The Big Read

[firehair28]

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The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see...

Comments

[bearmum]

Do try "A Town Like Alice'" -- it takes some getting into, like all Nevil Shute's books, but is really worth it in the end. Pretty good list -- only about 10 or so I've never heard of, although I certainly haven't read all of them.

Now I want to know about the frogs!!!!

Book Lists

[jon_decles]

Robert Heinlein, Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neil, Aeschulus, Sophecles the list of missing stuff goes on.

"A Classic is anything somebody will pay good money to read a hundred years after it is written." --Jon DeCles

Who are these idiots with too much time on their hands who sit up nights making lists of their favorites and then trying to impose them on the rest of the world as somehow 'the best?"

There are some good books on the list. There is also a lot of pop crap promulgated by professors who look through the wrong end of a telescope and imagine that 'realism' is somehow 'reality,' and who are thrilled if people on the page have to piss.

Something published two weeks ago may be fun, but it takes a century of continued interest to make it great.

"Mockingbird" didn't even impress me when it was new and topical.

Read Octavia Butler instead.