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... Dickens: A classic story of undying love and ultimate sacrifice during the turbulent times of the French revolution.
10. Death of a Salesman. Arthur Miller: A play about shattered dreams. Always makes my heart ache.
... wait longer, because I'm not going back and discussing all the books I've read since July. Oh well.
Yesterday I read The Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, because I wanted to finish this challenge and they were plays, which are the shortest and simplest form of "classic" I could ... ... A Midsummer Night's Dream or Lysistrata as accomplished and as insightful as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf or Death of a Salesman or the Crucible? I think comedy gets short shrift in discussions of serious lists, meaning weighty, that's what you meant here, A_musing, isn't it? Ser ... Still reading The Mother Hunt . ... plays,
The Rivals. Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
All the plays in Plays Pleasant. George Bernard Shaw.
Death of a Salesman. Arthur Miller.
A Woman of No Importance and The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde.
All the plays in Plays Unpleasant. Geo ... ... Burnett.
8. The Pickwick Papers. Charles Dickens
9. A Tale of Two Cities. Charles Dickens
10. Death of a Salesman. Arthur Miller.
I'm reading Canterbury Tales, Death of a Salesman, and Ulysses for banned Book Week. Going back to 999 next week. ... my Ukraine entry since so much of it took place in Germany, so I tackled another TBR I had originally chosen for Ukraine - Death and the Penguin. I will simply saw it was odd but interesting. Maybe I didn't "get" all of the satire, so there were several plot points which seemed superfluous, ... Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller ... welcome, about50ayear. No, I haven't read Arthur Miller's 'The Creation of the World and Other Business'. But I've read his Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, All My Sons; .etc. My favorite remains Death of a Salesman which I read first. Among Bernard Shaw's plays I just adore both his Plays ... ...
Montenegro
Poland
Romania
Russia
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Ukraine - Hiding in the Spotlight by Greg Dawson & Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov ... Shakespear
5. Cat on a hot tin roof by Tennesse Williams
6. The Glass Menagerie by Tennesse Williams
7. Death of Salesman by Arthur Milller
8. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
9. A Doll's House by Hennik Ibsen
10.Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde ... Verona), The Bridge to Terabithia (this one really stuck in my head), Emma, Z for Zacharia, The Fire in the Stone, Death of a Salesman, 1984 and Brave New World. There were plenty of others of course, but I can't remember them all - I seem to remember a book about a blind girl, and ... ... de Tormes
Don Quixote
The Brothers Karamazov
Moby Dick
The Golden Bowl
Labyrinths
Grapes of Wrath
Death of a Salesman
Lolita
Keep in mind, this is off the top of my head. It is impossible to create a top ten list worth its salt on short notice. As someone here ... ... z!
I have never read Long Day's Journey Into Night, but I have always heard of it. I will have to check it out. I do have Death of a Salesman on my tbr. I have really been enjoying the plays that I have read this year. Have a great day!
--BJ imho, Arthur Miller is overrated -- especially Death of a Salesman -- it may have had resonance in the 1950s, but it's really dated today. I think The Crucible is the best of his plays. However, his contemporary, Tennessee Williams is a much better writer. Death of a Salesman was less great than I expected. 25. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller.
Yes, I did like it, but I'm not sure why it is that famous. A little curious to me, maybe I'll understand more of it if I reread it in some years (??). Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller: 109 pages
12728 + 109 = 12837
15540 - 12837 = 2703 pages to go
More than half a year left, so I'm sure I'll make it.
... Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg
3. Night Work by Thomas Glavinic
4. The Exception by Christian Jungersen
5. Death and the Penguin by Andrei Kurkov
6. The Alchemaster's Apprentice by Walter Moers
7. The Adventures of Tintin, Vols. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7 by Hergé
8. The H ... ... er
8. The So Blue Marble by Dorothy B. Hughes (this edition was a "crime classics" reprint, so that works . . . )
9. The Death of a Salesman and The Crucible by Arthur Miller I think I'll start reading Death of a Salesman in a few days. Another famous play.
