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Yes, liked that one...Texas and Mexico were horrid.Some of Michener's stuff was just hack writing, but I give, "The Source" high marks.
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Yes, liked that one...Texas and Mexico were horrid.Some of Michener's stuff was just hack writing, but I give, "The Source" high marks.
Beowulf (had to read it in the original Old English....and let's not forget The Canterbury Tales.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.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.
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.
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.
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.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.
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.
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 find Plato's Republic effectively unreadable in its self serving smugness.
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.
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?
Here's a few that needed to be added to the list:
- Watership Down
- The Hobbit
- Lord Of The Rings
- Harry Potter Books
- The American Standard Bible
- Steven King's 'IT'
- The Twilight Series
- Invisible Man
- The Call Of The Wild
- Moby Dick
- The Red Badge Of Courage
- Dr Zhivago
- Les Miserables
- The War Of The Worlds
- Scrooge
- Shogun
- Dracula
- Dune
- The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes
- Interview With The Vampire
- Jaws
- The Exorcist
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.
The books are much better than the movies.Here's a few that needed to be added to the list:
- Watership Down
- The Hobbit
- Lord Of The Rings
- Harry Potter Books
- The American Standard Bible
- Steven King's 'IT'
- The Twilight Series
- Invisible Man
- The Call Of The Wild
- Moby Dick
- The Red Badge Of Courage
- Dr Zhivago
- Les Miserables
- The War Of The Worlds
- Scrooge
- Shogun
- Dracula
- Dune
- The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes
- Interview With The Vampire
- Jaws
- 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.Here's a few that needed to be added to the list:
- Watership Down
- The Hobbit
- Lord Of The Rings
- Harry Potter Books
- The American Standard Bible
- Steven King's 'IT'
- The Twilight Series
- Invisible Man
- The Call Of The Wild
- Moby Dick
- The Red Badge Of Courage
- Dr Zhivago
- Les Miserables
- The War Of The Worlds
- Scrooge
- Shogun
- Dracula
- Dune
- The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes
- Interview With The Vampire
- Jaws
- The Exorcist
I detest that trigger up Twilight series, but that's a pretty good list overall.
Well, she did seem to fawn over him a bit.The books are much better than the movies.Here's a few that needed to be added to the list:
- Watership Down
- The Hobbit
- Lord Of The Rings
- Harry Potter Books
- The American Standard Bible
- Steven King's 'IT'
- The Twilight Series
- Invisible Man
- The Call Of The Wild
- Moby Dick
- The Red Badge Of Courage
- Dr Zhivago
- Les Miserables
- The War Of The Worlds
- Scrooge
- Shogun
- Dracula
- Dune
- The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes
- Interview With The Vampire
- Jaws
- The Exorcist
I detest that trigger up Twilight series, but that's a pretty good list overall.
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.