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Hi Scott!
Since the questions I asked you previously seemed a bit too difficult
for you to answer, or perhaps "over your head", I've made it easy for you. Here is a list that one publisher considers to be the 100 greatest books ever written. Which of them have you read? 1.Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne 2.The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 3.Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 4.Walden by Henry David Thoreau 5.Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift 6.Moby Dick, or The Whale by Herman Melville 7.A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway 8.The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 9.The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling 10.The Odyssey by Homer 11.The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan 12.A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce 13.Paradise Lost by John Milton 14.Tales From The Arabian Nights by Richard Burton 15.Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 16.Candide by Voltaire 17.Oedipus The King by Sophocles 18.The Hunchback Of Notre Dame [Notre-Dame De Paris] by Victor Hugo 19.The Last Of The Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper 20.The Sea Wolf by Jack London 21.Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmund Rostand 22.The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 23.Collected Poems by Robert Browning 24.The Essays Of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson 25.The Portrait Of A Lady by Henry James 26.Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 27.Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 28.Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 29.Collected Poems by John Keats 30.On The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin 31.Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 32.Collected Poems by Robert Frost 33.The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving 34.Animal Farm by George Orwell 35.Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 36.She Stoops To Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith 37.Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck 38.Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen 39.The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 40.Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 41.The Iliad by Homer 42.Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence 43.The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 44.Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 45.Aesop's Fables by Aesop 46.Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 47.The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin 48.The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 49.Politics And The Poetics by Aristotle 50.The Aeneid by Virgil 51.Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 52.The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 53.Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 54.Hamlet by William Shakespeare 55.Pygmalion And Candida by George Bernard Shaw 56.Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 57.Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare 58.The Cherry Orchard And The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov 59.The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 60.The Analects of Confucius by Confucius 61.A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare 62.Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats 63.The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 64.Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 65.The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio 66.Beowulf 67.Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 68.The Neclace And Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant 69.The Time Machine by H.G. Wells 70.Fathers And Sons by Ivan Turgenev 71.Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 72.War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy 73.The History of Early Rome by Livy 74.Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 75.The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott 76.Tess Of The D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 77.Alice's Adventure In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 78.Dracula by Bram Stoker 79.The Rubáiyát Of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám 80.The Red And The Black by Stendhal 81.A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickins 82.The Republic by Plato 83.Collected Poems by Emily Dickinson 84.Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 85.Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 86.The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay 87.Silas Marner by George Eliot 88.The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine 89.Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 90.Billy Budd by Herman Melville 91.The Confessions by St. Augustine 92.Tales of Mystery And Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe 93.Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott 94.The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler 95.The Sound And The Fury by William Faulkner 96.Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 97.Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm 98.Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 99.Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 100.David Copperfield by Charles Dickens http://www.listology.com/list/easton...s-ever-written |
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Hi Scott!
On Apr 4, 4:11*pm, "Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!"
wrote: Since the questions I asked you previously seemed a bit too difficult for you to answer, or perhaps "over your head", I've made it easy for you. Here is a list that one publisher considers to be the 100 greatest books ever written. Which of them have you read? 1.Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne 2.The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 3.Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 4.Walden by Henry David Thoreau 5.Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift 6.Moby Dick, or The Whale by Herman Melville 7.A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway 8.The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 9.The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling 10.The Odyssey by Homer 11.The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan 12.A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce 13.Paradise Lost by John Milton 14.Tales From The Arabian Nights by Richard Burton 15.Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 16.Candide by Voltaire 17.Oedipus The King by Sophocles 18.The Hunchback Of Notre Dame [Notre-Dame De Paris] by Victor Hugo 19.The Last Of The Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper 20.The Sea Wolf by Jack London 21.Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmund Rostand 22.The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 23.Collected Poems by Robert Browning 24.The Essays Of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson 25.The Portrait Of A Lady by Henry James 26.Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 27.Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 28.Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 29.Collected Poems by John Keats 30.On The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin 31.Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 32.Collected Poems by Robert Frost 33.The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving 34.Animal Farm by George Orwell 35.Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 36.She Stoops To Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith 37.Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck 38.Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen 39.The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 40.Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 41.The Iliad by Homer 42.Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence 43.The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 44.Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 45.Aesop's Fables by Aesop 46.Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 47.The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin 48.The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 49.Politics And The Poetics by Aristotle 50.The Aeneid by Virgil 51.Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 52.The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 53.Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 54.Hamlet by William Shakespeare 55.Pygmalion And Candida by George Bernard Shaw 56.Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 57.Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare 58.The Cherry Orchard And The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov 59.The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 60.The Analects of Confucius by Confucius 61.A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare 62.Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats 63.The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 64.Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 65.The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio 66.Beowulf 67.Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 68.The Neclace And Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant 69.The Time Machine by H.G. Wells 70.Fathers And Sons by Ivan Turgenev 71.Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 72.War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy 73.The History of Early Rome by Livy 74.Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 75.The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott 76.Tess Of The D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 77.Alice's Adventure In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 78.Dracula by Bram Stoker 79.The Rubáiyát Of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám 80.The Red And The Black by Stendhal 81.A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickins 82.The Republic by Plato 83.Collected Poems by Emily Dickinson 84.Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 85.Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 86.The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay 87.Silas Marner by George Eliot 88.The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine 89.Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 90.Billy Budd by Herman Melville 91.The Confessions by St. Augustine 92.Tales of Mystery And Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe 93.Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott 94.The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler 95.The Sound And The Fury by William Faulkner 96.Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 97.Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm 98.Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 99.Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 100.David Copperfield by Charles Dickens http://www.listology.com/list/easton...-books-ever-wr... Scott, I feel I must warn you: failure to engage in a polite discussion on this topic may give people the impression that you don't read. That could, in turn, cause people to conclude that your world view is parochial, shallow, or even uninformed. We'd hate to see that happen, wouldn't we? |
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Hi Scott!