>wrmjr66
Thanks. I just visited dailylit.com. The web is amazing. I'll probably take the opportunity to read books on the screen later (but I like the paper editions MUCH more, I guess it's due to my age, or?) 195. The Fundamentals of Play - Caitlin Macy (304)
196. Away Laughing on a Fast Camel - Louise Rennison (304)
197. Death and the Penguin - Andrey Kurkov (192)
198. The Full Cupboard of Life - Alexander McCall Smith (208)
199. Deep Economy - Bill McKibben (272)
May stats: 56 books, 1 ... ... Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003 - Dave Eggers
811 Poetry Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein
812 Drama Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
813 Fiction A Good Man is Hard to Find - Flannery O'Conner
814 Essays Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
817 Satire & humor ... I have not read Death of a Salesman but I have read Angels and Demons ... thing even though I try so very hard not to be. I guess we all just have to hope that we can survive our education.
Death of a Salesman for teenagers?! That teacher needs a good thrashing. ... a few others here who enjoyed the books they had to read in school. I think the only one I really didn't get on with was Death of a salesman, which was our set play for "O" level English lit (the exam taken when you're 16, now called something else). It was chosen from the syllabus by a well-i ... Death of a salesman by Arthur Miller
Far better than I remembered it. Started reading it a couple of years ago and had to put it down after 2 pages. I found it excruciatingly boring. But last week I read it for my lit class and absolutely enjoyed it. Somebody here wrote that we aren't always ... ... of art is a reaction to the larger world, personal history, and individual kinks and quirks. I'm highly suspicious of this Death of the Author business. ... to The Ground Beneath her Feet by Salmon Rushdie. Same era, almost, same scurrilous tone. I think.
After that it's Death and the Penguin by a guy called Andre Kurkov. It seems really good from what I've heard of it.
I'm having a post reading-binge downer at the moment. It makes me ... ... section of my library is woefully thin.
23) What is your favorite novel?
I adore Jane Eyre
24) Play?
Death of a Salesman
25) Poem?
Kahlil Gibran, Song of the Soul
26) Essay?
Steve Alan's contribution in The Courage of Conviction
27) Short ... ... favorite novel?
Changing quite often. At the moment it's Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction.
24) Play?
Death of a Salesman. And Pygmalion. The usual stuff, I think.
25) Poem?
Anything by Robert Frost.
26) Essay?
Huh?
27) Short story?
Far too many. Let's see ... ... titles on my wish list but have to admit I'd never heard of Oracle Night. Guess I'll just have to look it up! Reading Death of a Salesman definitely made me want to watch it onstage and I imagine having actually acted in it must have been a very special experience. I do agree with your ... ... Auster. An LT friend recommended Oracle Night, which I picked up recently at a library sale. Have you read it?
As to Death of a Salesman, I will forever have a soft spot in my heart for it, as I played "Linda Loman" in a college production many, many moons ago. A few years ago, I reread ... #14: I will have to look for Death and the Penguin. It appeals to my inner absurdity. ... This year alone, it has been the case for The Sun Always Rises, A Mercy, The Master and Margarita, and of course Death of a Salesman. I always tell myself that those books I'd like to explore further are likely candidates for a second reading, to give me a chance to pick up on nuances ... ... ame="book14">
#14: Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
It had been a very long while since I had last read a play, a couple of decades at least, and as I recall, the last one was either ... ... ="book14">
#14: Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
It had been a very long while since I had last read a play, a couple of decades at least, and as I recall, the last one was ... ... ="book14">
#14: Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
When I started reading Death of a Salesman, I was convinced I had read it before and just wanted to refresh my mind, but as ... Death of a Salesman by Artur Miller ... of "I didn't like" criticism. Fair enough, but what is supposed to replace The Scarlet Letter, Lord of the Flies, Death of a Salesman, etc. ? They'd really complain about reading Theodore Dreiser or Wyndam Lewis. (I saw a recently printed copy of Sister Carrie the other day, so ... I can't count how many times I have heard Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, but never got the impression that it was a good book and/or play. I never had the chance to find out what it was all about. I was very curious though.
