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Ron
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-05-19
Posts 8669Michigan, US 
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100 Best Novels |
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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
Geez!!! I'm on my way to the library right now!!! I can knock off 2 or 3 today..let's see at 2 a day..it'll take me 50 days..let's say 51 in case I have to work one day in there somewhere..so 51 days..hmmm...see you in 51 days!!! |
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Brad Member Ascendant
since 1999-08-20
Posts 5705Jejudo, South Korea |
I count 21 on the board list and 28 (including repeats) on the reader's list. So I suppose I failed the twentieth century reading list test  .I look at it this way. I have plenty to read tomorrow. Thanks, Brad |
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Marilyn Member Elite
since 1999-09-26
Posts 2621Ontario, Canada |
I have read 10 from the readers choice list and 5 from the other. I feel like I am not well read. I know that I read as often as possible but 10 out of 100 is not a great triumph. |
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Brad Member Ascendant
since 1999-08-20
Posts 5705Jejudo, South Korea |
Marilyn, Geez, I hope you are being as facetious as I was. Both lists mean nothing. They are arbitrary at best, self serving at worst (Battlefield Earth -- give me a break (and I like science fiction). It's the dianetics crowd stuffing the ballot. On the board list, the second greatest novel consistently uses an image where the character says he 'sees the retina'. You can't see the retina; it's on the other side of the eye. I like the 'The Great Gatsby' but number 2? Don't be fooled by simplistic, time controlled lists, culturally controlled thought type games here. Brad |
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Christopher
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
Well, I have read 10 from the board and 22 (also including repeats) from the readers list. And Brad... I liked Battlefield Earth! Also though, I think Any Rand was well placed, but a warning to the unwary...not light reading! |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
Laughs.....oh my, I must be illiterate...I've only read 4, (blushes in embarrasement, renews her library card and makes that 20 mile trip to the library only to find they don't have any of those books on the shelf) The joy of a small town |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
You mean the actually list these things? Awe shucks, now I have to start over over, I always though they meant my 100 best... ------------------ Michael Anderson When God puts a tear in your eye, He puts a rainbow in your heart. |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
Seriously, about 5 from both lists...don't feel bad Hoot_Owl. ------------------ Michael Anderson When God puts a tear in your eye, He puts a rainbow in your heart. [This message has been edited by Michael (edited 10-15-1999).] |
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johnt300 Member
since 1999-09-12
Posts 214san diego, ca. |
Radcliffe's list: 37 Readers: 30 Board: 21 Many of these read in college. The Faulkner and the Hemingway's raised my score high. I love that stuff. Tyson |
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Elizabeth
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Member Ascendant
since 1999-06-07
Posts 6871Minnesota |
ONE. That's half of The Call of the Wild and half of Fahrenheit 451. ------------------ *Elizabeth* "Dwelt a maid belov'd and cherish'd by high and low, But with autumn leaf she perish'd, long time ago..." "Something sweet, something sort of grandish, sweeps my soul when thou art near..." |
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Alicat Member Elite
since 1999-05-23
Posts 4094Coastal Texas |
24 on the Reader's List and 15 on the Board's List. But where is Thurber, Tolstoy, Salvatore, Rand, and Twain. Seems that most of the books on the list where required reading material in school, and a few have since been entered on the 'banned book list'. Alicat |
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Christopher
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
Cool! I've added two since then! C |
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Skyfyre Senior Member
since 1999-08-15
Posts 1906Sitting in Michael's Lap |
5 on the left, 15 on the right ... Though I did attempt "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged," but I never got through them. Sigh. Guess I'm just an old backwater gal after all ... Linda |
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fractal007 Senior Member
since 2000-06-01
Posts 1958 |
Have read: 1984 - Orwell Animal Farm - Orwell Lord of the Flies - Golding In the Middle of Reading Brave New World - Huxley Jeez! I don't measure up too well here, lol. I gotta start reading even more!!! "If history is to change, let it change. If the world is to be destroyed, so be it. If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh" -- Magus |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
16 from the Board's List---19 from the Reader's list.. and won't admit how many I actually enjoyed. Most was "required" reading... |
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WhtDove Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-22
Posts 9245Illinois |
Well Ruth and Michael, no need to be embarrassed as soon as you find out how many I've read. LOL ONE, The Stand. Does it count if we've seen a movie? The Hunt for Red October? LOL [This message has been edited by WhtDove (edited 03-01-2001).] |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
15 from the Board's List (including Finnegan's Wake!! Talk about tough!!) 26 from the Reader's List. . . but Battlefield Earth??? I'm with Brad, I'm just a little amazed. . . I'm getting ready to read The Fountainhead and then Atlas Shrugged. . . any suggestions as to which one to read first?? ------------------------------------------------------------ To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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Dopey Dope
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Member Patricius
since 2000-08-30
Posts 11132San Juan, Puerto Rico |
2 from the board........3 from the readers... and the 2 from the boards are included in the readers haha....... so basically out of all those books..only 3 All 3 forced upon me by my school. meaning 0 books read out of desire.  I was born myself, raised myself, and will continue to be myself. The world will just have to adjust. I'm in love with my shadow I admire it daily |
