So I picked up the above 5 classics for a fiver at the weekend. Whaddya reckon?
So I picked up the above 5 classics for a fiver at the weekend. Whaddya reckon?
"I request permanent reassignment to the Gallic frontier. Nay, I demand reassignment. Perhaps it is improper to say so, but I refuse to fight against the Greeks or Macedonians any more. Give my command to another, for I cannot, I will not, lead an army into battle against a civilized nation so long as the Gauls survive. I am not the young man I once was, but I swear before Jupiter Optimus Maximus that I shall see a world without Gauls before I take my final breath."
Senator Augustus Verginius
Gullivers travels :p
Llew Cadeyrn/Alrowan - Chieftain of Clan Raven
Read it. All he did was talk about making a toilet on every other page
"I request permanent reassignment to the Gallic frontier. Nay, I demand reassignment. Perhaps it is improper to say so, but I refuse to fight against the Greeks or Macedonians any more. Give my command to another, for I cannot, I will not, lead an army into battle against a civilized nation so long as the Gauls survive. I am not the young man I once was, but I swear before Jupiter Optimus Maximus that I shall see a world without Gauls before I take my final breath."
Senator Augustus Verginius
I can recommend war and peace and crime and punishment. The latter is shorter and is more of a character study, the former also includes historical events.
Ignoranti, quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est. -Seneca, Epistulae Morales, VIII, 71, 3
I know what I will not recommend to anyone; War and peace. I have no problem with big books, I have read countless of them, big and small, and if it's good, I'll end up reading until 3.00 AM. War and peace is a fabulous example of a too long, too depressive and too boring book, with the exception of smaller parts with descriptions of military engagements. Furthermore, it should be the example of how NOT to handle the development of your characters, and if some wonder why it is so popular, then I would suggest to do some research on the background of the source of affection from western writers towards Tolstoy.
Today is your victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.
Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings, The Water Book
David Copperfield, not only is it good it is also the only one of those books I have readIt's nothing like the obnoxiously happy dramatisations they keep putting on TV each Christmas. Not Dickens at his grimest but still not exactly cheerful stuff.
note to self: read the others sometime, my local library may have then...after all the book inventory is limited to things 20+ years old that most people never want to read.
Frogbeastegg's Guide to Total War: Shogun II. Please note that the guide is not up-to-date for the latest patch.
the canterbry tales is also a great read, chaucer does wonders
a nice play is Congreve's Way of the World a nice bit of 18th C satire
and an interesting Gothic period classic would be The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (yes, son of the famous politician)
Llew Cadeyrn/Alrowan - Chieftain of Clan Raven
War And Peace
It's only 800 something pages
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
War and Peace isn't depressing; it's beautiful. The trick is to get past the party scene in the beginning; then it flows. You might get bored with Tolstoy's theory of history - which occupies a chapter or two in the middle -, but the characters are incredible and the man's powers of desrciption are amazing.
Hell, read them all, they're all good. Gatsby's shortest
Is that the Director's Cut? Mine example is 1500 pages long, small font, hard cover.
Well, I passed that part at believe yet to be a little… Constipated…
Today is your victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.
Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings, The Water Book
Not everybody has the same taste. And that's a good thing
Ignoranti, quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est. -Seneca, Epistulae Morales, VIII, 71, 3
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