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Personally I think the authors already highlighted are a pretty good indication of the tastes of Hatrackers in general. I only ask because Primal Curve suggested that it might be helpful to mark off the must-reads. It would be a bit of a hassle, but I wouldn't mind making a poll or something similar if people think it might be helpful.
Good night for now.
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I don't know if I've already said so or not, but thanks for putting this together.
In terms of additions:
Magazines: MIT Technology Review, Natural History, and Archaeology to the list.
TV Shows: Deadwood
Have you considered adding a graphic novel section? We've had a couple of threads on the subject lately, one of which has generated a fairly extensive list of people's favorites. Kwsni has put together a list based on the recommendations in the thread, by the way.
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Thank you both. I've added your recommendations.
Noemon, do you have a link to Kwsni's list? I can't seem to find it. I would be happy to add a section for graphic novels.
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Euripides, I just sent you a message through the forum. I've got a copy of kwsni's list, and will happily forward it to you, but I'll need your email address in order to do so. If you're not comfortable giving it out I could just post the list, I suppose.
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Do you want literary fiction reccs too? I have many of those.
Author: Nevil Shute (pseudonym of Nevil Shute Norway) Titles: Trustee from the Toolroom Round the Bend The Pied Piper The Legacy (published recently as "A Town Like Alice")
Author: Mark Salzman: Titles: True Notebooks The Laughing Sutra Iron and Silk Lying Awake
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Titles: The Idiot The Brothers Karamazov Crime and Punishment The Gambler White Nights The Little Hero
Author: Leo Tolstoy Titles: Anna Karenina The Death of Ivan Ilych Family Happiness
Author: Ivan Turgenev Title: Fathers and Sons
Author: Thornton Wilder Titles: The Bridge of San Luis Rey Our Town (play)
Author: William Faulkner Titles: Light in August The Reivers The Unvanquished Intruder in the Dust
Author: Henry Fielding Title: Tom Jones
Author: Jane Austen Titles: Northanger Abbey Pride and Prejudice Emma Persuasion
Author: Richard Adams Title: Watership Down
Author: Nikos Kazantzakis Titles: Zorba the Greek The Last Temptation of Christ
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien Titles: The Hobbit The Lord of the Rings
Author: Ursula K. Leguin Titles: The Left Hand of Darkness The Lathe of Heaven
Author: Antoine de Saint Exupery Title: The Little Prince
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Thanks for the recommendations Tatiana. Most of those were already in the 'Other Fiction' section, were I put all the literary classics. I've added the ones which weren't (except Dostoyevsky's The Little Hero and White Nights since they are short stories).
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However you want to split it up... They are pretty long for short stories. I would say they were novellas, at least, though they never are published alone for some reason. They're comparable in length, I think, to things like Notes from the Underground or The Gambler, which are often published by themselves.
Tolstoy's Family Happiness and The Death of Ivan Ilych are often published in anthologies as short stories, too, though they are both novella length.
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Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter Title: Godel, Escher, Bach, an Eternal Golden Braid
Author: Richard P. Feynman Titles: The Character of Physical Law QED: Quantum Electrodynamics, The Strange Theory of Light and Matter Lectures on Physics Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman What do you Care what Other People Think?
Author: Stephen Jay Gould Titles: Ever Since Darwin Hen's Teeth and Horses' Toes Wonderful Life Bully for Brontosaurus The Panda's Thumb
Author: Isaac Asimov Any science fact book by him will be interesting
Author: George Gamov Title: One, Two, Three, Infinity
Author: L. Sprague DeCamp Title: The Ancient Engineers
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I'm only including books here that I can wholeheartedly recommend as books I totally loved. Even when I love an author and read ALL his or her books, I'm only recommending here my very favorite of all. I've selected only the best for you guys. Posts: 6246 | Registered: Aug 2004
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If any of these are out of print (which many probably are), you can order them through Alibris.com, or Amazon, or any of the other sellers on the web of out of print books.
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I'm spilling my guts, guys. This is my life in books.
Now for kid books:
Author: Louisa May Alcott Anything by her will be great.
Author: A.A. Milne Titles: Winnie the Pooh The House at Pooh Corner
If you have only known the Disney Pooh (perish the thought!) you owe it to yourself to read the real thing. They are fabulous. Disney Pooh is an abomination.
Author: Rudyard Kipling Title: The Jungle Book (Ditto as regards Disney!)
Author: Johanna Spyri Title: Heidi
Author: E. B. White Title: Charlotte's Web
Author: John D. Fitzgerald Titles: The Great Brain More Adventures of the Great Brain Me and My Little Brain The Great Brain at the Academy The Return of the Great Brain The Great Brain Reforms
Author: Watty Piper Title: The Gateway to Storyland
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Now that this thread has died down a little, I think it's a good time to close the list to additional recommendations. The exception is non-fiction books - we can still add more of those.
This is to prevent the list from becoming a database of every popular book and film in recent history, which wouldn't be very useful.
Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to add to/point out errors in the list already.
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Euripides, I haven't seen you around in a bit, but if you happen back by this thread, I'd recommend highlighting Maureen McHugh; I've definitely heaped lavish praise on her work more than once here, and while most people haven't read her I don't *think* I was alone in the praise-heaping.
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Wow! I don't know where I was when this thread was originally, up but it's great! Thanks for all your hard work Euripides!
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Shannon Hale has written Goose Girl, Enna Burning (sequel to Goose Girl)and Princess Academy (stand alone) which are all fantastic books. I found her as an author from one of OSC's reviews. I think they are a YA type book but I thoroughly enjoyed them and can't recommend them enough.
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::bumped, partly because I saw Euripides posting and thought of it, and partly because this is too valuable of a resource to have drift into obscurity::
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It would be really cool, albetit way too much work, if the poll could be a list with a five star rating and comments something like recipezaar edit: I don't know where I was reading about a poll but this post is in a random spot, perhaps I was reading on the first page? Posts: 697 | Registered: Nov 2005
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Adding the stars would be easy, but I don't know of a way to start a poll to rate the many books on the list. An alternative would be to use a 1 to 2 star system, and only put the highlighted titles in the poll.
The only question is; would I get enough Hatrackers taking it so that the results at least sort of represent the taste of the average OSC fan?
Comments systems are great, but I don't think its necessary for this little project The evaluation of the books will most likely be lopsided, as well.
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I've been wondering for a while why you decided to make this list Euripidies. Was there any motivation behind it other than that you thoguht it needed to be done? I love it by the way! I already have it printed out just in case something happens to my computer. I'll always have something to read now.
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Mostly it was because I wanted an SF reading list for myself. I'm glad others have found it useful though.
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I'm totally impressed...I formulated my own reading list from Hatrack recs a while back. It was a fraction of what you have here! So cool!
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Euripides, are you still taking suggestions? There are a couple of things that I was surprised not to see in the Religious/Historical category.
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quote:Originally posted by Noemon: Euripides, are you still taking suggestions? There are a couple of things that I was surprised not to see in the Religious/Historical category.
I guess I can add to that section. It is a little lacking, to say the least.
quote:Originally posted by El JT de Spang: What's the prize for the first person to read every book on the list?
This smily:
quote:Originally posted by Nighthawk: Why are there movies listed that haven't even started filming yet, such as Halo?
I put films on the list which were mentioned on Hatrack, regardless of release date.
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Sorry guys, I can't add any more. As Oliver pointed out on PWeb, these things are useful until they become a list of everything everyone has ever read. I'm sure the titles you've recommended are great, but the list is already too long and I had to draw the line somewhere.
The highlighted books were very popular or highly recommended by Hatrackers.
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