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100 novels everyone should read
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/4248401/100-novels-everyone-should-read.html
got me a bit worried that I hadn't read any of them until I got further down the list. But discovered I had read at least 9, and listened to another 10 on Radio.
There is hope for me yet! :)
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I've read 30+ of those including two of my favourites 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' and 'The Grapes of Wrath'. I couldn't finish 'Oscar and Lucinda' - just found it pretty dull.
Yes, Jenny, I do object to the word 'should' in the title.
Maybe they ought to include Shakespeare's plays, like Macbeth, my favourite.
Later edit: Nope, didn't read La Nausee. It was Les Mains Sales; and Huis Clos.
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:yuEiQ-ePT8MJ:www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml+%22Top+100+books%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=uk
Guardian (top 100):
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:xPeQTmP3ensJ:www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/may/08/books.booksnews+%22Top+100+books%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=uk
Any interesting differences in the three lists?
And Best Gay Read (top '10'):
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:KnpoJvdX230J:www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/may/11/gayrights.books+%22Best+Gay+Read%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=uk
And I've read all of the first Jay list, the Big Read one, except Pillars of the Earth
and only 21 of the third list - clearly I don't read enough in translation...
Oh crikey, read 5 on the gay list!!!
6 on the second.
a few books not on that list that should be:
The Bourne Identity, Supremacy and Ultimatum (Brilliant!! finished Identity yesterday and am a quarter of the way thru supremacy!)
on the big read 22...
and the guardian only the shakespeares- King Lear and Othello
I've read ten from the Big Read, but none of the others. Oh well there's still time, I'm only 14. Be 15 in june, and that's during my work experience...
still say the Bourne Books are the best books i have read in a while
but what set work books at school are not boring?!
For example I did Macbeth for 'A' level and I love it, it is still one of my favorite plays although I am not a huge Shakespeare fan.
Harry Potter was ok up to the end of the Order of the Pheonix and then I gave up.
I don't like Jane Austin I find her boring.
We are all different and I have to say I really don't like people telling me what I should read.
OOC that sounds like a fun essay, at least you arent having to read 'Sons and Lovers' that has to be the worst book by the worst author ever. Pity he was a local lad.
Have to admit, when I left school my parents bought me a present. I asked for the complete works of Shakespeare, and read a lot of the plays and poems in it.
I still have the book upstairs somewhere.
i'm sure you'll do fine on the essay...just remember to back yourself up with lots and lots of quotes!!! ;)
64 of the big read
29 of the guardian
4 of the gay list
I read a lot
6 - Telegraph
18 - The big read (only 'cos they have loads of childrens books)
4 - the guardian
1 - The gay list (Trumpet - Jackie Kay)
Two of those lists had Toni Morrison's 'Beloved', a book I hate, hate, hate with a passion!
That's embarrassing! I'm off to go read now...
Anyway, round up umm...
13 - Telegraph (yep I read another one since I posted 12 :P)
37 - Big Read
11 - Guardian