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[sprsk]

I recently got an E-book reader for my pocket pc and I want some books to read. Project Gutenberg is so damn huge though, I don't know where to start.

Are there any good underground classics I can download, stuff I wouldn't learn about in a high school English class?

I've got plenty of space so fire away.

 

[Link1110]

Project Gutenberg.org should have books in .txt files cut into 4kb segments so you can read them on iPods easier.

 

[fmcato]

Ahm, well, classics are classics.

My favorites are Little Women, Pride and Prejudice, Sherlock Holmes, anything written by Jack London (specially The Cald of the Wild) and you might want to check Nietzsche's So Spoke Zarathustra, although it's like a gigantic essay on moral.

Or just check the top downloads: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top

I was able to read Little Women's uncensored version one year before we got the proper translation in Spain. Gotta love the Gutenberg Project.

Edit: READ THE ART OF WAR. NOW

 

[sprsk]

Ahm, well, classics are classics.

My favorites are Little Women, Pride and Prejudice, Sherlock Holmes, anything written by Jack London (specially The Cald of the Wild) and you might want to check Nietzsche's So Spoke Zarathustra, although it's like a gigantic essay on moral.

Or just check the top downloads: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top

I was able to read Little Women's uncensored version one year before we got the proper translation in Spain. Gotta love the Gutenberg Project.

Edit: READ THE ART OF WAR. NOW

Actually, I read the art of war after I finished Three Kingdoms. Seemed like a really good companion, needless to say, it was.

The top 100 are cool and all that, but I was kind of hoping for things that were under the radar. I'm not really interested in reading the kamasutra either!

 

[Kangu]

Check out "The Idiot" by Dostoyevsky. It's an interesting take on what a Jesus like individual whould have been thought of in (then) modern times.


EDIT: Also, anything by Dickens, the guys mastery of the English language is just damned enjoyable despite his rather predictable sappy storylines.

 

[fmcato]

Actually, I read the art of war after I finished Three Kingdoms. Seemed like a really good companion, needless to say, it was.

The top 100 are cool and all that, but I was kind of hoping for things that were under the radar. I'm not really interested in reading the kamasutra either!

Try The Cossacks of Tolstoi. Loved the book as a kid. Same for The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes.

There are also some interesting things to check that I'll get around to read one of these days, like the Arabian Entertainments, Elrik the Red's Saga, A Young Girl's Diary... But I can't comment on the quality of those.

It's a pity they don't have the works of Quevedo and G.A. Becquer in English. They are my favorite Spanish authors. You can read Becquer's the Organist in English in "Stories by Foreign Authors: Spanish", but that's only a short tale in his Legends volume.

 

[keanerie]

Try some of Melville's books that don't have to do with whaling. Pierre is highly recommended if you're adventurous.

 

[Guileless]

You should try to read Bleak House by Dickens. You probably won't get very far, but it's funny to go to cocktail parties and tell people you're reading it.

 

[SD-Ness]

James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Dubliners
Marcel Proust - Swann's Way
Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis; The Trial
Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spake Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil
Leo Tolsoy - War and Peace; Anna Karenina
Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
D.H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers
George Bernard Shaw
Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland

I don't know of any "underground"...sorry.

 

[Dynamite Shikoku]

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

 

[Father_Mike]

You should try to read Bleak House by Dickens. You probably won't get very far, but it's funny to go to cocktail parties and tell people you're reading it.

Wow I have never heard of this.

Great Expectations in my favorite dickens book (actually favorite book ever).

At least the first two books of Paradise Lost

...thats all I can think of for now seeing how there the only ones I know that are on there.

 

[SD-Ness]

Maybe also some H. L. Mencken...