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09-26-2006, 07:00 PM
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Originally Posted by bluefish81
I haven't read much from this list:
Two of my favorites aren't on here: East of Eden and In Cold Blood. I wonder if In Cold Blood isn't listed because it's considered a non-fiction novel.
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I've always had a hard time getting through East of Eden...I don't know why. I have to say I'm disappointed that there's no Jane Austen...who's one of the best, in my opinion.
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09-26-2006, 07:06 PM
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Originally Posted by OtterXO
I've always had a hard time getting through East of Eden...I don't know why. I have to say I'm disappointed that there's no Jane Austen...who's one of the best, in my opinion.
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The list is from 1923 and on.
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09-26-2006, 07:09 PM
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The list is from 1923 and on.
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LOL....I didn't even notice that part of it even though I printed out the damn list.
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09-26-2006, 07:18 PM
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Read all of those. I really loved Things Fall Apart and Slaughterhouse Five. I'm a big fan of Vonnegut's, but personally, Galapagos is my favorite of his works. Like Buttonz and everyone else said, I'm surprised that Brave New World didn't make the list. Also, I was kind of expecting to see Kafka's Metamorphosis or Camus's The Stranger somewhere on the list.
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I didn't like Metamorphosis or The Stranger that much....
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I am also suprised about a Brave New World.
The Stranger was originally in french so that's why it was left off the list. I am guessing Metamorphosis is also a translated work.
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Your right, it was a translated work if I remeber right....I read it in Eng 52...*shudder*
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09-26-2006, 10:52 PM
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14, none of which I've read since graduating high school. If I had been required to take literature classes in college, I'd probably have more.
I'm actually a pretty voracious reader.
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09-26-2006, 11:36 PM
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Originally Posted by KLPDaisy
Is Night considered to be a novel or an autobiographical work? I always thought it was the latter, which would explain why it didn't make the list.
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I'll bet that's their explanation - but it's still excellent. I toyed with adding The Diary of Anne Frank, but realized that wasn't in English, either. I would've included it as most non-Jewish people's first experience with the Holocaust.
AEPHiSierra, did you like The Painted Bird? It made me physically ill - and I think you know the scene.
Munchkin03, I somehow expected you to be very well read. Unfortunately, I'll read anything at hand. Well, almost anything.
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09-27-2006, 06:14 AM
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All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume
Beloved
Toni Morrison
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
Deliverance
James Dickey
The French Lieutenant's Woman
John Fowles
Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
1984
George Orwell
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
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Ken Kesey
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Addmittedly, the majority were for lit classes in high school and college.
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09-27-2006, 07:28 AM
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I read 13 of them, only a couple since college. I'm a big fan of Fitzgerald, and The Great Gatsby is my favorite book, so I'm glad to see it made the list.
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09-27-2006, 08:22 AM
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Munchkin03, I somehow expected you to be very well read. Unfortunately, I'll read anything at hand. Well, almost anything.
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I consider myself to be very well-read as well.
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09-27-2006, 11:04 AM
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KLPDaisy - Metamorphosis was originally written in German and I'm pretty sure that it was also written prior to the 1923 cut off. I agree that if the language parameters were broader, it would likely have been included...I didn't particularly like the book, but I found it interesting and well written.
I was happy to see The Sun Also Rises on the list. I am a huge Hemingway fan.
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[QUOTE=honeychile;132
[i]An American Tragedy[/i]
Theodore Dreiser
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
A Death in the Family
James Agee
Go Tell it on the Mountain
James Baldwin
Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers
Light in August
William Faulkner
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Native Son
Richard Wright
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
A Passage to India
E.M. Forster
Rabbit, Run
John Updike
Ragtime
E.L. Doctorow
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
These are the ones that I have read so far. I liked most of them. I hated "Beloved", forced myself through it.
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09-28-2006, 11:20 AM
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AEPHiSierra, did you like The Painted Bird? It made me physically ill - and I think you know the scene.
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I don't really remember that much about it. I read in the 8th grade when we had to choose from a list of holcaust books to write a report on it. I just remember it being very graphic but thinking it was a pretty good book. I think you just have to have the right stomac for it.
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09-28-2006, 05:08 PM
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I've read 25 of those. Margaret Atwood is my favorite author so I'm glad The Blind Assassin "made the cut", but I think some of her other books are better. Also, I love Tropic of Cancer. I was reading it once and someone asked me what class it was for - I told them I was reading it "for fun" and they laughed at me.
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09-28-2006, 07:20 PM
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do movies count?
seriously, I have read a few of those - others are on my list to read that I should have read when i was younger (I just finshed Go Tell it on the Mountain w/in the last week).
I can't believe White Teeth was on there - I i wouldn't consider that a great novel - when clearly others were left off the list (Sula by Toni Morrison), but glad to see Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret on there - I LOVED that book! Judy Blume was just the best back then.
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09-28-2006, 09:04 PM
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I've read 25 of those. Margaret Atwood is my favorite author so I'm glad The Blind Assassin "made the cut", but I think some of her other books are better. Also, I love Tropic of Cancer. I was reading it once and someone asked me what class it was for - I told them I was reading it "for fun" and they laughed at me.
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I haven't read The Blind Assassin, can you give me a small summary? I did like A Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake very much
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