Literature

What to Read: 13 Feminist Classics

--Carl Cederstrom, October 2, 2018.

Important Books

Here are some important books:

  1. 1984 by George Orwell
  2. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  3. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
  4. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  5. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
  6. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
  7. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  8. Confessions of a Crap Artist by Philip K. Dick
  9. The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
  10. Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
  11. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  12. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
  13. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
  14. From Here to Eternity by James Jones
  15. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  16. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
  17. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  18. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  19. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
  20. The Handmaid's Tale by Magaret Atwood
  21. The Iliad by Homer
  22. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  23. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
  24. Lives by Plutarch
  25. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  26. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  27. Martin Eden by Jack London
  28. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  29. The Odyssey by Homer
  30. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  31. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  32. Story of O by Anne Desclos
  33. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  34. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
  35. Ulysses by James Joyce
  36. The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
  37. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  38. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Include all the books of Azimov, Clarke, Dick, Heinlein, Hemingway, and Steinbeck.

Grammar Jokes

• An Oxford comma walks into a bar where it spends the evening watching the television getting drunk and smoking cigars.
• A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.
• A bar was walked into by the passive voice.
• An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.
• Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”
• A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting
  dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.
• Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.
• A question mark walks into a bar?
• A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.
• Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type."
• A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.
• A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
• Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.
• A synonym strolls into a tavern.
• At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.
• A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.
• Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.
• A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.
• An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.
• The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.
• A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned a man with a glass eye named Ralph.
• The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.
• A dyslexic walks into a bra.
• A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.
• A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.
• A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.
• A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony.


Ernest Hemingway.

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