense and Sensiblity" by Jane Austen!

 

[VamPyroX]

• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• Lord of the Flies, a Novel. by William G. Golding, Edward Morgan Forster
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• OF MICE & MEN by John Steinbeck
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Austin Warren
• One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
• Blade Runner by Philip K. Dick

I've seen the movies. They're great. I've read books for:

• Lord of the Flies, a Novel. by William G. Golding, Edward Morgan Forster
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Austin Warren

I never really have the motivation to read the books. If they were online, I'd definitely read it. Yes, you can call me crazy... Heh!

 

[VamPyroX]

I have been thinking about buying copies of some novels I read in high school, such as:

* "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
* "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
* "The Plague" by Albert Camus
* "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
* "Ulysses" by James Joyce
* "The Dubliners" by James Joyce
* "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
* "Sense and Sensiblity" by Jane Austen
* "Enemy of the People" by Henrik Ibsen
* "Peer Gynt" by Henrik Ibsen
* "Moll Flanders" by Daniel DeFoe
* "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel DeFoe
* "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

etc... will add more when I can remember more.

I've only read "Great Expectatons". I also saw the old black & white version of the movie, not the recent one.

 

[VamPyroX]

I forgot a few more!

• 1984 by George Orwell, Erich Fromm

• Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

• Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

• Metropolis by Thea Von Harbou

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Thanks for reminding me for "Pride and Prejudice" and "Sense and Sensiblity" by Jane Austen!

"The Great Gatsby" is a good book. I read it and saw the movie too.

 

[Fly Free]

For some odd reason, I feel inspired to buy and read as many titles as I can of the following:

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

• Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

• OF MICE & MEN by John Steinbeck

• One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

I know some of you like to read. If you do, please post a list of books you want to get and read also! I'd like to know!

those are the books ive read along with:

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

• Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

there are more but i cant seem to remmy right now -- will have to post at a later time for other classics ive read over the years

 

[gnarlydorkette]

YES, i do know that feeling... where I just want to buy all of those good books for me to read and keep.. I am trying to start up my own library of my preferences.

oh dear, It is hard for me to remember what I have got so far but I do have the list *somewhere* that I do want to buy..

What I do remember that I do want to buy:
*A Brave New World by Adolf... Something.

:Oops:
[Scuffling thru her scrapes and stuff]
wow.. I am really an artist... I got many nifty pictures that I tore out of magazines and they are frigging hilarious.. and ideas for tee shirt with words or pictures to paint/screenprint on.. Yess, I AM AN ARTIST!

[getting back on the track]
I got the list out of the pile.. I wrote that I want to read
"Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf
"Ghost World" by Daniel Crowes (it is a picture book... cartoon/novel, whatever)
"Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys" by Chris Fuhrzman
"Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason" by Helen Fielding
"Virgin Suicides" by Jeffres Eugenides
"The Little Friend" by Donna Tartt

Stuff I have read but Want to *BUY*:
"The World According to Garp" By John Irving (THE BEST BOOK ... I loveeeeee this book)
"Hamlet" by Shakespeare
"Of Mice and Men" John Steinbeck
"1984" by George Orwell (this genre is my favorite. Like.. futuristic society being controlled by an outside force and ... REBELLIONS EVERYWHERE!!)
"The Handmaid's Tale" CHECKED [Crossing it off from her old list] it is an INTERESTING book... scarrrrrryy because it is about women... being... CONTROLLED in the future.. In UNITED STATES.
"Brave New World" by Aldou Huxley, aha got the name!
"The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tran (the book is better than the movie.. but the movie helps you remembering who is who)

Hmm...
ofc all of those classics in High school such as Pride and Prejudice, Macbeath, Romeo and Juliet,

I did get Crime and Punishment.. I totally loved that book.

So you can see what kind of person i am. I love to read psychology stuff, I love werid/eerie situtations and... JUSTICE/FREEDOM!

:-D

but... I HAVE to Recommend "The World According to Garp" to everybody... it is the BEST book.. it has *everything* from romantic, eerie, psycho and humor!

There are mroe books that I haven't mentioned to buy... Hell, jsut throw me into a library and I will grab everything in my favorite genres!

