Greatest books you've *never* read.

[QUOTE=xec8;1007474]You are my favourite new poster.

Venceremos, venceremos, com as armas que temos na mão![/QUOTE]

Sabes, fico triste ver o nome Paulo Coelho, no forum do meu escritor favorito.
Magoa a alma, porque não são comparáveis!

You know, I am sad to see the name Paulo Coelho, in the forum of my favourite writer.
it hurts the soul.:mad:
Because they are not comparable !!! :no1:

[QUOTE=Boris;1007485]Sabes, fico triste ver o nome Paulo Coelho, no forum do meu escritor favorito.
Magoa a alma, porque não são comparáveis!

You know, I am sad to see the name Paulo Coelho, in the forum of my favourite writer.
it hurts the soul.:mad:
Because they are not comparable !!! :no1:[/QUOTE]

If it makes you feel any better i don't think there are any threads dedicated to him. meanwhile there is a ton of Dan Brown threads! WTfuh!

[QUOTE=Boris;1007485]Sabes, fico triste ver o nome Paulo Coelho, no forum do meu escritor favorito.
Magoa a alma, porque não são comparáveis!

You know, I am sad to see the name Paulo Coelho, in the forum of my favourite writer.
it hurts the soul.:mad:
Because they are not comparable !!! :no1:[/QUOTE]

oh yeah! not to be the asshole antagonist here, but ask your newfound fellow Portugean friend just how many of Chuck's book he has read!

[QUOTE=nathaniel parker;1007516]oh yeah! not to be the asshole antagonist here, but ask your newfound fellow Portugean friend just how many of Chuck's book he has read![/QUOTE]
Fuck off!

Haha! RoflGrofl!

FYI, I [I]have [/I]read some of his books:

Fight Club
Survivor
Diary
Lullaby.

Eh, I don't think anyone is comparing Coelho to Chuck. I enjoyed the Alchemist, but it definitely doesn't crack my top 40.

At any rate...are there really mutliple Dan Brown threads? That's...gross.

[QUOTE=tom9d;1007633]Eh, I don't think anyone is comparing Coelho to Chuck. I enjoyed the Alchemist, but it definitely doesn't crack my top 40.

At any rate...are there really mutliple Dan Brown threads? That's...gross.[/QUOTE]

I don't know about "multiple" I started one entitled The Biggest Piece Of Shit Ever Produced and I know there are at least 1 or 2 others. so maybe just 3

Lame. Sadly one of my three brothers loooooves Dan Brown and considers Angels&Demons and DaVinci his two favorite books. Things like that make me wonder where I went wrong.

Davinci Code is actually a pretty fun and interesting read...if you read it when it first came out and was called Daughter of God or Holy Blood, Holy Grail

[QUOTE=my shotgunface;1007662]wierd, one of my three brothers also loooooooves dan brown...[/QUOTE]

obviously your his sister then. :bigeyes2:

Hah...no sir. I have only brothers. Though that post could definitely give a different impression.

I'm the oldest. I win.

...or maybe I lose? Yeah, I probably lose. I had to be the guinnea pig. The younger ones have it so much easier. Oh well.

[QUOTE=nathaniel parker;1007510]If it makes you feel any better i don't think there are any threads dedicated to him. meanwhile there is a ton of Dan Brown threads! WTfuh![/QUOTE]

Hello, in Portugal we have one dictated that he says: [I]“preferences are not argued, are commented”[/I]
[B]And certainty that my preferences are not better that yours. [/B]
[COLOR=Lime]I am against labels and labels.[/COLOR]
But unhappyly we are always to use. Flash!
I have pleasure in commenting and Dan Brown is very better who Coelho.
[B] I go to classify but I am against! Flash! [/B]
imagine 3 pots : [B]pot number 1[/B]: the elite of the writers: optimum - [U]Chuck Palahniuk [/U]
others: NABOKOV; BUKOWSKI; Orwell; Pedro Juan Gutierrez; D.H. Lawrence; Henry Miller; Sade; Tolkien; Saramago; etc
[B]pot 2 I call “airport literature” that one that fast, easy, amuses and he learns something:[/B]
in this pot is Dan Brown, probably in the top, exist others as: Rice; EVANGELISTI; Kostova; Nick Hornby; Simon Beckett; Peter James; Conn Iggulden; etc.
[B]in pot 3 I consider light literature, without valid content[/B]: and in this I place Paulo Coelho and for example: KONSALIK; Robert James Waller; NICHOLAS SPARKS; DANIELLE STEEL, etc.
[SIZE=4][B] Attention is my opinion! Flash!
and if we argued the topic?[/B][/SIZE]

Yes!
New Ironman!

