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