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[lupercalia959]

Stole this from Seraphim_grace
These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby

Comments

[seraphim_grace]

mark twain said a classic is a book everyone wants to have read but no one wants to read
which is a shame because there are some really really really good books out there and I'm beginning to think I'm the only one that reads
that's it I'm on a crusade, thou will all read A picture of Dorian Gray, Dracula and Wuthering Heights, and then we'll get you into margaret atwood and neil gaiman
tuts.
dorian gray is so easy to read as well
you can read wuthering heights online for free
it's been voted time and again the best book in the english language

i hadn't read the textbooks for the most part, or I'd read something similar but a bit more clever.

[lupercalia959]

I've read Dracula and Wuthering Heights, but I've never heard of "A picture of Dorian Gray" is it really good? I'll try to get my hands on a copy so I can read it.

[seraphim_grace]

it's about a boy who wishes to be forever young and beautiful as he is having his portrait painted and it comes true, and he discovers he can do what he like because it doesn't affect him, he feels no remorse or guilt, the painting feels it for him
it's oscar wilde's only novel which was what recommended it to me but I loved it and have read it a million times
it's very witty and very sinister, and also very short, and it's not hard to read
its considered at the same time as dracula and frankenstein and the phantom of the opera as the great horrors, and I've read them all, and frankenstein is boring....
the monster goes on and on and on

[lupercalia959]

Very true about Frankenstein, but still it was a classic horror story so I just HAD to read it. LOL I liked Dracula much better...but then I'm kind of a vampire fanatic so that's not so strange. And I love phantom of the opera, but I've only seen the play once, I haven't actually read the book.

[seraphim_grace]

strangely the opera ghost is not a horror, it's an investigative story like ruth rendell about this man who lives in the paris cellars
there is this character in it called the Persian who has hunted him down and is completely missing from every version I've ever seen
and it ends a lot better in the book with the phantom threatening to blow up the opera if Christine doesn't love him
it's wonderful, I cried so hard when i read it, it's probably the best of the bunch