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Post by onlyMark on Nov 6, 2019 5:31:09 GMT
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Post by bjd on Nov 6, 2019 6:31:56 GMT
A quick look through that list makes me think that 1) most of them are quite recent and not "written in the past 300 years" and 2) I read a lot and have not read or even heard of many of them. I also don't always agree with the categories the books are put into, like Lord of the Rings in Adventure rather than in Other Worlds.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 6, 2019 14:38:21 GMT
About 60% or so I've never heard of and some of the rest I've probably seen the film. There are categories that don't appeal to me and yet there sometimes are books within that category that I know and do.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 6, 2019 19:01:26 GMT
It seems more like a list of personal favorites rather than a compendium of must-reads based on literary merit.
Of course I haven't read all those books, but because I buy books both for myself & for my mother, I wind up reading lots of reviews, so at least know a little about many books on the list that I have not (nor shall) read. I would swear, looking at the ages of the deciders, that the list is made up of stuff that was on their school reading lists, or stuff they know that we're supposed to read (probably from the old guy's school reading list), or a few things that are new enough to seem radical. (gratuitous capsule review from me: Homegoing is violence porn.)
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 6, 2019 19:55:14 GMT
Nothing by Rudyard Kipling my favourite author or A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, a favourite book.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Nov 7, 2019 20:10:05 GMT
I agree with Bixa....a list of personal favourites. It's too subjective....
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