On Apr 4, 5:55*pm, "Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!"
wrote: On Apr 4, 4:11*pm, "Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!" wrote: Since the questions I asked you previously seemed a bit too difficult for you to answer, or perhaps "over your head", I've made it easy for you. Here is a list that one publisher considers to be the 100 greatest books ever written. Which of them have you read? 1.Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne 2.The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 3.Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 4.Walden by Henry David Thoreau 5.Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift 6.Moby Dick, or The Whale by Herman Melville 7.A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway 8.The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 9.The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling 10.The Odyssey by Homer 11.The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan 12.A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce 13.Paradise Lost by John Milton 14.Tales From The Arabian Nights by Richard Burton 15.Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 16.Candide by Voltaire 17.Oedipus The King by Sophocles 18.The Hunchback Of Notre Dame [Notre-Dame De Paris] by Victor Hugo 19.The Last Of The Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper 20.The Sea Wolf by Jack London 21.Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmund Rostand 22.The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 23.Collected Poems by Robert Browning 24.The Essays Of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson 25.The Portrait Of A Lady by Henry James 26.Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 27.Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 28.Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 29.Collected Poems by John Keats 30.On The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin 31.Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 32.Collected Poems by Robert Frost 33.The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving 34.Animal Farm by George Orwell 35.Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 36.She Stoops To Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith 37.Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck 38.Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen 39.The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 40.Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 41.The Iliad by Homer 42.Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence 43.The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 44.Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 45.Aesop's Fables by Aesop 46.Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 47.The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin 48.The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 49.Politics And The Poetics by Aristotle 50.The Aeneid by Virgil 51.Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 52.The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 53.Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 54.Hamlet by William Shakespeare 55.Pygmalion And Candida by George Bernard Shaw 56.Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 57.Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare 58.The Cherry Orchard And The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov 59.The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 60.The Analects of Confucius by Confucius 61.A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare 62.Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats 63.The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 64.Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 65.The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio 66.Beowulf 67.Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 68.The Neclace And Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant 69.The Time Machine by H.G. Wells 70.Fathers And Sons by Ivan Turgenev 71.Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 72.War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy 73.The History of Early Rome by Livy 74.Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 75.The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott 76.Tess Of The D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 77.Alice's Adventure In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 78.Dracula by Bram Stoker 79.The Rubáiyát Of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám 80.The Red And The Black by Stendhal 81.A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickins 82.The Republic by Plato 83.Collected Poems by Emily Dickinson 84.Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 85.Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 86.The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay 87.Silas Marner by George Eliot 88.The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine 89.Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 90.Billy Budd by Herman Melville 91.The Confessions by St. Augustine 92.Tales of Mystery And Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe 93.Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott 94.The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler 95.The Sound And The Fury by William Faulkner 96.Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 97.Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm 98.Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 99.Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 100.David Copperfield by Charles Dickens http://www.listology.com/list/easton...-books-ever-wr... Scott, I feel I must warn you: failure to engage in a polite discussion on this topic may give people the impression that you don't read. That could, in turn, cause people to conclude that your world view is parochial, shallow, or even uninformed. We'd hate to see that happen, wouldn't we? Is Scott a bibliophobe? |
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Hi Scott!
