What great book/author have you not read?

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My answer: Dickens. I have never read any Dickens. At first it was by chance, later by choice, now it has become something of a quest.

murder on the orient express
tale of two cities

oh yeah and great expectations

confession, too: i hate all of the rushdie i have read (midnight's children, satanic verses, shalimar)

Trollope and Fielding are the two that spring to mind. Tom Jones is supposed to be great and I have a copy but so far not been inspired to read it. I'm sure I would enjoy Trollope but the fact that he was John Major's favourite author puts me off.

I have never read a "great Russian novel".

(Though I have read, say, Twelve Chairs, or Moscow Stations.)

faulkner

hemingway.

even tho my favourite writers are salinger, fitzgerald, carver, tobias wolff, richard ford, bukowski, etc

Fitzgerald. Am finally getting around to Gatsby soon.

yr sorta missing out on dickens

And what you're missing out on is a world of awful.

Actually, I dunno, maybe you'd like it, Remy. I'll satisfy myself with Orwell's great essay on Dickens, which always makes me want to give him another try, which I do, and then immediately regret it.

Jane Austen,Brontes,some Dickens,some Shakespeare...

austen and bukowski, also

HONOR THE BALZAC!

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or at least that's what i keep telling myself. someday...

jane austen for me too. and i own everything she ever wrote. someday...

"faulkner"

never too late.

the bible-->the greek mythology----->Falukner. imo.

i suppose someday i'll have to read war & peace too. and anna k.

hah i just started reading pere goriot (so before a few days ago, he'd have been on the list as well)

speaking of frenchies, zola. and flaubert.

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faulker is wonderful.

i always thought dickens was wonderful too, but it's been years...

Jane Austen. Salinger. Nabokov. I hate Updike.

I will cut a dude over some Faulkner.

thanks to the long lost ilb book club, i read sentimental education, so i'm not flaubert-less. and i do want to read m. bovary. i loved sentimental education a ton.

i own books by nearly all the authors i've listed so far, also

i wanna read tristram shandy someday too.

and don quixote!

i finally read 3 or 4 henry james novels last year, so he's no longer a lit bogeyman to me.

i was just looking at my copy of tom jones yesterday. someday...

I am aching to read Herodotus and Rousseau.

i only got thru 2 books of proust years ago. someday...

btw if you haven't read any sterne that should be on yr list :p

erm ah no dostoevsky or tolstoy for me, no salinger/bukowski/faulkner altho they aren't rly canon in britishland

oh haha scott busts the STERNEBOMB before i can post

this question should be asked when one is old - the real embarrassment begins then

tolstoy is a no for me as well, tho i have read gogol and i. goncharov

i have never read proust! never finished a full dostoevsky, love tolstoy.

i tried to read Emile by rousseau, but i gave up. someday...

thomas wolfe!

i love tolstoy short stories. i'm scared of war & peace.

no george eliot although my mum keeps telling me to do so

"no salinger/bukowski/faulkner"

bukowski is not at the same league here

i finally read 3 or 4 henry james novels last year, so he's no longer a lit bogeyman to me.

Good man!

I haven't cracked open Moby Dick. Or The Recognitions. Maybe Gass is "great" instead of great, though.

oh here's a good one: beyond the first few pages of a book i subsequently forgot to go back to, no evelyn waugh

p.s. waiting for someone to say "no j.k. rowling" ;-)

i think thomas wolfe is best when you are young. are you young? or young-ish anyway. early 20's? somewhere around there. don't ask me why.

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i am 22! he seems perfect but i just can't get started

also I would very much like to read The Man Without Qualities.

"p.s. waiting for someone to say "no j.k. rowling" ;-)"

me

Massive list.

Who are you people whose bookreading cv has like one hole? Mine is like a negative of this.

i would feel stupid doing this at age 22

hoos and louis im lookin at you

yeah, i'm 23. world's my oyster!

i'm not feelin bad about holes in my reading, its just a list thread mang

the bible

I am not young relative to many who post here, but my list is completely massive, esp. wrt 18 and 19C European literature. I'm just posting a few that come to mind.