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PhaerieChild Senior Member
since 1999-08-30
Posts 1787Aloha, Oregon |
I've read 12 from the board list and 23 from the readers list. Thankfully I spared myself from "Battlefield Earth". Only author that comes close to sci fi for me is Piers Anthony. How can you save me? When the dark comes right in and takes me, from my front walk and into bed, where it kisses my face and eats my head. Shivaree |
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Acies
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Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-07
Posts 7665Twilight Zone |
uh  I'm so ashamed of myself  I don't know"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this give life to thee." W.S. |
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Lakewalker Member Elite
since 2000-08-05
Posts 3289On the streets w/ people |
2 on the board list, 5 or 6 on the reader's list. I've started more than that, but it's the finishing part that's the problem Please visit my webpage: http://lakewalker.homestead.com/index.html |
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Kit McCallum
Administrator
Member Laureate
since 2000-04-30
Posts 14774Ontario, Canada |
11 from the Board and 19 from the Reader's list (hey Sharon, I didn't see Swan Song on there ... I think we should complain!) |
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DancinQueen
since 2000-07-29
Posts 1092Kokomo,IN,USA |
8 from the board's list ¤Sometimes the hardest thing to get over, is something you never really had¤ |
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kcsgrandma Senior Member
since 2000-09-24
Posts 1522Presque Isle, ME |
8 from the board, 16 from the readers' list (which I personally considered better reading), including several repeats and quite a few school assignments, although many of these weren't even written when I was in school. I do agree the lists are arbitrary though, and leave out many outstanding writers, not all of whom wrote in English, but they still come across very well in translation. It's an interesting exercise, but probably doesn't prove much.To love another person is to see the face of God. - Les Miserables Marilyn |
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Ted Reynolds Member
since 1999-12-15
Posts 331 |
37 from board list 45 from readers list Which means nothing. Thomas Hobbes said if he'd read as much as the others, he wouldn't know any more than they did. |
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kaile
since 2000-02-06
Posts 5146singapore |
3 from both lists.. they are 1984 by Geroge Orwell Animal Farm by Geroge Orwell Catcher in the Rye by ??? i must say that i did start on the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy but stopped mid-way, hesitant as to why people consider this book great literature...will anyone who has read this book kindly explain to me?grinz  |
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wayoutwalt Member Elite
since 1999-06-22
Posts 4870TEXAS (it's all big) |
i read 8 of em and yuh seen the rest in movies even the magnificent ambersons cuz orson welles directed it. |
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dragonpoe Senior Member
since 2000-11-12
Posts 608Palm Bay, Florida |
6 total for me, one on the board's list 5 frmo the reader's list, though I own To Kill A Mockingbird, never read it, will one day, and my husband owns A Clockwork Orange, which he says I definately have to read, so I guess I will read that one too. I was shocked, I thought I was a pretty good reader and read alot, these lists put me to shame. I am going to have to read some of them. Oh, and I own Gone With the Wind, a great novel. With the word, I am mighty, with the pen I am free.. |
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Jamie Member Elite
since 2000-06-26
Posts 3168Blue Heaven |
if i didn't miss any repeats the total is 34 20 from the board list 23 from the reader list ( with 9 from both ) I thought it odd that some of the books high on each list were not anywhere on the other.. in particular Lord Of The Rings.. And I was happy to see Dune on the reader list.. one of my favourite sci-fi books.. |
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LoveBug
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Member Elite
since 2000-01-08
Posts 4697 |
My grand total...... FOUR! I'm so ashamed... but where are the greats? Perhaps some of my favorites (The epic poems, the plays) weren't considered... |
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sans38 Member
since 2001-03-03
Posts 117Westland, Michigan |
I've read 5 from the readers list....I read a lot though. In the last 2 weeks alone I've read 7 novels. |
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Fading Away
since 2001-03-14
Posts 3131Lynchburg, Virginia |
10 in all... lol! 4 from the Board. *groan* pathetic, huh? lol... I've heard of the majority of them... does that count?? I never thought that you would ever be the one to let me down. I guess that just goes to show how wrong I always am. |
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dreamer1 12 5 24 Member
since 2000-12-11
Posts 150crossing between |
5. 4 on the board list, they're all on the readers list, and 1 extra on the readers list. Not bad considering I read them all in the past year and a half. (Last year was the first year I read anything worth reading). ....peace as a primary objective is dangerous because it implies that we would sacrifice any principle for the sake of it.... |
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Dusk Treader
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Senior Member
since 1999-06-18
Posts 1187St. Paul, MN |
LOL, four books.. all from the Reader's.. no Board books. "The Lord of the Rings" "Ender's Game" "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" "Watership Down" "And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind - is, in the end, Hell" - C.S. Lewis |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
I've read quite a few from the Radcliffe list and a respectable percentage from the reader's list... most of the ones I've read on the board's list are duplicates of those. (I had a teacher give me a reading list in high school and I plowed through it one summer. *G*) However, I have to agree with Brad that these lists are fairly meaningless. I've certainly read great books that aren't on the list and thought some of these were wastes of time... so I don't know what criteria was used to judge. But if influence counts, then In Cold Blood has to top my list... that book scared the bejeezus out of me and gave me nightmares for months! LOL |
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