So... what should i read next?
 

ive just finished reading almost all of evelyn waugh's novels, i still have decline and fall to go, and enjoyed them greatly. Although i'd say the loved one was my favourite, and the funniest.

anyway, which other authors can people reccomend. Especially in the field of old rather than contemporary literature, as that is all my uni library is likely to have. I think im going to continue reading as much as i have been, its 'pure escapism' in a wonderfully mobile and costless form. So... suggestions? All you clever people should be able to come up with SOMETHING.

P.S not sci fi, im sick of sci fi, or fantasy for that matter.

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The Tao of Pooh.

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I'm going to recommend 'The Forever War', even though it's Science Fiction.

Laurence Sterne's "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" is what you should read though. Or "At The Mountains of Madness" by HP Lovecraft. Or one of Poe's novels.

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I read "The House of Sand and Fog" recently, that was pretty good. I can't remember the author though, sorry.

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The First Circle :up: :up:

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not exactly old, but I recently read The unbearable lightness of existence by Milan Kundera and I enjoyed it very much :)

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Lessing - Nathan the wise

i quite enjoyed it.

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Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go, Kageyama.

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You should not be wasting time reading books at your age. Burn the books and play video games instead. Good books will come out on film soon enough.

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English Grammar - A Beginner's Guide.

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I just hope you aren't being serious there.

(for crash)

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plz, no attention for crash this might bring him not to post here anymore.

besides if you like crime go for Hercule Poirot (agatha christie)

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Agatha Christie is ace :up:

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-i know you said no sci fi or fantasy but-

orson scott card - all of ender's and bean's, will remind you a lot of PA - start with "ender's game" so the rest will make sense.. and read all of ender's first so it will be easy for you to read "ender's shadow" and the rest of bean's

ender's american and bean's greek although grew up in rotterdam.. i suppose you guys will like bean better because he's european :D, but thats another topic.. anyway, i highly recommend these books :)

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Permutation City - Greg Egan, not your run of the mill sci-fi novel.
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how do i put this...

WODEHOUSE WODEHOUSE WODEHOUSE WODEHOUSE

then some nancy mitford and some Simon Raven ;)

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im actually probably going to go with wodehouse, i forgot about him recently but have heard lots of very good things. Also, yahwe was right before.

and as for you people still suggesting scifi/fantasy, please stop polluting my thread.

although i suppose all you geeks will now neg rep me.

P.S im not pretending im not a geek also.

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Clausewitch.

Failing that: get a translation of Phileine Zegt Sorry (google it)

or 'Charlotte Simmons', forgot the author






Anything by Jerry Pournelle, especially his Future History series AS I REALLY WANT TO HAVE THAT

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Dickens - David Copperfield
Tolstoy - War and Peace

They are so good, really.

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I used to read lots of PG Wodehouse when I was younger. It was pretty good.

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Whatever you do don't read Dostoevsky unless you're attempting to find irrefutable justification for the idea that literature really can count as a crime against humanity.

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I am. Im not a fan of books.

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I only suggest "Sci Fi Masterworks", and The Forever War is #1.

Fyodor and I get on very well.

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It seems this novel on jesus is very popular

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The Da Vinci Code?

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You obiously did not read that.

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I know it's not about Jesus, but I couldn't think of one that was other than the obvious. Speed is important in punning you know.

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I´ll tell that to my amfetamin dealer

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ill check out a few of them, ive already read 7 of them, but im sure the others are worth a look. And im sure its some kind of crime against my understanding of popular literature that ive been alive 20 years and havent actually read 'catcher in the rye'. Im not certain if ill enjoy it or not, but everyone else has read it and im feeling terribly left out.

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catch - 22
HHGTTG
the two tom sharpe ones, although i cant remember much about them
heart of darkness
of mice and men
lord of the flies.

those last 3 i had to read when i was at school though :) i remember lord of the flies being the most fun out of them

as for the others, id say C-22 was my favourite by far, that book is simply a masterpiece, then HHGTTG, then it all kind of merges into a big fog of mediocrity.

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Lord of the Flies is a terrible book.

DISCONNECTION BETWEEN STATEMENTS.

Try reading The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegurt.

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I'm reading Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex atm. It's about brother and sister, and well...

I wouldn't say it's my favourite book, but it's at least not science fiction. And "easy to read" you know.

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Great books, good list. After thinking a little more:

'The Spy who came in from the Cold' - John le Carre.
'Emma' - Jane Austen


and..

'Jimmy goes to the Circus' - Enid Blyton

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I strongly disagree.

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She used to, then she dumped me :(

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You think you are smarter than me because you read books?

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You're not missing muchl.

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Read some history books and some Trollope, if you can manage that.

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Ahhh! :) dickens!

Dickens - Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol
also:
King - It, Hearts in Atlantis, Needful Things, Carrie

also highly recommended is Mario Puzo's the Godfather, kick ASS!!!