As I was packing some of my husbands books, I came across ... Willy Lomen (have I got the name right)? from Death of a Salesman comes to mind..or..is it not a classic? ... to disagree" amiably.
Plays not literature?! One word--SHAKESPEARE?! And thank you for reminding me--I own a copy of Death of a Salesman and have never read it. It would be a great quick read for my classics category so I can get one done in January! Why? Because I want to! :-)
I'm ... ... The original movies of both are pretty good too. I don't much care for Sean "Puffy" Combs remake though. I also consider Death of a Salesman to be a classic, although its a play and some people don't consider plays to be literature. Hi all. I did this challenge privately last year and posted the results on my blog. I didn't set out to read a specific number of books, but ended up with 50—more than I've ever read in a year before! I think I'll reach for 50+2 this year. Any kind of book will count toward my 50 (+2). I've been ... ... Purple
Cool Hand Luke
The Constant Gardener
The Crucible
East of Eden
Grapes of Wrath
David Copperfield
Death of a Salesman
The Lord of the Rings
Frankenstein
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
The Godfather
Great Expectations
The Great Gatsby
Fig ... ... The Crucible, so I can't be of much help, Although I do think this is a great play to study (as is another of his plays, Death of a Salesman).
I have finally finished reading Debrett's Etiquette for Girls. It was certainly interesting, though many of the rules are probably a little ... ... there for some plays I'd like to read.
I bought three plays in English some days ago:
Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry.
I haven't heard of the last one, but I look forward to reading those plays soon.
Does ... Death and the Penguin is blackly humourous, and I liked it enough to buy the sequel, Penguin Lost too. All kinds of bizarre things happen to the characters, but they barely bat an eyelid! I'm glad to see you liked Death and the Penguin. It's been on the second tier of my wishlist for a while. Perhaps, I need to move it to the first tier. ... posted this on the "Best Books of 2008" thread, but thought I'd pop it in here too - these are the top of 2008 for me:
Death and the Penguin by Andrei Kurkov
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
... ... by P.G. Wodehouse
25. The Savage Garden by Mark Mills
26. Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
27. Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
28. The Glitter and the Gold by Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
29. Penguin Lost by Andrey Kurkov
30. Sex Wars by Ma ... ... bit was kind of hokey. But otherwise, just brilliant. Good balance of atmosphere, plot, and psychological dread.
98. Death of a Salesman
When I finished this, I felt immediately moved/depressed, but I'm not sure how much I actually liked it. Perhaps plays just need to be seen, but as I ... I finished Frankenstein and Death of a Salesman yesterday, and decided to start A Prayer for Owen Meany. I'm about 5 pages into it so far. 
60. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller - finished 11/30/08
Really depressing, which was not unexpected. I have to admit I feel a little ambivalent about this. On the one hand, it did move me and ...
... enjoying it. I was actually kind of worried it would be disappointing, but it's quite good.
I'm hoping to get through Death of a Salesman tomorrow, possibly in one sitting. After that, I might read The Vanished Hands or A Prayer for Owen Meany. Or perhaps even the Poe Graphic Classic ... ... my mp3 player. it's not quite as heavy on Udolpho references as I expected.
I'm hoping to get through Dangling Man and Death of a Salesman by the end of the week, as well. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
I wonder how many people walked out of the theater wondering how Arthur Miller learned about their life. And why did he put it up there on the stage for all to see. ... an
All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
Death Comes to the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller ... Dying by William Faulkner
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Confession by Jean Jacques Rousseau
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
... 49. death of a salesman, arthur miller
yes, yet another play on this list. i liked this. i will probably add further commentary later when i'm not in a daze. I. Classics
1. The Great Gatsby
2. A Raisin in the Sun
3. Death of a Salesman
4. Slaughterhouse-Five
5. The Canterbury Tales
6. Persuasion
7. Jane Eyre< ... ... and have since read others of hers (though not, I'm sorry to say, O Pioneers ~ yet). I also loved The Great Gatsby and Death of a Salesman, which I can assure you I would have loathed when I was in high school.
