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Friday, October 8, 2010
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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
I would have to vote for the Bible. Its arguably not great fiction,
but its probably the most influential work of fiction in the English
language.
Cheers ;).
On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 01:44:31PM -0600, Robert J. Cordingley wrote:
Ok, so I've decided my literary education is somewhat lacking and
Robert --
The St. John's graduate in me says whoopie! Here are 10, in no particular
order:
Shakespeare: Sonnets
Shakespeare: Romeo Juliet
Dante: The Divine Comedy
Homer: The Iliad
Tolstoy: War Peace
Cervantes: Don Quixote
Eliot: Middlemarch
Austen: Pride Prejudice
Fitzgerald: The Great
Take a look at this:
One Hundred Best Books
John Cowper Powys
ISBN10: 1116904438 ISBN13: 9781116904437
Publisher: BiblioLife, LLC
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Nov 2009
cheers, Paul
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Sent: Fri, Oct 8, 2010
Good grief, I have that as a Little Blue Book published by E.
Haldeman-Julius, falling apart on high acid content paper.
Scott
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Paul Paryski ppary...@aol.com wrote:
Take a look at this:
[image: ISBN: 9781116904437 - One Hundred Best
The Glass Bead Game, by Hermann Hesse, is a must-read for any
self-respecting complexity theorist :-)
Hugh
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To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group friam@redfish.com
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010
Restricting to just novels --
Ulysses by James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Moby Dick (1849) by Herman Melville
The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment: by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Atonement
So I take it that our working definition of best is will look good on the
coffee table and impress liberal arts graduates rather than will be read
and enjoyed? ;-)
-- R
P.S. Also: when selecting foreign authors you must specify the translation
if you are going to maximize your pseud points. It's
I've just been reading a collection of Twain's writings on writing itself.
Therefore I have to offer the classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
It is the classic American Novel, and not just (though especially) for
young men.
I squirm at Frank's recommendation of (anything by?) Cormac
Hugh Trenchard wrote circa 10-10-08 02:56 PM:
The Glass Bead Game, by Hermann Hesse, is a must-read for any
self-respecting complexity theorist :-)
+1
I was also _very_ fond of Narcissus and Goldmund... Oh! Oh! and
Siddhartha and Steppenwolf, as well.
I'd also add the following to the list:
Geeze, doesn't anybody like good science fiction any more? Larry Nivin's
Ringworld. Poul Anderson's Gateway series.
--Doug
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote:
I've just been reading a collection of Twain's writings on writing itself.
Therefore I have to
R -
So I take it that our working definition of best is will look good
on the coffee table and impress liberal arts graduates rather than
will be read and enjoyed? ;-)
I don't think that was the original question. Is it evidenced in some
of the answers? Or is this just Doug spoofing your
Doug -
Geeze, doesn't anybody like good science fiction any more? Larry
Nivin's Ringworld. Poul Anderson's Gateway series.
I love that shit (much of SF)... but don't quite want to call most of it
literature... great storytelling and exposition of esoteric scientific
concepts... but not
Lists like this are always a bit odd. I got dressed down last night
(gently but firmly) by a professor of English who couldn't believe
that I thought Brothers K. was the most tedious thing I've ever read
half of (couldn't drive myself to read the second half). I like other
Dostoevsky--just
Robert,
Didn't I hear you complain once that nobody ever paid attention to your
posts?
You hit paydirt THIS time.
Nick
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Of Robert J. Cordingley
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 1:45 PM
Hey Nick,
That's funny - may be it was Frank's recommendation that kicked things
off. But what are your top 10. So far seven titles have been
recommended more than once! Stay tuned.
Thanks
Robert
On 10/8/10 6:23 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Robert,
Didn't I hear you complain once that
Weird to say, but I don't read that much fiction.
My wife feeds my stuff from time to time and I read it. I will ask her what
I like.
N
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Of Robert J. Cordingley
Sent: Friday, October 08,
Hoping there's someone on this list that knows something about
spiders in New Mexico... There were two of these hanging out just on the
outside of my house in Santa Fe. One had made a large somewhat circular
web about 2 ft across. At night it would sit in the middle, during the
day it
really? does she pack your clothes as well?
From: nickthomp...@earthlink.net
To: friam@redfish.com
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 18:50:09 -0600
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The most productive Thread of 2010!
Weird to say, but I don't read that much fiction.
My wife feeds my stuff from time to time
We have one outside our front door tonight, and it hides during the day.
It seems to be harmless, and the back looks like a smiley face.
We think it is an orange crab spider (google that for images).
On Oct 8, 2010, at 7:59 PM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote:
Hoping there's someone on this list
Well, like an exercise program, the best books are the one's one
actually rereads.
I was that liberal arts major, until I came across computer science,
then all was lost, then complexity and developmental biology, and all
was *really* lost...virtually nothing on the English major curriculum
Probably the common orb weaver, of which there are many varieties, capable of
great feats of engineering - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orb-weaver_spider
It's not going to come in the house but I wouldn't try picking one up.
Scott Powell
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On Oct 8, 2010, at 7:59 PM, Robert
Black Widows - Shiny long legs, hourglass on back - worry some, as
they can get agressive and the bites are persistently painful.
Ubiquitous and the big one's can be resilient against 2x4's. They make
more. Lots more.
Brown Recluse - All brown, hides in slight creases on a newspaper -
The Araneus Pima orb weaver? http://bugguide.net/node/view/13512/bgimage
Sent from my iPad
On Oct 8, 2010, at 9:02 PM, Roger Frye rf...@qforma.com wrote:
We have one outside our front door tonight, and it hides during the day.
It seems to be harmless, and the back looks like a smiley face.
My $.02
It looks (and by description of it's web) like what I know of as an Orb
Web Spider. Common enough in Northern NM and harmless (to humans)
despite the sinister (downright ugly?) look. There seem to be a *lot* of
spiders referred to as orb web including /Araneus gemmoides/
I know them, by the way, to get quite a bit bigger... like an inch or
more across (body only) and range from pasty brown to pasty white
(uglier)...
Hoping there's someone on this list that knows something about
spiders in New Mexico... There were two of these hanging out just on
the outside
Trying to reduce a high-dimensional and subjective data set to a
one-dimensional well-ordered set is a fools errand.
I love hearing other's favorites and opinions of what makes a work of
fiction literature and what makes one work better than another.
I think Jack's criteria here are
Nick -
Sorry, my comment was meant to have been offline to Robert. For some
reason, “reply” sometimes gets me the list, rather than the writer to
the list. My bad.
Most list-serves set the reply-to: in the header to the list itself so
that the default reply *is* to the list. It gets me
I'd add Sometimes a Great Notion, by Ken Kesey
and pretty much any volume of Encyclopedia Brown. That kid can solve
anything.
-S
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Steve
re: Brown...
You have to pick specific volumes! Sorry if I didn't make that clear,
otherwise someone could suggest a decalogy and 9 others, ie 19 works!
Thanks
Robert C
On 10/8/10 11:22 PM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
I'd add Sometimes a Great Notion, by Ken Kesey
and pretty much any
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
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