On Apr 4, 4:11*pm, "Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!"
wrote: Since the questions I asked you previously seemed a bit too difficult for you to answer, or perhaps "over your head", I've made it easy for you. Here is a list that one publisher considers to be the 100 greatest books ever written. Which of them have you read? 1.Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne 2.The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 3.Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 4.Walden by Henry David Thoreau 5.Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift 6.Moby Dick, or The Whale by Herman Melville 7.A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway 8.The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 9.The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling 10.The Odyssey by Homer 11.The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan 12.A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce 13.Paradise Lost by John Milton 14.Tales From The Arabian Nights by Richard Burton 15.Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 16.Candide by Voltaire 17.Oedipus The King by Sophocles 18.The Hunchback Of Notre Dame [Notre-Dame De Paris] by Victor Hugo 19.The Last Of The Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper 20.The Sea Wolf by Jack London 21.Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmund Rostand 22.The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 23.Collected Poems by Robert Browning 24.The Essays Of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson 25.The Portrait Of A Lady by Henry James 26.Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 27.Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 28.Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 29.Collected Poems by John Keats 30.On The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin 31.Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 32.Collected Poems by Robert Frost 33.The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving 34.Animal Farm by George Orwell 35.Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 36.She Stoops To Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith 37.Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck 38.Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen 39.The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 40.Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 41.The Iliad by Homer 42.Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence 43.The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 44.Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 45.Aesop's Fables by Aesop 46.Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 47.The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin 48.The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 49.Politics And The Poetics by Aristotle 50.The Aeneid by Virgil 51.Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 52.The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 53.Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 54.Hamlet by William Shakespeare 55.Pygmalion And Candida by George Bernard Shaw 56.Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 57.Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare 58.The Cherry Orchard And The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov 59.The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 60.The Analects of Confucius by Confucius 61.A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare 62.Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats 63.The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 64.Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 65.The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio 66.Beowulf 67.Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 68.The Neclace And Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant 69.The Time Machine by H.G. Wells 70.Fathers And Sons by Ivan Turgenev 71.Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 72.War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy 73.The History of Early Rome by Livy 74.Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 75.The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott 76.Tess Of The D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 77.Alice's Adventure In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 78.Dracula by Bram Stoker 79.The Rubáiyát Of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám 80.The Red And The Black by Stendhal 81.A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickins 82.The Republic by Plato 83.Collected Poems by Emily Dickinson 84.Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 85.Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 86.The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay 87.Silas Marner by George Eliot 88.The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine 89.Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 90.Billy Budd by Herman Melville 91.The Confessions by St. Augustine 92.Tales of Mystery And Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe 93.Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott 94.The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler 95.The Sound And The Fury by William Faulkner 96.Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 97.Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm 98.Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 99.Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 100.David Copperfield by Charles Dickens http://www.listology.com/list/easton...-books-ever-wr... Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is number 1? Really? Number one? Did the publisher of this list die in 1940 or something? |
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Hi Scott!
On Apr 6, 9:05*pm, Boon wrote:
On Apr 4, 4:11*pm, "Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!" wrote: Since the questions I asked you previously seemed a bit too difficult for you to answer, or perhaps "over your head", I've made it easy for you. Here is a list that one publisher considers to be the 100 greatest books ever written. Which of them have you read? 1.Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne 2.The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 3.Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 4.Walden by Henry David Thoreau 5.Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift 6.Moby Dick, or The Whale by Herman Melville 7.A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway 8.The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 9.The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling 10.The Odyssey by Homer 11.The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan 12.A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce 13.Paradise Lost by John Milton 14.Tales From The Arabian Nights by Richard Burton 15.Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 16.Candide by Voltaire 17.Oedipus The King by Sophocles 18.The Hunchback Of Notre Dame [Notre-Dame De Paris] by Victor Hugo 19.The Last Of The Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper 20.The Sea Wolf by Jack London 21.Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmund Rostand 22.The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 23.Collected Poems by Robert Browning 24.The Essays Of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson 25.The Portrait Of A Lady by Henry James 26.Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 27.Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 28.Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 29.Collected Poems by John Keats 30.On The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin 31.Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 32.Collected Poems by Robert Frost 33.The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving 34.Animal Farm by George Orwell 35.Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 36.She Stoops To Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith 37.Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck 38.Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen 39.The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 40.Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 41.The Iliad by Homer 42.Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence 43.The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 44.Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 45.Aesop's Fables by Aesop 46.Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 47.The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin 48.The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 49.Politics And The Poetics by Aristotle 50.The Aeneid by Virgil 51.Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 52.The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 53.Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 54.Hamlet by William Shakespeare 55.Pygmalion And Candida by George Bernard Shaw 56.Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 57.Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare 58.The Cherry Orchard And The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov 59.The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 60.The Analects of Confucius by Confucius 61.A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare 62.Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats 63.The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 64.Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 65.The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio 66.Beowulf 67.Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 68.The Neclace And Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant 69.The Time Machine by H.G. Wells 70.Fathers And Sons by Ivan Turgenev 71.Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 72.War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy 73.The History of Early Rome by Livy 74.Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 75.The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott 76.Tess Of The D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 77.Alice's Adventure In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 78.Dracula by Bram Stoker 79.The Rubáiyát Of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám 80.The Red And The Black by Stendhal 81.A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickins 82.The Republic by Plato 83.Collected Poems by Emily Dickinson 84.Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 85.Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 86.The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay 87.Silas Marner by George Eliot 88.The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine 89.Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 90.Billy Budd by Herman Melville 91.The Confessions by St. Augustine 92.Tales of Mystery And Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe 93.Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott 94.The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler 95.The Sound And The Fury by William Faulkner 96.Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 97.Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm 98.Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 99.Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 100.David Copperfield by Charles Dickens http://www.listology.com/list/easton...-books-ever-wr... Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is number 1? Really? Number one? I don't think that the list is meant to be read as rank-ordered. Did the publisher of this list die in 1940 or something? It's kind of hard to put Dan Brown on a list like this as he hasn't withstood the test of time. |
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Hi Scott!