ETA ending parenthesis. ... I've always been a massive fan of John Fowles's The Collector, a slightly more recent fan of Joseph O'Connor's The Salesman and a recent convert to Tim Krabbe's The Vanishing so I suppose it was more or less inevitable that, sooner or later, I would come across What Happened ... ... which came up weren't all that promising:
Top books (9 books)
* The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice
* Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
* The white guard by Mikhail Bulgakov
* Penguin lost by Andrey Kurkov
* The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas ... ...
The Gilded Chamber by Rebecca Kohn... it's about Queen Esther.
Two books that are translated foreign novels:
Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov, a Unkrainian novel
Just Like a River by Muhammad Kamil al-Khatib, a Syrian novel
and Maggie, my 9yr old, picked up two:
... There were quite a few I was not happy with and that bored me out of my mind Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, Cry,the Beloved Country by Alan Paton, and The Adventures of Huck Finn by Mark Twain. I think I lost brain cells to these books. ... of books from the library. I remember the Life Nature and Science Library books in the house. Of course, I also remember Death of a Salesman, and my mother being in a panic when she came in and heard me trying to pronounce the swear words! I think I was 8.
I used to save my allowance and ... ... from this June to next June). My list now includes:
Anansi Boys
Walden
The Great Gatsby
A Raisin in the Sun
Death of a Salesman
The Caine Mutiny
Pagan Christmas
The Light Fantastic
The Zombie Survival Guide
Apocalypse Wow!
Doomsday Prophecies
The Time Traveler ... Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
The Geographer's Library by Jon Fasman
In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
The Yiddish Policemen's U ... ... Williams *
11) A Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
12) Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald *
13) Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller *
14) The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
15) Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud *
16) Who's Afraid of Vir ... ... it was English 102 at the local community college. For that class, I read and wrote critical essays on: Invisible Man, Death of a Salesman, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Araby, one of the short stories from Joyce's The Dubliners, and Barn Burning by Faulkner. To tell you the ... The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
The Navigator of New York by Wayne Johnston
Summer of my German Solider by Bette Greene
The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari
... that we read that I really adored:
The Crucible
The Great Gatsby
The Grapes of Wrath
To Kill A Mockingbird
Death of a Salesman
Maybe I should give ol' Hawthorne another shot now that I am a bit older and wiser, although I think I can safely say that it probably won't happen. B ... ... ilian!)
Alex Garland - The Beach (wrong touchstone)
Hanif Kureshi - The Budah of Suburbia
Andrey Kurkov - Death and the Penguin (wrong touchstone)
Hmmm... maybe that's a starting point - hopefully that's a bit of a range. I've got a tag for 'favourite' in my profile anyway ... ... to give Vile Bodies a reread.
and currently reading:
16) Andrey Kurkov - The President's Last Love: I LOVED Death and the Penguin, but I haven't quite got off the ground with this one yet - but then I haven't picked it up in quite a while - something to get going with this ... ... one at a regular bookstore. I'm not sure I'll like them all, but what the heck, they were cheap. Here's what I got:
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Millroy the Magician by Paul Theroux
The War Against the Rull by A. E. Van Vogt (a 1959 harcover edition)
Dr. Dredd' ... Death of a Salesman should be shot.
I could have done without reading the WHOLE Iliad. Maybe selections? Or an abridged version?
The Scarlet Letter
and Age of Innocence were some of my least favorite high school forced reading
AND I DESPISED Daisy Miller which I didn't even ... ... Brighton Rock by Graham Greene Mar.
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov Jan.
