Best Books Ever

[Dragonlord]

The Divine Comedy by Dante

[LeeMarvin]

I NEVER BEEN THE SAME AFTER I READ THIS BOOKS:

Tales... POE
Ficciones BORGES
Vineland PYNCHON
The man in the castle DICK
Genealogia de la moral NIETZCHE
The Steppen Wolf HESSE
Paginas escogidas ARTAUD
Heart of darkness CONRAD
Todos los fuegos el fuego CORTAZAR
El sueño de los heroes B.CASARES
Memorias de Adriano YOURCENAR
Yo Claudio ROBERT GRAVES
La metamorfosis KAFKA

I really think that Tolkien is a minor writer, nothing to compare with any of the list above, may be amusing (not even that for me) and a first step for major literature but not the end of it.

[draven]

Originally posted by LeeMarvin@28 July 2003 - 20:36
I really think that Tolkien is a minor writer

[for3024]

Originally posted by LeeMarvin@28 July 2003 - 20:36
I NEVER BEEN THE SAME AFTER I READ THIS BOOKS:

Tales... POE
Ficciones BORGES
Vineland PYNCHON
The man in the castle DICK
Genealogia de la moral NIETZCHE
The Steppen Wolf HESSE
Paginas escogidas ARTAUD
Heart of darkness CONRAD
Todos los fuegos el fuego CORTAZAR
El sueño de los heroes B.CASARES
Memorias de Adriano YOURCENAR
Yo Claudio ROBERT GRAVES
La metamorfosis KAFKA

I really think that Tolkien is a minor writer, nothing to compare with any of the list above, may be amusing (not even that for me) and a first step for major literature but not the end of it.

Can you at least say what these books are about

[draven]

There is only one true way to know, and that is to find the meaning yourself. LeeMarvin has some taste. Franz Kafka, Edgar Allan Poe... the list goes on. Read it for3024

[H.H.]

How about:

Silence Of The Lambs / Thomas Harris
The Hannibal Lecter Book Of Gourmet For Beginners / Hannibal Lecter
The Dune-saga / Frank Herbert
Bill The Galactic Hero - series / Harry Harrison
Stainless Steel Rat - series / Harry Harrison
All of 'em / Dashiel Hammet
All of 'em / Raymond Chandler
Virtual Light / William Gibson
Mona Lisa / William Gibson
Count Zero / William Gibson

And... among many others: Philip K. Dick's Greatest Hits (Like: Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep... better known to the world from the movie adaptation "Blade Runner".... That Sean Young playing the android chick is GEORGEOUS! WOW! And the music by Vangelis is mind-blowing.....)

AND there's more, and more, and more, and MORE!!!HaaahhhhaaahhhaahhhHHaHAHAHAHhhhhhAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
You little dicks have to get yerselves some better books to read!!!

Only read the "Catcher In The Rye" IF You're planning to waste the president!!!

HEEEEHHHAAAAWWW, Y'all!!!!

h.h.

[munkeyspanker22]

The Firm by John Grisham...tax law was never so fun

And I agree with the guy who said Tolkien was a hack!

[LeeMarvin]

As far as I see in this forum, science fiction rules, so here is a list of great science fiction and writers (in fact some of their works are nearer to a "literatura fantastica" (I don't know how to spell it in english) than strictly science fiction):

Ballard - Crash
Dick - Blade runner, Minority report, and the list goes on
Wells - The invisible man, etc.
Bradbury - Marcian cronics
Lovecraft - I don't know if someone made a movie based on one of his stories, but the blair witch project reflects many aspects of his manangement of suspense and terror.

Beside them is a movie/s based on their books; on the other hand I once heard Polanski saying that you need a really bad book to make a great film, in the great majority of cases that's correct, with perhaps one case that breaks the rule: Heart of Darkness/Apocalypse Now: Great book even Greater movie, perhaps the last great american movie, it was the end of a period; know we enjoy Jerry Buckheimmer's pop corn bullshit. Is there any new american writer you can recomend?

PD:
Great comics:

El Eternauta - Oesterheld
The black book, Mort Cinder, etc - Breccia
El halcon maltez - Hugo Pratt
Arkham Asylum - Grant Morrison/ Dave MC Kean
The invisibles - Grant Morrison (I heard that was one of matrix inspirations)
Mr. Punch - Dave Mc Kean
The Dark Knight Returns - Frank Miller
Kamui - Sanpei Shirato
and a lot of Manga

[H.H.]

Well....

Some books just CAN'T be translated into a film....
Just look what happened to "American Psycho".... NOT that I particularly wanted to see that craziness turned into a movie , anyway....
Some things are best left just to words...

Brrrr.............

H.H.

[H.H.]

BY the way....

Frank Miller must be one of the meanest S.O.B. cartoonists alive....

I don't particularly enjoy the ultra-violence portrayed in most of his work, BUT I admire the exellent graphics.

Boom!

h.h.