Guardian Newspaper 1000 Novels discussion

Buddha Of Suburbia, p10, On The Road and Candide mentioned
update to p30, 3 more mentioned: Tender Is The Night, Vanity Fair and Woman In White
p92 Tropic Of Cancer
later... two more: Lost Illusions and The Red And The Black

in the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Sandy reads Kidnapped and Miss Brodie reads her class Jane Eyre during their sewing lessons.

In The Wasp Factory, Frank wants to go the cinema but the only film on is The Tin Drum and he can#'t because he remembers that it's a book that his dad bought for him, so he has an irrational dislike for it (he also mentions Myra Beckinbridge in this section, but that book's not on THE LIST).

In Vanity Fair, Becky Sharp, as governess allows her charges to read Smollett, which their uncle approves of, not knowing it's The Expedition of Humphry Clinker which they are reading

In At Lady Molly's, vol 4 of Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time, Virginia Woolf's Orlando comes up for discussion in chapter 2.

Another from At Lady Molly's: a character is compared to Prince Myshkin from The Idiot. (The book is specifically mentioned)

I wonder if anyone has ever tried a list reading plan based on the books mentioned in the book they are currently reading. For instance going from Vanity Fair to Humphry Clinker to whatever book (if any) that Smollett's book might mention. If you are always wondering what book to read next, I guess that would serve as well as any other plan.

Bryan wrote: "I wonder if anyone has ever tried a list reading plan based on the books mentioned in the book they are currently reading. For instance going from Vanity Fair to Humphry Clinker to whatever book (i..."

Oh that would be interesting!

In A Far Cry from Kensington Villette, Lucky Jim, and Frankenstein are the ones I can remember. There were more.......

Bryan wrote: "I wonder if anyone has ever tried a list reading plan based on the books mentioned in the book they are currently reading. For instance going from Vanity Fair to Humphry Clinker to whatever book (i..."

You'd obviously need to start with the newest possible book, because they can't mention books that weren't written at the time of writing.

Sure. You might be able to follow a trail of about 5-10 books. Talk about a random generator!

In A.S. Byatt's Possession, a reference is made to Austen's Northanger Abbey

On the Road, Sal picks up a random copy of Le Grand Meulnes by Alain Fournier

In The Satanic Verses, chapter 2, "On that first aeroplane he [Saladin] read science fiction tales of interplanetary migration: Asimov's Foundation, Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles."
Only Foundation is on the list though..........
At the start of chapter 4, Gibreel is asleep and having visions of floating through Kensington, "to which the dream flies him at high speed past Barkers department store and the
small grey house with double bay windows where Thackeray wrote Vanity Fair"
In Chapter 5, Chamcha tires to warn his friend Mimi about the man she is seeing. She rebukes by saying "I am an intelligent female. I have read Finnegans Wake...." (I am looking forward to the day I too can claim intelligence because I have read this book ;-) )

Nice Work by David Lodge has 2 quotes from other list books:

before the opening chapter, a quote from Sybil, or the Two Nations by Benjamin Disraeli and

the start of Chapter 1, a quote from Shirley by Charlotte Bronte

I've read Finnegans Wake, Fay. I claim no intelligence, merely endurance.

Phil wrote: "I've read Finnegans Wake, Fay. I claim no intelligence, merely endurance."

LOL!

In The Day of the Locust chapter 18, Tod has designed the costumes for the picture they are shooting based on the descriptions from Les Misérables

In A Handful of Dust Tony keeps a copy of A Farewell to Arms in his bedroom.

In A Handful of Dust Tony reads out loud to Mr Todd various Dickens books including Dombey and Son, Bleak House, Martin Chuzzlewit, Oliver Twist and Little Dorritt

In Eric Ambler's Mask of (UK) / Coffin for (USA) Dimitrios the character Latimer mentions East Lynne, by Mrs Henry Wood, as an example of a story in which fate drags its characters inexorably towards disaster.

In Will Self's Great Apes, in Busner's bookshelves, Simon Dykes takes down a copy of Somerset Maugham's "Of Chimpanzee Bondage". I'm claiming that as one for the list :)

What do you think about Self's book? I read some of his short-stories--I remember liking them, but nothing stuck with me very long.

