100 Best Books of All Time- Page 2
100 Best Books of All Time
#25re: 100 Best Books of All Time
Posted: 5/15/07 at 10:46amAre you serious? Now that's shameful!
....but the world goes 'round
#26re: 100 Best Books of All Time
Posted: 5/15/07 at 10:47amSpeaking of Non-fiction, where is Harry Potter?
#27re: 100 Best Books of All Time
Posted: 5/15/07 at 10:47amreally surprised there's no Toni Morrison on the board's list.
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vmlinnie
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#28re: 100 Best Books of All Time
Posted: 5/15/07 at 10:47am
Harry Potter - lol!
Anne Frank - wtf?
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browsing on spire and bogland; but today
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deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#29re: 100 Best Books of All Time
Posted: 5/15/07 at 10:49amMy god, you're right! No Morrison?
....but the world goes 'round
#30re: 100 Best Books of All Time
Posted: 5/15/07 at 10:53ampersonally, i've never liked Toni Morrison's novels... i feel like she knows that she is such a good writer, and writes with such an ego and in a more difficult style just because she wants to show off that she can, not because it adds to the work...
#31re: 100 Best Books of All Time
Posted: 5/15/07 at 10:57amI've never even heard of 60% of those books, and I'm an AVID reader. Not to mention Slaughterhouse-Five was probably THE worst book I have ever read, I despised it with a passion. Pretty useless list if you ask me
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#32re: 100 Best Books of All Time
Posted: 5/15/07 at 11:02amrent, it won many awards, and is in the curricula of many classes....not trying to defend it, but that's why it's on the lest.
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#33re: 100 Best Books of All Time
Posted: 5/15/07 at 11:06amTorch, there is a self indulgence in some of her work (especially Paradise, which was not), but Song of Solomon and Beloved are on my top list...and usually make it on these kinds of lists...just surprises me.
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#34re: 100 Best Books of All Time
Posted: 5/15/07 at 11:11ami don't understand why its necessary to put three James Joyce novels in the top 100. Ulysses, Portrait of the Artist, and Finnegan's Wake are very good, and innovative and whatever else... but I think there are so many other great novels that aren't so pretentious and "artsy" for the sake of being artsy...
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#35re: 100 Best Books of All Time
Posted: 5/15/07 at 11:40am
Ayn Rand and L.Ron Hubbard at the top..
Nuff said.
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#36re: 100 Best Books of All Time
Posted: 5/15/07 at 11:54am
First off, Slaughterhouse Five is one of the best books ever written and my #2 favorite book of all time.
Secondly, Their Eyes Were Watching God is a great novel.
Thirdly, 75% of the list is bull crap.
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#37re: 100 Best Books of All Time
Posted: 5/15/07 at 12:00pmWe're just reading Their eyes Were Watching god in English class. It is definitely an amazing book.
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#38re: 100 Best Books of All Time
Posted: 5/15/07 at 12:25pm
I've read 61 books on the Board's list. I guess I'm a literary snob. 
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#39re: 100 Best Books of All Time
Posted: 5/15/07 at 12:41pmI've read 22 of the Board's list, 25 of the readers' list. No Jane Eyre? No Dickens? All that Faulkner and Hemingway?
NCGuy
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#40re: 100 Best Books of All Time
Posted: 5/15/07 at 1:20pm
No Jane Eyre? No Dickens? All that Faulkner and Hemingway?
Keen, I think this list is the Modern Library’s picks for the “100 Best Novels of the 20th Century,” not “of All Time.”
RadiGal2
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#41re: 100 Best Books of All Time
Posted: 5/15/07 at 2:07pm
I've read 30 off the board list.
I was relived that at least one Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton book made the list -- but very disappointed that an Austen novel and To Kill a Mockingbird did not make the cut.
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#42re: 100 Best Books of All Time
Posted: 5/15/07 at 2:19pm
I'm annoyed that Mockingbird din't make the list, however I'm expecially pleased that the following did:
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (What an amazing novel, and it was #2!)
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
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To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
#43re: 100 Best Books of All Time
Posted: 5/15/07 at 2:33pm
Wide Sargasso Sea? Really?
I am surprised to see Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance on there, but it's definitely one of my favorite books, so that's good.
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#44re: 100 Best Books of All Time
Posted: 5/15/07 at 2:36pm
I've read 6 books from the Board's list, 6 from the Reader's list, and 11 from the Rival's list (a couple of them being duplicates). I've never heard of several of the books. I also agree with many of you that L. Ron Hubbard is most likely crap and should not be on any list of great books.
Someday I'd like to read as many books as possible from the Western Canon. Notice I said "someday" which will probably be "never" because I have no time and am lazy. As of now I've only read a handful, most of them for school. Plus excerpts from some others, also in school.
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Updated On: 5/15/07 at 02:36 PM
#45re: 100 Best Books of All Time
Posted: 5/15/07 at 3:25pmI've read 36 from the Board list, 44 fromn the Reader's list and 63 from the Radcliffe list (some were duplicates). I also can't believe that there is no Dickens, and whyever didn't TKAM make the Board list I'll never understand. I di like Stephen King's "The Stand" showing up---that's my favorite of his!
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#46re: 100 Best Books of All Time
Posted: 5/15/07 at 4:11pm
25 on the BL, 34 on the RL.
Stephen King's IT is on any list of the 100 Best Anything, now that's scary.
I'd rather see Pynchon's MASON & DIXON on the list than L. Ron Hubbard, but that's just me.
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#47re: 100 Best Books of All Time
Posted: 5/15/07 at 5:10pm
COLD SASSY TREE?
WHERE'S COLD SASSY TREE?
keen on kean
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#48re: 100 Best Books of All Time
Posted: 5/15/07 at 6:45pmNCGuy - thanks for the correction. Makes me feel dumb *blushes*
#49re: 100 Best Books of All Time
Posted: 5/15/07 at 6:48pmOK I am a bookworm I have read all but 3 on the Board's List.
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