Top Ten Lists (Books Version)

[DoctorJones24]

Ten Favorite Postmodern (more or less) Novels

1. V - Pynchon
2. If on a winter's night a traveler - Calvino
3. White Noise - Delillo
4. The Satanic Verses - Rushdie
5. Time's Arrow - Amis
6. The Name of the Rose - Eco
7. Therapy - Lodge
8. Pale Fire - Nabokov
9. Beloved - Morrison
10. Leviathan - Auster

I'm sure I'm overlooking something major...if you consider Marquez pomo, than 100 Years is the top of the list.

[Belgian guy]

'Het verdriet van België' Claus
'De aanslag' Harry Mulish
'Sophie's choice' Styron
'The Trial' Kafka
'l'Etranger' A. Camus
'A la recherche du temp perdu' Marcel Proust
'Cosmétique de l'ennemi' Amelie Nothomb
'De mensheid zijt geprezen - Lof der zotheid 2001'
Arnon Grunberg
'100 years of solitude' Gabriel Garcia Marquez
'De feesten van Angst en Pijn' Paul van Ostaijen

[Jose L. Couso]

I posted this over in the SciFi and don't really feel like editing. :D

2(10) SciFi Favorites (off the top of my head):

Dune
A Deepness in the Sky
Hyperion
A Fire in the Deep
Grass
Rendezvous with Rama
Ender's Game
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Ringworld
Speaker for the Dead
Gateway
Doublestar
The Demolished Man
The Postman
Neuromancer
Snow Crash
The Snow Queen
Doomsday Book
Starship Troopers

[Jose L. Couso]

Ten Favorite Postmodern (more or less) Novels (off the top of my head)

Cien Años de Soledad
Gravity's Rainbow
Beloved
The Tin Drum
Invisible Man
Larva
A Personal Matter
The Magic Mountain
The House of Spirits
Reqiem Para un Campesino Español

[Jose L. Couso]

Ten Favorite Classics (off the top of my head)

Hamlet
The Odyssey
Ulysses
Don Quixote
1001 Tales of the Arabian Nights
Decameroon
War & Peace
Les Miserables
Gargantua & Pantagruel
The Man Without Qualities

[Jose L. Couso]

Ten Favorite Comedies (off the top of my head)

Catch-22
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
A Confederacy of Dunces
Bombardieers
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Pudd'head Wilson
Monsignor Quixote
Candide
Don Quixote
Anything by PG Wodehouse

[tedwar]

Does Geoff Dyer count as po-mo?

How about Gore Vidal? His meta-fiction books (Myra, Myron, Duluth, Messiah, Smithsonian, etc) are amazing, scathing, funny, incredibly daring.

excellent lists, esp yours Doctor.

Tony

[GringoTex]

Top 10 Faulkner

1) A Light In August
2) Absalom, Absalom
3) The Sound and the Fury
4) The Hamlet
5) Flags In the Dust
6) Wild Palms
7) Sanctuary
8) As I Lay Dying
9) The Unvanquished
10) Go Down, Moses

[amerifolklegend]

Top Ten books (and and all books) I've read in my lifetime

1) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (on acid)
2) Half Alseep in Frod Pajamas
3) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (sober)
4) Of Mice and Men
5) Red Badge of Courage
6) Pagan Babies.
7)
8)
9)
10)


If I manage to read 4 more books in my life, they'll fall into place somewhere. But as it is, I'm sitting pretty at 6 for now. And since Pagan Babies (The last one I read) was so bad, I highly doubt I'll read another book in the next few years.

[bungadiri]

10 Books my sons and I have had the most fun reading together (based on how fun they were for me to read, how insistent they were on me reading, and their recollections)

Picture Books
1. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, William Steig
2. The Do-Something Day, Joel Lasker
3. The Year at Maple Hill Farm
4. Seuss’s Bartholomew Cubbins books (King’s Stilts, 500 Hats)
5. Just So Stories, Kipling
6. Light in the Attic, Shel Silverstein
7. King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub (and He Won’t Get Out), Wood and Wood
8. The Time Train, Fleischman/Ewart
9. Go Dog Go, PD Eastman
10. Chicka-Chicka, Boom-Boom, Bill Archimbeaux

Chapter Books
1. The Golden Ocean, Patrick O’Brian
2. Lord of the Rings (including The Hobbit), JRR Tolkien
3. The Harry Potter series, JK Rowling
4. Watership Down, Richard Adams
5. The Killer Angels, Shaara
6. Dune, Herbert
7. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Robert C. O’Brien
8. Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser books (excerpts, since some of the stories are R-rated)
9. Danny Champion of the World, Roald Dahl
10. The Chronicles of Narnia, CS Lewis

(They absolutely loved the Redwall Series by Brian Jacques, but read those to themselves)

[Dr. Wankler]

