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Only these ones have I already read, but I'll try the challenge. Could take me a while, atm. IndigoAjah Send a noteboard - 27/09/2009 02:48:10 AM
All Nobel Prize Winners?

So, which of these authors have you read? I am starting a little project which includes reading something from each of these. Anyone feeling up to the challenge? ;)



William Golding (The Lord of the Flies)

Jean-Paul Sartre (Nausea, The Transcendence of the Ego)

John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men)

Ernest Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea)
Winston Churchill (A History of the English Speaking Peoples)

Bertrand Russell (Why I am not a Christian)

T.S. Eliot (The Wasteland, On Poetry and Poets)


George Bernard Shaw (Pygmalion)

William Butler Yeats (assorted short poetry, inc. The Second Coming)

Rudyard Kipling (Both Jungle Books, the Just So stories, If)



Read the above, so quite a few left... Disgracefully, the only Spanish-language author I've read was Cervantes.
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So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all. jh - 26/09/2009 08:17:06 PM 2297 Views
Myself, so far... jh - 26/09/2009 08:22:52 PM 1026 Views
Read Faulkner Larry - 26/09/2009 09:05:22 PM 1065 Views
He is on the list, you know. jh - 26/09/2009 09:46:12 PM 1008 Views
Don't listen to Larry Camilla - 28/09/2009 10:02:33 AM 1020 Views
Mann is okay, but... Larry - 30/09/2009 02:21:50 AM 976 Views
Wow Fantasy - 26/09/2009 08:52:10 PM 1011 Views
Oh. jh - 26/09/2009 09:01:31 PM 1165 Views
Yes, even people with virtually no education have usually heard of Churchill and/or Kipling. *NM* Tom - 26/09/2009 09:37:59 PM 457 Views
I do! AND I have an education! *NM* Fantasy - 27/09/2009 03:56:36 AM 572 Views
Oh, yes! Fantasy - 27/09/2009 03:56:09 AM 1061 Views
I've read 36 of those Larry - 26/09/2009 09:04:18 PM 1061 Views
Well, if Churchill can get it... Legolas - 26/09/2009 09:39:04 PM 969 Views
Nah.... jh - 26/09/2009 09:52:25 PM 1071 Views
Two years later, the total is up to 48 Larry - 10/10/2011 05:18:36 AM 1049 Views
Okay, I've read a few of these people. (EDITED to specify what works) Tom - 26/09/2009 09:36:31 PM 1138 Views
Gee, I wonder what the theme is... Legolas - 26/09/2009 09:37:38 PM 1167 Views
It's not so hard to figure that out... jh - 26/09/2009 09:44:55 PM 1032 Views
Why is that? Because the prize is utterly meaningless? Tom - 26/09/2009 09:58:39 PM 1141 Views
Of course it is meaningless, all prizes are. jh - 26/09/2009 10:08:36 PM 1168 Views
Oh...but those are the "Some People" that I look down my elitist nose at. Tom - 26/09/2009 10:18:01 PM 1027 Views
Read these: Stephen - 26/09/2009 09:43:26 PM 994 Views
Well. jh - 26/09/2009 09:51:11 PM 1010 Views
Yes. Stephen - 26/09/2009 11:03:01 PM 1037 Views
Let's see. Rebekah - 26/09/2009 09:58:12 PM 1132 Views
Of all the Russian authors to receive the prize, Solzhenitsyn is the worst stylistically Tom - 26/09/2009 10:03:11 PM 948 Views
I've been meaning to read Pasternak for such a long time. Rebekah - 26/09/2009 10:06:28 PM 1086 Views
Don't put it on a list at amazon. Put it in the cart, then click on "purchase". Tom - 26/09/2009 10:23:33 PM 991 Views
I don't buy books online myself. If I did people would never know what to get me. Rebekah - 26/09/2009 10:26:01 PM 1088 Views
And yet Pasternak isn't on your list. Tom - 28/09/2009 05:28:42 AM 1188 Views
See, I can't remember if I read Pasternak... jh - 26/09/2009 10:11:14 PM 1007 Views
It's one of my favorite books of all time. Tom - 26/09/2009 10:21:37 PM 1058 Views
I was just gonna ask about that. Legolas - 26/09/2009 10:23:44 PM 1127 Views
The movie destroyed the entire idea of the book. Tom - 27/09/2009 03:00:54 AM 941 Views
There's an ITV film of the book with Keira Knightley. It looks utterly appalling. *NM* Rebekah - 26/09/2009 10:25:12 PM 464 Views
For what it's worth, the recent Russian miniseries wasn't fantastic. Tom - 27/09/2009 03:02:25 AM 958 Views
I'll do it if I can have the rest of my life to accomplish it. nossy - 26/09/2009 10:43:53 PM 1012 Views
Only 10 of them. Burr - 26/09/2009 11:53:47 PM 1045 Views
From my list, Hesse's Siddhartha is my foremost recommendation. *NM* Burr - 26/09/2009 11:55:03 PM 545 Views
Only these ones have I already read, but I'll try the challenge. Could take me a while, atm. IndigoAjah - 27/09/2009 02:48:10 AM 939 Views
What'd you think of Transcendence of the Ego? *NM* Dan - 27/09/2009 05:12:35 AM 1058 Views
Hey, Dan, long time no see IndigoAjah - 27/09/2009 10:41:02 AM 1183 Views
Just bought a Marquez book *NM* IndigoAjah - 01/10/2009 07:16:22 PM 419 Views
Not very many. Spriteling - 27/09/2009 08:36:14 AM 1158 Views
It would take me a long time to finish this list. Fred Gaidin - 27/09/2009 03:50:02 PM 1043 Views
Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all. Camilla - 28/09/2009 09:55:36 AM 1133 Views
Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all. jh - 28/09/2009 06:15:01 PM 961 Views
Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all. Camilla - 28/09/2009 06:51:05 PM 943 Views
Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all. Elaine - 29/09/2009 02:20:37 PM 1045 Views
I worked out that the best way to make use of this thread is to remove the names I have read... jh - 02/10/2009 08:43:57 PM 1199 Views
A great deal of those... after a fashion DomA - 08/10/2011 06:30:00 PM 1118 Views
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