nakulanb Posted September 21, 2019 Report Share Posted September 21, 2019 Frankenstein by Mary Shelly. William O and cats_are_moral 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterSwig Posted September 21, 2019 Report Share Posted September 21, 2019 Other than Rand novels? The Iliad Toilers of the Sea The Stranger Old Man and the Sea Of Mice and Men Lord of the Rings 1984 Lord of the Flies The Moon is a Harsh Mistress The Shining Let the Right One In Boydstun 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nakulanb Posted September 22, 2019 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2019 On 9/21/2019 at 12:06 AM, nakulanb said: Frankenstein by Mary Shelly. The Fountainhead Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Dracula Boydstun 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dupin Posted September 22, 2019 Report Share Posted September 22, 2019 Four that come to mind ... The Island of Captain Sparrow, by S. Fowler Wright What Mad Universe, by Fredric Brown Invasion of the Body Snatchers, by Jack Finney Cyrano de Bergerac, (play) by Edmond Rostand (Brian Hooker translation) Boydstun 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonAthos Posted September 22, 2019 Report Share Posted September 22, 2019 Off the top of my head, The Count of Monte Cristo The Hunchback of Notre Dame Tess of the D'Urbervilles War and Peace It Ender's Game East of Eden 1984 The Princess Bride Watership Down Boydstun 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dream_weaver Posted September 23, 2019 Report Share Posted September 23, 2019 How improbable is it for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams to be left out of this listing? Boydstun and DonAthos 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William O Posted September 24, 2019 Report Share Posted September 24, 2019 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo was the last novel I read, and it was a couple of years ago now. I don't read a lot of novels. It is excellent, though. The most recent book I finished was Hitler: A Study in Tyranny by Bullock, which was excellent. (I read the abridged version.) Right now I'm reading A World Lit Only by Fire by William Manchester, which is about how awful the Middle Ages were and how we got out of them. Manchester is good in terms of philosophy of history - he thinks every historical event leads to the next in a logical, comprehensible fashion. I don't know how factually accurate the book is, but I'm enjoying it. Good thread! nakulanb and Boydstun 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
healthfreak Posted November 6, 2019 Report Share Posted November 6, 2019 Anna Karenina Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moss Posted December 21, 2022 Report Share Posted December 21, 2022 It's been so long since I logged in. I haven't been using message boards much since the pandemic struck. Just wanted to stay away from the internet and avoid noise (PS: not saying this forum produces "noise," just referring to the general use of the web.) Looks like it has been quiet here, unless I'm mistaken . Hopefully, this thread will get going again. A number of my favorite books have been mentioned in this thread before (Les Misreables, Anna Karenina, 1984, Old Man and the Sea), so I'll stick to a recent read that turned to be great: Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass (the full title is, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants). It melts the borders between fiction, non-fiction, and memoir, though most stores and sites continue to list this one as a non-fiction book (it is surely that, but not only that). It examines scientific objectivity and its positioning as the ultimate arbiter of knowledge through so-called indigenous epistemology. Very interesting to say the least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dream_weaver Posted December 23, 2022 Report Share Posted December 23, 2022 John C. Wright - The Golden Age (Trilogy) The Golden Oecumene (2002) The Phoenix Exultant (2003) The Golden Transcendence (2003) A blend of sci-fi, well seasoned with some history and mythology. The first read is likely to hold several surprises that enrich subsequent reads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nakulanb Posted January 20 Author Report Share Posted January 20 I've been enjoying Romance novels by Carla Neggers lately and the poetry of Rupi Kaur. I've also been composing lots of my own poetry lately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Henderson Posted April 21 Report Share Posted April 21 Among my favorite fiction books of all time are: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte , The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jean-Christophe by Romain Rolland, Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar, The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth, The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil , and A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood. moss and Boydstun 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moss Posted April 25 Report Share Posted April 25 On 4/21/2023 at 7:02 PM, Jim Henderson said: Among my favorite fiction books of all time are: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte , The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jean-Christophe by Romain Rolland, Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar, The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth, The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil , and A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood. The Man Without Qualities is indeed a fantastic, if daunting, book. A enriching book, too. Just read Megan O' Gieblyn's God, Human, Animal, Machine - a terrific account of the ways in which we think of and relate to technology, especially AI- and Machine learning-related technology. It highlights the theological roots of the concepts and metaphors we use to talk of such things as intelligence, particularly Artificial General Intelligence and the Singularity. In doing so, it also highlights the contemporary order of enchantment, which is crucial because we tend to think of the contemporary world as a world of disenchantment. By presenting our enamorment with tech as a form of disenchantment, we are not only committing transductive error; the book asks "what could the political goals of such a move be?" A thought-provoking read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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