 

[Deaf258]

Dang!! I am starting to get real impressed with you guys, especially gnarlydorkette! It is not often I meet another Deafie who enjoys reading and got a long list of so many books!

 

[gnarlydorkette]

Dang!! I am starting to get real impressed with you guys, especially gnarlydorkette! It is not often I meet another Deafie who enjoys reading and got a long list of so many books!

Hmm what was your first impression of me??? hehehe

Lately I have been added more to that list.. thanks for starting this thread, now my roots of being a bookworm have returned to me! [scorching the bookstores]

When I was a little girl in my elementary school, I would read the series of "Babysitter's Club" and "Nancy Drew" EVERYDAY... [[even during the recess- well only if it is not sunny ]] until I have read the last book and there was nothing after that.
Eventually I moved on to different books.. [whew] It would be horrified today if I never move to different books

 

[gnarlydorkette]

The collection I have right now:

• The Partner by Grisham
• Crime and Punishment by Dostoveksy (argh, whatever it spelt)
• Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson (a finnish children's novel but for adults too... myth)
• Bridge Jones' Diary by H. Fielding
• the Handmaid's Tale
• The Awakening by Chopin (this had opened my eyes about the *truth* in history.. that 1800s were not full of purity and everything.. "there are two sides to a story")
• The Great Gabsy
• Way of Peaceful Warrior by Mille- was given by my dad. It is an.. interesting book. [shrug] nothing else.
• The Lord of the Rings series, included Hobbits. I *hate* it when people watch movies first isntead of reading the books... DAMN YOU ALL!
• Julie of the Wolves by George
• and then those ricidlous teenager books I read during elementary school- "The Captive Girl", "The Killing of Mrs. Tur somethign" etc... oh well

Not much, I know
I rarely keep the books because those books are usually the Library's ...

GASP, LET'S NOT FORGET ANNE FRANK'S DIARY! Yes, [adding it to her list]

see what you have ignited, Deaf258!!!

 

[Deaf258]

Hmm what was your first impression of me??? hehehe

I usually have no impression of other people until I get to know them more and from reading their posts!

see what you have ignited, Deaf258!!!

Sorry!! One reason I got the bookworm bug is because I realized how many books was stolen from my storage 14 months ago and I miss them!!! Another reason is that I have several Deaf friends who are having a hard time in college, I tell them to read books that are challenging, but not overwhelming. I noticed reading thought-provoking, good books help students do better in school! What is a better way to show them by example?? I read so they see the benefits.

 

[Deaf258]

Another thing, who wants to join a book reading blog? I would like to do this sometime soon, and perhaps, it'll save my money not to buy so many books, but to read one book at a time! What do you think?

 

[Liza]

Interesting choices.

If anyone wanna read some classics online - there are plenty, just google it up. E-book library.
http://www.bibliomania.com
www.literature.org

As a child I liked reading Babysitters club, Sweet Valley Twins, True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Lord of the Flies, I am Regina, Hilly's First Hundred Years, and some Beverly Cleary coming of age novels. Let's not forget Aesop's fairy tales and the Brothers Grimm either. They are classics to me.

As for the adult classics, I had fun reading Great Expectations and David Copperfield by Charles Dickens when I were younger. Shakespeare's Twelfth Night was cute. I love comedies, sci fi, and spiritual literature. I'm not really into dark drama like MacBeth and King Lear. I am very much into the dark fantasy genre like Frank Herbert's books.

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo **comedy and irony can be found here, if not some tragedy**

The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer ***funny tales within a tale by journeying companions even though this tale is unfinished***

Dune by Frank Herbert ***bites my knuckles - I love all of his Dune series. and they are much more visual and detailed than the movies methinks!***

Children of Dune by Frank Herbert

Messiah by Frank Herbert

God Emperor by F. Herbert

Heretics of Dune by Herbert

Chapterhouse: Dune **I think this is the most exciting and more sci fi storyline of all Dune books, and I could easily see a movie being made from this - I hear others will try writing more sequels out of this last book that was written by Herbert before his death - this book takes place a few thousands of years after Leto II ascends to the throne and takes the sandtrout's form, and yes Leto II still lives as an immortal of some sort, ruling Arrakis and carefully cultivating the Fremen and his lineage to have better DNA for something he called the Golden Path.. now we see the Golden Path slowly being revealed in this book**

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen **he also wrote Peer Gynt**

White Fang by Jack Landon

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking Glass by L. Carroll

The Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott

Huckleberry Finn by guess who

Tom Sawyer by Mister Clemens

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Samuel Clemens

Elfquest graphic novels by Wendy and Richard Pini ***hey, classics from the 1970s!***

The Narnia Chronicles by CS Lewis

Hmmm, hmm.. I am thinking of more...