TOP TEN BOOKS BY MEMBERS OF THE BEAT GENERATION

Prose Division

1) Jack Kerouac: ON THE ROAD
2) William S. Burroughs: NAKED LUNCH
3) Ed Sanders: TALES OF BEATNIK GLORY
4) Jack Kerouac: THE VANITY OF DELUOUZ
5) Hettie Jones: HOW I BECAME HETTIE JONES
6) William S. Burroughs: THE TICKET THAT EXPLODED
7) Joyce Johnson: MINOR CHARACTERS
8) Brian Gysin (sp) THE LAST MUSEUM
9) Jack Kerouac: VISIONS OF CODY
10) Diane DiPrima: MEMOIRS OF A BEATNIK

Poetry Division

1) Allen Ginsberg: HOWL AND OTHER POEMS
2) Gary Snyder: RIVERS AND MOUNTAINS WITHOUT END
3) Diane DiPrima: LOBA
4) Jack Kerouac: MEXICO CITY BLUES
5) Allen Ginsberg: Kaddish
6) Philip Whalen: ON BEAR'S HEAD
7) Lew Welch: RING OF BONE: THE COLLECTED POEMS
8) Bob Kaufman: CRANIAL GUITAR: SELECTED POEMS
9) Gregory Corso: MINDFIELD: SELECTED POEMS
10) Brother Antoninus(sp)/William Everson: CROOKED LINES OF GOD.

Off the top of my head, nowhere near my bookcase.

[dawgpound2]

Best Books I've read:

The Bible
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Tackle 22

[Jose L. Couso]

10 Books my daughters and I have had the most fun reading together (based on how fun they were for me to read, how insistent they were on me reading, and off-the-top-of-my-head)

Picture Books
1. The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss (I must had read that book a million times)
2. Green Eggs & Ham, Dr. Seuss
3. The Lorax, Dr. Seuss
4. The Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
5. Mother Goose (Various books-we have 5 different ones; again I must had read them a million times, it has gotten to the point where they can actually finish them after I have read a single line)
6. Madeleine, Ludwig Bemelmans
7. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
8. Mary Poppins
9. Peter Pan
10. Heckety Peg, Audrey Wood

[whirlwind]

Ten best movies based on famous books

10. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
9. The Shining (Stephen King)
8. Jaws (Peter Benchley)
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke)
6. Blade Runner (Phillip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?")
5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (JK Rowling)
4. In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)
3. The Godfather (Mario Puzo)
2. Fellowship of the Ring (JRR Tolkien)
1. Apocalypse Now (Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness")

honorable mention to The Princess Bride (William Goldman)

Ten worst movies based on famous books

10. Starship Troopers (Robert Heinlein)
9. Dune (1984 version) (Frank Herbert)
8. Lord Of the Rings (Bakshi version) (JRR Tolkien)
7. Pet Sematary II (Stephen King)
6. Tarzan the Ape Man (Bo Derek version) (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
5. Red Sonja (Robert E. Howard)
4. Beowulf (1999) (unknown Icelandic author)
3. Lair of the White Worm (Bram Stoker)
2. Kull the Conqueror (Robert E. Howard)
1. Battlefield Earth (L. Ron Hubbard)

What did I miss?

[elainemichelle]

Elaine's 10 Favorite Books Ever

1. 4 Blondes
2. Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood
3. Kiss the Girls
4. Angus, Thongs, and Full-frontal Snogging
5. To Kill a Mockingbird
6. Confessions of a Shopaholic
7. Gone with the Wind
8. Les Miserables
9. any of the books in A Series of Unfortunate Events
10. The Great Train Robbery

[amerifolklegend]

Originally posted by whirlwind
Ten best movies based on famous books

10. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
3. The Godfather (Mario Puzo)
2. Fellowship of the Ring (JRR Tolkien)


Anyone that thought that the elf movie was better than The Godfather and GWTW simply has no right to voice an opinion on great movies.

That is so amazingly many kinds of wrong. It pained my eyes just to read it.

[Barbara]

Barb's 3 favorite books ever (as of this moment)

A Prayer for Owen Meany
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
The Great Gatsby


And there's no way I can come up with another 7. Too many variables. Too many choices. I might could manage a top 50 or top 100 but top 10? Never.

[elainemichelle]

I forgot Black Hawk Down. That's pretty good too.

[Red&Black]

in terms of "post modern" type novels i'd have to argue pretty strongly for steve erickson's "arc d'x" that came out about 10 years ago.

i'd also say many of don delillo (sp) books have also a lot of PM type elements.

i have also read a very strong pomo type of book called "wittegnstien's mistress" or something like that, very weird but good.

[minorthreat]

Top 10 post-war Japanese novels:

10. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
9. The Silent Cry (Kenzaburo Oe)
8. South of the Border, West of the Sun (Murakami)
7. Kokoro (Natsume Soseki)
6. Diary of a Mad Old Man (Junichiro Tanizaki)
5. Snow Country (Yasunari Kawabata)
4. Spring Snow (Yukio Mishima)
3. Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness (Oe)
2. Norwegian Wood (Murakami)
1. Confessions of a Mask (Mishima)