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The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
Think what you will but this is a very awesome book. One day I hope to learn Italian just so I can read the original. For those unenlightened few who don't know, it's the story about a trip through Hell, Purgatory and finally Heaven. Also my site is loosely (oh but only loosely) themed around it.
Hamlet
by Billy Shakespeare
Keeping within the realm of classics, this is my favorite Shakespeare tragedy. Yes, it's the most famous....but for a good reason. What a piece of work is a man.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
also by Billy S
Aaand my favorite Shakespeare comedy. Puck is like...the greatest character ever. EVER.
The Tempest
by...guess who
Not quite A Midsummer Night's Dream but you just have to love it.
The Complete Works of Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe of course
Moving out os Shakespeare land now...Poe has been my favorite author since I was like....well, able to read. Yes, so I was an abnormal child. Anyway...great great stuff. The world would be a better place (sort of) if we all owned a little Poe.
The Best of Lovecraft
by H. P. Lovecraft
If you love Poe, you'll most likely like Lovecraft too. Crazy stuff. I can't even describe the eerie, unsettled feeling some of his stories give me. What an awesome writer.
Interview with the Vampire
by Anne Rice
And we all knew that this had to be here. Ah...vampires. Gotta love'em.
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
If I mention Interview with the Vampire, I have to mention THE vampire book right? This is some cool stuff. I have a copy with little illustrations done by Edward Gorey, how cool is that? It's not fun when stupid movie people make Dracula films that don't even resemble the original. Especially when they title it "Bram Stokers Dracula". Sure vampires are cool anyway...but have some respect.
The Picture of Dorian Grey
by Oscar Wilde
Moving on to a completely different realm, we come to Oscar Wilde! This is one crazy guy, and pretty damn cool. No, I don't just say this because of Velvet Goldmine...but that didn't hurt either. Hehe.
The Importance of Being Ernest
also by Oscar Wilde
Like I said, crazy guy! I love this book, it's very amusing. I remember breaking into laughing fits while reading it in the car. With only my mom driving...reinforcing her suspicion that I'm completely out of my mind.
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
I LOVE the style of Dickens' writing! Eloquent, smooth...sarcastic in it's way. And who couldn't love poor little Oliver? "Please sir, I'd like some more." Awww.
Grimm's Fairy Tales
by ye olde brothers Grimm
Now you just can't tell me that you don't like fairy tales. True though some of them are rather....well...grim.
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
Ok...so it seems like everyone but me absolutely hates this book. Well let them make their own damn webpages! This is mine, and I say that while it's crazy, and not particularly happy, it's pretty damn good.
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
You were waiting for it! I've got the front cover at the top of the page and yet I wait until now to mention it! I can't explain my reasoning...it just worked out this way. Anyway, yeah this is a fucking AWESOME book and everybody should read it and be enlightened. Er....yeah. And the movie's good too. But read the book (oh horrorshow droogs of mine)!
Choke
by Chuck Palaniuk
Yay! My first book written within the last twenty years! *dance, dance, caper* Ahem, anyway...crazy crazy book. Chuck Palaniuk, for those of you who don't know, is the guy who wrote Fight Club. I think that's all that needs to be said there. Oh yeah, but don't read this if sex, deformed chickens, and nihilistic debasement of humanity bothers you (ie if you're a nun...in which case don't even read the back cover).