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Off Topic => General Off Topic => Topic started by: Falka on April 13, 2014, 11:26:58 pm
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http://www.listchallenges.com/kaunismina-bbc-6-books-challenge
The BBC believes that most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books below. I have read at least 38 :P
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Two and a half (never read Bible in the full, mostly read parts of it on many occasions)
This could easily be a movie list...
Not enough real classics, mostly anglo-saxon fan favorites.
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23, mostly for school (elementary to high school). It's been so long I don't even remember half of wtf happened in them though.
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25 for sure, bits of others, and a couple that I am not sure (read books by those authors but can't remember whether it was that one or a different one, also some translations may be different)
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Not enough real classics, mostly anglo-saxon fan favorites.
Hm, there're at least 6-7 positions which were required reading in my school and a few others which were mentioned though were unobligatory. The british or mericans I'm sure have read much more of those in school, there's around 10 books of Jane Auston :rolleyes:
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Well barely any, if I look back on what I was reading in schools etc, it was more about Hungarian novels and the like.
But I wasn't cheating like all the other bastards. I actually did read the damn books.
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Hm, there're at least 6-7 positions which were required reading in my school and a few others which were mentioned though were unobligatory. The british or mericans I'm sure have read much more of those in school, there's around 10 books of Jane Auston :rolleyes:
That's what synopsis is for :P
I've rarely read books that didn't interest me (Antigone was one of those).
They haven't included Don Quixote for example or other Shakespeare works. Also no Mark Twain.
Also no Hemingway... must be because he was buddy with Castro :lol:
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Btw, funny article I've found: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/markmason/100054373/how-many-books-will-you-read-in-your-lifetime/
"Meanwhile a prize for the fewest books ever read might see David Beckham amongst its contenders. In his early twenties he claimed to have read only one, on an England trip to Moldova. He couldn’t remember the title." What's even more funny that he has written - with a little help but still - more books than he has read :P
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only 10 of those. But then its just a random list :D have read 100s of books and many classics like war of the worlds, don quioxte, casino royale etc. Odd that it lists Hamlet but not say Romeo :P
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Wouldn't rate half of those books as 'must reads'. A lot of Pocket Shop top 100 books though.
Read 31 of em.
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30+ and a few i saw as films, also i got a small library of my own, roughly 800 books whereby perhaps 750 of them i read, some of those many times.
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All of them, at the same time.
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wtf is book
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^^^ damnit i was gonna say that
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30+ and a few i saw as films, also i got a small library of my own, roughly 800 books whereby perhaps 750 of them i read, some of those many times.
If I count synopsis as reading...I've read 90% of those, but i've never start to finish read them. Watched movies on them as well.
Got a 15(score?), based on JUST READING.
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9 but those were the books I am actually interested in. I would never read the rest. However I read books everyday just not that weird stuff.
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2
who reads books nigga
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14; although I remember probably 11 and there's a couple on there I had actually planned to get to.
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6, omg how did BBC know
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Only 5, i better start reading some classics :oops:
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6, omg how did BBC know
#illuminati
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only 2
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10, but mostly because school and shit, I prefer reading historical fiction otherwise and there's not a lot of those in that list
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1 :oops:
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0
i cant read!
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Around 4
I don't read classics.
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the chronicles of narnia? the great gatsby? why would i even think about reading those?
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9.
I do plan to read quite a few of those in the future, though.
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the chronicles of narnia? the great gatsby? why would i even think about reading those?
I have no interest in reading Chronicles of Narnia, Alice and Wonderland (maybe), Watership down, etc.
You read the Great Gatsby to feel bad about being poor obviously.
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5 :?
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13. The whole list is quite based on English/American titles, which could be expected of course. Also wondering why the bible is there, it doesn't really fit with the rest :P
Also some I have started to read but didn't like them at all, so didn't count them.
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6. Not all of em are a must read I completely agree and im pretty sure everybodies countries produce quite solid literature aswell. Some that probably even surpass some of the "must-read" classics that are on this page, but will probably never gain worldwide recognition.
