Book list - have you read six of these?

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Anonymous wrote:none, different culture, different interests.

Seriously? How long have you lived here? If you went to school here how could you possibly avoid many of these books?

This is an asshole comment. Many of the posters here are saying they read the books in high school or college. If the poster you quoted didn't go to high school here and didn't major in English at an American college, there's a good chance she/he didn't read them.

How many works have you read by authors who aren't of European descent? How many Asian, African, or Hispanic classic books have you read?

I'm getting really tired of the "I'm better than Americans and can't be bothered with their literature or schools and I have my own circle of non-American friends (who are starting to ignore me, I wonder why)" poster. Yes, I've read a lot of non-US, non-European literature. Some of it in the original languages, too.

This. (My first "this"!!). Makes me wonder why bother living here/reading DCUM/posting here. And FWIW, I'm a naturalized American.

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I don't care that she THINKS she's better than us.

But why does she show up on DCUM once a week to TELL us she's better than us? What does she get by anonymously telling us we're trash and she's great?

Maybe it's her horrendous manners that annoy me. Not so much her thoughts, but the fact that she announces it to us all so frequently....

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Anonymous wrote:OP again. Glad you all are confirming that six is a crazy low number for that list!

I agree, the list is weird. It has the complete works of Shakespeare, but also Hamlet by itself (which is a play, not a book). It has the Chronicles of Narnia (that's what, five or six books?) but then the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by itself.

I should go looking for more info and see how they came up with this list. Smells like committee work... How else do you explain the putting the DaVinci Code on the same list as Possession?

Yeah, I'm pretty surprised they have Midnight's Children versus the Satanic Verses.

Have you read them? Midnight's Children is an amazing, beautifully written book. It is widely considered a classic. Satanic Verses is the controversy book that got him in trouble.

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Anonymous wrote:31. One of those books nearly killed my joy for reading. I was an avid reader until I came across that monster in 10th grade -- I didn't pick up another book for pleasure until I was 23.

Let me guess... Ulysses?

I'm guessing Moby Dick.

That was my guess too - it certainly felt very long to me. I have to admit that I skipped a lot of the "blubber".

My reading has picked up a great deal since the kids started sleeping through the night and since I got a Kindle. Especially when it comes to the classics - I love it that they are free and available for immediate download. I have quite a long list all loaded and ready to go, all for $0!

LOL, actually if I remember, it was the 1-2 punch of Great Expectations followed by Moby Dick. Dicken's writing style was extremely tedious to me, and then Moby Dick just put my reading hobby on life support. I've heard both are better reads as adults, maybe I'll pick them up again.....one day

Really?? I LOVED Great Expectations!

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78 - all or in part.

I can't say I've read the entire new testament.

Can't say I enjoyed them all, but some were quite good. This isn't exactly the most highbrow list.

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28. But I tend to read classics and some bestsellers.

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I've read at least 62.5 of them. ("Suitable Boy" was really long so I only got about halfway through.) I've also read much of Shakespeare, but not the ENTIRE works, so I didn't count that at all.

Very random list, though.

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27 for me, but I completely believe that the average is about 6.

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There's a duplicate - Complete works of Shakespeare, and then Hamlet later on down the list. I counted both!

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I've read quite a few of them and loved several of them. LOVE To Kill a Mockingbird. Just re-read it as an adult and it still stands as a great book, imo.

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12 all the way through for sure.

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48 in total, several others in part. Don't know how to count Ulysses, since I supposedly read the whole thing in college but never understood a word.

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59 ... but this list is odd, has duplicates, and many questionable inclusions.

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Anonymous wrote:59 ... but this list is odd, has duplicates, and many questionable inclusions.

I've read 60 of these. I thought the same thing. The Five People You Meet in Heaven, for example, would have been used as toilet paper than reading material--ugh!