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House of Usher is really good. Have you read all of the Sherlock Holmes books/short stories? We have the complete collection in my school library, so I've been reading that whenever I have Study Hall. Good stuff.

You know, you'd think I'd really be into Sherlock Holmes more, but after a few disappointing movies and the fact Akano is a nutcase on the subject (I can't AGREE with my siblings about stuff! I'm the younger one!), I actually think I'll shy away from those books for a bit. Though, I do plan on reading the series at some point.

Dissapointing movies wat

 

Game of Shadows was so-so(especially that mind-screw of an ending), but the first movie was EXCELLENT.

 

While we're on the general topic of short stories, Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville(yes, THAT Herman Melville) and Unlighted Lamps by Sherwood are both really good.

The Jungle Book and the second Jungle Book.

 

Also I, Robot.

You know, maybe it's because I saw the movies first with no prior knowledge to the Sherlock stories, but... I kinda hated them. XD (Especially the actress that played Irene Alder. She did a terrible job for her character's archetype, I thought. Too sweet, like the smell of a rose. Not enough toxic thorns. Ironic that a poison got the better of her, though. Maybe if she just had a bit more venom coursing through her veins... I digress -I LOVE that type of character; sweet on the outside, yet diabolical, calculating and venomous on the inside. I was disappoint-).

 

Still, I think the movies just didn't do the story proper justice for a first-time viewer. I think I would probably have appreciated them a lot more if I'd read a few stories beforehand. I was judging the movie by how the actors and director chose to do things (which I had loads of issues with) rather than the overall story (which I general found a bit confusing in the first movie).

 

Let's just say I'll be shying away from the franchise for now, but I could see myself reading short stories and maybe even the first book in the series in the near future.

 

@Lego Obsessionist: The Jungle Book, eh? Hmm... I think I actually do have a copy of that lying around somewhere.

The trick to bucket reading lists is that you need to pick the longest books available. If you can't die until you read them, it'll extend your lifespan by hundreds of pages. (Trust me; I got an A in biology class.)

 

but the movies kinda killed that for me

 

Why should a work in a totally different medium, only tangentially related to the source material (if I know which movies you're talking about), and generally subject to the whims of other artists have any bearing on what you read?

 

Also, this looks more like a summer reading list, so, here, have a dump of important books--the final bosses of the literary world:

 

-The literary corpus of Vladimir Nabokov

-Ulysses

-Finnegans Wake

-The Tanakh (cover to cover)

-The Talmud (a.k.a. Shas--cover to cover)

-The Bible (cover to cover)

-al-Quran (cover to cover)

-The Sound and the Fury

-The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals

-Anna Karenina

-The Iliad and The Odyssey

-Beowulf

-Godel, Escher, Bach

-Candide, or Optimism

-Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts

-The Stranger

-Gravity's Rainbow

-The Constitution of your home country

-One new bill introduced to your legislature every year

 

Oh, also, don't read Webster's dictionary. Go for something better, like the Oxford unabridged dictionary.

 

Eh... that's a start--in total you have probably enough for several years by now. I'll probably dump a few more when I can dredge up my own to-read list.

-whistles-

 

That's quite the list there.

 

Well, first, let's go with my answer to the Sherlock thingy: I'm just kinda... sick of the subject. Similar as to how the first ten minutes of the first Twilight movie, along with reading a few exerts from one of the books, killed that franchise for me as well as vampire themed stories for a little while.

 

I don't mean I will never read the books because of the movie, but there are plenty of other works of literature I'm interested in, so I figured I'd put that particular series to the side for a bit.

 

Also, the fact that there's a family member of mine interested in the books, my younger sibling instincts are telling me there's going to be some smug "I told you it was good" vibes coming my way and I don't think my poor, innocent inner child could survive that again. Trust me; I've lived the role of a younger sibling. XP

 

Also, I don't want a really long life. Medium is fine by me. ^^ But this is getting off topic.

 

Anyway, I'll have to look into some of the ones you mentioned as I have no clue what a few of them are or have little knowledge on the subject.

 

Though, I have read exerts of Beowulf, but you're right; reading the full story would be quite the experience. ^^