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the chronicles of narnia? the great gatsby? why would i even think about reading those?
I think that most of these books either you read as a kid/teenager or don't read at all. The chronicles of narnia are for kids, so if you're 20+ ofc you'd rather not find them entertaining. Same with books like Count of monte cristo, Les Miserables or Moby dick, even though they weren't suposed to be for kids only.
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5, tho id be surprised if not everyone has read those lol
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Count of monte cristo, Les Miserables or Moby dick, even though they weren't suposed to be for kids only.
I'm not sure have I read Moby dick or not. Fairly sure I have read it as a kid, but almost completely forgot about it. Same goes for other books on that list.
What I'm sure of, is that I've read Alice in Wonderland and Hamlet because both are fucked up books, easy to remember.
Les Miserables haven't read tho, only synopsis for school. Prefer spanish literature to french tbh.
What's funny is that I'm not the only person who have read very few of those books. Consider myself as a person who doesn't like to read novels. That doesn't mean I don't read at all, just different stuff.
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Exactly 6 for me. Funny enough, none of them are by Russian autors.
upd: oh it's actually 8. I was wondering why isn't Scherlock Holmes in this list and then noticed its there, also Winnie the Pooh :D
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That list is a limited mix of "classics" and bestsellers of the previous 5 years. I've read 32 of them, most from the classics part (and most of those for school). I read a lot, but mostly nonfiction nowadays.
Don't feel bad if you haven't read a lot from that list. It's a dumb list.
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8 and feel myself like a bumpkin.
Used to read books when I was a teenager, read a lot of science fiction like Ray Bradbury, Clifford Simak and Robert Sheckley (which is my fav writer ever). But since I've got PC, i do not reading that much anymore. I think I have read maybe 20 books in last ten years :(
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8 of this list
is there a similar list of "How many of these porn videos have you watched"?
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10, but mostly because school and shit, I prefer reading historical fiction otherwise and there's not a lot of those in that list
You might like Sven Hassle :D
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6 - The Bible
infidels.
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http://www.listchallenges.com/kaunismina-bbc-6-books-challenge
The BBC believes that most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books below. I have read at least 38 :P
22, I need 20 more.
Douglas Adams is the best ever.
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Obviously books for the western world. So the bible is part of it and while I don't believe in any kind of religion, I've read the bible too. ^^
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Obviously books for the western world. So the bible is part of it and while I don't believe in any kind of religion, I've read the bible too. ^^
Excuse me sir/ma'am, do you have a moment to talk about THE GODKING PARTYBOY?
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What.
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4 - There's a couple of books which I didn't count in. We had to read them for school but I only read them half or until we were done with the topic in class.
Still I wonder why they picked Shakespeare's Hamlet (which seems like a random pick to me) while on the other hand they demand that you read all of the Harry Potter crap.
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It's the BBC, don't expect too much.
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I read the bible up until a certain part where it went on for pages talking about people who had sons, and their sons, and they lived for ~1000 years etc. and it went on and on like that for ages. I never got to any of the good parts.
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I read the bible up until a certain part where it went on for pages talking about people who had sons, and their sons, and they lived for ~1000 years etc. and it went on and on like that for ages. I never got to any of the good parts.
This is, word for word, my experience reading the Bible. Next stop Mein Kampf, for the "most unreadable book ever" award.
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Only 4 for me. Have seen movie adaptation for like 10 of those books. I should atleast read Dune and Great Gatsby from that list. :oops:
Also list is missing good stuff like: "The Old Man and the Sea", "The Alchemist" and "The Picture of Dorian Gray".
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is there a similar list of "How many of these porn videos have you watched"?
Uh I'm pretty sure that BBC isn't the one in the OP :mrgreen:
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No kurt vonnegut, hunter s thompson, mark twain or george rr martin...?
Bad list!!!
I've only read 2 from that list, and I'm proud!
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This is basically the "what you are told to read in school" list. Most of those books couldn't interest me less, and most of them are also pretty crappy, despite their "cult" status. I read ~2 books a week usually and I only had 6 on that list, like I said before.