Maybe If I we spent less time on ILX you'd all have gotten round to reading whoever.

Oh yeah, I really want to read the bible.

i'm reading mishima right now. never read any before. i am no longer mishima-less.

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something tells me i will never read ulysses. i like picking it up and reading a page or two.

It's weird I haven't read Ulysses. It's so my kind of book, it pushes weirdness ahead of plot and is all about language right? And It's got that creaky leaking Georgian houses backdrop that really appeals to me. It's the weight of it really, isn't it. It's too "important".

I finally read The Odyssey this summer and was completely blown away. In particular the scene where Odysseus meets the Phaeacian women, approaching like a great cat, could have been out of Rilke; but then there's also suspense and action.

i guess i have not read a lot of dostoevsky either. i mean, i liked /demons/ but it didn't leave me slavering for more.

and salinger? i read franny and zooey or whatever it's called, and catcher in the rye, but i don't think in 2008 i find him relevant or especially interesting

Raise High the Roofbeams Carpenters is probably the most beautiful and haunting thing I have ever read.

Yeah remy I'm trying to read Nine Stories now and there's no resonance for me at all.

i've never read thomas mann.

and i need to read hardy.

and george eliot. i mean, i've read silas marner, but that's about it.

and trollope!

and i've still never read a dance to the music of time by powell!

oh the more i think the more i come up with. i better get cracking.

oh, i have only read william gass's 'omensetter's luck' and need to get started on 'the tunnel'

Not even Uncle Wiggily In Connecticut. I read it on the bus and it was hard to remain composed because that shit is devastating

Salinger
Hemingway
Jane Austen
Dickens other than Tale of Two Cities

i never read the brontes, tolstoy, george eliot
i think eliot is the only one that i'm likely to try one day

Middlemarch is a perfect novel.

yeah, i resisted her forever, but i think i might actually enjoy her writing at this stage of my life

"King Lear." And the weird thing is that I've read almost all the rest of Shakespeare. At this point it's almost a badge of pride.

i just started reading To Kill a Mockingbird for the first time! it is good
i have also never read Moby Dick!

(but have read a whole lot of canadian books instead i guess)

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hahaha, i have no idea if that book is actually canadian. it might as well be.

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lol i guess i shoulda said novels, eh

I read 150 pages of Ulysses on the train to California, and I left it in our motel room in Sacramento when we checked out this morning. Maybe I'll try again someday. Probably not though.

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holycow i had no idea that dennis lee co-wrote the story for "labyrinth"!! he also wrote the lyrics for the fraggle rock theme song :D

thos hardy, geo eliot, dickens, teh brontes -- I'm lame.

i have never heard of this geo eliot person so no worries there

ALL OF THEM

PROBABLY

i suppose someday i'll have to read war & peace too.

scott you don't really have to, but i'm on page four hundred and something right now and i really really love it.

it's very long, but easy going.

ulysses
anything by dr. seuss

people you need to read eliot + austen or else!!!

i have not read many, many books

i've read 'mill on the floss' but that's it so far.

suetonius
tolstoy
aristotle
gibbon
wuthering heights

and the majority of great americn lit, though im reading emerson right now.

catcher in the rye.
I hear its a bad book to love because it makes you a fanboy that knows little else about literature or something like that

There are dozens upon dozens of 'great novels' of the 19th century which I haven't read. So many that you could drive a truck through the gap in my knowlege of them. A very large truck. With acute edema.

Hawthorne. Balzac. Dickens. Eliot. Thackeray. Turgenev. Tolstoy. Flaubert.

You name the author and the chances are I've never read them, or at most bagged one title and quit.

moby dick
ulysses

want to read both very much & have for years but oh well

Aristotle

im lucky in that i've been forced to read most of this stuff at one time or another...

I'm a little surprised you haven't read Dickens, Aimless.