On Apr 6, 9:01*pm, Boon wrote:
On Apr 4, 5:55*pm, "Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!" wrote: On Apr 4, 4:11*pm, "Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!" wrote: Since the questions I asked you previously seemed a bit too difficult for you to answer, or perhaps "over your head", I've made it easy for you. Here is a list that one publisher considers to be the 100 greatest books ever written. Which of them have you read? 1.Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne 2.The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 3.Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 4.Walden by Henry David Thoreau 5.Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift 6.Moby Dick, or The Whale by Herman Melville 7.A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway 8.The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 9.The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling 10.The Odyssey by Homer 11.The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan 12.A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce 13.Paradise Lost by John Milton 14.Tales From The Arabian Nights by Richard Burton 15.Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 16.Candide by Voltaire 17.Oedipus The King by Sophocles 18.The Hunchback Of Notre Dame [Notre-Dame De Paris] by Victor Hugo 19.The Last Of The Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper 20.The Sea Wolf by Jack London 21.Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmund Rostand 22.The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 23.Collected Poems by Robert Browning 24.The Essays Of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson 25.The Portrait Of A Lady by Henry James 26.Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 27.Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 28.Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 29.Collected Poems by John Keats 30.On The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin 31.Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 32.Collected Poems by Robert Frost 33.The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving 34.Animal Farm by George Orwell 35.Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 36.She Stoops To Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith 37.Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck 38.Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen 39.The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 40.Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 41.The Iliad by Homer 42.Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence 43.The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 44.Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 45.Aesop's Fables by Aesop 46.Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 47.The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin 48.The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 49.Politics And The Poetics by Aristotle 50.The Aeneid by Virgil 51.Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 52.The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 53.Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 54.Hamlet by William Shakespeare 55.Pygmalion And Candida by George Bernard Shaw 56.Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 57.Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare 58.The Cherry Orchard And The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov 59.The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 60.The Analects of Confucius by Confucius 61.A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare 62.Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats 63.The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 64.Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 65.The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio 66.Beowulf 67.Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 68.The Neclace And Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant 69.The Time Machine by H.G. Wells 70.Fathers And Sons by Ivan Turgenev 71.Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 72.War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy 73.The History of Early Rome by Livy 74.Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 75.The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott 76.Tess Of The D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 77.Alice's Adventure In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 78.Dracula by Bram Stoker 79.The Rubáiyát Of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám 80.The Red And The Black by Stendhal 81.A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickins 82.The Republic by Plato 83.Collected Poems by Emily Dickinson 84.Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 85.Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 86.The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay 87.Silas Marner by George Eliot 88.The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine 89.Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 90.Billy Budd by Herman Melville 91.The Confessions by St. Augustine 92.Tales of Mystery And Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe 93.Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott 94.The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler 95.The Sound And The Fury by William Faulkner 96.Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 97.Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm 98.Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 99.Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 100.David Copperfield by Charles Dickens http://www.listology.com/list/easton...-books-ever-wr.... Scott, I feel I must warn you: failure to engage in a polite discussion on this topic may give people the impression that you don't read. That could, in turn, cause people to conclude that your world view is parochial, shallow, or even uninformed. We'd hate to see that happen, wouldn't we? Is Scott a bibliophobe? 2pid is alotophobe. |
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Hi Scott!
On Apr 6, 9:41*pm, "Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!"
