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TOP TEN WORKS OF THE 20TH CENTURY N1: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

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  1. litwin

    litwin Well-Known Member

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    do you agree what is your favorite book?
     
    litwin, Feb 10, 2012
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    Noddy rides out is a good one.
     
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    should be

    1563. Kazantzakis, Nikos, trans by P. A. Bien. The Last Temptation of Christ. New York: Bantam Books, 1961. (P)

    Also, Yeats' poetry
     
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  4. litwin

    litwin Well-Known Member

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    something good from this list^? is it Lolita very controversial in USA?
     
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    The Rum Diaries. Pure debauchery and fun.

    Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk is a recent favorite.

    I have read all of Stienbeck's work multiple times and always enjoyed it.

    Growing up I was a huge fan of SE Hinton and Jack London. Nothing like disturbed adolescence coupled with dogs and gold.
     
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    Isn't Lolita about some old guy (*)(*)(*)(*)ing a 14 year old?


    My top 10 would include Orson Scott Card Enders Game. And Dune.
     
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    litwin Well-Known Member

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    i ll say this book is much more then this.
     
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    Correction it's about justifying an old guy (*)(*)(*)(*)ing a 14 year old.
     
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    litwin Well-Known Member

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    is it nabokov´s book "justifying an old guy (*)(*)(*)(*)ing a 14 year old"? or critics?
    PS
     
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    my favs,Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck

    American Tradgedy Theodore Driesler

    Homage to Catalonia George Orwell ,and 1984

    just afew.
     
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    Lolita? What's so great about a film of an old man's sinful fantasy?
     
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    The Rum Diary??? That's seriously in your list of top 10 works of the 20th century?
     
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    Venus On The Half Shell by Kilgore Trout.
     
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    Hey it takes all types ,Call of the Wild was good ,top 1000 maybe but good.London had something about dogs .
     
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    Lolita wold not even make up the first 100.Here's my list, buty not in any particular order:

    Catch 22 by Joseph Heller.It even spawned a new phrase Catch 22;

    Brave New World by Alduos Huxley;

    1984 by George Orwell;

    The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank;

    The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck;

    Animal Farm by George Orwell;

    Lord of the Flies, a chilling story, by William Golding;

    The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway;

    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee;

    Sophie's Choice by William Styron.

    From a strictly Australian perspective:

    Cloud Street By Tim Winton;

    For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke;

    Harp in the South by Ruth Park.

    With credits to Geoff Blainey and Manning Clarke.
     
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    Pretty much. If I had to choose one, Joyce would be my favourite writer and Ulysses, my favourite book.
     
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    Jack London & Orwell's Homage to Catalonia. Also, I can't see how I left out Mark Twain. Innocents Abroad & Roughing it are two of the funniest books around. In Innocents Abroad, Twain & friends didn't like one tour guide's name, so they took to calling every guide Fergusson. When I was in Athens at the Museum, I said I would hire one of the guides if they had one named Fergusson. One of them got the joke, so I hired him.

    I don't read much fiction - serious fiction I mean - just can't get into it.

    For complete relaxation - I call it mindless drivel - I like Terry Pratchett, David Eddings, & Bernard Cornwell.

    P.S. A relative introduced me to Akhmatova's poetry - in translation, of course. I like it.
     
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    Where is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?


    edit

    oops...20th Century...OK...as you were
     
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    its about writing not about the morality. whats is strange he that usual american hate this book, but american intellectual elite love it
     
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    its very controversial book in USA as well
     
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    If that's the extent of their 'intellectual' shallow interest, it doesn't say much about our so called intellectuals does it? Or maybe, it says a lot.
     
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    i dont think so, it says nothing except a fact that they are ready to question everything and every one

    ps

    the same story from the most moralistic county , you can kill 500 000 people in iraq but boobies and N-word scary sh%%% out of you

     
    litwin, Feb 13, 2012
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    It's a fine list, but I think 1984 was snubbed.
     
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    well that's just pathetic.
     
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    What are you talking about? The vast majority of the 500,000 who were killed in Iraq were part of a civil ie Muslim against Muslim ie different streams of Islam.Probably very similar to the religious wars in continental Europe following the Reformation in the 16th and 17th centuries and beyond. That just shows us how far behind Europe are those who live in the Middle East with their outdated beliefs.

    That's one very good reason why religion should be thrown into the dustbin of history! Especially religion whose founder had sex with an underage girl!
     
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