"Books" is missing this topic...

in no order

1. sometimes a great notion - ken kesey

2. Wild sheep chase - murakami

3. Gravity's rainbow - pynchon

4. 100 years of solitude (fitting) - marquez

5. Mother of Storms - John Barnes (guilty pleasure... cool apocalyptic sci-fi, highly recommended)

6. Snow Crash - neil stephensen

7. master and margarita - bulgakov

8. AKIRA graphic novels - Otomo

9. Invitation to a beheading - nabokov

10. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky / Moby Dick - Melville (tie)

10.5 Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk

11. desert island survival and escape handbook

Well this is my novels list, and it will probably change in a couple hours. So here they are in no particular order:
1. Gravity's Rainbow - Pynchon
2. 100 Years of Solitude - Garcia Marquez
3. The Crossing - McCarthy
4. Chimera - Barth
5. The Sirens of Titan - Vonnegut
6. Skinny Legs and All - Robbins
7. The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
8. Finnegan's Wake - Joyce(I have never actually finished this, but on an island I figure I would have time.)
9. Siddhartha - Hesse
10. The Last Temptation of Christ - Kazantzakis

Fin.

1. The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart
2. Lord of the Rings - J.R.R Tolkein
3. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
4. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
5. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
6. Glue - Irvine Welsh
7. The Beach - Alex Garland
8. Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk
9. Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
10. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Maltese Falcon
In Cold Blood
Huckleberry Finn
Kidnapped
Great Expectations
The Exorcist
Little Big Man
Pygmalion
Macbeth
(I count those last two plays )

quote:

Huckleberry Finn

Oooohhhh, yeeaahhhhh.

I'm a slow reader who gets distracted easily, but on a desert island, I'd have a bunch of time anyway.

1. The Idiot - Dostoevsky
2. Native Son - Richard Wright
3. Short Stories - Dostoevsky (Some of which I haven't read)
4. Basic Writings of Nietzsche (Haven't read yet)
5. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (I'm on page 250. Only 1200 more to go.)
6. Black Boy - Richard Wright - (Wright's autobiography. I heard it on tape)
7. The Fall - Albert Camus (Haven't read)
8. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy (I've wanted to read this for a long time and now I'll have my chance.)
9. Candide or Optimism - Voltaire (Haven't read)
10. The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky (For the last 8 pages alone. There's some other good stuff in there too.)

In no particular order. Plus, the Adams, Brautigan & Robbins books are 3 or 4 novels bound togather in one book. So that's not cheating.

1. Catcher in the Rye -JD Salinger

2. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide -Douglas Adams

3. The Baron in the Trees -Italo Calvino

4. The Stand -Stephen King

5. Tom Robbins: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues/Jitterbug Perfume/Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas -Tom Robbins

6. Richard Brautigan : A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and the Hawkline Monster -Richard Brautigan

7. Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar -Richard Brautigan

8. The Goblin Reservation- Clifford D. Simak

9. Forests of the Heart -Charles de Lint

10. A Trip To The Stars -Nicholas Christopher

I'm not fond of reading novels and the like but the one that I was able to finish is The ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide by douglas Adams and of course some books of Harry Potter but knowing the fact that the HP series can just be watched on the silverscreen I did stop reading the book.

1. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
2. Animal Farm - George Orwell
3. Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
4. The Wanting Seed - Anthony Burgess
5. The Acid House - Irvine Welsh
6. On Language - Noam Chomsky
7. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
8. Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
9. Tibetan Book of the Dead
10. the biggest dictionary I could find

In no order.

'Cloud Atlas', David Mitchell - mesmerizing.

'Slaughterhouse-Five', Kurt Vonnegut

'The Sound & The Fury', William Faulkner

'A Prayer for Owen Meany', John Irving

'Catcher in the Rye', JD Salinger

'Cat's Cradle', Kurt Vonnegut

The above stand out as my favourites of all-time.

Any other impressions of 'Cloud Atlas' from the fourm? I found it transporting and just flat out brilliant. I'm curious about Mitchell's other works too, especially Ghostwritten and Black Swan Green.

I haven't read Cloud Atlas, but it's definitely on my list. I've read everything else on your list, and I agree they're all great, even Prayer. I'm not really an Irving fan, but I enjoyed that one.

In no order except the order they come into my head:

The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
White Noise by Don DeLillo (to remind me of all the minor/pathetic wonders of civilization)
The Complete Works of Shakespeare (if that counts)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (I'd actually read it on an island)
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Little, Big by John Crowley

in our time (hemingway)
the great gatsby (fitzgerald)
as i lay dying (faulkner)
the catcher in the rye (salinger)
goodbye, columbus (roth)
to kill a mockingbird (lee)
all the pretty horses (mccarthy)
close range: wyoming stories (proulx)
the amazing adventures of kavalier & clay (chabon)
gilead (robinson)

In reply to craigster above with regard to Cloud Atlas: astonishing, incredible and beyond the ken of any other novelist around. You are dead right: it's flat out brilliant as is Black Swan Green, in a more low key way. I'm less fond of his first 2 novels, but that is only in relation to the standards established in Cloud Atlas

Guess I should add a Top Ten: (just off the top of me noggin):
Moby Dick (how to tackle any sea beasts I meet)
The Divine Comedy (what to expect when I die of loneliness)
The Tempest (how to handle unexpected visitors)
Gullivers Travels (in case little people tie me up when I arrive)
Treasure Island (where to dig)
Pilate (Ann Wroe)--(nothing to do with Island life)
Consilience (Edward O. Wilson)(so It looks like Ive been learning and not just swimming when they rescue me)
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (to stop any megalomania I might develop as King of my island)
Victory (Joseph Conrad)(how to handle relationships with girls on an island)
Robinson Crusoe (for ideas on lifestyle)

Another box of books has washed up on my shore...

William Blake- Collected Poems
Cervantes- Don Quixote
Montaigne- Essays (Screech trans.)
J.G. Ballard- The Drowned World
Robert Silverberg- The Book of Skulls
Robert Burton- The Anatomy of Melancholy
Homer- The Odyssey
Monty Python- Life of Brian journal
David Attenborough- Life on Earth
The Bible- (King James Version)

Don Quixote
Anna Karenina
Blindness
Balthasar and Blimunda
Ulysses
The Brothers Karamazov
The Idiot
Pride and Prejudice
Emma
Wuthering Heights

Favorite books or books I could read over and over again, or books that I could read for years? Or all three?

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Originally posted by Sinister:
Favorite books or books I could read over and over again, or books that I could read for years? Or all three?

Yes.

Don Quixote, Parts I and II
The King James Bible
Ulysses
Crime and Punishment
Moby Dick
The Collected Poetry of William Blake
The Collected Poetry of T. S. Eliot
War and Peace
Remembrance of Things Past
Lolita

In no particular order