literature

10 would be difficult to choose. 5 fits me better.

J.R.R. Tolkien Lord of the rings.

Homer Iliad and Odissey

Bulgakov Master and Margarita

Goethe Faust

Servantes Don Quixote

Many people here talk of Bradbury. The short story The Blue bottle is very fine, to my taste.

Thanks for the welcome Peter, I'm glad to be here.

Do you read him in Spanish or English, might I ask?

In English, there's no way to read Shakespeare in other language without loosing the rythm and the rhyme.

I went to see Hamlet in our first Theater but it was in Spanish, left after 5 minutes, even when the artists were excelent, it wasn't the same.

Re ol' "Shakey" (Billy Jigglejavelin?), yes, he did write the immortal "Homeo & Drooliette," but he didn't originate the Italian story/legend on which it was based. R&J is another masterpiece! In varying degrees (& according to individual taste, of course) all of Shake's plays are masterpieces! That's why we still read them. Immortal stuff!

A few years ago I read that Shakespeare had a legion of students, and that some of his less important plays were written mostly by his students, he only changed a few things.

IMHO This could be posible for two reasons:

1.- He has too many works even for him.

2.- Some great painters as Tizziano, Rafael Sanzio, Michaelangello, etc had their Academies (in the greek sense) and many of their paintings had only one or two brushes by them, it's proved some lesser works by those great artists were mostly painted by students that followed their styles.

Don't know if you heard this before? and Do you believe it's posible?

Iván

1.- Jorge Luis Borges: The most progressive writter in history, combines elements of reality and fantasy (real-marvellous movement) in such a manner that you believe everything. (Best Book: El Aleph)

2.- Julio Cortazar: Almost like Borges, but his books are more dense. (B.B:Rayuela)

3.- Isaac Asimov: True and intelligent Sci Fi (B.B: Foundation)

4.- Edgard Alan Poe: Tales of Mystery and Imagination scare the sh!t out of me.

5.- Mario Vargas Llosa: Just read The War of the End of the World, an historic fantastic book.

6.- Franz Kafka: The Trial and Metamorphosis are masterpieces.

7.- Ray Bradbury: Farenheit 451 Satire and political, a masterpiece.

8.- Willliam Shakespeare: Hamlet and Macbeth are nasterpieces, can't believe he wrote Romeo & Juliet.

9.- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra: Don Quixote is a must have. The best book ever written in Spanish.

10.- Steven King: The Shining, Autopsy Room 4, Different Seasons are enough reasons to consider him a genius.

Iván

dude wrote: LARRY NIVEN ONE OF THE GRAETS!! ILOVED "RINGWORLD" HAVE YOU RAED "INCONSTANT MOON " STORMY? YOU WOULD ALSO KNOW "SOLDEIR ASK NOT" BY GORDEN R DICKSON ONE OF THE DORSAI STORIES, I THINK IT WON A NEBULA OR HUGO AWARD IN THE early seventeis

I really enjoy Niven's short story "Inconstant Moon" a lot!  Given the popularity of SciFi disaster movies, I don't understand why it was never made into a major motion picture.  I seem to remember that it was made into a TV show for one of the anthology programs that used to be popular, but that it was of rather pedestrian quality. 

Also the short story collection by the same name that includes "Inconstant Moon" is uniformly great.

And yes I know "Soldier Ask Not" very well.  All of Dickson's "Childe Cycle" books are brilliant work, IMO.  I'm quite sure it won the Hugo award, though I don't remember whether it also won the Nebula.

How about 10 favorite authors?

J. R. R. Tolkien

Robert A. Heinlein

Thomas Sowell

Graham Hancock

Gordon R. Dickson

Larry Niven

Robert B. Parker

Jeff Cooper

David Eddings

Roger Zelazny

and "The Stand" and the Dark Tower books are almost enough to put Stephan King in, even though I don't care for a lot of his other work.

FARENHEIGHT 451 WAS A BRADBURY STORY I NEVER READ(IT WAS FILMED IN THE LATE SIXTEIS WITH OSKAR WERNER IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY!)

BUT ONE OF HIS SHORT STORYS "FROST AND FIRE" IS ONE OF MY  FAVORITE ALL TIME SCI FI STOREIS!!!

DURING THE NIGHT SIM WAS BORN...........AND HE WOULD LIVE JUST 8 DAYS!!

THROUGH THE HISTORY OF THE FORUMS SO FAR THERE HAVE BEEN A NUMBER OF DISCUSSOINS ABOUT LITERATURE AND MENTOINS OF BOOKS AUTHORS ETC

WHAT ARE YOUR TOP TEN BOOKS OR SHORT STOREIS OR PEICES OF LITERATURE, IT CAN BE POEMS, SCIENCE FICTION EVEN SOFT CORE PORN COMEDY!!(I LOVE THE CONFESSOINS BOOKS BY TIMOTHY LEE FOR EXAMPLE VERY FUNNY AND AS THE SEREIS WENT ON THE(LIGHT) PORN WAS LESSENED IN FAVOR OF THE COMEDY AND A NUMBER OF MOVEIS WERE MADE!)

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