Donna ([info]radiotik) wrote,
@ 2007-07-26 08:29:00
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SOS I am now out of books.
I can either read some crappy fantasy novels that someone left here or you fair people can suggest books that are found on project gutenberg:

http://www.gutenberg.org/

I would love suggestions from you fine people, especially foreign books that I am not familiar with or have missed. Remember that I will be reading this on a computer screen so really really long books are probably a no, but then again I can start them and buy them later.

Any suggestions? Come on come on!

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[info]citeyoursources
2007-07-26 01:52 pm UTC (link)
It scares me that the top downloaded e-book is the Manual of Surgery.

Everything here seems to be more classic lit, so the only thing I could say is Dostoyevsky, whom you've likely read, and writes long books. Their Top 100 has some decent stuff though. The only short classics I can think of are Steinbeck.

Hope you're doing well!

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[info]radiotik
2007-07-26 01:55 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, it has to have fallen into public domain.

I've DLed much greek and roman stuff that I somehow missed but I know that there is more...

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[info]ouwiyaru
2007-07-27 11:40 pm UTC (link)
The first thing I ever read on Project Gutenberg was Phaedo:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13726
didn't have it at the local suburban library. It's hard to recommend classics because I'd be embarrassed at the presumption that someone hasn't read them.

I was surprised to note they don't have Machiavelli's Republic on Gutenberg. For something obscure, but somewhat mesmerizing, a recent project I came in touch with:
http://epistolae.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/

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[info]radiotik
2007-07-28 02:18 pm UTC (link)
You shouldn't fear recommending classics, the worst I could say is that I had already read them. At best you could find a hole, a gap that needs filling. For example, yes, I've read all the plato that has come up from the present day, I realized while sitting on a cycladic island that I had never fully read the odyssey. A problem I solved quickly. Oh man it was so fun to read it there: my book got splashed by the Aegean. All I could say was "AWESOME!"

Until last night I had never read a word of Kafka.

I am particularly lacking in anything not originally written in English.

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[info]ouwiyaru
2007-07-28 08:06 pm UTC (link)
I am particularly lacking in anything not originally written in English.
Faust?

Also, another place to browse:
http://lion.chadwyck.com/

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[info]sievetronix
2007-07-26 04:26 pm UTC (link)
Wait you aren't reading the crappy fantasy novels...?
I would be all over that.

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[info]radiotik
2007-07-26 05:51 pm UTC (link)
I'll mail them to you

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[info]kissthehippy
2007-07-27 10:36 pm UTC (link)
Have you read "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins? I thought I was the last one to read it, but I may be wrong.

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[info]radiotik
2007-07-27 10:54 pm UTC (link)
I'm in Quito and I can't buy books in English silly! That is why I was asking for online books ;)

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