 

[Deaf258]

Elfquest graphic novels by Wendy and Richard Pini ***hey, classics from the 1970s!***

The Narnia Chronicles by CS Lewis

Ohhhh, thanks for reminding me about those books!! I read almost all of them. They're true classics! I wonder when they will make new movies based on those books? (I know a few of the Narnia movies have been attempted but badly failed)

 

[Fly Free]

"The World According to Garp" By John Irving (THE BEST BOOK ... I loveeeeee this book)
"1984" by George Orwell (this genre is my favorite. Like.. futuristic society being controlled by an outside force and ... REBELLIONS EVERYWHERE!!)
"The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tran (the book is better than the movie.. but the movie helps you remembering who is who)

Romeo and Juliet,

ahhh gnarlydorkette gurl -- glad u mentioned the above 4 books that had escaped my brain -- i read "1984" so many years ago -- didnt really find it all that interesting (guess i wasnt all that into sci-fi shit) -- read "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tran -- i agree the book is better than the movie! i had read "The World According to Garp" for several chapters til my dad had swiped it back -- now i dont know whats happened to the book since hes passed on and ive not gotten around to getting another copy so i can curl up and read that book AGAIN so i can finish it this time around LOL --
and of course i also enjoy the works of Shakesphere on occasions when im up for reading some classic writings

 

[Liza]

Ohhhh, thanks for reminding me about those books!! I read almost all of them. They're true classics! I wonder when they will make new movies based on those books? (I know a few of the Narnia movies have been attempted but badly failed)

Hey, you're welcome! I plan on ordering more Elfquest novels to complete my collection. I have only stopped at Book 6 (Secret of Two Edge). You'd love the public library in Kailua, Hawaii 'cos they have many graphic novels like Sandman, EQ, Foal from Pier Anthonys (sp?), etc.

Surprised I'd have such a love for the "printed cartoon?" hehe

As for Narnia Chronicles, yeah I remember some movies were made... in fact some are being rented out at the local vid rental store here. THey were created by BBC. L.W. and Wardrobe in 1989, Prince Caspian in 1990, Voyager of the Dawn Treader in 1990, and the Silver Chair in 1991. The actors have grown up and one of the old actors died. http://members.lycos.co.uk/Jonathan_Gregory76/

http://www.narnia.com/ says that there is a director already found in 7/31/02 to do "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe" for Walden Media. Walden Media is mainly responsible for producing The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. If that movie is successful, I am sure they will allow more to be produced. Andrew Adamson has directed The Shrek. I reckon the movie will be animated like the Shrek or something. I don't have more info beyond that.

 

[sweetgal154]

For some odd reason, I feel inspired to buy and read as many titles as I can of the following:


[*]To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
[*]Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
[*]OF MICE & MEN by John Steinbeck
[*]Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
[*]Animal Farm by George Orwell
[*]One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
[*]Brave New World by Aldous Huxley


I know some of you like to read. If you do, please post a list of books you want to get and read also! I'd like to know!

those listed above- GREAT BOOKS!! read them during my hs years. Also, if you read Orwell's 1984, wonderful book, as well.

 

[sweetgal154]

-Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"
-Lois Lowry's "The Giver"
-"Where the Red Fern Grows" (forgot the name of author)
-Edgar Lee Masters' "Spoon River Anthology"
-Helen Fielding's "Bridget Jones Diary"
Several Shakespeare books such as Julius Ceasar, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth. (I'm eager to read Othello!)
Those books listed above, read them as well.

The books i'd love to read-

The Scarlet Letter (i'm curious to read that!)

now I feel like going to Library!! heh!

 

[Deaf258]

One the books stolen from me was Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"!! I liked that book!