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    ive read twleve out of the hundred... meh. they don't interest me that much, although um surprised The Red and The Black by Stendhal didn't make it on your list, not to mention Germinal or Debacle by zola. Granted, i would love to read some others in your list.... but most of those books are not really my cup of tea.

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    I have read 42 of the books on this list but I'm amazed by the recent books who made the top 100: Perfume, The Kite Runner, Middlesex, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, in my opinion in the last twenty years we have seen much better novels than these ones. Good to see so much Dostoevsky on the list!

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    Cool I never pick books to read from lists, with the exception

    of those recomended as part of a lifetime reading program. After three counts, I have determined that I have read 65 of those on the list. I will probably read a few more, the one exception being anything by Ayn Rand, whom I intensely dislike.

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    1984 is #2? You have to be kidding me!

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    Seems pretty heavy on russian works, but I guess thats due to tolstoy and dostoevsky eh?

    I thought B.K. and the Idiot were both better than C&P personally.

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    Smile Yeah!

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    Good list! Everything is subjective with lists, but I find book and music lists very helpful in expanding my library. Also happy to see quite a few of my favorites on there. The Brothers Karamazov should be above Crime and Punishment, but again that's my personal taste.

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    For those that want to keep track of the books on this list that you have read, I have created a list on the Lists of Bests web site. It is called Lit Net's Top 100 Books Official List.

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    Oh wow, very cool, thanks for doing that!

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    Quote Originally Posted by dfloyd View Post
    of those recomended as part of a lifetime reading program. After three counts, I have determined that I have read 65 of those on the list. I will probably read a few more, the one exception being anything by Ayn Rand, whom I intensely dislike.
    I keep thinking she would have been somewhat redeemed had she had even a shred of a sense of humor. But I've never read a more humorless writer.

    It's quite possible that her lack of humor heavily influenced her Objectivist philosophy. Had she been a jollier person, she probably wouldn't have thought that way. Once again, that's just an idea, and not one I'm prepared to defend all that strongly. Yet ...

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    Good list. I've only read about 27 of those books and the rest are ones I've got on my ever-growing 'to read' list. I'm SO glad to see Notes from Underground on there because I often feel it gets neglected when people discuss Dostoyevsky's novels. Also surprised but pleased to see Amerika on the list. I wouldn't have placed 1984 second though! It was a great novel, but I think The Divine Comedy, Hamlet, Ulysses etc. should come before it.
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    I read 40 out of these top 100...

    Surprised that the Koran, the Red and the Black, and the Three Musketeers trilogy did not make the list.

    As an agnostic, I read both the Koran and the Bible. Clearly, in terms of lessons and the storyline, the Koran is much more well defined. Then again.. the people on here are Christians.

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    This is really more of a popularity list.

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    Hi, I'm new here.

    I have over 90 of the 100 books listed.

    I agree that is a very good list that has been compiled here.

    I do note however that it appears to primarily be a euro-centric and American representation of novels that are generally quite well known in the mainstream. Nothing wrong with that per se but I would suggest you may wish to consider some of the following novels as well.

    Apologies if these have been mentioned here already.

    Cheers.

    Off the top......and Yes a number of these are certainly European authors

    Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Doblin
    Palefire (collection) - Vladimir Nabokov *I personally could never leave this Nabokov collection out of any list, albeit you do have Lolita listed.
    Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
    Street of Crocodiles - Bruno Schulz
    I Served the King of England - Bohumil Hrabal
    Closely Observed Trains - Bohumil Hrabal
    One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Tartare Steppe - Dino Buzzati
    If On A Winter's Night A Traveller - Italo Calvino
    Feast of the Goat - Mario Vargas Llosa
    The Painter - R. K. Narayan
    Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
    Terra Nostra - Carlos Fuentes
    Radetzsky March - Joseph Roth
    Obscene Bird of the Night -Jose Donoso
    Labyrinths - Jorge Louis Borges *I realise this is one of his short story collections but I could not leave it out.
    Love and Garbage - Ivan Klima
    Memed My Hawk - Yasar Kemal
    Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter *A collection but a very great one.
    Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih
    The Sound of the Mountain - Yasunari Kawabata
    Austerlitz - W.G. Sebald
    Wittgenstein's Nephew - Thomas Bernhard
    At Swim Two Birds - Flann O'Brien
    Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa
    Blow-Up and other stories - Julio Cortazar *Another collection but I couldn't leave out whom I regard as no. 2 in the Latin American canon behind Borges.
    Makioka Sisters - Junichero Tanizak
    Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
    Cairo Trilogy - Naghuib Mahfouz
    The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
    Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie *Apologies but I simply had to log back in to add these two to the list. Now to catch some ZZZZZZs...

    I have plenty more I could inlcude here but it's late and I need to get some shut eye.

    Bye for now.
    Last edited by BrunoSchulz; 08-15-2010 at 11:02 AM.

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    nice list thanks.

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