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got score :21
Who in thei right mind would make a list where you put Dune,Lord of the Flies,Orwell,Tolkien etc.. next to "The Diary of Bridget Jones" or" DaVinci Code"
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10, but mostly because school and shit, I prefer reading historical fiction otherwise and there's not a lot of those in that list
this
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7
thanks to Tolkien and french classics
Bible : old or new testament ? :rolleyes:
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Only 34. However, I am pretty sure I've read lot of great books that are not on the list. The list is too Anglo centric, not enough Russian or German classics there, and many very important books are missing. For example, no Gilgamesh, Illiad, Odissey, Mahabharata, Romance of the Three Kingdoms etc. There is only one Dostoyevski book, but every bullshit Dickens ever wrote is on the list. The Bible is there, but Qur'an isn't etc.
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Imagine a world where The Art of War and Rendezvous with Rama would be mandatory choices on lists as his one.
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Why the Art of War? What's good about the Book of the Most Obvious Statements Ever?
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I scored 25 and thought I was embarrassingly low, since at least 3/4 of the books I haven't read I've been meaning to get around to.
Then I read this thread LOL @ illiterate europeans, no wonder American culture has taken over as the dominant force worldwide, EUs nowadays seem imcapable of appreciating or creating anything that isn't a pastiche of American reality TV nowadays
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Which books have you read? List them and we can then discuss their literary merits and whether there might be better books out there or not.
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Tim Willocks is the proof you are wrong
Some NAs (you) nowadays seem incapable of appreciating anything that isn t from America
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You don't understand, Smoothrich thinks that Bridget Jones’s Diary is the best book of all. A must read. Intellectual and stuff.
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Most of those books couldn't interest me less, and most of them are also pretty crappy, despite their "cult" status.
HOw can you know that if you haven't read them? :P I don't say they all or even most of them are "must read" - even if there is such thing as books you "have to" read - or the best books in the history of literature, but most of those which I have read were pretty good. Ofc I have read them when I was a teenager, since then my taste in books has changed and today I don't think I'd enjoy reading let's say The three musketeers as much as I did years ago (or have enough perseverance to read War and peace :P).
Also, what does it mean that book is "crappy". I had a great time reading Harry potter or The da Vinci code even though for "critics" it's probably kitsch for kids :P Mind you, I don't say these books should be considered as classics or whatever, but in their own class they're great books according to me.
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I scored 25 and thought I was embarrassingly low, since at least 3/4 of the books I haven't read I've been meaning to get around to.
Then I read this thread LOL @ illiterate europeans, no wonder American culture has taken over as the dominant force worldwide, EUs nowadays seem imcapable of appreciating or creating anything that isn't a pastiche of American reality TV nowadays
What is really embarrassing is your failure to realize that most EU's have a different first language than English and that this list is hardly a worthy reading list for an American, let alone a European. You might find this astonishing, but the English language is not the only language that books get written in and this list consists nearly exclusively out of English language 'classics', not even very good ones. Looking at this list I reached 4 just from the 6 books I had to read for English class in high school, a small number compared to about 30 books I had to read in Dutch.
I dare to call myself an avid reader and I got 11, and I am not at all ashamed of that.
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Then I read this thread LOL @ illiterate europeans,
Reading Statistics
Total percent of U.S. population that has specific reading disorders 15%
Total percentage of american adults who can’t understand the labels on their prescriptions 46%
Total percentage of U.S. adults who are unable to read an 8th grade level book 50%
Total percent of U.S. high school graduates who will never read a book after high school 33%
Total percentage of college students who will never read another book after they graduate 42%
Total percentage of U.S. families who did not buy a book this year 80%
Total percentage of adults that have not been in a book store in the past 5 years 70%
Total number of U.S. inmates that are literate 15%
USA! USA! :mrgreen:
PS. tbh I doubt Eu statistics are better :wink:
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Which books have you read? List them and we can then discuss their literary merits and whether there might be better books out there or not.
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That list is terrible. It's a pop-chart of books. They let you pick between Bieber and Gaga of literature :( Most of this stuff you either "read" in school or read as a child. Both instances do not count as actual reading imo.
