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Pseudonymous ([personal profile] ex_pseudonymous328) wrote in [community profile] readingtheclassics2009-05-12 05:28 pm
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Book Suggestion Post

What would you like to read next?

Bonus points if it is available for free online.
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[personal profile] bird 2009-05-12 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
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[personal profile] bird 2009-05-13 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
No, but it comes highly recommended by a friend who generally has very similar taste to mine. He loves all things gothic and victorian. [personal profile] fifi's suggestion seems pretty awesome, too, though!

[personal profile] fifi 2009-05-12 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Georges Bataille's Story of the eye ?

[personal profile] fifi 2009-05-12 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I did a long, long time ago. In fact, too long ago. I may have traumatized and sexually abused myself with it. *g* Yes, it's awesome and creepy and free! <3

[personal profile] fifi 2009-05-29 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Ummm. I haven't read it in a while so I don't remember, but I like Proust if that's any indication. For me books don't actually have to "go anywhere."


You can take it off the list if you don't like it. This is yr comm after all. You could even write that somewhere, that you take suggestions but that in the end you choose the books to be read. After all, you do choose them.
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[personal profile] lifebecomesart 2009-05-13 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
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[personal profile] lifebecomesart 2009-05-14 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm just reading the original version now, which is harder to find (I'm not sure if the one online is the original or the censored one), but so far I think it's extremely well written.

It's about an immigrant family and their lives in the stockyards of Chicago in the early 1900s. It depicts the terrible conditions they faced and how they survived (or failed to) in the poor conditions and cramped housing.

Really I've been wanting to read it bc of the vast impact it had on America. It helped pass food laws, sanitation laws, child labor laws, and bring basic human rights to the forefront of American conversation.
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[personal profile] anehan 2009-05-13 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.

Or something by Jane Austen.

a humble suggestion or three

[personal profile] leighton 2009-05-19 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
Villette by Charlotte Bronte

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/9182

Caleb Williams by William Godwin (better known as the husband of Mary Wollstonecraft and the father of Mary Shelley)

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11323

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/155

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Re: a humble suggestion or three

[personal profile] de_winter 2009-05-22 10:00 am (UTC)(link)
I have to second the Bronte suggestion.