This book list makes me feel like an idiot.

[twistchi36]

So I started thinking about what books I should read and I did a search on yahoo for the 100 best books ever. I can't believe how few of them I've read.

www.the-bookman.com/main/Best.books.html

I also found other lists but I've read even less of those books.

Steve

[stopnowbegin]

i've read at least 23. there's a few others on there that i can't remember if i've read the book or if i just saw the movie and thought i read the book.

I'm surprised the Handmaid's Tale won out over 1984 but if you got on the stereotypical assumption about libarians being females I guess it makes sense.

If you want a recommendation and if you haven't read it yet, Catch 22 is excellent, excellent.

[twistchi36]

yea i probable saw like 20 or so on tv or broadway. but only read like 5. i've read hundreds of books, i love reading, but i'm just amazed at what classics i havn't read.

[crashzero]

there's more steinbecks than hemingways

i'm not tryin' to say, i'm just sayin'...

[twistchi36]

Just as many Tolkiens and Kings as Hemingways.

[crashzero]

and he's america's greatest writer?

[carkey]

i dont think that is a very good list of the best books ever written

but thats just my opinion

-carla

[twistchi36]

yea there are other ones. here is another:

www.adherents.com/people/100_novel.html


one of the ones i found had neuromancer, the book straylight run got their name from. the first one was based on survey's by librarians. the 2nd one is from a professor.

[Dead Poetic]

Haha, I've read 6 of those books on the top list. Mainly the classics like Wuthering Heights and Rebecca on my degree course.

[Mojo]

carkey395 said:

i dont think that is a very good list of the best books ever written

but thats just my opinion

-carla

Yeah, I don't think so either. But I don't know, I tend to prefer classics over newer books and that list didn't have so many classics.



I read constantly, and I hardly even read any on those lists. It's weird.