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| Topics | | messages | Last message | | | BookCrossing Australia! : Group Reading Log: October 2008 | | 31 | wookiebender, Yesterday 7:38pm |  |
| Book talk : Game ---> PICK A BOOK YOU HAVEN'T READ YET | | 173 | cynthrip, Saturday 7:42am | |
| Book talk : the best book that has ever been turned into a movie/television show ? | | 12 | monohex, Thursday 2:39pm | |
| Book talk : I'm 13 and love to read so what is everyones favorite book? | | 38 | GirlFromIpanema, Thursday 3:22am | |
| Top 100 Novels of All time : Which books on the list have you already read, and are you reading one now? | | 22 | devious_dantes, Wednesday 8:25am | |
| Historical Fiction : World War II fiction recommendations | | 132 | DeltaQueen50, October 5 | |
| 888 Challenge : Detailmuse ... 888 from TBRs | | 77 | detailmuse, October 3 | |
| Banned Books : Don't want to get political. | | 86 | MerryMary, October 1 | |
| Geeks who love the Classics : Which contemporary books will/should become classics? | | 30 | historicalhoney, September 29 | |
| Humor : Funniest Books You Have Read | | 215 | smc1, September 28 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : JackFrost's 2008 List | | 50 | JackFrost, September 25 | |
| Pro and Con : Lt.Caleb Campbell | | 17 | Doug1943, September 15 | |
| Book talk : What is the WORST book that youve ever red? | | 424 | desultory, September 7 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : What books are you most and least looking forward to reading on the list? | | 21 | jlelliott, September 6 | |
| 20-Something LibraryThingers : What's your favorite book in your library? | | 87 | atlargeinthewrld, September 3 | |
| Hogwarts Express : Share Your TBR Pile | | 32 | Espeon200, September 1 | |
| Used Books : What treasures have you found at used book stores or Goodwill? | | 67 | megkrahl, August 23 | |
| Book of the month club : The Hardest Authors | | 32 | MusicMom41, August 23 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : All About "Me" | | 19 | mamalaz, August 16 | |
| 888 Challenge : Moneybeets' 888 | | 18 | moneybeets, August 16 | |
| Book talk : Guess the book v3.0 | | 303 | dreamlikecheese, August 11 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : July 2008, Which book from the 1001 List are You Reading? | | 80 | TheTortoise, August 10 | |
| The Green Dragon : A New Form of Protest | | 35 | ejj1955, August 5 | |
| Book talk : Life changing books for college-age students | | 13 | pw0327, August 5 | |
| 888 Challenge : 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die | | 20 | agatatera, August 1 | |
| LibraryThing in Portuguese (Brazilian) : testando "touchstones" | | 6 | anahelena1, July 29 | |
| 888 Challenge : Morphidae's 888 | | 38 | Morphidae, July 28 | |
| Science Fiction Fans : Movie "Jumpers" sux "The Stars My Destination" kicks @ss | | 38 | bobmcconnaughey, July 26 | |
| Humor : Favorite Vonnegut? | | 17 | krolik, July 20 | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2008 : Reading Classics in 2008? | | 40 | Whisper1, July 17 | |
| San Diego Bibliophiles : 18 | | 20 | Kittycat282, July 17 | |
| Book talk : Book suggestions please! | | 7 | cupofsugarborrowed, July 16 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Tiz's Challenge | | 2 | tizzy123, July 1 | |
| Book Collectors : Which books do you think are future collectors pieces? | | 22 | yhoitink, June 30 | |
| Books Compared : Alias Grace and the French Lieutenant's Woman | | 5 | margad, June 29 | |
| Anglophiles : British Humour: favourite comic novels | | 77 | GillyP, June 25 | |
| 888 Challenge : bookaholic girl's 888 challenge | | 29 | bookaholicgirl, June 22 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : The 1001 "I've Read That" chain game | | 300 | BKieras, June 16 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : mcglocklin's 2008 | | 23 | mcglocklin, June 6 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Tropics' May 2008 List | | 2 | tropics, May 26 | |
| Historical Fiction : Need recommendations..... | | 13 | bettyjo, May 26 | |
| Reading Great Books : Great Books I have read | | 8 | Sandydog1, May 24 | |
| Readers Against Struggling Through Books We Hate : How often? | | 25 | bluesalamanders, May 23 | |
| 888 Challenge : Irish's | | 53 | fannyprice, May 22 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Archimedes_theOwl... | | 1 | Archimedes_theOwl, May 18 | |
| The Green Dragon : How long? | | 47 | kassetra, May 14 | |
| Book talk : A silly book game... | | 300 | SqueakyChu, May 8 | |
| Cats, books, life is good. : What is your fave book/author? | | 18 | Harinezumi, May 3 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - April. 2008 | | 388 | milbaby, May 2 | |
| Book talk : Could you recommend a book written with a sense of humor but not shallow? | | 39 | valco, May 1 | |
| Bestsellers over the Years : 1978 | | 8 | vpfluke, April 30 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Book-related neuroses | | 174 | dancingstarfish, April 25 | |
| Bestsellers over the Years : 1974 | | 12 | geneg, April 25 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : Best of Different Genres | | 14 | swizzlestick, April 24 | |