wrote: On Apr 6, 9:05*pm, Boon wrote: On Apr 4, 4:11*pm, "Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!" wrote: Since the questions I asked you previously seemed a bit too difficult for you to answer, or perhaps "over your head", I've made it easy for you. Here is a list that one publisher considers to be the 100 greatest books ever written. Which of them have you read? 1.Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne 2.The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 3.Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 4.Walden by Henry David Thoreau 5.Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift 6.Moby Dick, or The Whale by Herman Melville 7.A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway 8.The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 9.The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling 10.The Odyssey by Homer 11.The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan 12.A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce 13.Paradise Lost by John Milton 14.Tales From The Arabian Nights by Richard Burton 15.Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 16.Candide by Voltaire 17.Oedipus The King by Sophocles 18.The Hunchback Of Notre Dame [Notre-Dame De Paris] by Victor Hugo 19.The Last Of The Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper 20.The Sea Wolf by Jack London 21.Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmund Rostand 22.The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 23.Collected Poems by Robert Browning 24.The Essays Of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson 25.The Portrait Of A Lady by Henry James 26.Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 27.Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 28.Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 29.Collected Poems by John Keats 30.On The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin 31.Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 32.Collected Poems by Robert Frost 33.The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving 34.Animal Farm by George Orwell 35.Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 36.She Stoops To Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith 37.Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck 38.Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen 39.The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 40.Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 41.The Iliad by Homer 42.Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence 43.The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 44.Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 45.Aesop's Fables by Aesop 46.Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 47.The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin 48.The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 49.Politics And The Poetics by Aristotle 50.The Aeneid by Virgil 51.Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 52.The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 53.Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 54.Hamlet by William Shakespeare 55.Pygmalion And Candida by George Bernard Shaw 56.Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 57.Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare 58.The Cherry Orchard And The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov 59.The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 60.The Analects of Confucius by Confucius 61.A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare 62.Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats 63.The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 64.Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 65.The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio 66.Beowulf 67.Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 68.The Neclace And Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant 69.The Time Machine by H.G. Wells 70.Fathers And Sons by Ivan Turgenev 71.Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 72.War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy 73.The History of Early Rome by Livy 74.Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 75.The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott 76.Tess Of The D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 77.Alice's Adventure In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 78.Dracula by Bram Stoker 79.The Rubáiyát Of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám 80.The Red And The Black by Stendhal 81.A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickins 82.The Republic by Plato 83.Collected Poems by Emily Dickinson 84.Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 85.Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 86.The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay 87.Silas Marner by George Eliot 88.The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine 89.Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 90.Billy Budd by Herman Melville 91.The Confessions by St. Augustine 92.Tales of Mystery And Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe 93.Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott 94.The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler 95.The Sound And The Fury by William Faulkner 96.Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 97.Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm 98.Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 99.Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 100.David Copperfield by Charles Dickens http://www.listology.com/list/easton...-books-ever-wr.... Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is number 1? Really? Number one? I don't think that the list is meant to be read as rank-ordered. Did the publisher of this list die in 1940 or something? It's kind of hard to put Dan Brown on a list like this as he hasn't withstood the test of time. Nor will he. On the other hand, Nikos Kazantzakis' The Last Temptation of Christ does. It still kills me that Brown ripped off this book almost completely. |
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Hi Scott!
On Apr 7, 1:08*am, hophead wrote:
In article 6b3b6837-7dc1-44ee-9465-078b3da31769 @i37g2000yqn.googlegroups.com, says... Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is number 1? Really? Number one? Did the publisher of this list die in 1940 or something? Funny coincident: I had to leave at a brutally early time to make a flight for a conference yesterday (4:00 AM) and I forgot to bring a book. I did happen to have a copy of some "classic" literature on my iPod touch and 20,000 Leagues was among the list so I started reading it again -- I had read it many years ago, but had even forgotten my impression of the book. I certainly wouldn't rank it in the top 20, but I admit I'm enjoying it quite a bit, especially when I consider when it was written. no Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse 5 no Tom Wolfe, The Painted Word no Kerouac, Desolation Angels no Kesey, One Flew Ove the Cuckoo's Nest no Harper, to Kill a Mockingbird no Steinbeck, and Mark Twain barely made it |
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Hi Scott!
On Apr 4, 5:55*pm, "Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!"
