Anileve Posted January 31, 2008 Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 Share your lists of "Must Read" books! What do you think everyone should read at least once in their lifetime? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALMA Posted January 31, 2008 Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 As a child I used to think that Anushavan Poghosyan's "Potorkic Arach" was the best book ever It was the first book I read in my life, it was good... "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" is a really good one; I'd recommend it to everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anileve Posted January 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 My m in "must read" came out lower case, I am not very pleased. Can one of the mods please change it to an upper case "M"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anileve Posted January 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 As a child I used to think that Anushavan Poghosyan's "Potorkic Arach" was the best book ever It was the first book I read in my life, it was good... "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" is a really good one; I'd recommend it to everyone. Thanks, but I am sure you have other books on your list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vava Posted January 31, 2008 Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 My m in "must read" came out lower case, I am not very pleased. Can one of the mods please change it to an upper case "M"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anileve Posted January 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 Tanks tanks very much. Now can you post your list, oh vava-the wondorous-mangificentous moderatous? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALMA Posted January 31, 2008 Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 Thanks, but I am sure you have other books on your list. Most books of Paulo Coelho, I adore "The alquimist" and "Veronica decides to die", they are truly fab books. I'll think of other good ones... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vava Posted January 31, 2008 Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 Tanks tanks very much. Now can you post your list, oh vava-the wondorous-mangificentous moderatous? Ummm...I don't think that would be appropriate for a family-oriented forum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vava Posted January 31, 2008 Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 How about Khalil Gibran? The prophet is a must read for me. And Kundera, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nairi Posted January 31, 2008 Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 Ummm...I don't think that would be appropriate for a family-oriented forum Naughty. As an Armenian, I think at least one work by an Armenian author should be on your must-read list. Other than that, read whatever you want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vava Posted January 31, 2008 Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 Naughty. As an Armenian, I think at least one work by an Armenian author should be on your must-read list. Other than that, read whatever you want. It's funny - but one of my favourite books as I was growing up was (and is, I suppose), My Name is Aram by Saroyan... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anileve Posted January 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 All of you are too lazy to post your lists! Here is mine (partial): The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand Martin Eden - Jack London Three Comrads - Erich Maria Remarque The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Adventures of Huck Finn by Mark Twain Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Frankenstein by Mary Shelley The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Brave New World by Aldous Huxley The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas The empty mirror; experiences in a Japanese Zen monastery by Janwillem Van de Wetering (this one is fantastic! Search for the truth, meaning of life, self disciplining and finding out if any of them mean anything, all through fiction) The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown to be continued... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nairi Posted January 31, 2008 Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 It's funny - but one of my favourite books as I was growing up was (and is, I suppose), My Name is Aram by Saroyan... Good boy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takoush Posted January 31, 2008 Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 And mine as a child, apart from Raffi's books was Vaxdank Ananyan's "Hovazatsori Kerinere". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nairi Posted January 31, 2008 Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 All of you are too lazy to post your lists! I don't have a list to post it. I generally tend to read a few books or works at the same time. I get side-tracked too easily. I recently finished Little Titans (Titaantjes) by Dutch writer Nescio. Good for those who like a bit of pro-Marxist, turn of the twentieth century European/modernist lit. I've also turned back to the eighteenth century for some reason. It started with Voltaire's Zadig et autres contes (there's a small surprise for Armenian-diggers in his short story "Histoire des Voyages de Scarmentado: Écrite par lui-même" (1756) -- Eng. trans. here). That lead me to reread Daudet's Tartarin de Tarascon and start in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. I'm still reading Defoe, but have been side-tracked a few times since I started last summer, among others to Swift's Gulliver's Travels. And so on and so forth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Em Posted February 1, 2008 Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 Most books of Paulo Coelho, I adore "The alquimist" and "Veronica decides to die", they are truly fab books. I'll think of other good ones... Agreed. His work is amazing. Eleven Minutes By th River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (amazing) The Zahir Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Em Posted February 1, 2008 Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 Vava.. The Prophet... on my top five of all time (and I am young still) .. that book has been my companion many a sleppless night.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Em Posted February 1, 2008 Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 Share your lists of "Must Read" books! What do you think everyone should read at least once in their lifetime? Evelina, have you read anything by Anais Nin? The diaries perhaps? Other than her obvious over-exaggerations at times, I find her writing to be very frank and memorable. I am curious as to your opinion of her work- assuming you are familiar with any of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nairi Posted February 1, 2008 Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 (edited) All of you are too lazy to post your lists! Here is mine (partial): Interesting list. I've been meaning to reread Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, because I have a mild suspicion that the Greek in it is based largely on Michael Arlen. Apparently Arlen also introduced Hemingway to Duff Twysden in Paris, who would become Lady Brett in The Sun Also Rises. That is, if we are to believe Arlen's son, Michael J. Arlen, in Exiles. As for Twain's Tom Sawyer, interesting to know perhaps that My Name is Aram was advertised by the publisher (Harcourt Brace) as "the delightful story of a foreign-American Tom Sawyer born in California thirty years ago, growing up in a lopsided and comic environment, and becoming both a full-fledged member of the incredible and amazing Garoghlanian tribe of Armenia and an excellent American Democrat." You may judge for yourself what the similarities and differences are, though I do warn you as a feminist that you won't appreciate Saroyan's treatment of his female characters (or the lack thereof -- e.g. where are Aram's aunts and female cousins?) very much. Then again, no one beats D.H. Lawrence in that department, esp. Lady Chatterley's Lover (Michaelis is supposed to be based on Michael Arlen), but also Sons and Lovers. Edited February 1, 2008 by nairi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoushik Posted February 1, 2008 Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 Umm... How many books can we include in the list? For starters I'll say definitely everyone should read Chekhov's Short Stories. Also Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky. And One Hundred Years of Solitude by García Márquez. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vava Posted February 1, 2008 Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 I don't have a list to post it. I know, but it makes me wonder why Evelina keeps wanting to compare the length of our lists! Anyway, any Henry Miller fans here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vava Posted February 1, 2008 Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 And One Hundred Years of Solitude by García Márquez. an excellent choice.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zara Posted February 1, 2008 Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 (edited) Umm...let's see. Anything written by Franz Kafka is good but my favorite is Metamorphosis. Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Anna Karanina by Leo Tolstoy I'm reading Dracula by Bram Stocker (It's ok...I like how it's written in articles and journal entries ) And...by far the biggest must read...is... Edited February 1, 2008 by Zara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zara Posted February 1, 2008 Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 vava what happened to the fluffy dog? Did you get bored of it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zara Posted February 1, 2008 Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 Never mind...I just read the birthday topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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