100 Novels Everyone Should Read
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Jul 2016
4:42pm, 16 Jul 2016
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NoFleecingAround
A couple of them I didn't finish 
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Jul 2016
4:43pm, 16 Jul 2016
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NoFleecingAround
Sorry, that was meant to be Life is too short to continue reading a book you don't enjoy!
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Jul 2016
4:46pm, 16 Jul 2016
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Sharkie
I think that's what I'm saying too, Fleecio. One or two of mine were 'shoulds' but I've only counted ones I finished! And I a very old so I probably won't read any more on that list unless someone gives me a very good reason why. |
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Jul 2016
5:06pm, 16 Jul 2016
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NoFleecingAround
I counted ones I didn't finish, I gave them a fair go and decided they weren't my cup of tea so they ought to count...
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Jul 2016
6:34pm, 16 Jul 2016
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Diogenes
I think we should all just make our own lists
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Jul 2016
11:16pm, 16 Jul 2016
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DazTheSlug
"I think we should all just make our own lists " ohhh I am...
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Jul 2016
11:30pm, 16 Jul 2016
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Night-owl
I have a list of all the books I've read since 2014
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Jul 2016
11:49pm, 16 Jul 2016
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purephase
Just came across this and I have read 39 on the list. Personally, I sometimes think lists like this have books on that people think should be on there rather than deserve to be on there. For example, I read Wuthering Heights years ago and did not really think too much of it. Also, I would certainly have something by Paul Auster and Iain Pears in there, both amazing authors and yes I am aware that my personal opinions are not in any way more valid than the opinion of other people . But on the whole, this is a really good list.
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Jul 2016
12:03pm, 28 Jul 2016
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Stewie
I would have added Great expectations and in particular A tale of two cities to the list, but I guess its horses for courses really
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Jan 2017
12:24am, 14 Jan 2017
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DazTheSlug
just to bring me up to the end of 2016 10 more since last July: 4 re-reads: Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift - poor David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - loooong, but ok The Tin Drum - Günter Grass - superb The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco - v.good 6 new: The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - surprisingly v.good Brighton Rock - Graham Greene - v.good The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera - ok Underworld - Don de Lillo - masterpiece Under the Net - Iris Murdoch - excellent The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton - good up to 53 now, so over half way! |
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