Chronicles of Narnia ?!
Winnie the Pooh - wtf?!
The Da Vinci Code - LOL
Bridget Jones’s Diary ? fuck you
Oliver Twist ?! are you shitting me?!
Adventures of mfcking Sherlock Holmes...
The Three Musketeers - holy shit
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory...
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - where is Harry Potter on that list?
And they mix in such titles as:
Les Miserables
War and Peace
Madame Bovary
Bleak House
How can they do that?.. It's like mixing beluga caviar with coca-cola flavored fudge. Disgusting.
If someone, as an adult, read all these 100 titles, it means only one thing - that someone has no taste.
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That list is terrible. It's a pop-chart of books. They let you pick between Bieber and Gaga of literature :( Most of this stuff you either "read" in school or read as a child. Both instances do not count as actual reading imo.
Chronicles of Narnia ?!
Winnie the Pooh - wtf?!
The Da Vinci Code - LOL
Bridget Jones’s Diary ? fuck you
Oliver Twist ?! are you shitting me?!
Adventures of mfcking Sherlock Holmes...
The Three Musketeers - holy shit
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory...
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - where is Harry Potter on that list?
And they mix in such titles as:
Les Miserables
War and Peace
Madame Bovary
Bleak House
How can they do that?.. It's like mixing beluga caviar with coca-cola flavored fudge. Disgusting.
If someone, as an adult, read all these 100 titles, it means only one thing - that someone has no taste.
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Why doesn't reading count as reading? Whats wrong with good childrens books? I think the list was rather about influential and commonly known than elitist books, which it represented quite well (of those written in English)
Harry Potter was there btw :P
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Most of this stuff you either "read" in school or read as a child. Both instances do not count as actual reading imo.
lol, why not? Crime and punishment is shitty book only because it's required reading in school? All books I've read in my youth and which in big part moulded my character suddenly "do not count" only cause I've read them as a kid? Hm... :?
If someone, as an adult, read all these 100 titles, it means only one thing - that someone has no taste.
How can you know that book isn't worth a reading before you actually read it? YOu base your judgment exclusively on the opinion of others? Or maybe on the title?
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Why doesn't reading count as reading?
lol, why not? Crime and punishment is shitty book only because it's required reading in school? All books I've read in my youth and which in big part moulded my character suddenly "do not count" only cause I've read them as a kid? Hm... :?
Grown up books, like "War and Peace" or "100 years of solitude", were written by adults, for adults. A teenager can read them, but it will be a time wasted. Watching how letters form words, enough to have a vague knowledge of the main plot - it's not reading. But fine! That is my personal opinion :) Let's leave it at that, and I apologies if it was insulting.
Whats wrong with good childrens books?
They are for children, and at very best, carry a tiny grain of what an adult story would deliver. In my opinion, Alice in Wonderland is the only title on that list, that delivers something different for both adults and children. Though Carroll was high as kite when he wrote it :)
I think the list was rather about influential and commonly known than elitist books, which it represented quite well (of those written in English)
Why Mark Twain is not on that list?.. Jack London? Hemingway? Swift? Vonnegut? Why not any other, completly random Englsih or American writer? Non-English books represented so briefly, it would be best not to include any at all! Insulting and disgusting. :)
Harry Potter was there btw :P
It had to be! :|
How can you know that book isn't worth a reading before you actually read it? YOu base your judgment exclusively on the opinion of others? Or maybe on the title?
I don't! As this list is so random, there might just as well be a hidden gem :) That Japanese author is probably decent, since so few non-English were included.
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Mark Twain?
badass
Jack London?
badass
Hemingway?
badass and had commie friends
Swift?
insane
Vonnegut?
also badass
You see, to be accepted as role model for modern youth you need mindset of a leech. Hemingway isn't acceptable but the person who ordered him to be executed is all american hero.
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Check this out:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml (http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml)
In April 2003 the BBC's Big Read began the search for the nation's best-loved novel, and we asked you to nominate your favourite books.
