Title: Penguin Great Books A-J
Description: Your selection
Dice Man - March 6, 2006 03:34 PM (GMT)
Part one of a list from Penguin Books.
I'd go for Heart Of Darkness, The Odyssey and Dubliners.
JonN - March 6, 2006 03:36 PM (GMT)
Bulgakov, Delillo, Joyce.
scratch - March 6, 2006 03:46 PM (GMT)
Oresteia, Odyssey and Dubliners
I haven't read the Greeks for more than ten years, but I'm sure I'll still enjoy them when I work my way back around to them. I'll probably enjoy them even more, as is always the case with they truly great works.
Dice Man - March 6, 2006 11:35 PM (GMT)
Rather surprised that they didn't include Dostoyevsky.
Hipper Still - March 6, 2006 11:43 PM (GMT)
Dice Man - March 6, 2006 11:50 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Hipper Still @ Mar 7 2006, 11:43 AM) |
| No Camus? |
A gap, indeed.
marvell78 - March 7, 2006 11:06 PM (GMT)
arendt, joyce, conrad
(althought the arendt book has been largely discredited
Middle Class Rebel - March 8, 2006 02:22 AM (GMT)
Dice Man - March 9, 2006 04:42 PM (GMT)
Heart Of Darkness, Dubliners and The Master And Margarita now on top.
scratch - March 9, 2006 04:59 PM (GMT)
Does anyone know how they decide which books to include in this series? Some of the selections and omissions seem odd. For example, isn't Coetzee better known for Disgrace or Waiting for the Barbarians or Michael K? As for omissions, it seems strange that it doesn't include anything by Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Eliot or Kafka. I'm sure there are decent reasons for these omissions...right?
Dice Man - March 9, 2006 05:03 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (scratch @ Mar 10 2006, 04:59 AM) |
| Does anyone know how they decide which books to include in this series? Some of the selections and omissions seem odd. For example, isn't Coetzee better known for Disgrace or Waiting for the Barbarians or Michael K? As for omissions, it seems strange that it doesn't include anything by Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Eliot or Kafka. I'm sure there are decent reasons for these omissions...right? |
Was wondering about that, too. No Kafka is strange, indeed. Can't find a reason...
imaglasgowmanmyself - March 9, 2006 09:22 PM (GMT)
ive only read two of them so cant vote
twinz2z - June 22, 2008 09:05 PM (GMT)
Jane Austin,s Emma was about the only one I,d like to read again.
L Durrells Justine was very slow, part of a 3 or 4 book series that could/should have been cut down to one decent book.
Most here are not the authors best works, imo.
duckpin236 - June 22, 2008 09:13 PM (GMT)
Of the four books Gaddis wrote, Carpenter's Gothic is by far his weakest, imo.
Same goes for Joyce.
Why on earth is Bellow on the list?
Leaving our Dostoyevsky is all right by me but not including Gogol and Checkov is an error. No Beckett? No Kerouac?
Buy Kurious! - June 22, 2008 09:16 PM (GMT)
Exopsychicton - June 23, 2008 12:20 AM (GMT)
Bulgakov, Joyce, Conrad- note I voted authors, not books. Though Master and Margarita, during even years, is my favorite novel.
Craig - June 28, 2008 11:16 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Exopsychicton @ Jun 23 2008, 12:20 PM) |
| Bulgakov, Joyce, Conrad- note I voted authors, not books. Though Master and Margarita, during even years, is my favorite novel. |
Aye, mine too. Sublime.
I've already voted in this some time ago and can't remember my choices, but I imagine it would've been 1 - Bulgakov, 2 - Conrad, and 3 - wouldnae give you houseroom for any of the others :)