| Modern Collector : Message Board | | 62 | prufrock21, April 20 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 12 April 2008 | | 177 | TerryWeyna, April 19 | |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows : Anyone else disappointed? and what next? | | 21 | FrannyUsa, April 17 | |
| Book talk : The Sun Also Rises | | 5 | varielle, April 15 | |
| Book talk : Gaps in Your Reading | | 25 | SaraHope, April 10 | |
| What did YOU buy today? : March 2008 edition | | 37 | thioviolight, April 7 | |
| 888 Challenge : RMXtreme's 888 | | 12 | RMXtreme, April 6 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Top 3 Reads March 2008 | | 38 | sandragon, April 5 | |
| A Pearl of Wisdom and Enlightenment : Books on Wisdom and Enlightenment. | | 59 | walden_girl, April 4 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : What are you reading for March 2008 | | 128 | odysseya, March 31 | |
| Book talk : List ten books that... | | 73 | bookladykm, March 28 | |
| Book talk : Did you ever steal a book or books? | | 103 | oakesspalding, March 26 | |
| LT's list of great books you should read : Action thread | | 60 | medievalmama, March 24 | |
| Book talk : Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy | | 15 | Lman, March 20 | |
| Book talk : You know it's a great book when: | | 23 | emaestra, February 28 | |
| Book talk : Most Memorable | | 5 | xicanti, February 19 | |
| Dormant: 1001 Books to read before you die : Top 5 from the list read in 2007 | | 34 | Nickelini, February 7 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : The most popular book in our libraries | | 26 | usnmm2, January 29 | |
| Dormant: The Green Dragon : The Great Book Proud Debate | | 49 | MrsLee, January 9 | |
| Dormant: Hogwarts Express : What''s your Top Ten? | | 69 | shanfan, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: 1001 Books to read before you die : Christmas Acquisitions | | 14 | media1001, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: 1001 Books to read before you die : November 2007: Which of the 1001 Books Are You Currently Reading? | | 50 | cedric, November 2007 | |
| Dormant: I heart metadata : Message Board | | 44 | jjmcgaffey, November 2007 | |
| Dormant: 1001 Books to read before you die : Books that you dread | | 30 | digifish_books, November 2007 | |
| Dormant: Happy Heathens : Elmer Gantry group read NON SPOILER discussion thread | | 36 | terriks, November 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : Giving Up on a Book You Don't Like | | 127 | Esta1923, November 2007 | |
| Dormant: Second World War History : Ken Burns Program | | 37 | Daddyhill, November 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : Can you characterise a person by that which lays on their Bedside table? | | 16 | twomoredays, November 2007 | |
| Dormant: 1001 Books to read before you die : August-October: Which one of the 1001 are you currently reading? | | 99 | trinah, November 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : Conservatives outside the US? | | 2 | ArmyAngel1986, October 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : Future Nobel's Prize Literature Winners | | 22 | lilisin, October 2007 | |
| Dormant: Wild Sheep Chasers : Halloween Suggestions | | 20 | ginger_dame, October 2007 | |
| Dormant: Gloria Stavers Reading Club : Welcome; stay and visit awhile! | | 6 | boogie56, September 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : Did you use dictionaries as a child? | | 36 | ine1976, September 2007 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 25 Aug | | 151 | Cariola, September 2007 | |
| Dormant: Awful Lit. : Jumping the Bookworm | | 41 | ambushedbyasnail, September 2007 | |
| Dormant: The Literati : Overrated Works | | 13 | medea_09, September 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : What exactly is a "literary" novel? Your ideas | | 87 | LizT, September 2007 | |
| Dormant: The Green Dragon : Which book are you? Take this quiz! | | 83 | mrgrooism, September 2007 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : Watershed Novels | | 49 | wisewoman, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: Gloria Stavers Reading Club : Books You Think You Should Read | | 22 | wgyswyt, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: Reading Globally : War Fiction | | 34 | emaestra, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : All-time Favorite Book | | 67 | wildbill, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: Political Conservatives : My kind of liberal | | 104 | adkrim, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: Early Reviewers : What are you reading while you wait for your book or the next round of selections? | | 30 | Sivani, August 2007 | |
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... just can't believe a bunch of 17 year olds picked a C19th topic. We'd narrowed it down to Romanticism or 'After the Bomb' - Catch 22, Waiting for Godot and poetry by Sylvia Plath but Rom beat the Bomb in the end. I actually think this lovely little class is a bunch of Romantics at heart - ... One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
The Collector
Catch-22
Gone With The Wind ... lists. I believe the ALA has the most-challenged books catalogued by year on their website.