wrote: On Apr 4, 4:11*pm, "Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!" wrote: Since the questions I asked you previously seemed a bit too difficult for you to answer, or perhaps "over your head", I've made it easy for you. Here is a list that one publisher considers to be the 100 greatest books ever written. Which of them have you read? 1.Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne 2.The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 3.Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 4.Walden by Henry David Thoreau 5.Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift 6.Moby Dick, or The Whale by Herman Melville 7.A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway 8.The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 9.The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling 10.The Odyssey by Homer 11.The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan 12.A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce 13.Paradise Lost by John Milton 14.Tales From The Arabian Nights by Richard Burton 15.Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 16.Candide by Voltaire 17.Oedipus The King by Sophocles 18.The Hunchback Of Notre Dame [Notre-Dame De Paris] by Victor Hugo 19.The Last Of The Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper 20.The Sea Wolf by Jack London 21.Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmund Rostand 22.The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 23.Collected Poems by Robert Browning 24.The Essays Of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson 25.The Portrait Of A Lady by Henry James 26.Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 27.Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 28.Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 29.Collected Poems by John Keats 30.On The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin 31.Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 32.Collected Poems by Robert Frost 33.The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving 34.Animal Farm by George Orwell 35.Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 36.She Stoops To Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith 37.Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck 38.Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen 39.The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 40.Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 41.The Iliad by Homer 42.Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence 43.The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 44.Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 45.Aesop's Fables by Aesop 46.Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 47.The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin 48.The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 49.Politics And The Poetics by Aristotle 50.The Aeneid by Virgil 51.Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 52.The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 53.Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 54.Hamlet by William Shakespeare 55.Pygmalion And Candida by George Bernard Shaw 56.Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 57.Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare 58.The Cherry Orchard And The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov 59.The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 60.The Analects of Confucius by Confucius 61.A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare 62.Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats 63.The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 64.Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 65.The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio 66.Beowulf 67.Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 68.The Neclace And Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant 69.The Time Machine by H.G. Wells 70.Fathers And Sons by Ivan Turgenev 71.Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 72.War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy 73.The History of Early Rome by Livy 74.Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 75.The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott 76.Tess Of The D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 77.Alice's Adventure In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 78.Dracula by Bram Stoker 79.The Rubáiyát Of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám 80.The Red And The Black by Stendhal 81.A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickins 82.The Republic by Plato 83.Collected Poems by Emily Dickinson 84.Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 85.Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 86.The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay 87.Silas Marner by George Eliot 88.The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine 89.Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 90.Billy Budd by Herman Melville 91.The Confessions by St. Augustine 92.Tales of Mystery And Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe 93.Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott 94.The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler 95.The Sound And The Fury by William Faulkner 96.Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 97.Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm 98.Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 99.Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 100.David Copperfield by Charles Dickens http://www.listology.com/list/easton...-books-ever-wr... Scott, I feel I must warn you: failure to engage in a polite discussion on this topic may give people the impression that you don't read. That could, in turn, cause people to conclude that your world view is parochial, shallow, or even uninformed. We'd hate to see that happen, wouldn't we? Hey, 2pid, I now realize how limiting this list must be. Clyde and hophead have shown there are too many exclusions on a list of only 100, and one that is slanted toward "all-time" versus the more recent ones. I can see a trendy, "with it" guy like you isn't going to be bothered with old guys Chaucer or Dickens! Here is a list with more than 2,000 books on it, all from the 20th century. And to warm the cuckolds of your heart, it represents the "will of the people"! That's right, 2pid, it was VOTED on by people who read, and probably read a lot! So you can certainly find a few on this list that you've read in order to start a polite discussion, yes? |
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Hi Scott!
On Apr 8, 7:33*am, "Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!"
wrote: On Apr 4, 5:55*pm, "Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!" wrote: On Apr 4, 4:11*pm, "Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!" wrote: http://www.listology.com/list/easton...-books-ever-wr.... Scott, I feel I must warn you: failure to engage in a polite discussion on this topic may give people the impression that you don't read. That could, in turn, cause people to conclude that your world view is parochial, shallow, or even uninformed. We'd hate to see that happen, wouldn't we? Hey, 2pid, I now realize how limiting this list must be. Clyde and hophead have shown there are too many exclusions on a list of only 100, and one that is slanted toward "all-time" versus the more recent ones. I can see a trendy, "with it" guy like you isn't going to be bothered with old guys Chaucer or Dickens! Here is a list with more than 2,000 books on it, all from the 20th century. And to warm the cuckolds of your heart, it represents the "will of the people"! That's right, 2pid, it was VOTED on by people who read, and probably read a lot! So you can certainly find a few on this list that you've read in order to start a polite discussion, yes?- Hide quoted text - http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6...e_20th_Century |
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Hi Scott!
On Apr 8, 4:38*am, Clyde Slick wrote:
On Apr 7, 1:08*am, hophead wrote: In article 6b3b6837-7dc1-44ee-9465-078b3da31769 @i37g2000yqn.googlegroups.com, says... Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is number 1? Really? Number one? Did the publisher of this list die in 1940 or something? Funny coincident: I had to leave at a brutally early time to make a flight for a conference yesterday (4:00 AM) and I forgot to bring a book. I did happen to have a copy of some "classic" literature on my iPod touch and 20,000 Leagues was among the list so I started reading it again -- I had read it many years ago, but had even forgotten my impression of the book. I certainly wouldn't rank it in the top 20, but I admit I'm enjoying it quite a bit, especially when I consider when it was written. no Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse 5 no Tom Wolfe, The Painted Word no Kerouac, Desolation Angels no Kesey, One Flew Ove the Cuckoo's Nest no Harper, to Kill a Mockingbird no Steinbeck, and Mark Twain barely made it How do you feel those stack up against Shakespeare or Dickens? Anyway, I posted a list of the top 2236 books of the 20th century so that you won't get heart palpatations. I'm sure those are on there. |
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Hi Scott!