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Frankestein by Mary Shelley
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James ... ... e>
10. 'Salem's Lot
VIII Longtime TBR
1 A Prayer for Owen Meany
2 Death of a Salesman
3 Dangling Man
4 For Whom the Bell Tolls
5 The Dispossesed
6 Twenty ... ... Nancy Mitford
War and Peace by Tolstoy
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
Answering Back ed. Carol Ann Duffy
Walls and Piece by Banksy
At Large and at Small by Anne Fadiman (Signed)
... ... Year David Ewing Duncan
Castle of Wizardry by David Eddings
Dance dance dance by Haruki Murakami
Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
Desperately Seeking Paradise by Ziauddin Sardar
Double Whammy by Carl Hiaasen
Down Under by Bill Bryson
Enc ... ... dying
by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Chasing the monsoon by Alexander Frater
High fidelity by Nick Hornby
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Children of God by Mary Doria Russell
The crucible : a play in four acts by Arthur Miller
Tell them who I am : the ... ... calls
The tortilla curtain - another book where the situation just gets worse, and worse, and then some more.
Death of a salesman - and then the protagonist suffers some more
Der Sandmann - and goes crazy. (I do like this one)
Effi Briest - and dies.
Lord of the flies - Thi ... Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller Durrenmatt and The Judge and His Hangman. Yes! Reminds me of Borges and Death and the Compass, except that "The Judge" is nearly 9 times the length! (10 pages vs. 89 pages). It seems to me that a very odd film was made of "The Judge" years ago with Maximillian Schell and Jacqueline Bi ... ... had his wits about him and let us actually read the material ourselves! And I do have to say I enjoyed Animal Farm and Death of a Salesman very much, albeit the latter was a play. Still counts at literature, no?
Edit: Hopefully this thread will bring as big of a spike in activity and ... ... of the Life and Reign of Richard the Third by James Gairdner and by George Buck
close, but no cigar:
Death of a Salesman: by Arthur Miller and
Death of a Salesperson: by Robert Barnard
Edited for typos A Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Confessions of an Economic Hitman
The Prince
Swing by Sailor
Generation Warriors
Death of a Salesman Blindness - Jose Saramago
Nip the buds, shoot the kids - Kenzaburo Oe
Sweet scent of death - Guillermo Arriaga
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
Hiroshima - John Hersey I'm currently rereading Vengence in Death. Not my favorite in the series but I like to reread the stories in order. Also we get some backstory on Roarke and McNab is introduced as a continuing character. After all, Peabody needs a love interest too.
Edited for spelling. Well, yesterday we finished up Death of A Salesman in class, and today I finished my Poe book, so now I will be starting Lolita.
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 ... textbook from the 60s, leaving my Poe book at home due to it being quarto sized. And today we started an audio tape of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, which should be finished in three or four days. I had to read Death of a Salesman not once, not twice, but three times: two lit classes, one acting. I like Arthur Miller, don't get me wrong, but that's a bit much. Pickles on Ice
Pickles of Death
Pickles in Exile
Pickle: The Return (this touchstones as ROTK in traditional Chinese characters, but unfortunately it's just combined with the same book in every other language. Sadness).
I find the word "pickle" entirely too funny. ... Year David Ewing Duncan
Castle of Wizardry by David Eddings
Dance dance dance by Haruki Murakami
Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
Desperately Seeking Paradise by Ziauddin Sardar
Double Whammy by Carl Hiaasen
Down Under by Bill Bryson
Enc ... ... I would also second The Machine Gunners.
A Town Like Alice is an all time favourite of mine and I also enjoyed Requiem for a Wren.
I know this is a historical fiction thread but there are 3 non fiction titles I have to recommend. Schindler's List, Lime street at Two and Christab ... ... I just keep posting as I read, so here's all of the one's I've read so far:
1) Uglies By Scott Westerfeld
2) Death of a Salesman By Arthur Miller
3) The Supernaturalist By Eoin Colfer
4) Broken Glass By Arthur Miller
5) Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
6) ... I would even say that while they are technically graphic novles, a lot of Neil Gaiman's Sandman series, or the Death graphic novels would qualify as Urban Fantasy.
I presonally loved Moon Called and I cannot wait for the next in the series. Patricia Briggs normally does more of the ... JamieJM #338 -- I believe I found Death of a Salesman to be a great read only because I had seen the movie first. I had a crush on Kevin McCarthy (brother of Mary) who played Biff. Then I fell in love with The Crucible because my high school put it on and I had a crush on one of the actors. I ...
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