luckydevil Posted October 22, 2005 Share Posted October 22, 2005 http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html How many have you read? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrockster21 Posted October 22, 2005 Share Posted October 22, 2005 I've read 9 of them: Beloved, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Lord of the Rings, Catch-22, The Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe, Lord of the Flies and Slaughterhouse Five. The list is bull**** though, because it doesn't include the best novel of all time, Dune. And one of my personal favorites, which should be on there in my opinion, Shogun. That's a hard ass list to make, though!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prosperity Posted October 22, 2005 Share Posted October 22, 2005 I read 10 of them, but the list missed some of my favorites Animal Farm Catch-22 The Catcher in the Rye A Clockwork Orange The Great Gatsby Lord of the Flies LOTR 1984 Their Eyes Were Watching God To Kill a Mockingbird Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinsfan1311 Posted October 22, 2005 Share Posted October 22, 2005 I read 9 of 'em.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted October 22, 2005 Share Posted October 22, 2005 15... and I have a few more at home that I never did get around to reading. 1984 Invisible Man There Eyes Were Watching God LOTR The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe Beloved Passage To India The Sound And The Fury A Light In August To The Lighhouse The Assisstant The Great Gatsby The Sun Also Rises Slaughterhouse-Five Animal Farm (I have Catch 22, Things Fall Apart, and To Kill A Mocking Bird lying around at home) And I've seen a bunch of others as movies (I'm sure most of us have though) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iheartskins Posted October 22, 2005 Share Posted October 22, 2005 Beloved Catcher in the Rye A Death in the Family Grapes of Wrath Great Gatsby Herzog I, Claudius Invisible Man Lord of the Flies Mrs. Dalloway Native Son One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The Sun Also Rises Their Eyes Were Watching God Things Fall Apart To Kill a Mockingbird Watchmen (how the f did this make the list?!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman Spiff Posted October 22, 2005 Share Posted October 22, 2005 How's the Godfather not on there? Judy Blume is on there? No Ayn Rand? WTF? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cdowwe Posted October 22, 2005 Share Posted October 22, 2005 6 of them, high school and college forced all of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinsfan1311 Posted October 22, 2005 Share Posted October 22, 2005 How's the Godfather not on there? Judy Blume is on there? No Ayn Rand? WTF? Agreed....but...like so many of these types of lists...it's purely subjective... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ignatius J. Posted October 22, 2005 Share Posted October 22, 2005 18 of them. I'm a little suprised that most of these are high school reading. you'd think the BEST books would be a little more advanced than that. These are english novels though. There are several novels that would be on that list if it were international. No love for joyce even though his drinking buddy Flan O'brian made it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gichin13 Posted October 22, 2005 Share Posted October 22, 2005 33. And a bunch on the list in my mind should not be on there and I regret wasting my time. Thomas Pynchon -- he can get clipped in my books. No Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner? Big missing item. Loved the Godfather, not sure I could put it on my list. No Dickins? Not a Dickins fan but I am amazed not even Tale of Two Cities or Christmas Carol made the list, that is simply bizarre. Amazed that Philip Dick and Neuromancer made the list and Dune did not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mufumonk Posted October 22, 2005 Share Posted October 22, 2005 19......... Animal Farm Catch-22 The Catcher in the Rye A Clockwork Orange The Grapes of Wrath The Great Gatsby I, Claudius Invisible Man The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe Lord of the Flies The Lord of the Rings Native Son Neuromancer - William Gibson rocks 1984 Slaughterhouse-Five Snow Crash - Another great novel in the mold of Neuromancer The Sun Also Rises To Kill a Mockingbird Ubik - I thought A Scanner Darkly was better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrockster21 Posted October 22, 2005 Share Posted October 22, 2005 Amazed that Philip Dick and Neuromancer made the list and Dune did not. I know, right?? Dune is an amazing novel -- my all time favorite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted October 22, 2005 Share Posted October 22, 2005 Remember also that these are only 1923 and after. So Dickens' novels would probably not make it. Same as Austen and other classics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuckinIA Posted October 22, 2005 Share Posted October 22, 2005 Do Cliff Notes count? I think I have read 17 or so. I am too lazy to type out which ones; however, my favorite uncool novel being The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon. Of course LOTR and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe are more entertaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ignatius J. Posted October 22, 2005 Share Posted October 22, 2005 stuckin - "uncool" ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuckinIA Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 stuckin - "uncool" ?? Something you may have to read for school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
number twenty-eight Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 I read 14 of these. I never realized Midnight's Children was so highly regarded. The Moor's Last Sigh is pretty good also by Rushdie. Hard to take this list seriously without any Marquez. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Lamb Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 some of those choices are weak. they left some really good books out. i have read a couple but its not enough to make them worth repeating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwpanic Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 suprised to see "lucky jim" made the list. awesome book, but most people have never heard of it. definitely worth checking out if you like british humor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chomerics Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 Animal Farm All the King's Men Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Catch-22 The Catcher in the Rye A Clockwork Orange Deliverance Gone With the Wind The Grapes of Wrath The Great Gatsby I, Claudius The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe Lolita Lord of the Flies The Lord of the Rings 1984 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Rabbit, Run Slaughterhouse-Five The Sound and the Fury The Sun Also Rises To Kill a Mockingbird 22 total here. . . I agree with Gitchen, No Dickens??? Here are a few "classics" that SHOULD have been on the list. Moby Dick (How could this be omitted???) A Tale of Two Cities Robinson Crusoe Ulysses Farenheight 451 Some of my favorites that I would have put there Heart of Darkness The Stand Name of the Rose Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Dune The World According to Garp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[MasterShake] Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 I dont read much, Im not into that however I do know the book called "The Client" is a good book you guys should read it, also the book called "All Around The Town" thats a cool book too. I had to read both of those books my senior year in english. Also Im not into Harry Potter, but everyone tends to enjoy those books Im not sure why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gichin13 Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 I read 14 of these. I never realized Midnight's Children was so highly regarded. The Moor's Last Sigh is pretty good also by Rushdie.Hard to take this list seriously without any Marquez. Think it was English language novels or Marquez would have a couple on there (at least One Hundred Years of Solitude, that is my favorite novel ever). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbear Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 6, but I've read most of what everybody else is saying should be on the list but isn't. The 2 I am most surprised didn't make the list because they are great social commentaries: Foundation series by Asimov (if LOTR is on as one, this should be) Fountainhead (made me think more than any other novel I have ever read) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 So was Lolita originally in English? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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