50 Books to Read Before You Die

[bodecea]

Some of Michener's stuff was just hack writing, but I give, "The Source" high marks.

Yes, liked that one...Texas and Mexico were horrid.

 

[bodecea]

Ovid's Metamorphosis....Iliad and Odyssey

 

[bodecea]

Beowulf (had to read it in the original Old English....and let's not forget The Canterbury Tales.

 

[Vandalshandle]

Beowulf (had to read it in the original Old English....and let's not forget The Canterbury Tales.

I try very hard to forget the Canterbury Tales!

 

[boedicca]

I've read 29 of them.

And there are a lot of great books not included.

The first one that comes to mind is "Middlemarch" by George Eliot

 

[frigidweirdo]

A very interesting list. I’ve read 16 of the first 20 and a whole lot of the rest. How about you all?

Full list @ 50 Books To Read Before You Die | CashKaro

I read 100 years of solitude for school, and I didn't bother reading it much, just wrote what I had to write. So I went back to it last year, half way through I was like "stuff this" and stopped reading it. It's not that good.

The Count of Monte Cristo I felt was a very rubbish book too. The plot line isn't great, nothing about it is great.

Robin Hobb's books are so much better, and she doesn't get anywhere near. In her Farseer Trilogy she manages to subtly get the boy and wolf to resemble each other more and more over the course of the books and on into another trilogy, fantastic writing.

No one should tell anyonewhat they should read or need to read. Not adults anyway. In school, the teacher needs to assign a limited number of books and read them as a group because she/he just can't teach every student individually. But for your independent reading, choose your own books and read what pleases you.

Well, these lists are done for other reasons that telling others what to think or what to read. I look at such stuff to see what books I might like to read. I go onto one forum where people talk about books. Some of the books people say are excellent are horrible, others I've really enjoyed. Without this discussion I'd be lost.

 

[Vandalshandle]

A very interesting list. I’ve read 16 of the first 20 and a whole lot of the rest. How about you all?

Full list @ 50 Books To Read Before You Die | CashKaro

I read 100 years of solitude for school, and I didn't bother reading it much, just wrote what I had to write. So I went back to it last year, half way through I was like "stuff this" and stopped reading it. It's not that good.

The Count of Monte Cristo I felt was a very rubbish book too. The plot line isn't great, nothing about it is great.

Robin Hobb's books are so much better, and she doesn't get anywhere near. In her Farseer Trilogy she manages to subtly get the boy and wolf to resemble each other more and more over the course of the books and on into another trilogy, fantastic writing.

No one should tell anyonewhat they should read or need to read. Not adults anyway. In school, the teacher needs to assign a limited number of books and read them as a group because she/he just can't teach every student individually. But for your independent reading, choose your own books and read what pleases you.

Well, these lists are done for other reasons that telling others what to think or what to read. I look at such stuff to see what books I might like to read. I go onto one forum where people talk about books. Some of the books people say are excellent are horrible, others I've really enjoyed. Without this discussion I'd be lost.

I've been told all my life that Shakespeare's works are brilliant, but I will never know, because I can't get past the archaic language.

 

[frigidweirdo]

A very interesting list. I’ve read 16 of the first 20 and a whole lot of the rest. How about you all?

Full list @ 50 Books To Read Before You Die | CashKaro

I read 100 years of solitude for school, and I didn't bother reading it much, just wrote what I had to write. So I went back to it last year, half way through I was like "stuff this" and stopped reading it. It's not that good.

The Count of Monte Cristo I felt was a very rubbish book too. The plot line isn't great, nothing about it is great.

Robin Hobb's books are so much better, and she doesn't get anywhere near. In her Farseer Trilogy she manages to subtly get the boy and wolf to resemble each other more and more over the course of the books and on into another trilogy, fantastic writing.

No one should tell anyonewhat they should read or need to read. Not adults anyway. In school, the teacher needs to assign a limited number of books and read them as a group because she/he just can't teach every student individually. But for your independent reading, choose your own books and read what pleases you.

