Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Great Works
So, how are you doing with your 50 Book Challenge? I'm woefully behind...I think I've read three books since July! And with Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners ahead of me; well, I'm going to have to cram in a bunch of paperbacks to make it.
And on the topic of books, I found this list of the 100 Best English-language novels since 1923, over at Pop Culture Junk Mail (if you don't visit that site...shame on you). How many have you read??
So far, I can add these to my list:
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
Naked Lunch
William Burroughs
Neuromancer
William Gibson
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
11 out of 100? Clearly; I need to work on my classics!
So, how are you doing with your 50 Book Challenge? I'm woefully behind...I think I've read three books since July! And with Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners ahead of me; well, I'm going to have to cram in a bunch of paperbacks to make it.
And on the topic of books, I found this list of the 100 Best English-language novels since 1923, over at Pop Culture Junk Mail (if you don't visit that site...shame on you). How many have you read??
So far, I can add these to my list:
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
Naked Lunch
William Burroughs
Neuromancer
William Gibson
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
11 out of 100? Clearly; I need to work on my classics!
Idle Chatter:
I feel the same way!
There's another, much larger, list of books I've been meaning to read, but that doesn't quite count, does it?
There's another, much larger, list of books I've been meaning to read, but that doesn't quite count, does it?
18, yay! or um, shame -- some of those, though, I don't remember all the way through -- just the basics.
however the list seems like a pretty good jumping off point, since there's a lot of variety there...
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however the list seems like a pretty good jumping off point, since there's a lot of variety there...
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