OT: The 10 Masterpieces of English and North American Literature

[Metalman7983]

heh will my favorite maybe not classics but I bet in 50 years it will be compared with Lord of the rings

 

[turke]

RESPECT

 

[Sabin17]

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five

I never finished a novel so fast in my life.

 

[Eternal Dragon]

A Clockwork Orange was an amazing read. I got the same kind of feel from Phillip K. Dick's works as I did from A Clockwork Orange. Tolkien's work is fun to read and done really well.

There is a porno called A Clockwork Orgy .

 

[Beelzebub]

There is a porno called A Clockwork Orgy .

In the book, Alex raped a 10 year old girl while listening to Beethoven's 5th symphony. Was the porno anything like that?

 

[Horus]

In the book, Alex raped a 10 year old girl while listening to Beethoven's 5th symphony. Was the porno anything like that?

At least he was listening to good music while he did it.

 

[Metalman7983]

besides shock factor clockwork orange wasn't entertaining to me well the movie was kind of boring didn't feel like there was a point to the story. but never read the book

 

[OfSinsAndShred]

heh will my favorite maybe not classics but I bet in 50 years it will be compared with Lord of the rings

I think it's better written, but GRRM himself is a huge fan of Tolkien. Tolkien was, after all, the main innovator of the style.

Has anyone mentioned Catcher in the Rye yet?

 

[Horus]

I hated that book with all my heart and soul.

 

[Beelzebub]

I hated that book with all my heart and soul.

High five! I thought I was the only one. Why didn't you like it?

 

[The Stormbringer]

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five

I never finished a novel so fast in my life.

If the novel is anything like the movie from the 70s, it's definitely whacky enough for me to look out for.

 

[Horus]

High five! I thought I was the only one. Why didn't you like it?

*retuns high five* A bunch of problems I had with the whole character of Holden. All he really needed throughout the whole book was to get laid. All of his talking about preserving his sister's youth was evidence to the fact that he was gonna become a pedophile, or that he would try to do bad things with his sister.
In school, we actually had a project that we were supposed to make up our own continuation of the story, since he pretty much stopped in the middle, and I really was so set on my opinion of Holden that I actually used that as my way of saying this book sucked. We were all asked to read our own assignments aloud, and I had the whole class staring at me in awe. I would've failed out of how utterly inappropriate it was, had it not been written extremely amazingly.
Whenever we were reading it in class though, I always had The Silmarilion out right on top of The Catcher In The Rye.

Speaking of The Silmarilion, has anyone mentioned the Middle Earth Sseries yet?