Well, these lists are done for other reasons that telling others what to think or what to read. I look at such stuff to see what books I might like to read. I go onto one forum where people talk about books. Some of the books people say are excellent are horrible, others I've really enjoyed. Without this discussion I'd be lost.

I've been told all my life that Shakespeare's works are brilliant, but I will never know, because I can't get past the archaic language.

I agree. Different people have different ideas of what is good or bad.

 

[Esmeralda]

A very interesting list. I’ve read 16 of the first 20 and a whole lot of the rest. How about you all?

Full list @ 50 Books To Read Before You Die | CashKaro

I read 100 years of solitude for school, and I didn't bother reading it much, just wrote what I had to write. So I went back to it last year, half way through I was like "stuff this" and stopped reading it. It's not that good.

The Count of Monte Cristo I felt was a very rubbish book too. The plot line isn't great, nothing about it is great.

Robin Hobb's books are so much better, and she doesn't get anywhere near. In her Farseer Trilogy she manages to subtly get the boy and wolf to resemble each other more and more over the course of the books and on into another trilogy, fantastic writing.

No one should tell anyonewhat they should read or need to read. Not adults anyway. In school, the teacher needs to assign a limited number of books and read them as a group because she/he just can't teach every student individually. But for your independent reading, choose your own books and read what pleases you.

Well, these lists are done for other reasons that telling others what to think or what to read. I look at such stuff to see what books I might like to read. I go onto one forum where people talk about books. Some of the books people say are excellent are horrible, others I've really enjoyed. Without this discussion I'd be lost.

I've been told all my life that Shakespeare's works are brilliant, but I will never know, because I can't get past the archaic language.

The problem is how his plays are taught in school. There is a way to get into the language and even appreciate it, but it isn't taught well.

 

[Esmeralda]

A very interesting list. I’ve read 16 of the first 20 and a whole lot of the rest. How about you all?

Full list @ 50 Books To Read Before You Die | CashKaro

I read 100 years of solitude for school, and I didn't bother reading it much, just wrote what I had to write. So I went back to it last year, half way through I was like "stuff this" and stopped reading it. It's not that good.

The Count of Monte Cristo I felt was a very rubbish book too. The plot line isn't great, nothing about it is great.

Robin Hobb's books are so much better, and she doesn't get anywhere near. In her Farseer Trilogy she manages to subtly get the boy and wolf to resemble each other more and more over the course of the books and on into another trilogy, fantastic writing.

No one should tell anyonewhat they should read or need to read. Not adults anyway. In school, the teacher needs to assign a limited number of books and read them as a group because she/he just can't teach every student individually. But for your independent reading, choose your own books and read what pleases you.

Well, these lists are done for other reasons that telling others what to think or what to read. I look at such stuff to see what books I might like to read. I go onto one forum where people talk about books. Some of the books people say are excellent are horrible, others I've really enjoyed. Without this discussion I'd be lost.

Then the title shouldn't be "50 Books to Read Before You Die." It's saying you need to, you should read these books. It should say something like these are classics of English literature, check them out...written as a suggestion, not a directive.

 

[deannalw]

I find Plato's Republic effectively unreadable in its self serving smugness.

And Grapes of Wrath depressed the hell outta me.

 

[deannalw]

I've read a lot of those.

No Ludlum books? No Chronicles of Narnia?

No Tolkien or Stephen King books either...

I've read all those, too!

Stephen King needs a proofreader.


..and he has a fucked up mind.

Yo shup about King or I'll light usmb up with awful rumors about you.

 

[deannalw]

A very interesting list. I’ve read 16 of the first 20 and a whole lot of the rest. How about you all?

Full list @ 50 Books To Read Before You Die | CashKaro

Where the wild things are?

The list lost all credibility..


A picture book with zero actual substance?

It's a classic in the children's literature genre. It is a wonderful book!

