Slaughterhouse Five and The Great Gatsby are both brilliant - I hope you enjoy them as much as I did! :) I have been meaning to read On the Road for ages but just haven't gotten around to do so yet.
Wow, the covers of those books are BEAUTIFUL! I read On the Road last year. It took me almost a full year to finish because I found I had to be in a "wandering" head space in order to appreciate it. I loved Slaughterhouse Five! That book still sits on my shoulders years later. I've never read Moby Dick, but it's definitely on my life list. :)
I adore Gatsby! Slaughter house Five is good too. I haven't read On the Road or Moby Dick but I have been meaning to. Great list and good luck with your challenge!
I absolutely loved The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird and On The Road. You need to get into the Road though otherwise you won't get the real feel of it, if you know what I mean :). To Kill a Mockingbird actually changed my opinion on so much things, I absolutely adore it and Gatsby is just lush. There is so much more going on in that book than it seems, every time I read it again I see something different. I want to read the other two as well, although Slaughterhouse 5 doesn't really appeal to me but I will give it a try. It would be nice to see your opinions on these books some day :).
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I feel guilty about not more of William Faulkner. I've only read As I Lay Dying. I have yet to read the big ones, though, like The Sound & The Fury and Absalom, Absalom! I've tried to before, but they're kind of hard to get into :(. You have a nice selection, though. I'm sure you'll love To Kill a Mocking Bird. I'm currently reading that one and it's really fun--like watching a black and white 1950s Golden Age American film. :P
That's a curious bunch to find together ... I've avoided Melville very successfully ever since the 1970s, and intend to keep on doing so. 19th century fiction is very much not my thing.
I've always avoided Mockingbird because I grew up in the South at the very end of the pre-Civil Rights period, and I just don't need to read about it. I lived it.
I came very late to Gatsby, and it's still almost the only Fitzgerald I've read (throw one or two short stories in there, and you have the lot). I didn't like it at all on first reading, but on a second go I found it more palatable.
Kerouac is one of those authors I blow hot and cold about. I first got interested in him because of finding Neal Cassady via the Merry Pranksters, but I later learned that he was a political reactionary and anti-Semite and became a drunk, which tempered that interest a lot. I still don't know whether I'll ever get to On the Road.
Vonnegut, now ... yeah. I think Schlachthof-fünf is the one great book he had in him (there were several other good ones, but none truly great). I recommend this book, Heller's Catch-22 and Richard Hooker's original M*A*S*H as seminal texts on the absurdity of war.
You very nicely summed up all the books I haven't read but I would like to. First in a row is To Kill A Mockingbird, I tried so many times but always failed, I don't know why. But one day! :)
The only one I really don't have the need to read is Keruac - there is something about him and his books that makes me really not want to read it.
These books are amazing, I love to kill a mockingbird and the great gatsby I need to ready moby dick and on the road thank you so much for the recommendations
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HA! These books (Except for Moby) are all on my list. Moby just never triggered my curiosity, although I am curious why the book is so famous.
Slaughterhouse Five and The Great Gatsby are both brilliant - I hope you enjoy them as much as I did! :)
I have been meaning to read On the Road for ages but just haven't gotten around to do so yet.
Wow, the covers of those books are BEAUTIFUL!
I read On the Road last year. It took me almost a full year to finish because I found I had to be in a "wandering" head space in order to appreciate it. I loved Slaughterhouse Five! That book still sits on my shoulders years later.
I've never read Moby Dick, but it's definitely on my life list. :)
I adore Gatsby! Slaughter house Five is good too. I haven't read On the Road or Moby Dick but I have been meaning to. Great list and good luck with your challenge!
Oh God, good luck reading On The Road. I really look forward to your opinion on this one.
I read the Great Gatsby last year. It was good, but the ending shocked me.
Love the covers of each of these books!
On The Road has a great feeling, makes you want to go travelling around America.
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I absolutely loved The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird and On The Road. You need to get into the Road though otherwise you won't get the real feel of it, if you know what I mean :). To Kill a Mockingbird actually changed my opinion on so much things, I absolutely adore it and Gatsby is just lush. There is so much more going on in that book than it seems, every time I read it again I see something different. I want to read the other two as well, although Slaughterhouse 5 doesn't really appeal to me but I will give it a try. It would be nice to see your opinions on these books some day :).
Have fun reading them!
I love all those books!!! :D xoxo
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Hi SANNE! First of all i have to say you're an inspiration and have rekindled my love of reading. I'd love it if you could check out or follow my blog http://shrinkingviolla.blogspot.co.uk/. I love 'The Great Gatsby' and i sure will be watching the movie soon.
Thanks Violla x
These are definitely on my to-read list. The only one I've read so far is The Great Gatsby whish is amazing.
Kurt Vonnegut and Harper Lee are sitting on my bookshelf waiting for me to have some quality reading time!
xo,
I feel guilty about not more of William Faulkner. I've only read As I Lay Dying. I have yet to read the big ones, though, like The Sound & The Fury and Absalom, Absalom! I've tried to before, but they're kind of hard to get into :(. You have a nice selection, though. I'm sure you'll love To Kill a Mocking Bird. I'm currently reading that one and it's really fun--like watching a black and white 1950s Golden Age American film. :P
That's a curious bunch to find together ... I've avoided Melville very successfully ever since the 1970s, and intend to keep on doing so. 19th century fiction is very much not my thing.
I've always avoided Mockingbird because I grew up in the South at the very end of the pre-Civil Rights period, and I just don't need to read about it. I lived it.
I came very late to Gatsby, and it's still almost the only Fitzgerald I've read (throw one or two short stories in there, and you have the lot). I didn't like it at all on first reading, but on a second go I found it more palatable.
Kerouac is one of those authors I blow hot and cold about. I first got interested in him because of finding Neal Cassady via the Merry Pranksters, but I later learned that he was a political reactionary and anti-Semite and became a drunk, which tempered that interest a lot. I still don't know whether I'll ever get to On the Road.
Vonnegut, now ... yeah. I think Schlachthof-fünf is the one great book he had in him (there were several other good ones, but none truly great). I recommend this book, Heller's Catch-22 and Richard Hooker's original M*A*S*H as seminal texts on the absurdity of war.
You very nicely summed up all the books I haven't read but I would like to. First in a row is To Kill A Mockingbird, I tried so many times but always failed, I don't know why. But one day! :)
The only one I really don't have the need to read is Keruac - there is something about him and his books that makes me really not want to read it.
These books are amazing, I love to kill a mockingbird and the great gatsby I need to ready moby dick and on the road thank you so much for the recommendations
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