100 Novels Everyone Should Read
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Jul 2016
1:43pm, 15 Jul 2016
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DazTheSlug
11 more of the T100 since last November 3 re-reads: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle - superb The War of the Worlds - good Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - ok 8 new to me: Atonement - Ian McEwan - good The Trial - Franz Kafka - masterpiece Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë - ok The Stranger - Albert Camus - ok Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe - good Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons - superb Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - good The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler - good 47 in total now |
Jul 2016
1:54pm, 15 Jul 2016
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LindsD
I  CCF. I've probably said that before. And totally agree about The Trial.
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Jul 2016
2:42pm, 15 Jul 2016
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Sharkie
I absolutely *hear* CCF too, Linds. I read one of Stella Gibbons 'serious' novels a year or so ago... it sounded interesting but I was disappointed. Probably could have done with a good (snippety snip) editor. |
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Jul 2016
2:42pm, 15 Jul 2016
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Sharkie
not 'hear' obv!
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Jul 2016
3:40pm, 15 Jul 2016
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DazTheSlug
N.B. the linky thing over in the right-hand column is wrong the correct link is: telegraph.co.uk |
Jul 2016
11:28am, 16 Jul 2016
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westmoors
I've read 17 on that list now. Have most of the rest on my kindle wish list!
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Jul 2016
2:35pm, 16 Jul 2016
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NoFleecingAround
I've read 31, but the ones I haven't read I don't really fancy...Around the World in 80 Days should be on there by rights, it's brilliant
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Jul 2016
2:54pm, 16 Jul 2016
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LindsD
30 for me
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Jul 2016
3:15pm, 16 Jul 2016
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LazyDaisy
I've read 32 on that list. At least, I read enough of Atonement to know I really get cross with Ian McEwan for brilliant beginnings and an inability to sustain that brilliance throughout the novel, and enough of On The Road to find it irritating (though that was so long ago maybe I ought to give it another go.) More accurately then, I have finished 30. Quite a few of them are only by virtue of having to, as they were on the syllabus for my French degree 
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Jul 2016
4:42pm, 16 Jul 2016
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Sharkie
48. Even though I've owned a copy of Ulysses for thirty five years I still haven't read it and probably won't. We threw Catch 22 away recently after realising neither of us would ever read it. I KNOW it's supposed to be Dead Good. I haven't read Hitchhikers Guide either - in spite of listening to the original radio series first time round. This probably loses me about five trillion Fetchie points. |
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