 

[deannalw]

Here's a few that needed to be added to the list:

1. Watership Down
2. The Hobbit
3. Lord Of The Rings
4. Harry Potter Books
5. The American Standard Bible
6. Steven King's 'IT'
7. The Twilight Series
8. Invisible Man
9. The Call Of The Wild
10. Moby Dick
11. The Red Badge Of Courage
12. Dr Zhivago
13. Les Miserables
14. The War Of The Worlds
15. Scrooge
16. Shogun
17. Dracula
18. Dune
19. The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes
20. Interview With The Vampire
21. Jaws
22. The Exorcist

I detest that trigger up Twilight series, but that's a pretty good list overall.

 

[Marion Morrison]

I've read a lot of those.

No Ludlum books? No Chronicles of Narnia?

No Tolkien or Stephen King books either...

I've read all those, too!

Stephen King needs a proofreader.


..and he has a fucked up mind.

Yo shup about King or I'll light usmb up with awful rumors about you.

g'luck wit dat. So, are you a Baby Elvis fan?

 

[mudwhistle]

Here's a few that needed to be added to the list:

1. Watership Down
2. The Hobbit
3. Lord Of The Rings
4. Harry Potter Books
5. The American Standard Bible
6. Steven King's 'IT'
7. The Twilight Series
8. Invisible Man
9. The Call Of The Wild
10. Moby Dick
11. The Red Badge Of Courage
12. Dr Zhivago
13. Les Miserables
14. The War Of The Worlds
15. Scrooge
16. Shogun
17. Dracula
18. Dune
19. The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes
20. Interview With The Vampire
21. Jaws
22. The Exorcist

I detest that trigger up Twilight series, but that's a pretty good list overall.

The books are much better than the movies.

 

[deannalw]

Here's a few that needed to be added to the list:

1. Watership Down
2. The Hobbit
3. Lord Of The Rings
4. Harry Potter Books
5. The American Standard Bible
6. Steven King's 'IT'
7. The Twilight Series
8. Invisible Man
9. The Call Of The Wild
10. Moby Dick
11. The Red Badge Of Courage
12. Dr Zhivago
13. Les Miserables
14. The War Of The Worlds
15. Scrooge
16. Shogun
17. Dracula
18. Dune
19. The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes
20. Interview With The Vampire
21. Jaws
22. The Exorcist

I detest that trigger up Twilight series, but that's a pretty good list overall.

The books are much better than the movies.

A girlfriend of mine loved them. She weaseled, cajoled and begged me to read them too. Some folks are that way. So I read the first one, hated it and refused to touch anymore. I can't even say why I dislike them so, but I do. Part of it...it seemed like it was torn from the pages of a diary. The diary of a angst ridden, !ovestruck teenage girl.

 

[skye]

A Movable Feast -

by Ernest Hemingway

 

[Shrimpbox]

I think the reviewer would say this is an eclectic list. A separate peace was the most boring and monotonous homework assignment ever. Good discussion. If we are going to do children’s books could we get a little science fiction love. Asimov or Bradbury maybe.

I might be inclined to read more of these if the blonde would read them with me.

 

[mudwhistle]

Here's a few that needed to be added to the list:

1. Watership Down
2. The Hobbit
3. Lord Of The Rings
4. Harry Potter Books
5. The American Standard Bible
6. Steven King's 'IT'
7. The Twilight Series
8. Invisible Man
9. The Call Of The Wild
10. Moby Dick
11. The Red Badge Of Courage
12. Dr Zhivago
13. Les Miserables
14. The War Of The Worlds
15. Scrooge
16. Shogun
17. Dracula
18. Dune
19. The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes
20. Interview With The Vampire
21. Jaws
22. The Exorcist

I detest that trigger up Twilight series, but that's a pretty good list overall.

The books are much better than the movies.

A girlfriend of mine loved them. She weaseled, cajoled and begged me to read them too. Some folks are that way. So I read the first one, hated it and refused to touch anymore. I can't even say why I dislike them so, but I do. Part of it...it seemed like it was torn from the pages of a diary. The diary of a angst ridden, !ovestruck teenage girl.

Well, she did seem to fawn over him a bit.
But after all.....he's a vampire....and vampires are cool.
Other than the blood sucking and can't be out during daylight they seemed like a superhero.
In Twilight that part was mostly eliminated.
New Moon was the worst of all of the films....I almost swore off of the entire series after I saw that.