project Gutenberg reading list

[flamingsword]

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Poems By Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
A Woman of the World by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Freedom's Battle by Mahatma Gandhi
The Certain Hour by James Branch Cabell
Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
"De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries by Julius Caesar
From Boyhood to Manhood by William M. Thayer

And a few extras:
The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram
Pop! Goes the Witch: a Disinformation Guide
Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes b Jacques Ellul
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by James MacNeill Whistler

Comments

[runiclaw.livejournal.com]

whats the project? have read most of these. not any time resent enough to hold discourse on but have read them.

[flamingsword.livejournal.com]

No specific project, these are just free books available on the Gutenberg Project (http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page) site that I am interested in reading.

[runiclaw.livejournal.com]

sweet! most are fairly good books if you dont mind Thinking...
going to be reading alot more soon as will be working with kat at B&N starting next week.

[flamingsword.livejournal.com]

Kat = Sophie&Tim Kat? B&N in Las Colinas?
*is tentatively excited*

[runiclaw.livejournal.com]

one in the same, start Tues. yeah, they have done me a great kindness and am allowing a old dog to use their spare room.

[bardkris.livejournal.com]

Would you feel co-opted if others got involved? I've been feeling a little inactive lately, and I'm a bit interested in the whole 'transcribing' aspect of it. I was thinking of learning another language, but this seems more worthy of time.

I've never read any of the extras, though I've read most (6/9) of the primary list. They are well worthy of reading, especially the Count. That was a majorly formative book for me in my youth. Enjoy.

[flamingsword.livejournal.com]

Oh, feel free. A friend of a friend didn't know that any books at all were available online, and I'm trying to spread common knowledge that you no longer have to have access to an ink-and-paper book, that lots of things that have gone out of copyright are available for free on the internet. These are just the ones I've found so far that sound interesting.

Necessity sometimes dictates otherwise

[lord-of-entropy.livejournal.com]

But I still find books to be the optimal reading medium. Beyond aesthetic preferences, the interface is so elegant...

[pretty-pyrate.livejournal.com]

should you wish to borrow it, i have a paper back copy of the count of monte cristo. entertaining book, not a shabby movie either. its one of my fav dumas novels

[sushi-slave.livejournal.com]

someone is feeling a little existensial today.

Invisible hugs for your spirit

[flamingsword.livejournal.com]

Are these novels somehow existentialist in nature? I detect no such theme, but then I haven't read them yet. These are classics that I've wanted to read ,or things by well-known authors for whom I have great respect for their professional and private lives. I've known for a while that such resources were available for my tinkering with, but have only recently been goaded to use them.

Feel free to post your own list, or turn this into a meme. I'd like to see what appeals to other people 'round here.

I accept the hugs anyway, as I always do.