What are some of your favorites pieces of Literature?

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I have a few

The Metamorphosis
Othello
Invisible Man
The Odyssey
Dante's Inferno
The Catcher in the Rye
Animal Farm
King Lear
Much Ado About Nothing
The Canterbury Tales
The Tempest


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I loved Animal Farm,will have to check out some of the others. Mary Shellys Frankenstein is also one of my favorites. Would love to see a movie that does it proper justice one day.
 
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I loved Animal Farm,will have to check out some of the others. Mary Shellys Frankenstein is also one of my favorites. Would love to see a movie that does it proper justice one day.

Yeah, the Animal Farm one I read so much when I was younger

oh yeah, Shelly's Frankesnstein is an interesting one too.

what did you think of the the movie from 1994

 

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Book nerd here

  • Roots........alex haley
  • Autobigography of Malcolm X
  • Letters from a birmingham jail, Where do we go from here, why we cant wait.......mlk
  • Bag of Bones, It, 11/12/63, a face in the crowd, geralds game..............sk
  • Devil in a Blue Dress, The last days of ptolemy grey, John Woman, Black Betty............walter mosley
  • go tell it on the mountain, the fire next time,...baldwin
  • death of a king....tavis smiley
  • long walk to freedom....mandela
  • 10 roads to ruches....ken fisher
  • deacon king kong, the good lord bird., 5 carat soul.....james mcbride
  • the warmth of other suns, caste.......isabel wilkerson
  • america on fire.....hinton
  • hell of a book....jason mott
  • the nickel boys., harlem shuffle....colson whitehead
  • the dead are rising.....les payne tamera
  • millionaire next door....
  • between the world and me., we were eight years in power.....ta-nehisi coates
  • narrative of the life of fredrick douglas
  • the new jim crow....alexander michelle
  • grieving with hope
  • The amateur marriage...forget the author, but I love this book.
  • the chill.....scott carson
  • the vanishing half....brit bennet
  • lord of the rings
  • black boy...richard wright
  • Gone south, queen of bedlam, speaks the nightbird, boys life....robert mccamon


I missed a lot, but those are the books that comes to mind.
 
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I have a few

The Metamorphosis
Othello
Invisible Man
The Odyssey
Dante's Inferno
The Catcher in the Rye
Animal Farm
King Lear
Much Ado About Nothing
The Canterbury Tales
The Tempest


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It's wild that those are such classics and I dont think i ever read those except the Kafta joint.
 
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