I'm going to be reading Catch-22 and then Fahrenheit 451, and I'll continue on from there. Who knows, I could stretch this out for weeks. I've been meaning to go on a banned modern classics ... Fiction
Stones in Water by Donna Napoli
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Bridge over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle
Nonfiction:
Left for Dead by Peter Nelson
The Man Who Never Was by Ewen Montagu
Hiroshima by John Hersey
The Good War by Studs Terkel I would like to second the choices of Catch-22 and P. G. Wodehouse and add two that haven't been mentioned. The first is The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight. It is about gangsters in New York and an Italian bicycle racer. The laughs are big out loud laughs and come through out the book. ... A Confederacy of Dunces, and Catch-22 are the funniest I've read so far. I'm with all of you in the Catch-22 camp, hilarious, tender ... and important.
Anything by Jonathan Safran Foer, especially Everything is Illuminated.
I think I like the mix of hilarity and heartbreak.
And for all-around general amusement, anything by Nelson Demille. ... Next books are a hoot. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series is good too, but for my money Thursday has 'em beat.
Catch 22 is also a great call, although the humor there is so mixed with sadness and horror. While we're on war satires, can't forget Good Soldier Schweik.
And I can't ... This is the army. All recruits should read Catch 22 to understand what they're in for.
I'm sure he got a better education at West Point than at those football schools, but the deal is your life isn't your own, and orders can change daily. Yes, he got jerked around, but anything he was told ... From hemlokgang's selection: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. I've heard good things but haven't tried it. I would also like to try a hug from hemlockgang's adorable sidekick!
Here's the list, as I've seen it*:
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Confession ... ... which I was planning on doing before I read the group discussion thread)
other J.R.R. Tolkien materials
Catch 22
Charlie Bone and the Shadow
Michael Phelps' new book (arrives in Dec.)
Harry, A History
Tales of Beedle the Bard
Eat This, Not That for Kids
Rammer Jamm ... ... Agatha Christie's Poirot mysteries. And Jane Austin's Persuasion. And Joy of Cooking. And I, Claudius, and Catch-22. And about 20 more that I just cannot think of right now. catch-22 joseph heller
22 and 50 poems e.e. cummings
harvest poems carl sandburg
harvest of thorns shimmer chinodya
thorns and orange blossoms charlotte m. brame Well, getting back on track:
21 Proms
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Rebel without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player by Robert Rodriguez
Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Mercedes Lackey
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kid ... War and Peace
The Red Badge of Courage
Catch-22
All Quiet on the Western Front
Slaughterhouse-Five
Johnny Got His Gun
edited to add:
GPO's Federal Budget
Feel free to move this post if there's a new location for this discussion; I'll be here with my cheese and tea if ... ... it was my mood at the time. I plan to try again. I also read a book of children's stories by him that I enjoyed.
Loved Catch-22 and don't remember it being too long, but I read it in the 1970s when I was young and the Vietnam War was going strong, and Nixon was behaving badly.
Frankly, ... ... on the list are Mythology: Edith Hamilton, I seem to recall the Book of Job, Sophie's World, Les Miserables, Catch-22. ... of the novel is lost, but the poetic tone of the film works. For me, anyway.But everyone hates that film.
