momar, to answer your question, I read "The Stranger" in English. There's a newer translation that the original Stuart Gilbert one.
momar, to answer your question, I read "The Stranger" in English. There's a newer translation that the original Stuart Gilbert one.
...and since you invite the debate, I can only say that it is really sad how such a third-rate piece of science fiction has the ability to cloud people's judgment like that. It's not so much the book, of course, it's the brilliant merchandising strategy they built on top of it.
In order of when they influenced me in life:
Huck Finn
Animal Farm (even though I like 1984 more, I read Animal Farm at a point where it was more influential)
The Stranger
Death of a Salesman (if we count plays)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Catch-22
and...
Slaughterhouse Five
most influential:
mysterious island (jules verne)
into the wild (jon krakeaur)
on the road (jack kerouac)
catcher in the rye (j.d. salinger)
walden (henry david thoreau)
they are in the order i read them. the single most influential book was probably into the wild.
War and Peace
It got me to love reading.
I can't believe I said Whitman wrote Self-Reliance... I deserved to be called out on that one.
Night and 1984 both great ones, as well as Heart of Darkness.
anything by chris lear
South by Ernest Shackleton
The moment when Huck says, "Alright then, I'll go to hell" and tears up the letter to Ms. Watson makes me want to go kick ass every time I think about it. Good call on Huck Finn.
The Kite Runner
"Three Cups of Tea" - Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
One man can change the world.
"The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart" Peter J. Gomes
The Bible shouldn't be used to teach intolerance ... This book made me open it again.
"The Road Less Traveled" M. Scott Peck
Because I read this at a time in my life when I really needed to read it ...
The Pickwick Papers-Dickens
The Brothers Karamazov-Dostoevsky
Pale Fire-Nabokov
Brighton Rock-Graham Greene
Disgrace-J.M. Coetzee
The Sea-John Banville
Modulation wrote:
The Japanese and the Jews: Isaiah Ben-dasan
Excellent, yes. I read it in Japan.
Tom
Modulation wrote:
The Japanese and the Jews: Isaiah Ben-dasan
Excellent, yes. I read it in Japan. Very influential
Tom
Sometimes a great notion - Ken Kesey
Movie was called Never Give an Inch. It was classic blue collar vs white collar.. give it a read. Also he wrote Electric Koolaid Acid Test..a biography of the time (60's).
sweet c wrote:
I can't believe I said Whitman wrote Self-Reliance... I deserved to be called out on that one.
Night and 1984 both great ones, as well as Heart of Darkness.
You deserved to be called out and now you deserve congratulations for being a man about it.
War and Piece-Tolstoyski
Hesse's "Siddhartha" has influenced me tremendously.
Civil Disobedience - Thoreau
Poor People - Vollmann