There is no such things as a
moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all. Oscar Wilde Literatureweb of wordscategory three: stylishGoedel Escher Bach - Douglas HofstadterUlysses - James Joyce Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoi Der Prozess - Franz Kafka The Bible (without the Book of Nod) Der Zauberberg - Thomas Mann Kritik der reinen Vernunft - Kant Faust II, Wilhelm Meister - Johann Wolfgang v. Goethe Les Miserables - Victor Hugo The Making of Americans - Gertrude Stein Divina Comedia - Dante Decameron - Boccaccio Archipel Gulag - Alexander Solschenyzin Odyssee - Homer Der Juengling - Dostojewski Das andere Geschlecht - Simone de Beauvoir Der Ekel - Jean Paul Sartre Berge des Wahnsinns - H.P.Lovecraft the first category contains a lot of books because over the years i have read so many books i liked that i only want to name a few of my favorites on this page. they are in no particular order i just wrote down what came to my mind. i also collected a few favorite excerpts (e/d) from my very favorite books which you can take a look at if you will: category one: beautifulWuthering Heights - Emily Bronte und ihre Schwestern, Quotations from Wuthering Heights (e)Siddartha, Das Glasperlenspiel, .... - Hermann Hesse The Vampire Chronicles - Anne Rice The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway, Paper on The Sun Also Rises (e) Krieg und Frieden - Leo Tolstoi Der Spieler - Fjodor Dostojewskij Le reve, Nana - Emile Zola Les chouans - Honore de Balzac Mansfield Park, Emma - Jane Austen Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello etc. - Shakespeare Nathan der Weise - Lessing Die Leiden des jungen Werther, Wahlverwandtschaften - Goethe Mephisto - Klaus Mann (?) The picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley Gone with the Wind Die Pest - Albert Camus Der Aufmacher Homo Faber - Max Frisch Ansichten eines Clowns - Heinrich Boell Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert Wild Swans - Jung Chang Die Gral Trilogie - Peter Berling The Player of Games - Ian M. Banks Das Dekameron - Boccaccio Der Stechlin - Theodor Fontane The Cuckoo's Egg - Clifford Stoll Memoiren einer Tochter aus gutem Hause - Simone de Beauvoir 1984 - George Orwell Schoene neue Welt - Aldous Huxley Ulysses - James Joyce, Quotations from Ulysses (e) Die Schottland Trilogie - Diana Gabaldon Alice im Wunderland - Lewis Caroll Das Schlimmste kommt noch - Charles Bukowski Candide - Voltaire The Crucible - Arthur Miller The Raven (e) - Edgar Allen Poe category four: strangeoh and I forgot one category which is quite important to because it has to do with all those books noone ever understood some because of the special order of words some are so weird because the author was most probably on some rather strange trip caused by rather strange drugs and maybe some of the authors just wanted to drive their readers insane Das Foucaultsche Pendel - Umberto EcoThe Illuminati Trilogy - Robert Anton Wilson Elixiere des Teufels, Lebensansichten des Katers Murr - E.T.A. Hoffmann Neuromancer, Biochips, Mona Lisa Overdrive - William Gibson Der Juengling - Fjodor Dostojewskij Naked Lunch - some LSD freak H.P. Lovecraft any book Die Morgenlandfahrt - Hermann Hesse (genial!) Also sprach Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche Der Ekel - Sartre Metamorphosen - Ovid The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe category five: der selbstversuchhere are a few of the poems I wrote myself some during my creative writing class in the usa most whenever i felt like writing something. here i also put a page with really great poems (e/d) NOT by me and another page with some of my favorite Poems by Hilde Domin (d) additionally I have been writing articles of my own (d) some of which I collected and published here and the computer legends (d) .category two: déclasséthere are of course also books i did not like for whatever reasons maybe i did not like the topic maybe i did not like the author's choice of words maybe i did not like the style or the story - a story is made up of words which make up sentences which try to tell things that happened which caused other things to happen a story has a starting point and an ending also called "happy end" - it is snowing. well a story might go like this: "the girl came to the bar. she ordered a drink and talked to some man. the man did not know better and shot her. the girl died in the hospital." this is a very short story - short stories do not have to be short though but usually they only cover a rather short time. Bronsteins Kinder - Jurek Becker (Schullektuere)Die verlorene Ehre Katharina Blum - Heinrich Boell (Schullektuere) Wilhelm Tell (Schullektuere) Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller (Schullektuere) Educating Rita (Schullektuere) Die Verwandlung - Franz Kafka (Schullektuere) Bellum Gallicum - Caesar (Schullektuere) Reden gegen Verres - Cicero (Schullektuere) Maybe you noticed that I only listed books that I read in school under this category and well the reason probably is that my teachers just had amazing talents at making books boring and uninteresting. |