[QUOTE=Boris;1008041]Hello, in Portugal we have one dictated that he says: [I]“preferences are not argued, are commented”[/I]
[B]And certainty that my preferences are not better that yours. [/B]
[COLOR=Lime]I am against labels and labels.[/COLOR]
But unhappyly we are always to use. Flash!
I have pleasure in commenting and Dan Brown is very better who Coelho.
[B] I go to classify but I am against! Flash! [/B]
imagine 3 pots : [B]pot number 1[/B]: the elite of the writers: optimum - [U]Chuck Palahniuk [/U]
others: NABOKOV; BUKOWSKI; Orwell; Pedro Juan Gutierrez; D.H. Lawrence; Henry Miller; Sade; Tolkien; Saramago; etc
[B]pot 2 I call “airport literature” that one that fast, easy, amuses and he learns something:[/B]
in this pot is Dan Brown, probably in the top, exist others as: Rice; EVANGELISTI; Kostova; Nick Hornby; Simon Beckett; Peter James; Conn Iggulden; etc.
[B]in pot 3 I consider light literature, without valid content[/B]: and in this I place Paulo Coelho and for example: KONSALIK; Robert James Waller; NICHOLAS SPARKS; DANIELLE STEEL, etc.
[SIZE=4][B] Attention is my opinion! Flash!
and if we argued the topic?[/B][/SIZE][/QUOTE]
If what you're trying to say is "Raios!" then it's "Darn!" instead of "Flash."

[QUOTE=xec8;1008073]If what you're trying to say is "Raios!" then it's "Darn!" instead of "Flash."[/QUOTE]

thanks for your help in my basic and bad English.
But ideia that I want to give with “[COLOR=Orange]Flash![/COLOR]” he is of the light of a photographic machine, as in the book “[B]Invisible Monsters[/B]”

Oh. I haven't read Invisible Monsters.

[QUOTE=xec8;1008086]Oh. I haven't read Invisible Monsters.[/QUOTE]

[B]read! [/B]
it is very good!
it is a great reflection on the vice of the beauty!
the Portuguese edition is fantastic, my avatar it corresponds to cover of the book, and has the detail of cover not to have any word!
Brilliant!
[COLOR=SandyBrown]Flash![/COLOR]

[QUOTE=xec8;1007436]So what if it is? Does that make it brilliant?[/QUOTE]

It was just a random question about the topic at hand. Nothing to do with the argument between you two knuckleheads. Calm your monkey-ass down.

[QUOTE=Boris;1007399]My opinion in relation to Paulo Coelho is very bad.
until hurts to me see the name of it in this forum.[/QUOTE]

Paulo Cohelo writes books for peolpe who don´t like to read. Its self help crap (not even good self help books). Here in argentina he sells like 1.000.000 books in the first day. And Chuck didn´t even get published.

I got depressed:31:

[QUOTE=kakunn;1008192]Paulo Cohelo writes books for peolpe who don´t like to read. ...[/QUOTE]

:clap: :clap:

[QUOTE=Caligula7;1008156]It was just a random question about the topic at hand. Nothing to do with the argument between you two knuckleheads. Calm your monkey-ass down.[/QUOTE]
Tikaljem dje?

I feel like bumping more stuff tonight for some reason.

Wow, over two years later and the only one I can cross off that list is The Catcher In The Rye.

I still haven't read Dune. I've tried so many times, but I get to the part where Paul's father bites it and I'm just ZZZZZZZZZZidon'tevencare.....

I don't even think I got that far. I was still in the 'Wait, why read it when I can watch the movie?' stage.

Sci-Fi is one of my favorite genres, so you'd think I'd just love it, but it's almost like I've got an aversion to reading the damn thing now.

Some of the one's I've read on your list are amazing - Tale of Two Cities, To Kill a Mockingbird, Catch-22, and Huck Finn. I recommend you read them and in that order. Brave New World is interesting but Huxley changed a lot of his views after he wrote it (if you read it read Island afterward). I read Call of the Wild and Oliver Twist when I was real young and, from what I remember, they're okay, but not phenomenal.

I haven't read any of the others except Catcher, which I find hard to rate critically. I do find it odd how it's been commented that Catcher is great for 14 year olds. It seems to me to be much more for those about 18-21 (when I read it). It's about entering adulthood so I really don't see how a 14 year old kid could relate.

I've always wanted to read Crime and Punishment, along with the other Russian classics, but they're so wordy and long and daunting. I've also never read Moby Dick. Faulkner is another author I've been meaning to hit. I started The Sound and the Fury but it didn't keep my attention. Ulysses is another that I started but reading it just felt too much like work. The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged are also on my list, but reading Anthem was so infuriating I know they'll be tough to get through.

I've tried to read Atlas Shrugged three times, gotten about halfway through and given up. I just can't stand Rand.

I do recommend Anthem by Rand. It's way shorter and covers her philosophy fairly well without drudging on and on and on.