You know, I didn't dig that one as much as some others he wrote. I think some of my favorite RAH novels are his "juveniles" - _Have Spacesuit...._, _Starship Troopers_, etc, but for some reason, I really love TMIAHM. Most of Heinlein's later stuff suffered from the same problem Stephen King's more recent works do - they are too cluttered.

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Doug, quit. This topic is about the top ten books of all time. We have a shameless self promotion topic in the porch conference.

It's topic 27 in porch.

sorry

This is probably the most difficult topic somebody has come up here! I'll have to have a go too, though I cannot remember all the names of the authors that wrote the books that most impressed me. Hope they'll forgive me. 1. Wuthering Heights (E. Bront�), together with Jane Eyre (C. Bront�): reasons will be obvious to anyone who has read these books. 2. Poor things: can't remember who wrote it, but I found it weird and wonderful, especially the bits where the doctor sews black bunny heads onto white bunny bodies, and vice versa! 3. The picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde): because it scared the hell out of me!! 4. Jeeves and Wooster books (P.G. Woodhouse): because they're great fun! 5. Dracula (B. Stoker): because I ADORE scary books. 6. The Prince (N. Machiavelli): another scary one. 7. Confessions of a justified sinner (James Hogg): SCARY! 8. Jekyll and Hyde . . . OF COURSE!!!! 9. The name of the Rose (Umberto Eco): gripping stuff. 10. Of mice and men. I have a confession to make: I don't like Shakesspeare.

This is probably the most difficult topic somebody has come up here! I'll have to have a go too, though I cannot remember all the names of the authors that wrote the books that most impressed me. Hope they'll forgive me. 1. Wuthering Heights (E. Bront�), together with Jane Eyre (C. Bront�): reasons will be obvious to anyone who has read these books. 2. Poor things: can't remember who wrote it, but I found it weird and wonderful, especially the bits where the doctor sews black bunny heads onto white bunny bodies, and vice versa! 3. The picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde): because it scared the hell out of me!! 4. Jeeves and Wooster books (P.G. Woodhouse): because they're great fun! 5. Dracula (B. Stoker): because I ADORE scary books. 6. The Prince (N. Machiavelli): another scary one. 7. Confessions of a justified sinner (James Hogg): SCARY! 8. Jekyll and Hyde . . . OF COURSE!!!! 9. The name of the Rose (Umberto Eco): gripping stuff. 10. Of mice and men. 11. LOLITA!! Wonderfully perverse, and the first paragraph is the best beginning I have ever read in a book. I have a confession to make: I don't like Shakesspeare.

Wow, you really like scary stuff! "Lolita" was the scariest of them all, I thought...BTW I hate Shakespeare.

Othello and Hamlet were my favorites of Shakespeare...

You also don't like Shakespeare, Autumn? Thank God, I thought I was a Philistyne! I don't like him, 'cos he's such an old put-on! Nobody talks like that, no way!! Not even back then. Not unless you want your tongue tied in hundreds of little akward knots. I mean, the blood and gore simply don't make up for it!

My thoughts exactly! But I think we're alone on this...maybe we should form a support group!

To think I'm probably going to have to study the old bugger during the next few years!

To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night follows the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. Almost an exact quote. I find that it flows better with the extra word in there. You think shakespeare is rough. wait until you get to "The Canterbury Tales" in Middle English.

The "Canterbury Tales" were at least amusing. There is a French equivalent which is quite entertaining.

I just had to read that in Middle French and did. But for some reason in the middle of the stories everybody'd be eating popcorn and talking about "Catcher in the Rye". Middle French, on a scale of 1 to 10, is probably a 5 (right in the middle) when it comes to comparing it to Middle English, far as reading difficulty goes.

Tell me about it! I took an entire class on that, and my head was swimming the whole semester. There were 8 of us in this lit class and we had to speak in Middle French as well as read/write in it.

oh so it was one of those swimming classes, eh, Autumn? Towson (sp.?) State had a very advanced Physical Education Dept., I'd say. They could combine swimming with something the French dept. was willing to collaborate with them on. I mean, I now know why you went there. I'm signing up, too, if they have a swimming class that my whole body can swim in and not just my head.....and if the Film dept. collaborates on the design of the class.

Come to think of it, for my gym credit I took aerobic swimming! In French! And the Film dept. at TSU does offer a class on French swimming film stars. :-)

lol!!!!

What!!!! you mean they don't offer underwater basket weaving???