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RE: Have you read these books?
March 14, 2011 at 1:52 pm
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(March 14, 2011 at 1:21 pm)theVOID Wrote: (March 14, 2011 at 1:04 pm)Shell B Wrote: *gasp* You've never read Dune, Adrian?
One of my favorites. The 6 part TV series was also epic, better than the movie.
I was not pleased with the movie. I hope they come out with another one, so it won't forever be horribly old school in my mind. I didn't see the Dune miniseries, but I did see the Children of Dune miniseries.
The book is definitely one of my favorites.
(March 14, 2011 at 1:28 pm)Sam Wrote: Not too bad I think ... Some great books on this list 
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Actually, you read quite a few. There are definitely some good books on this list, but some made me scratch my head.
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March 14, 2011 at 2:11 pm
Hmmm, about Dune, I was never really able to get into it. While I enjoy outright fantasy, for some reason I choke on fantasy that sells itself as science fiction on too thin a veneer of science.
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RE: Have you read these books?
March 14, 2011 at 2:23 pm
(March 14, 2011 at 2:11 pm)Chuck Wrote: Hmmm, about Dune, I was never really able to get into it. While I enjoy outright fantasy, for some reason I choke on fantasy that sells itself as science fiction on too thin a veneer of science.
Well, it's a lot like Star Wars in the way that you can't have too much "real" science, as it would take away from the story. What are the chances that the entire universe would operate on Earthly science? That being said, there was a lot of Earth science (literally) in Dune. If you're looking for "The Time Traveler" type science, you won't find it, but if you don't mind a little climatology and political science, Dune doesn't lack for that.
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March 14, 2011 at 3:41 pm
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The Ones I Read:
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Score: 39
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RE: Have you read these books?
March 14, 2011 at 3:44 pm
(March 14, 2011 at 1:52 pm)Shell B Wrote: Actually, you read quite a few. There are definitely some good books on this list, but some made me scratch my head.
Haha, Thanks. The problem is I could spend most of my life reading and never get anything else done  . You didn't do badly yourself Shell.
There were some strange choices on there. I wonder if they'd tried to blend between modern/classic and different genres while compiling it or something like that.
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March 14, 2011 at 3:47 pm
(March 14, 2011 at 3:44 pm)Sam Wrote: There were some strange choices on there. I wonder if they'd tried to blend between modern/classic and different genres while compiling it or something like that.
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March 14, 2011 at 3:53 pm
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(March 14, 2011 at 2:23 pm)Shell B Wrote: Well, it's a lot like Star Wars in the way that you can't have too much "real" science, as it would take away from the story.
Star wars was enjoyable as a breezy 2 hours of mental passivity interrupted by moderately funny sight gags in front of the boob tube. But I probably won't enjoy it if I associated with a slightly more serious effort of actually reading the book
(March 14, 2011 at 2:23 pm)Shell B Wrote: What are the chances that the entire universe would operate on Earthly science?
I am too pendantic to overlook the fact that humans can't even exist, much less evolve, where laws revealed by science operates just very slightly differently from how they do on earth.
(March 14, 2011 at 2:23 pm)Shell B Wrote: That being said, there was a lot of Earth science (literally) in Dune. If you're looking for "The Time Traveler" type science, you won't find it, but if you don't mind a little climatology and political science, Dune doesn't lack for that.
I have to give it another try.
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March 15, 2011 at 7:12 am
I have done about average alas, I do aim to read more books on the list in following months.
6 The Bible
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
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RE: Have you read these books?
March 15, 2011 at 9:29 am
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller Didn't like it.
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare Not all, but a lot.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger still reading it actually.
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy.
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth.
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt.
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle but not all of them.
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
32/100 in a quick count.
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RE: Have you read these books?
March 15, 2011 at 5:02 pm
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(March 14, 2011 at 3:53 pm)Chuck Wrote: Star wars was enjoyable as a breezy 2 hours of mental passivity interrupted by moderately funny sight gags in front of the boob tube. But I probably won't enjoy it if I associated with a slightly more serious effort of actually reading the book.
I'm not a Star Wars fan myself. I didn't hate it. I just didn't love it. (Don't tell anyone.)
(March 14, 2011 at 3:53 pm)Chuck Wrote: I am too pendantic to overlook the fact that humans can't even exist, much less evolve, where laws revealed by science operates just very slightly differently from how they do on earth.
That's where the fiction part comes in.
(March 14, 2011 at 3:53 pm)Chuck Wrote: I have to give it another try.
I'm happy to hear it.
(March 15, 2011 at 7:12 am)Atman Wrote: I have done about average alas, I do aim to read more books on the list in following months.
6 The Bible
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
It's a stupid way to measure anything, anyway. Someone could be extremely well-read and have never touched any of these books.
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