Book list - have you read six of these?
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Anonymous
That's not the same list. What I wonder is how/why they came up with their "most people will have read only six books on this list" statement. |
Anonymous
| I'd already read six of the first ten due to high school assignments... people have to have at least read those! |
Anonymous
That's a different list. I only read 23 of those books (vs 36 of the other list) |
Anonymous
I'm guessing Moby Dick. |
Anonymous
| 36 that I can say I read, finished, and still remember some of. There were a number of others that I started but didn't get into so didn't finish. And then of course there's the Complete Works of Shakespeare and the Bible, both of which I've read decent chunks of, but by no means all. (I actually tried to read all of the Bible one summer in College, but didn't make it all that far. All of the who-begat-whos and cubit measurements for the temple defeated my interest.) |
Anonymous
| Midnight's Children was way better than Satanic Verses. |
Anonymous
| 41 plus about 7 more that I read part but not all. (PP, agree that Complete Shakespeare is ridiculous.) |
Anonymous
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50, and a bunch of them are my favorites like:
A Confederacy of Dunces Tess of the D'Urbervilles Vanity Fair Jane Eyre Pride & Prejudice Love In the Time of Cholera I kind of love Bridget Jones's Diary, too... It IS Pride & Prejudice!!!! |
Anonymous
| 54. Now that I'm in my 40s I'm reading some of these for the second time. Thanks for posting the list -- reminds me of some I have been meaning to read. Agree that some of these will not encourage a love of reading in the young. My son I think will have to read Moby Dick in high school. Afraid of what it will do to his already negligible interest in reading. |
Anonymous
My all time favorite. Read it several times and always LOL. |
Anonymous
I know! It is the BEST book. I always, always, always recommend it as a book that someone should read if they haven't read it. Very sad story about John Kennedy O'Toole and the book getting published. |
Anonymous
*Toole... I don't know why I put the O' in... Now I keep thinking O'Doyle RULES! |
Anonymous
| 68 for me. It helps that I'm a fan of both Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy and that I've lived in England. |
Anonymous
I read his other book, Neon Bible and it was totally different. |
Anonymous
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Re: Confederacy of Dunces... that's one I didn't count, because I just couldn't get into it. What do people like about it? Does it get better after the first few chapters?
Also, I hear a lot of love for Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but have never read any. Can someone tell me what kind of stories they are, and what you love about them? |