Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Ste
I'm suprised noone's mentioned Catch 22 yet.
Rated one of the best books of the 20th century.
I really enjoyed it but other people I know had trouble getting into it.
|
Catch 22 is most certainly a good book, one I enjoyed. But it is repeating itself over and over again, and after a while, it loses the hold it has on you from the start.
The last I read, was
The Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist. I enjoyed it as entertainment, but it wasn't great in any way. Feist is an acclaimed fantasy writer though, so I will assume others like it more.
Next on the list is
Moby Dick (or
The White Whale), by Herman Melville. I suppose it could be called one of the classics, and I heard many great things about it, so I'm looking forward to getting on with it sometime this week. Bought it just today, but I haven't looked at it yet. I know the opening line (Call me Ismael), of course, but I didn't know what book it was from before yesterday. Funny how such things can give you impulses overnight.
After that, I think I'll read
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. It is in my father's bookshelves somewhere, so I'll borrow it together with a few other books. I was thinking about
The Divine Comedy by Dante, and
The Trial by Franz Kafka. Though, I hear that Dante is writing as if it was a song, and I can't find the book in my own language anywhere (The one my father has is english, and the other one I was able to find was in a different norwegian than my main one). I'm worried about that one, but I got through both
The Odyssey and
The Iliad, so I suppose I'll manage somehow.