On Apr 6, 10:03*pm, Boon wrote:
On Apr 6, 9:41*pm, "Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!" wrote: On Apr 6, 9:05*pm, Boon wrote: On Apr 4, 4:11*pm, "Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!" wrote: Since the questions I asked you previously seemed a bit too difficult for you to answer, or perhaps "over your head", I've made it easy for you. Here is a list that one publisher considers to be the 100 greatest books ever written. Which of them have you read? 1.Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne 2.The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 3.Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 4.Walden by Henry David Thoreau 5.Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift 6.Moby Dick, or The Whale by Herman Melville 7.A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway 8.The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 9.The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling 10.The Odyssey by Homer 11.The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan 12.A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce 13.Paradise Lost by John Milton 14.Tales From The Arabian Nights by Richard Burton 15.Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 16.Candide by Voltaire 17.Oedipus The King by Sophocles 18.The Hunchback Of Notre Dame [Notre-Dame De Paris] by Victor Hugo 19.The Last Of The Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper 20.The Sea Wolf by Jack London 21.Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmund Rostand 22.The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 23.Collected Poems by Robert Browning 24.The Essays Of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson 25.The Portrait Of A Lady by Henry James 26.Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 27.Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 28.Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 29.Collected Poems by John Keats 30.On The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin 31.Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 32.Collected Poems by Robert Frost 33.The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving 34.Animal Farm by George Orwell 35.Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 36.She Stoops To Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith 37.Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck 38.Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen 39.The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 40.Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 41.The Iliad by Homer 42.Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence 43.The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 44.Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 45.Aesop's Fables by Aesop 46.Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 47.The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin 48.The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 49.Politics And The Poetics by Aristotle 50.The Aeneid by Virgil 51.Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 52.The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 53.Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 54.Hamlet by William Shakespeare 55.Pygmalion And Candida by George Bernard Shaw 56.Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 57.Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare 58.The Cherry Orchard And The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov 59.The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 60.The Analects of Confucius by Confucius 61.A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare 62.Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats 63.The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 64.Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 65.The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio 66.Beowulf 67.Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 68.The Neclace And Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant 69.The Time Machine by H.G. Wells 70.Fathers And Sons by Ivan Turgenev 71.Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 72.War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy 73.The History of Early Rome by Livy 74.Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 75.The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott 76.Tess Of The D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 77.Alice's Adventure In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 78.Dracula by Bram Stoker 79.The Rubáiyát Of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám 80.The Red And The Black by Stendhal 81.A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickins 82.The Republic by Plato 83.Collected Poems by Emily Dickinson 84.Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 85.Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 86.The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay 87.Silas Marner by George Eliot 88.The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine 89.Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 90.Billy Budd by Herman Melville 91.The Confessions by St. Augustine 92.Tales of Mystery And Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe 93.Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott 94.The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler 95.The Sound And The Fury by William Faulkner 96.Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 97.Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm 98.Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 99.Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 100.David Copperfield by Charles Dickens http://www.listology.com/list/easton...-books-ever-wr... Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is number 1? Really? Number one? I don't think that the list is meant to be read as rank-ordered. Did the publisher of this list die in 1940 or something? It's kind of hard to put Dan Brown on a list like this as he hasn't withstood the test of time. Nor will he. That was my point. What's popular at a given time may not be as great as we think it is. We'll know more about that in 50-75 years. |
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Hi Scott!
On Apr 9, 11:05*am, "Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!"
wrote: On Apr 6, 10:03*pm, Boon wrote: On Apr 6, 9:41*pm, "Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!" wrote: On Apr 6, 9:05*pm, Boon wrote: On Apr 4, 4:11*pm, "Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!" wrote: Since the questions I asked you previously seemed a bit too difficult for you to answer, or perhaps "over your head", I've made it easy for you. Here is a list that one publisher considers to be the 100 greatest books ever written. Which of them have you read? 1.Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne 2.The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 3.Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 4.Walden by Henry David Thoreau 5.Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift 6.Moby Dick, or The Whale by Herman Melville 7.A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway 8.The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 9.The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling 10.The Odyssey by Homer 11.The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan 12.A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce 13.Paradise Lost by John Milton 14.Tales From The Arabian Nights by Richard Burton 15.Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 16.Candide by Voltaire 17.Oedipus The King by Sophocles 18.The Hunchback Of Notre Dame [Notre-Dame De Paris] by Victor Hugo 19.The Last Of The Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper 20.The Sea Wolf by Jack London 21.Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmund Rostand 22.The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 23.Collected Poems by Robert Browning 24.The Essays Of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson 25.The Portrait Of A Lady by Henry James 26.Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 27.Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 28.Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 29.Collected Poems by John Keats 30.On The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin 31.Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 32.Collected Poems by Robert Frost 33.The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving 34.Animal Farm by George Orwell 35.Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 36.She Stoops To Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith 37.Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck 38.Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen 39.The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 40.Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 41.The Iliad by Homer 42.Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence 43.The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 44.Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 45.Aesop's Fables by Aesop 46.Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 47.The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin 48.The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 49.Politics And The Poetics by Aristotle 50.The Aeneid by Virgil 51.Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 52.The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 53.Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 54.Hamlet by William Shakespeare 55.Pygmalion And Candida by George Bernard Shaw 56.Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 57.Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare 58.The Cherry Orchard And The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov 59.The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 60.The Analects of Confucius by Confucius 61.A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare 62.Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats 63.The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 64.Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 65.The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio 66.Beowulf 67.Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 68.The Neclace And Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant 69.The Time Machine by H.G. Wells 70.Fathers And Sons by Ivan Turgenev 71.Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 72.War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy 73.The History of Early Rome by Livy 74.Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 75.The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott 76.Tess Of The D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 77.Alice's Adventure In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 78.Dracula by Bram Stoker 79.The Rubáiyát Of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám 80.The Red And The Black by Stendhal 81.A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickins 82.The Republic by Plato 83.Collected Poems by Emily Dickinson 84.Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 85.Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 86.The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay 87.Silas Marner by George Eliot 88.The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine 89.Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 90.Billy Budd by Herman Melville 91.The Confessions by St. Augustine 92.Tales of Mystery And Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe 93.Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott 94.The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler 95.The Sound And The Fury by William Faulkner 96.Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 97.Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm 98.Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 99.Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 100.David Copperfield by Charles Dickens http://www.listology.com/list/easton...-books-ever-wr... Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is number 1? Really? Number one? I don't think that the list is meant to be read as rank-ordered. Did the publisher of this list die in 1940 or something? It's kind of hard to put Dan Brown on a list like this as he hasn't withstood the test of time. Nor will he. That was my point. What's popular at a given time may not be as great as we think it is. We'll know more about that in 50-75 years. Agreed. It's the same way with film...it takes a generation to know which movies will become classic and which ones will fade away. For example, Chariots of Fire is close to being completely forgotten along with other Best Picture winners as Out of Africa, Kramer vs. Kramer, The Last Emperor and A Man for All Seasons. On the other hand, who in the '90s knew that The Big Lebowski would become so beloved and studied? |
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Hi Scott!
On Apr 4, 4:11*pm, "Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!"
wrote: Since the questions I asked you previously seemed a bit too difficult for you to answer, or perhaps "over your head", I've made it easy for you. Here is a list that one publisher considers to be the 100 greatest books ever written. Which of them have you read? 1.Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne 2.The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 3.Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 4.Walden by Henry David Thoreau 5.Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift 6.Moby Dick, or The Whale by Herman Melville 7.A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway 8.The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 9.The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling 10.The Odyssey by Homer 11.The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan 12.A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce 13.Paradise Lost by John Milton 14.Tales From The Arabian Nights by Richard Burton 15.Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 16.Candide by Voltaire 17.Oedipus The King by Sophocles 18.The Hunchback Of Notre Dame [Notre-Dame De Paris] by Victor Hugo 19.The Last Of The Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper 20.The Sea Wolf by Jack London 21.Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmund Rostand 22.The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 23.Collected Poems by Robert Browning 24.The Essays Of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson 25.The Portrait Of A Lady by Henry James 26.Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 27.Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 28.Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 29.Collected Poems by John Keats 30.On The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin 31.Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 32.Collected Poems by Robert Frost 33.The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving 34.Animal Farm by George Orwell 35.Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 36.She Stoops To Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith 37.Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck 38.Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen 39.The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 40.Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 41.The Iliad by Homer 42.Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence 43.The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 44.Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 45.Aesop's Fables by Aesop 46.Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 47.The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin 48.The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 49.Politics And The Poetics by Aristotle 50.The Aeneid by Virgil 51.Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 52.The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 53.Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 54.Hamlet by William Shakespeare 55.Pygmalion And Candida by George Bernard Shaw 56.Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 57.Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare 58.The Cherry Orchard And The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov 59.The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 60.The Analects of Confucius by Confucius 61.A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare 62.Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats 63.The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 64.Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 65.The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio 66.Beowulf 67.Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 68.The Neclace And Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant 69.The Time Machine by H.G. Wells 70.Fathers And Sons by Ivan Turgenev 71.Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 72.War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy 73.The History of Early Rome by Livy 74.Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 75.The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott 76.Tess Of The D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 77.Alice's Adventure In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 78.Dracula by Bram Stoker 79.The Rubáiyát Of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám 80.The Red And The Black by Stendhal 81.A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickins 82.The Republic by Plato 83.Collected Poems by Emily Dickinson 84.Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 85.Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 86.The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay 87.Silas Marner by George Eliot 88.The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine 89.Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 90.Billy Budd by Herman Melville 91.The Confessions by St. Augustine 92.Tales of Mystery And Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe 93.Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott 94.The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler 95.The Sound And The Fury by William Faulkner 96.Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 97.Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm 98.Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 99.Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 100.David Copperfield by Charles Dickens http://www.listology.com/list/easton...-books-ever-wr... |
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