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What'd you think of Transcendence of the Ego? *NM* Dan Send a noteboard - 27/09/2009 05:12:35 AM
All Nobel Prize Winners?

So, which of these authors have you read? I am starting a little project which includes reading something from each of these. Anyone feeling up to the challenge? ;)



William Golding (The Lord of the Flies)

Jean-Paul Sartre (Nausea, The Transcendence of the Ego)

John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men)

Ernest Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea)
Winston Churchill (A History of the English Speaking Peoples)

Bertrand Russell (Why I am not a Christian)

T.S. Eliot (The Wasteland, On Poetry and Poets)


George Bernard Shaw (Pygmalion)

William Butler Yeats (assorted short poetry, inc. The Second Coming)

Rudyard Kipling (Both Jungle Books, the Just So stories, If)



Read the above, so quite a few left... Disgracefully, the only Spanish-language author I've read was Cervantes.
This message last edited by Dan on 27/09/2009 at 05:13:04 AM
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So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all. jh - 26/09/2009 08:17:06 PM 2423 Views
Myself, so far... jh - 26/09/2009 08:22:52 PM 1141 Views
Read Faulkner Larry - 26/09/2009 09:05:22 PM 1178 Views
He is on the list, you know. jh - 26/09/2009 09:46:12 PM 1125 Views
Don't listen to Larry Camilla - 28/09/2009 10:02:33 AM 1129 Views
Mann is okay, but... Larry - 30/09/2009 02:21:50 AM 1102 Views
Wow Fantasy - 26/09/2009 08:52:10 PM 1122 Views
Oh. jh - 26/09/2009 09:01:31 PM 1284 Views
Yes, even people with virtually no education have usually heard of Churchill and/or Kipling. *NM* Tom - 26/09/2009 09:37:59 PM 507 Views
I do! AND I have an education! *NM* Fantasy - 27/09/2009 03:56:36 AM 623 Views
Oh, yes! Fantasy - 27/09/2009 03:56:09 AM 1176 Views
I've read 36 of those Larry - 26/09/2009 09:04:18 PM 1177 Views
Well, if Churchill can get it... Legolas - 26/09/2009 09:39:04 PM 1081 Views
Nah.... jh - 26/09/2009 09:52:25 PM 1188 Views
Two years later, the total is up to 48 Larry - 10/10/2011 05:18:36 AM 1158 Views
Okay, I've read a few of these people. (EDITED to specify what works) Tom - 26/09/2009 09:36:31 PM 1246 Views
Gee, I wonder what the theme is... Legolas - 26/09/2009 09:37:38 PM 1271 Views
It's not so hard to figure that out... jh - 26/09/2009 09:44:55 PM 1194 Views
Why is that? Because the prize is utterly meaningless? Tom - 26/09/2009 09:58:39 PM 1250 Views
Of course it is meaningless, all prizes are. jh - 26/09/2009 10:08:36 PM 1293 Views
Oh...but those are the "Some People" that I look down my elitist nose at. Tom - 26/09/2009 10:18:01 PM 1152 Views
Read these: Stephen - 26/09/2009 09:43:26 PM 1112 Views
Well. jh - 26/09/2009 09:51:11 PM 1142 Views
Yes. Stephen - 26/09/2009 11:03:01 PM 1152 Views
Let's see. Rebekah - 26/09/2009 09:58:12 PM 1247 Views
Of all the Russian authors to receive the prize, Solzhenitsyn is the worst stylistically Tom - 26/09/2009 10:03:11 PM 1073 Views
I've been meaning to read Pasternak for such a long time. Rebekah - 26/09/2009 10:06:28 PM 1201 Views
Don't put it on a list at amazon. Put it in the cart, then click on "purchase". Tom - 26/09/2009 10:23:33 PM 1106 Views
I don't buy books online myself. If I did people would never know what to get me. Rebekah - 26/09/2009 10:26:01 PM 1197 Views
And yet Pasternak isn't on your list. Tom - 28/09/2009 05:28:42 AM 1306 Views
See, I can't remember if I read Pasternak... jh - 26/09/2009 10:11:14 PM 1124 Views
It's one of my favorite books of all time. Tom - 26/09/2009 10:21:37 PM 1167 Views
I was just gonna ask about that. Legolas - 26/09/2009 10:23:44 PM 1256 Views
The movie destroyed the entire idea of the book. Tom - 27/09/2009 03:00:54 AM 1058 Views
There's an ITV film of the book with Keira Knightley. It looks utterly appalling. *NM* Rebekah - 26/09/2009 10:25:12 PM 516 Views
For what it's worth, the recent Russian miniseries wasn't fantastic. Tom - 27/09/2009 03:02:25 AM 1067 Views
I'll do it if I can have the rest of my life to accomplish it. nossy - 26/09/2009 10:43:53 PM 1132 Views
Only 10 of them. Burr - 26/09/2009 11:53:47 PM 1197 Views
From my list, Hesse's Siddhartha is my foremost recommendation. *NM* Burr - 26/09/2009 11:55:03 PM 604 Views
Only these ones have I already read, but I'll try the challenge. Could take me a while, atm. IndigoAjah - 27/09/2009 02:48:10 AM 1050 Views
What'd you think of Transcendence of the Ego? *NM* Dan - 27/09/2009 05:12:35 AM 1176 Views
Hey, Dan, long time no see IndigoAjah - 27/09/2009 10:41:02 AM 1300 Views
Just bought a Marquez book *NM* IndigoAjah - 01/10/2009 07:16:22 PM 491 Views
Not very many. Spriteling - 27/09/2009 08:36:14 AM 1304 Views
It would take me a long time to finish this list. Fred Gaidin - 27/09/2009 03:50:02 PM 1164 Views
Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all. Camilla - 28/09/2009 09:55:36 AM 1243 Views
Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all. jh - 28/09/2009 06:15:01 PM 1070 Views
Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all. Camilla - 28/09/2009 06:51:05 PM 1044 Views
Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all. Elaine - 29/09/2009 02:20:37 PM 1164 Views
I worked out that the best way to make use of this thread is to remove the names I have read... jh - 02/10/2009 08:43:57 PM 1309 Views
A great deal of those... after a fashion DomA - 08/10/2011 06:30:00 PM 1242 Views
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