Explains random titles :)
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How can you know that book isn't worth a reading before you actually read it? YOu base your judgment exclusively on the opinion of others? Or maybe on the title?
I don't have to read "Bridget Jones Diary" to know it's crappy. I know what it's about, no amount of witty writing is going to save gay stories like that.
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Grown up books, like "War and Peace" or "100 years of solitude", were written by adults, for adults. A teenager can read them, but it will be a time wasted. Watching how letters form words, enough to have a vague knowledge of the main plot - it's not reading. But fine! That is my personal opinion :)
Let me express my personal opinion. Books which you read as a child/teenager have bigger impact on your personality, character and sensitivity than those which you read as an adult, whose beliefs are, maybe not set in stone, but at least stably established. I don't want to make general statements, but from my perspective, with my current, much more "cynical" (if it's a correct word in this context) approach, whatever I read these days doesn't count as much as books I've read as a kid. So I definitely wouldn't say it's, as you put it, "wasted time".
What's more, plenty of fine books which are very good read when you're a kid, are "unreadable" when you have bigger store of knowledge and erudition. I doubt today I'd be able - or willing - to read war and peace, even though I've read it when I was 15 ot 16 (though in this case it's maybe a matter of translation, dunno).
They are for children, and at very best, carry a tiny grain of what an adult story would deliver.
Well, when most of these books were written they were supposed to be for adults, years - or centuries - pass and they're for kids in school.
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I've been reading above a 12th grade level ever since the 5th grade.
Though I hardly read books anymore.
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I don't have to read "Bridget Jones Diary" to know it's crappy. I know what it's about, no amount of witty writing is going to save gay stories like that.
Okay, in this case I can agree with you :P
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Why the Art of War? What's good about the Book of the Most Obvious Statements Ever?
You now, any treatise on logic or math is literally nothing but obvious statements yet people still think it's hard.
Btw when I see "The BFG of Roald Dahl" I don't think I'm thinking about the same BFG.
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67, but a hell of a lot of those are required reading in school anyway. I also wasn't allowed to watch tv or read most genres besides Victorian fare and was pretty much limited to my parent's personal library and school libraries. Got to wonder what that says about them.
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That's different in each country though, in my English class we were required to read Romeo&Julia for example.
In German we've read some rather unknown German novels and known books like Effi Briest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effi_Briest) or Buddenbrooks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddenbrooks).
My German teachers for example would say how important it is for everyone to read books like Effi Briest. Everyone who was forced to read that book would say it is surely not. ^_^
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Who the fuck reads books anyway?
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I'm very proud to have read The Little Prince, and to own it. Clearly the biggest masterpiece there.
Other than that, 10 books.
But the list in itself is a joke.
Harry Potter : Volume number 2. Why not the first one ?
The Chronicles of Narnia, audio collection : Yes, of course i'll have read that one...
There's even a second entry for Narnia : The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
And as much as i understand french classics around (Germinal, Madam Bovary, Les Miserables), i don't understand why The 3 Muskeeters is in the list. Don't get me wrong, i liked it, but, it's not really a classic, is it ?
Since it contain thoses pesky fantasy titles, i'm really ashamed of not seeing "The Black Company".
Not a single book of Lovecraft or Terry Pratchett either...
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Never mind a complete lack of Robert E. Howard and Asimov. I'd even go as far as to say that Gibson and Philip K. Dick should be on that list if Rowling is on it.
That said, I scored 7.
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as i read only King , Tom Clancy and Lovecraft , i got one of them for error cause i read it for school , i think is oliver twist but i can't remember a single phase of the story.
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i think is oliver twist but i can't remember a single phase of the story.
Oliver is an orphan living in an orphanage. Life is tough. The End.
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Read 31, read + viewed 50.
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no H. C. Andersen and Grimm fairy/folk tales. fail.
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I think americans have more of these books on the must-read list in school. Always hated that shit. Forced to read some crappy book when you are in the middle of a good one
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I think americans have more of these books on the must-read list in school. Always hated that shit. Forced to read some crappy book when you are in the middle of a good one
What you are speaks so loud, I can't hear what you are saying.