Literary Classics (as defined by you)

Headphones on 2/3/2006 at 21:06

I didn't know there was a film! Any good?

She's more famous for her short stories, right? I've never read any, just read of them. Some of them sound fucking legendary. Waterstones tomorrow!

piln on 2/3/2006 at 21:19

I'm not familiar with the author. The film's OK... very odd, sometimes very funny (in a dark way) and sometimes quite depressing. Great performance from Dourif and it also has my favourite actor in it - Harry Dean Stanton. Ministry fans, note that the samples from "Jesus Built My Hotrod" come from this film. It's an interesting one... no masterpiece, but worth seeing if you're curious.

Paz on 2/3/2006 at 21:37

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Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber

Oh yes, this one is gotheriffic.

Female sexuality + wolves + snow = SUCCESS!

Headphones on 2/3/2006 at 21:41

re: piln You'd love her! Southern-gothic in a sort of Faulkner/McCarthy way. Religion and violence. Seemingly arbitrary terror! Redemption! Death!

She was a Catholic in Georgia (early 20th century, like) so she has minority insanity cred! She has a fascinating life story that I know nothing about. I think she died in her 30s?

Anyway, check her out.

Oneiroscope on 2/3/2006 at 21:47

Thought of another book to include: View With A Grain Of Sand, Selected Poems - Wislawa Szymborska. Her poetry is pretty amazing in my humble opinion. Pieta is one of my favorites.

Gillie on 2/3/2006 at 22:38

I loved Wuthering Heights and similar books.It is long time since I have read it too.As well as some of the other Bronte books
I read so many books about the "Tudor" and Medieval life in England.
Henry V11 King and Court,By Alison Weir
Love reading poetry and Trying to get my head around Shakespeare.:erm:

The name of the Rose.Which I read a long time ago
Novels too.I read all of "Virginia Andrew's" books.When I was younger.:eek:
The Little Prince.By Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
Which at first appears to be a simple children's tale, some would say that it is actually a profound and deeply moving tale, written in riddles and laced with philosophy and poetic metaphor.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, who is was a French author, journalist and pilot wrote The Little Prince in 1943, one year before his death.
It is a book for Adults as well as Children.I think a real Classic though.:)

Ten years in the saddle by major b.u.m sore. :ebil:

piln on 2/3/2006 at 22:44

There's a whole shitload of this posh stuff available online. Couple o' sites here:

(http://www.online-literature.com/) (lots of authors here)
(http://www.literature.org/authors/)

I know this might not the ideal format to read in, but it's handy for getting a taster of a particular author's work, or for those with ebook readers (must get one for my DS).
And (http://library.gcsu.edu/~sc/foc.html) here is a page about Flannery O'Connor - look for the 'full text stories' link.

D'Juhn Keep on 3/3/2006 at 00:53

Oh!

Roald Dahl's collections of short stories! Kiss Kiss, Over to You. Great stuff.

Scots Taffer on 3/3/2006 at 00:54

Am I right in thinking a lot of those were adapted into Tales of the Unexpected, Iggles, or did he write those separately?

SD on 3/3/2006 at 00:58

Some of them were adapted for the TV series I believe, yeah.

But if we're talking Dahl I would be more inclined to choose Switch Bitch as a classic anthology of short stories about sex.