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Re: Literary Types

Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 1:55 pm
by toad857
GWG wrote:Not necessarily a classic but certainly worth it: Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage to the Antarctic.
+1

Re: Literary Types

Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 4:17 pm
by KD
A Confederate Soldier From Big Sur by Richard Brautigan. Written in the late 60's - really cool read.

Re: Literary Types

Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 4:54 pm
by the lurkist
toad857 wrote:
GWG wrote:Not necessarily a classic but certainly worth it: Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage to the Antarctic.
+1

Check out "South" by Sir Ernest Shackleton- his account of that disastrous attempt to cross the Antarctic Continent. Written in a humble typically English understated manner- considered to be a classic of the travel non fiction genre. One part- they attempt and succeed in an 800 mile crossing of the roaring 40's in winter in an open boat from Elephant Island to South Georgia Island--> off the scale rad. Still thought to be one of the greatest feats of navigation.

Re: Literary Types

Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 9:21 pm
by KD
I might also recommend The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western by the same author and timeframe.

Re: Literary Types

Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 2:35 am
by dipsi
To Kill a Mockingbird ~ Harper Lee
How Green Was My Valley ~ Richard Llewellyn
A Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich ~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Grapes Of Wrath ~ John Steinbeck
And I second A Confederacy of Dunces!

Re: Literary Types

Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 2:57 am
by hypro
DUNE Frank Herbert.

Best sci fi ever

Re: Literary Types

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 3:04 pm
by toad857
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Re: Literary Types

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 4:20 pm
by the lurkist
Mack5 wrote:The Bible
hypro wrote:
Best sci fi ever

Re: Literary Types

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 6:16 pm
by CLIMBTRAD
J O B A comedy of justice by Robert Heinlein
great story about a preacher that meets GOD a must read for the aetheist or whatever