I'm enjoying it.. But then, I'm a big fan of authors that play with words. Reading the reviews before I started, I can't remember one with such a polarised set of ratings - 5s and 1s seemed to predominate :)

I really liked How the Dead Live
and Great Apes was OK (but a bit long for its one-joke idea)
and I have The Book of Dave: A Revelation of the Recent Past and the Distant Future on my TBR list...

I recently finished The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾. Adrian reads a lot and mentions several books from the list:
Pride and Prejudice
Animal Farm
War and Peace
Madame Bovary
The Mill on the Floss
Hard Times
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Wuthering Heights
A Town Like Alice
Crime and Punishment
The Black Prince

Now that I see the books as a list, it is more than several!

The Black Prince stands out in that list as unusually modern.

The Black Prince stands out in that list as unusually modern.

The Black Prince stands out in that list as unusually modern.

Stupid GR app :D

He read a bunch of other books as well. It was part of the humor to read his misconceptions about the books (such as Jane Austen being a living author in 1982 or George Eliot being a man).

BTW -- I have had that problem before, Phil. I think that you can delete the repetitious posts if you wish once you are on a computer rather than the app.

In If Not Now, When?, Pavel finds an illustrated copy of Les Misérables, in Polish, in the first undestroyed town the group of Jewish partisans find.

In Northanger Abbey, Catherine Morland is reading The Mysteries of Udolpho.

I am listening to the audiobook of The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino. Cosimo, the title character, reads a few of the list books:
The Adventures of Gil Blas by Alain-René Lesage
Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson
Julie, or the New Heloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I'm reading Fireflies atm and early on the main character Mr Lutchman spots a copy of The History Of Mr Polly erroneously shelved in the history section of a home library, and later he gives his son a copy of Treasure Island

3/4 way through Bold as Love
one of the characters has an implant which enhances mental capacity
and another character mentions the possibility of a "Flowers for Algernon scenario"

In The Haunting of Hill House, Dr Montague has with him a copy of Pamela by Samuel Richardson, which he used when he needs to go to sleep.

So far, in Melmoth, Tristram Shandy has been mentioned.

In Les Liaisons Dangereuse, both Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady and Julie, or the New Heloise are mentioned.

Norwegian Wood has already mentioned The Great Gatsby, Lord Jim and The Magic Mountain and I'm only quarter way through!

Norwegian Wood: One one page alone in Chapter 3 Claude, Racine and Eisenstein are mentioned and then Truman Capote, John Updike and Raymond Chandler. Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby is mentioned a few times.

in Brideshead Revisited Lady Marchmain likes to read aloud to the family at times of stress (so pretty much every evening) and just before I DNF-ed Brideshead she was reading from Diary Of A Nobody, which ironically is the book I've started instead!

In True History of the Kelly Gang, Ned reads Lorna Doone twice and would have read it a third time if his copy were not soaked in the river.

In Mother London, one of the characters claims to have appeared with Peter Lorre in the film of The Mask Of Dimitrios, also mentioning that "the book was better"

and on the last page, a young lad who is first up in the morning in a house that hosted a wedding reception the night before, eats his cornflakes while reading Little Dorrit

Fay wrote: "In True History of the Kelly Gang, Ned reads Lorna Doone twice and would have read it a third time if his copy were not soaked in the river."

Lorna Doone seemed like such an appropriate book for Ned Kelly! I assumed that this was a fictional detail invented by Carey rather than a historical fact but it was a nice touch.

I've just had a "Super-Mention"!

i.e. a book I was reading (London Fields) referenced another book that I am currently reading (The Egoist)
well chuffed with this :oD

Darren wrote: "I've just had a "Super-Mention"!

i.e. a book I was reading (London Fields) reference another book that I am currently reading (The Egoist)
well chuffed with this :oD"

lol - a 'super-mention' is a great term!

wahey! another Super-Mention:

I have been reading The Betrothed for a while now, and am in fact nearing the end,
I read a significant chunk of it earlier today,
and then this evening decided to read a bit more of July's People...
imagine my delight when it transpires that the only book the main characters took with them when they fled their home was...
The Betrothed!

In The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman the narrator (Tristram) mentions Don Quixote several times as being a popular book at the time

I'm currently reading The Kite Runner and one of the characters reads stories to his friend from the Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings which while not G1000
a) should be, and
b) I'm also currently reading it!

Fay Wrote: In True History of the Kelly Gang, Ned reads Lorna Doone twice and would have read it a third time if his copy were not soaked in the river.

I just read THOTKG too and was going to report this exact mention!