Same thing with Catch 22. I don't see what the problem is with the film, but nobody seems to like it. And I love that novel-one of my favorites.
THE MOVIE IS NOT SUPPOSED TO REPLACE THE ... I was going to suggest Catch-22 but I see you already have that one so how about Working by Studs Terkel. ... liked that give The Sotweed Factor by john Barth a try. It has a similar style and I thought it as well executed as Catch-22. Have just finished reading Catch-22. A satire on war. Quite well-written, insightful, and extremely funny, with the humour and satire working on several levels at once - there was the quite direct catch-22 contradictions, and there were more subtle jabs, too - sending up the stereotype of women ... ... library, is it:
The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War
And if it is, is it good? Because I loved Catch 22.... I know it's not this because I've read it but there's something terribly reminiscent of the style of Catch 22 here...... Catch-22 I just started Catch-22. Just read: The God Delusion
Currently reading: The Portable Atheist
On deck: Catch-22 ... up. John Barth's Sotweed Factor was my first experience with po-mo. I never laughed so hard with a book until I read Catch-22 a couple of years later. But with all the wonderful books I've read in my life there will always be place for Ebeneezer Cooke in my literary heart. Gotta be Portnoy's Complaint. And Catch-22 is a close second. ... line from somewhere! It struck me as suck an interesting turn of phrase...
I just can't remember where I read it!
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller? Hmm I always wonder if I fully appreciated Heart of Darkness at sixteen but then again I loved Catch 22 at about the same age. If you are enjoying Conrad MrA The Secret Agent is interesting and sort of topical for our modern world.
I have never read LeGuin. Where would be a good place to ... Lyzadanger--I've tried several times with Catch 22 too, and I just can't get into it. I thought the movie was hilarious and I want to like this book. But as I've grown older, I have less interest in books and movies that are so completely and totally male. They just don't interest me. ... up Seeing because it's supposed to be the sequel, but it turns out to be a "satire on democracy." OK, but not my thing.
Catch-22 I have some sort of problem with this book. I've tried half a dozen times. Fail.
Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel. This supposed biography of, well, Galileo's ... ... --- Not what I imagined it would be, but honestly pretty good, especially for a white guy writing about an African
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller --- Laugh if you want, but I never actually read it growing up. Not the best thing I've ever read, but worth finally reading.
May:
Three ... 14. Catch-22- Joseph Heller. This book was very wacky, but the satire on the American army was very well done. In a novel where nearly every character acts like a madman, you get to really feel for the situation these men are in. They are victims of an unjust system, and amid the hilarity ... Also All Our Yesterdays and Catch-22 ... and the Prince of Azkaban
10 - Jane Eyre
10 - Little Women
10 - The Golden Compass
10 - American Gods
10 - Catch-22
10 - The Kite Runner
... book.
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The book was Catch-22. Now I am unable to see the book page whe I try to edit it. What does this error mean? And does it mean trouble for the rest of my catalog? ... swinging in my hammock this summer.
Books on this list which I've read and placed high on my Favorites list include Catch-22, Memoirs Of Hadrian, The Robber Bride, The Magus, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Justine, War And Peace, and Little Women.
While in Bookman's ... "They're crazy."
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller "I'd like to give it a try."
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
"How does that one go?" "No," Yossarian rebuffed him sharply.
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
"We're people, aren't we?" ... time, Voltaire's Candide; or, Optimism.
I'm also a big Palahniuk fan so I second Choke. Can't say the same for Catch-22, though...wasn't a big fan. Uh oh. It makes me gulp to see you turn to Catch-22 after being frustrated by Faulkner. Catch-22 is disjointed, too. But Heller is hilarious and the novel is sooo worth reading, hope it captures you. :) I replaced The Sound and the Fury by Faulker. It was god-awful and I couldn't get more than 10 pages in. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller took its place in my Database Challenge. ... fiction of the seventies and eighties?
