All Nobel Prize Winners?
Read the above, so quite a few left... Disgracefully, the only Spanish-language author I've read was Cervantes.
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)
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.
It was... interesting. Like all philosophers, he says some things I cannot agree with, but I liked Sartre (in fact, I rather liked the ideas of Heidigger as well). His (sort of) disputation of the terms of "je pense donc je suis" made me rethink my opinion on the matter of epistemology AGAIN. I think I'd enjoy his other works, as my Philosophy class looked at his ideas as summarised by someone else. I also read bits of Being and Nothingness to write an essay on whether and why determinism was/was not an example of Bad Faith, and was intrigued by what I read.
Does the Devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
What difference does it make after all? Anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? What's Earth? All in the mind.
What difference does it make after all? Anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? What's Earth? All in the mind.
So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all.
- 26/09/2009 08:17:06 PM
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Myself, so far...
- 26/09/2009 08:22:52 PM
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Wow 
- 26/09/2009 08:52:10 PM
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- 26/09/2009 08:52:10 PM
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Oh.
- 26/09/2009 09:01:31 PM
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Yes, even people with virtually no education have usually heard of Churchill and/or Kipling. *NM*
- 26/09/2009 09:37:59 PM
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I've read 36 of those
- 26/09/2009 09:04:18 PM
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Okay, I've read a few of these people. (EDITED to specify what works)
- 26/09/2009 09:36:31 PM
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Gee, I wonder what the theme is... 
- 26/09/2009 09:37:38 PM
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- 26/09/2009 09:37:38 PM
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It's not so hard to figure that out...
- 26/09/2009 09:44:55 PM
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Why is that? Because the prize is utterly meaningless?
- 26/09/2009 09:58:39 PM
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Of course it is meaningless, all prizes are.
- 26/09/2009 10:08:36 PM
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Oh...but those are the "Some People" that I look down my elitist nose at.
- 26/09/2009 10:18:01 PM
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- 26/09/2009 10:18:01 PM
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Let's see.
- 26/09/2009 09:58:12 PM
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Of all the Russian authors to receive the prize, Solzhenitsyn is the worst stylistically
- 26/09/2009 10:03:11 PM
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I've been meaning to read Pasternak for such a long time.
- 26/09/2009 10:06:28 PM
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Don't put it on a list at amazon. Put it in the cart, then click on "purchase".
- 26/09/2009 10:23:33 PM
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I don't buy books online myself. If I did people would never know what to get me.
- 26/09/2009 10:26:01 PM
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- 26/09/2009 10:26:01 PM
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See, I can't remember if I read Pasternak...
- 26/09/2009 10:11:14 PM
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It's one of my favorite books of all time.
- 26/09/2009 10:21:37 PM
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There's an ITV film of the book with Keira Knightley. It looks utterly appalling. 
*NM*
- 26/09/2009 10:25:12 PM
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*NM*
- 26/09/2009 10:25:12 PM
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For what it's worth, the recent Russian miniseries wasn't fantastic.
- 27/09/2009 03:02:25 AM
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Only 10 of them.
- 26/09/2009 11:53:47 PM
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From my list, Hesse's Siddhartha is my foremost recommendation. *NM*
- 26/09/2009 11:55:03 PM
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Only these ones have I already read, but I'll try the challenge. Could take me a while, atm.
- 27/09/2009 02:48:10 AM
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What'd you think of Transcendence of the Ego? *NM*
- 27/09/2009 05:12:35 AM
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Hey, Dan, long time no see
- 27/09/2009 10:41:02 AM
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Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all.
- 28/09/2009 09:55:36 AM
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Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all.
- 28/09/2009 06:15:01 PM
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Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all.
- 28/09/2009 06:51:05 PM
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Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all.
- 29/09/2009 02:20:37 PM
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I worked out that the best way to make use of this thread is to remove the names I have read...
- 02/10/2009 08:43:57 PM
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