Comments | muraven: How many books have you read?

muraven

How many books have you read?

Feb 22, 2009 12:47

Stolen from sonria.

The BBC allegedly believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here:

( My reading habits revealed ahead )

books, quizes

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udoswald February 22 2009, 22:45:59 UTC

His Dark Materials is a classic. DiVinci Code was one of the most read books of the decade. You just don't want them on there because you disagree with them, live with it.

muraven February 22 2009, 23:35:24 UTC

His Dark Materials is a decade-old childish attempt to deride The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. Its only purpose is to serve as a Chronicles of Narnia for atheists, which is a poor reason to create a book. The DaVinci code is basically pulp fiction dressed up with scholarship so false that it would make UFO nuts blush. The ideas about Church history that Dan Brown puts forward as fact in that book are so thoroughly false that they've been repudiated by most of the scholars in the field including those who aren't Christian. As for the readability of the book, the movie was almost universally panned as unwatchable and that can't be exclusively blamed on the horrible direction of Ron Howard. A lot of people read it because they desperately want to believe bad things about the Church, but that doesn't mean that it's a good book.

udoswald February 23 2009, 03:09:10 UTC

You really are a pathetic person. You can't stand anyone who dares disagree with you and your dress wearing Nazi master ( ... )

muraven February 24 2009, 01:32:19 UTC

You can't stand that there's this book that is considered a classic and loved by millions of people that dares not to conform to your worldview, that just burns you up inside.

I don't think that any book should be considered a classic less than a quarter century after it's written. It's easy to think that the latest book that excites your imagination or confirms your worldview is a classic, but that doesn't make it so. I don't think that the Harry Potter books are classics yet either, although I obviously think that they stand a better chance of becoming so in the future.

I never suggested Narnia shouldn't be on the list despite it being a thinly veiled attempt at proselytization.

I did suggest that it shouldn't be on the list, because it's just a fantasy series not even close to being on par with the Lord of the Rings. C.S. Lewis should have stuck with writing non-fiction.

Same thing for the Bible which is also on the list.The Bible is the definitive book of Western society. Even among non-Christians, so many phrases and ( ... )

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