James Fixx reminds me of the story of the Man Who Saw Everything Twice in Catch-22. I was a runner who believed Jim Fixx was the person to emulate, but when he died on his front porch after a short ten miler, I decided he had taken the whole ... ... B and didn't particularly like it, I didn't list it. But here are my three favorite Cs: Choke, Candide, or Optimism and Catch-22. I can't decide which one I like best as they're really different. ... elusion
a book of short stories by ethan cohen (the movie guy) I can't remember the name of and don't have in front of me
Catch 22 for about the hundredth time
Now I'm drawing a blank. I must have read more than that. Oh No my personal credibility as a library thinger is on the line. I'm ... ... e>
2. Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
3. The Lives and Loves of a She-Devil, Fay Weldon
4. Catch 22, Joseph Heller
5. Frost in May Antonia White
6. The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett I've read it a couple of times and never thought of it as any sort of anti-war novel at all. Now Catch-22, that's an anti-war novel. I'm still reading Catch 22 at the moment, its good but hard to get into during my 20 minute bus ride every morning, so it's taking longer than I hoped.
Went to a book shop on my travels today and damn I picked up another book, grrr I have bought to many books this month (like 10 I think and ... ... )
Na mensagem de ajuda aqui do lado está como "pedras de toque", não sei se é o mais apropriado.
Douglas Adams
Catch 22 ... it several times, couldn't get into it, tried it as an audiobook and flew along. Ditto for Hunchback of NotreDame, Catch-22, etc. Eventually, I tend to go back and physically read books that I've listened too, since I find that it is a different experience, but I also feel like ... Uh, I put in Emile as the book I was adding to the chain, since I'd read Catch-22. I've read Catch 22 - one of my all-time favorite books! However, I have not read Cold Comfort Farm and I think the thread has gotten a bit confuzzled at this point!
Maybe the person below me will have read both Cold Comfort Farm and Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (a ... ... include The History of Western Civilization- Durant, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, An American Tragedy, Catch 22, and on and on. Oops! I did read The Blind Assassin but typed in the wrong title. - #62
Sticking with the Cs....How about Catch 22 by Joseph Heller? Thanks for you all! Now I already got a reading list:) So far I check out straight man and catch-22. I love them at first glance. As for catch-22, I got a big trouble to read it smoothly because there are tons of new words for me. Anyway, I still enjoy the broken laugh:) I'm still reading Catch 22 and I went to the book shop today and picked up Never Let Me go that is on the list I hope.. ... hopeless, now have Never Let Me Go I read an a chapter on Amazon and have been looking forward to it. Will alternate with Catch 22 ... an English family caught up in the Russian Revolution. Joseph Heller may not have read this novel but Gerhardie was doing Catch-22 humour 30 odd years earlier. Not that he doesn't do traditional English humour - the narrator is one of the great pompous asses of literature.
For the record Wau ... Read:
*highly recommened
The Catcher in the Rye*
Catch-22*
Lolita
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Lord of the Rings*
Animal Farm
A Clockword Orange*
Lord of the Flies
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*
Rebecca*
The Count of Monte Cristo
On my shelf: ... This month I've read the following books that are also on the list:
Birdsong,
Frankenstein,
Catch-22,
Robinson Crusoe,
The handmaid's tale,
The woman in white,
One hundred years of solitude &
Disgrace Sorry, double post ...
19) I know this much is true
20) The hitchhilers guide to the galaxy
21) God of small things
22) The analyst
23) Catch 22
24) Unbearable lightness of being
25) The collector ... makes me nervous, wondering if the quality will hold up. Remember The Godfather, Dune, and whatever the follow-up to Catch 22 was called? I will give it a chance when it comes out though. Crossing fingers. I was going to suggest Catch-22 as well.
Another great, funny book I read recently was Cryptonomicon, but depending what you mean by "shallow," it might be that.
I also thought Invitation to a Beheading was funny, in a dark and twisted way. Catch-22 the humor is dark but I had trouble controling the laughter the first time I read it. It is not shallow. Just finished a non-1001 run of books, but now it's list time once again. After blindly recommending Catch-22 over a book I had read and thought overrated, I pretty much have to read Catch-22 now. I was going to read it soon anyway, but probably not this soon. Ah well, I rarely stick to the ... It's been a long time since I read Persuasion or Catch-22, but they're both great.
