Du hast Recht.
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Victoria Hughes
<[email protected]>wrote:
> Just checking - this is the Friam list and not the discuss list, right?
>
> On Oct 11, 2010, at 11:54 AM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote:
>
> Me thinks submissions are continuing to digress away from the Best Works
> for a Literary Education goal.
> Thanks
> Robert C
>
> On 10/11/10 11:30 AM, Victoria Hughes wrote:
>
> Great to meet yet another Pratchett fan.
> If you had to pick one Pratchett, which would it be?
> I'd go for Thief of Time...
> Tory
>
> On Oct 11, 2010, at 10:20 AM, Ted Carmichael wrote:
>
> *Soooo* difficult to find only ten. And I'm not sure what to do with the
> "literature" requirement ... I like well-written stories that transcend
> genre, but I wouldn't claim that is enough. And while I would recommend
> *everything
> *from, say, Terry Pratchett or P.G. Wodehouse, I've tried to pick typical
> examples for the uninitiated. I've also tried for a broad, eclectic bunch.
>
> In no particular order:
>
> Candide; *Voltaire*
> The Truth; *Pratchett (about writing, of course)*
> Watership Down;* Adams*
> Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves; *Wodehouse ("I marmaladed a slice of toast with
> something of a flourish...")*
> The Bonfire of the Vanities; *Tom Wolfe (A bit dated, perhaps, but he
> does really nail character.)*
> You Can't Go Home Again; *the other Tom Wolfe*
> Batman: Year One; *Miller*
> At the Sign of the Naked Waiter; *Herrick*
> The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon; *King*
> A Wizard of Earthsea; *Le Guin*
> The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; *Haddon*
>
> Yes, these go to eleven. It's one louder.
>
> -Ted
>
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Being here in Italy, Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose comes to mind. The
>> translation is considered quite good, and it reads very well.
>>
>> ---- Owen
>>
>>
>> I am an iPad, resistance is futile!
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