100 novels everyone should read
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It's very UK centric - OK, there is a Samuel Clements in there, but only the one I could see. A US "classic books" list probably wouldn't mean a lot to UK readers either.
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And then there's those of us who don't give an elephant about any "classic books" list and just read whatever catches our attention. Because life's too short to care about what other people think you should read.
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I've read 8 for definite, a few more I think I may have read but cannot remember them at all. Another I am half way through (Tristam Shandy), another I gave up on (Lord of the Rings), three I have seen the film but not read, and my grandmother has always lived in Eliot Drive named after George Eliot.
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#28: Does it count if you've heard Tom Jones in concert? (Terrific experience BTW - that old geezer can certainly keep up the pace) Seriously: I consider myself an educated person and have read MANY classics - but not very many on this list. I guess the fight for what books come into top 100 is quite hard. I'm somewhat surprised that there is no Jules Verne and no Shakespeare on the list... :confused: One book on the list that I HAVE read, though, is "Don Quixote" by Cervantes (all 900 pages), and I can safely say that - although an interesting experience - the reputation of that book is WAY overrated. It's definitely not good enough to put it in the top 10! :doh:
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Only read one (39. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe)
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I've read 8, seen few more as movies, if you count watching the movie. I think there are a number of books that should have been mentioned over what was presented. Other than HG Wells, Mary Shelly or Douglas Adams where were the some of the other notable Sci Fi writers? Phillip K Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury. Too many books, too many books...
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Nagy Vilmos wrote:
100 novels everyone should read normal people only read under duress
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Do you read eBooks or papeback ?
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#28: Does it count if you've heard Tom Jones in concert? (Terrific experience BTW - that old geezer can certainly keep up the pace) Seriously: I consider myself an educated person and have read MANY classics - but not very many on this list. I guess the fight for what books come into top 100 is quite hard. I'm somewhat surprised that there is no Jules Verne and no Shakespeare on the list... :confused: One book on the list that I HAVE read, though, is "Don Quixote" by Cervantes (all 900 pages), and I can safely say that - although an interesting experience - the reputation of that book is WAY overrated. It's definitely not good enough to put it in the top 10! :doh:
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21. I'm appalled that the Foundation Trilogy by Asimov (or Asimov's I Robot series) is not on that list! Marc
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I've read magister ludi when I was on a Herman Hesse binge in college, but I'd never put it on a must read list.
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megaadam wrote:
heard about a singer called Tom Jones?
It's not unusual! ;)
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With my reading habits I was surprised that I have read about nine and started (add abandoned) another three.
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And then there's those of us who don't give an elephant about any "classic books" list and just read whatever catches our attention. Because life's too short to care about what other people think you should read.
What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.
Right on. I've read one book from that list, The Lord of the Rings. Which is actually 3 books, but apparently that doesn't matter. I've read plenty of programming books from cover to cover at 1200-1500 pages each. But novels? I simply don't have enough time to sit down and read them. What does he do for a living?
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10; normally on a list like that I'd score around 20....
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