All great suggestions and timely since my library book is due back tomorrow. I'll add a couple of other suggestions:
The English Patient (Ondaatje) Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Persig) (not sure if this counts as fiction) A Glass Darkly (Philip K Dick) On the Road (Kerouac) Unbearable Lightness of Being (Kundera) Heart of Darkness (Conrad) and for the Illiad I strongly recommend the audio book with Derek Jacobi reading the Fagles translation (abridged). +1 for all Herman Hesse titles mentioned. Regards, Saul On Saturday, October 9, 2010, Alison Jones <alison.jo...@redfish.com> wrote: > After 10 years of lurking something I can finally comment on. > > In no particlular order: > > Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy > Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin > Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol > Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie > Sometime a Great Notion by Ken Kesey > Beloved by Toni Morrison > Middlemarch by George Eliot > Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov > To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf > Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky > Death in Venice by Thomas Mann > > > There are so many more! > Alison > (Yeah, I know it is 11. And you are so right Robert (Holmes), I should really > say Pevear and Volokhonsky's Karenina ☺) > > > On Oct 8, 2010, at 1:44 PM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote: > > > Ok, so I've decided my literary education is somewhat lacking and would like > to know this group's recommendations for the "10 Best Literary Works" I > should read. They have to be works of fiction and available in English and > not just say of 2009 but of all time. Google searches tend to list the best > of a year or be listed by one particular publisher. This is a good group to > poll since you all (most) have at least some kind of scientific/technical > bent. So I know the suggestions will be good ones for me! > > Once I have a list of all suggestions maybe I'll ask you all to vote on them. > > My list currently starts with Frank's recommendation today: > > "Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West" by Cormac McCarthy > > Thanks! > Robert C. > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org -- Saul Caganoff Enterprise IT Architect Mobile: +61 410 430 809 LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/scaganoff ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