Finishing The Golden Ass by Apuleius, a scatalogical series of stories with a lovely mythological fable of Cupid and Psyche. Lucius Apuleius has been turned into a donkey through his own stupidity and is ... >82 & >96
Good call! Catch-22 is fantastic - Heller manages to be really, really funny and really thought-provoking. I absolutely love this book. Persuasion is pretty good, too, and an easy read. It's not my favorite Austen book, but the ending makes up for the slow bits in the ... 83 & 89
Thanks for your advice, I'm thinking that I'm going to go with Catch 22 for 2 reasons, I read the first page and realised it wasn't going to be easy, I've had a sweet run with like water for chocolate and enduring love maybe its time for me to read a not so easy book.. I asked a ... #82 - I'd give the opposite advice. I loved Life of Pi and gave up (temporarily) on Catch-22. I just couldn't get into it at all. Haven't read Persuasion yet. In spite of my anecdotal argument, based on the fact that you liked Like Water for Chocolate, I'd definitely recommend Life of Pi ... ... (either read or TBR). The following are the ones mentioned more than once:
FOUR
Atonement by Ian McEwan
THREE
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
TWO
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Gone with the Win ... ... ranked books in my opinion that I have read from this list, and I'm closing in on 100. I have not read Persuasion, and Catch-22 is on my short list from my TBR pile. I think you know what you're getting with Austin going in if it's not your first by her, but I would definitely choose Catch ... Catch 22, The Castle, Pride and Prejudice and E. F. Benson's Lucia series. ... catalog
by Delbert Mann
The Francis Robinson collection of theatre, music, and dance : a… by Nena Couch
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Joseph Heller's Catch-22 sold 10,434, while Something happened, his second most popular volume in LT has only sold 683. He's almost only a one great work writer. ... there were none - 2 lists
To kill a mockingbird - 2 lists
Jane Eyre - 2 lists
The poisonwood bible - 2 lists
Catch 22 - 2 lists
Adding
The bible 2 lists
The origin of species - 2 lists
... there were none - 2 lists
To kill a mockingbird - 2 lists
Jane Eyre - 2 lists
The poisonwood bible - 2 lists
Catch 22 - 2 lists
The rest of the books are only on one person's list.
How will I restrict this to just 10?? Well, here goes:
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
The Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
American Psyc ... ... Arthur Dent is the new, naive companion.
The books are brilliant and funny and true. They are as funny and true as Catch-22 but without the darkness of war. I even found myself quoting them in a "Politics and Literature" class last term. "Anyone that wants the job is not fit for it". Not ... Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Vintner's Luck ... English Classics
1. Catch - 22 FINISHED
2. Pride & prejudice
3. To kill a mockingbird
4. Robinson Crusoe FINISHED
5. Moby Dick
6. Pilgrim's progress
7. Tom Jones
8. Gulliver's travels
Science Fiction
1. The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy FINISHED
2. 1984
3. Stra ... Charlotte's Web, Return of the King, and Catch 22... hmmm, I guess that's one from each stage of life? ... Nassim Nicholas Taleb
1001 books to read...
4-1. The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
4-2. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
4-3. On the Road, Jack Kerouac
4-4. An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro
4-5. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck You go with your new girlfriend to meet her family and you just sit and read and laugh to yourself. Catch-22 Also a "top of the head" list:
Catch 22
The Sun Also Rises
A Confederacy of Dunces
Heart of Darkness
Catcher in the Rye
The Ghost Writer and Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
... his childhood and losing mom. My feelings of push/pull in trying to get through it reminded me of persevering through Catch-22, then being so glad I did.
I also finished One Minute Stories, a collection of flash-fiction (translated from Hungarian) that I discovered over on eairo's 888 ... ... a morbid note, an author's death also significantly enhances the value of his signed editions. I have a limited edition of Catch 22 signed by Heller that I bought for $50 new. After his death I saw copies for sale for as much as $450. The Franklin Library issued some fine signed first editions ... #23: I'm with you, Mrs Lee! About the falling asleep part, that is. Right now I'm trying SO hard to settle into Catch 22 because it truly is making me laugh, and I want to read it! But work has been killing me lately, and when I settle in for an evening read, I am dozing within 15 minutes, ... Catch-22?? Again, this doesn't seem right but I somehow feel like I'm on the right track (it may not be a recognisable track but there must be a series of links in my head between this book and the right answer if I can only follow the trail....) ... most popular book is 1984, followed by To Kill a Mockingbird, Brave New World, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Catch 22. Interestingly, I've had all these books since the 60s or early 70s and, when I continue down my list of "most shared" books I see that I have to get well down ... Most: Presently, Catch-22 because I have heard so many good things about it, but I just haven't made it yet. I want to check out some Thomas Pynchon novels as well. Keep hearing the name, never read him.
Least: Anything by James Joyce is going to be a struggle. Anything old with archaic is ... ... (An |
