Literature

What I've read of The BBC's The Big Read: Top 100

Submitted by Bonnybedlam on Sun, 04/14/2013 - 10:19
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  1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
  2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
  3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
  4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
  5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
  6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
  7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
  8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
  9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
  10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
  11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
  12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
  13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
  14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
  15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
  16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Gra

Works of Charles Dickens, Read and Not

Submitted by Bonnybedlam on Sun, 04/14/2013 - 10:04
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  • Pickwick Papers (1836)
  • Oliver Twist (1837)
  • Nicholas Nickelby (1838)
  • Master Humphrey's Clock (1840)
  • The Old Curiosity Shop (1840):
  • Barnaby Rudge (1841)
  • American Notes (1842)
  • Martin Chuzzlewit (1843)
  • A Christmas Carol (1843)
  • The Chimes: A Goblin Story (1844)
  • The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
  • The Battle of Life (1846)
  • Pictures from Italy (1846)
  • Dombey and Son (1846)
  • The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
  • David Copperfield (1849)
  • A Child's History of England (1852)
  • Bleak House (1852)
  • Hard Times: For These Times (1854)
  • Little Dorrit (1855

The Hotel

Submitted by Bonnybedlam on Mon, 04/01/2013 - 12:46
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  • "He feels spikes everywhere and rushes to impale himself."
  • ~Sidney

  • But Miss Pym gave an impression, somehow, of having been attacked from within.

  • She thought, "It is all very well to escape to the future and think it will always be that; but this is the end of the future."

  • Notwithstanding the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon she had been enjoying Jude the Obscure.

Collection Of Works (COW) Piece Listings:

Submitted by AnArtistWithWords on Thu, 03/28/2013 - 15:30
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    There is a grand total of 1000 pieces available!
  • ()-Titles:
  • (Always) Newly Sinking
  • (As) You Dare
  • (Difficulty When Low) Transpired
  • (Ever Near To) Lying
  • (Every) Warning
  • (Falling Today) As Less Smart
  • (Feelin') The Strain
  • (Getting) Sorrows
  • (Gonna Omit) A Tease
  • (Heart Still) Shatters
  • (Heart) Prison
  • (Here Comes) The Pain
  • (Hitting A) Sack
  • (I Wish You Knew) That I Love You
  • (I'm Sore) Once More
  • (If Love Isn't So Real) Then I Need A Plan
  • (I'm The One) You Have Forgot
  • (Kind Of) Drug
  • (Lacking Sense Of) Gloss
  • (Leaving Me) With A Gloom
  • (Left No) Reason
  • (Like A)

A Screaming Comes Across the Sky: Favorite Books

Submitted by jade_vine on Sun, 01/13/2013 - 01:02
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  • Voynich Manuscript (~1438) - Anonymous
  • The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1601) by William Shakespeare
  • Cabinet of Natural Curiosities: The Complete Plates in Colour (1763) by Albertus Seba
  • The 120 Days of Sodom (1785) by Marquis de Sade
  • Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Les Chants de Maldoror (1869) by Comte de Lautréamont
  • A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat (1873) by Arthur Rimbaud
  • Hunger (1890) by Knut Hamsun
  • Irène’s Cunt (1928) by Louis Aragon
  • Story of the Eye (1928) by Georges Bataille
  • Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce
  • The Invention of Morel (1940) by Anto

Books I've read in 2012

Submitted by WanderingStar on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 17:21
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  • "All the Ills of the Flesh" by James Ferace, finished in January 2012
  • "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs, started 4th March and finished 13th March, 2012
  • "The House at Tyneford" by Natasha Solomons, started 13th March and finished 14th March, 2012
  • "Red Dragon" by Thomas Harris, started 14th March and finished 31st March, 2012
  • "The Night Swimmer" by Matt Bondurant, finished 13th April, 2012
  • "Spider Bones" by Kathy Reichs, finished 14th April, 2012
  • "Déjà Dead" by Kathy Reichs, finished 29th May, 2012
  • "Death du Jour" by Kathy Reichs, finished 2nd Ju

Fave literature

Submitted by Eggman_Walrus_Taxman on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 04:59
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  • Novels/Novellas
  • The Westing Game
  • The Phantom Tollbooth
  • The Little Prince
  • The Hobbit
  • Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  • Through the Looking Glass
  • Pippi Longstocking
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
  • Plays
  • Hamlet
  • Macbeth
  • Doctor Faustus
  • Poetry
  • "The Raven"
  • Picture Books
  • Oh, the Places You'll Go!
  • The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
  • Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
  • Nonf

Book to read before you die

Submitted by Megan140 on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 01:44
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  1. Bachman Books Stephen King
  2. Blood Groove Alex Bledsoe
  3. By Blood We Live edited by John Joseph Adams
  4. Child Thief Brom
  5. Cirque Du Freak Darren Shan
  6. The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Stephen Donaldson
  7. Lord Foul's Bane
  8. The Ill-earth War
  9. The Power that Preserves
  10. Wounded Land
  11. The One tree
  12. White Gold Wielder
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    He dies in the end
  13. Darwin Awards Wendy Northcutt
  14. Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales Stephen King
  15. From the Borderlands Edited by Elizabeth E.

Best China Travel Guide Books

Submitted by Mei Mei on Fri, 07/08/2011 - 01:18
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  • Tourism in China has greatly expanded over the last few decades since the beginning of reform and opening. The emergence of a newly rich middle class and an easing of restrictions on movement by the Chinese authorities are both fueling this travel boom. China has become one of the world's most-watched and hottest outbound tourist markets. The world is on the cusp of a sustained Chinese outbound tourism boom.

Best China Books

Submitted by Mei Mei on Fri, 07/08/2011 - 01:00
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  • China's state-run General Administration of Press and Publication screens all Chinese literature intended to be sold on the open market. The GAPP has the legal authority to screen, censor, and ban any print, electronic, or Internet publication in China. Because all publishers in China are required to be licensed by the GAPP, that agency also has the power to deny people the right to publish, and completely shut down any publisher who fails to follow its dictates. As a result, the ratio of official to pirated books is said to be 2:3.