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The Third M?n
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 Posted: 09.09.2003 8:41 pm Post subject: Favorite book(s)? |
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What are your favorite books of all time? Here are mine, in no particular order:
Catch 22
Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
Tortilla Flat
The Pearl
Animal Farm
1984
The Lord of the Rings
The Hobbit
The Silmarillion
IT
The Shining
Carrie
Pet Sematary
Lord of the Flies
Fight Club
Catcher in the Rye
Treasure Island
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The Invisible Man
Dracula
The Man who was Thursday
Frankenstein
Great Expectations
To Kill a Mockingbird
Brave New World
Life of Pi
His Dark Materials Trilogy
The Silence of the Lambs |
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beltmann
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Location: West Bend, WI
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| Posted: 09.09.2003 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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Actually, we were discussing this over the summer. I think you'll appreciate the last novel I listed, Mr. Lime.
Eric |
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The Third M?n
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| Posted: 09.10.2003 3:46 pm Post subject: |
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| I do appreciate it, indeed, my fellow Buster. However, can you imagine? I haven't read it yet, and proud of that I'm not. So how does the book translate onto the screen then? I haven't heard much about the novel, to tell you the truth; is it much different from the film? I'll have to read it soon, I suppose. |
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the night watchman
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| Posted: 09.10.2003 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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Books
The Shining Stephen King
The 37th Mandala Marc Laidlaw
War of the Worlds/Island of Dr. Moreau H.G. Wells
Metropolitan Walter Jon Williams
The Two-Bear Mambo Joe R. Lansdale
Bones of the Moon Jonathan Carrol
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
The Floating World Cynthia Kadohata
Liege-Killer Christopher Hinz
Bable-17 Samuel R. Delany
Collections
The Dunwich Horror and Others H.P. Lovecraft
The Essential Ellison Harlan Ellison
The Books of Blood, Vols I - VI Clive Barker
By Bizarre Hands Joe R. Lansdale
Waking Nightmares Ramsey Cambell
The Dark Country Dennis Etchison
The Dark Descent David G. Hartwell (ed.)
Year?s Best Fantasy and Horror Vols. I & II Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (eds.)
The King in Yellow Robert W. Chambers
The Great God Pan Arthur Machen
Skeleton Crew Stephen King
Also, one of my most cherished possessions is my collection of Rod Serling's Twilight Zone Magazine, from 1981 to 1989.
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beltmann
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| Posted: 09.10.2003 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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| The Third M?n wrote: | | I haven't heard much about the novel, to tell you the truth; is it much different from the film? |
Actually, the novel The Third Man was never intended for separate publication. The story was always designed for a screen treatment; in fact, Greene worked on the story with Carol Reed (director of the film). Since Greene believed a great script needed a strong story as its backbone, they began with a written novel that was only later published.
There are some noticeable plot differences, but nothing especially significant. Later Greene said, "The film in fact, is better than the story because it is in this case the finished state of the story." I suppose I agree with that, but I'm not usually interested in comparing books to the movies made from them. Different mediums, different expectations, different modes of artistic stimulation.
Eric |
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Kenji
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The Wind in the Willows- Grahame
The Little Prince- St Exup?ry
House of the Spirits- Allende
Pillow Book- Sei Shonagon-
Jacques the Fatalist- Diderot
Tom Jones- Fielding
Life of Pi- Martel
Master and Margarita- Bulgakov
Nature Diary- Opal Whiteley
Manon Lescaut- Pr?vost
The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa
Madame Bovary- Flaubert
Slaughterhouse 5- Vonnegut
Evening Clouds- Shono
Jude the Obscure- Hardy
Snow Country- Kawabata
The Rock of Tannios- Maalouf
Our Mutual Friend- Dickens
Macbeth- Shakespeare
shorts:
Garden of the Forking Paths- Borges
The Outing/ A Child's Christmas in Wales- Dylan Thomas |
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beltmann
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| Kenji wrote: | Jude the Obscure- Hardy
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Hardy is my favorite Victorian author. Jude's one of my favorites, although I'd vote for Mayor of Casterbridge as his finest.
Eric
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the night watchman
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| Posted: 12.13.2004 7:19 am Post subject: Re: Favorite book(s)? |
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| The Third M?n wrote: | | His Dark Materials Trilogy |
I'm about halfway through The Golden Compass (The Northern Lights to you limeys), and I'm diggin' the hell out of it. If more fantasy were like this I'd read it more often.
I've only read Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and while I liked it quite a bit--I was particularly taken by his descriptive powers--I haven't picked up another yet. I'll keep Jude and Casterbridge in mind when I decide to pick him up again.
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smarty
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Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger
A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
Syrup Max Barry
Lullaby Chuck Palahniuk
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