[Corsair]

http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,711520,00.html
According to this website anyway. Which ones have you read?

I've read:
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Iliad by Homer
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

[jdjtcagle]

Charles Dickens, England, (1812-1870), Great Expectations

[an0n]

The Book of Job, Israel. (600-400 BC).

[Unidan]

I've read..
Othello by William Shakespeare
and I'll be reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn this summer.

[Black Wolf]

Medea, Oedipus and Gullivers Travels. I've read Tom Sawyer, but I can't find an unabridged copy of Huck Finn (Admittedly, I haven't looked particularly hard, but still).
And 1984 should be on there.

[kode]

Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, (1805-1875), Fairy Tales and Stories
 Dante Alighieri, Italy, (1265-1321), The Divine Comedy
 Charles Dickens, England, (1812-1870), Great Expectations
 Ernest Hemingway, United States, (1899-1961), The Old Man and the Sea
 Astrid
Lindgren, Sweden, (1907-2002), Pippi Longstocking
 Herman Melville, United States, (1819-1891), Moby Dick
 George Orwell, England, (1903-1950), 1984
 Jonathan Swift, Ireland, (1667-1745), Gulliver's Travels
 Mark Twain, United States, (1835-1910), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn



and wtf would read  Marcel Prousts Remembrance of Things Past? it's a bookshelf alone.
edit: the answer would be the norwegians. I knew theyre all on dope.

[Stunaep]

I've read:

Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, (1805-1875), Fairy Tales and Stories
Honore de Balzac, France, (1799-1850), Old Goriot
Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy, (1313-1375), Decameron
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain, (1547-1616), Don Quixote
Geoffrey Chaucer, England, (1340-1400), Canterbury Tales
Joseph Conrad, England,(1857-1924), Nostromo
Dante Alighieri, Italy, (1265-1321), The Divine Comedy
Charles Dickens, England, (1812-1870), Great Expectations
Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881), Crime and Punishment; The Idiot;
Gustave Flaubert, France, (1821-1880), Madame Bovary; A Sentimental Education
Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Colombia, (b. 1928), One Hundred Years of Solitude;
Gilgamesh, Mesopotamia (c 1800 BC).
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany, (1749-1832), Faust
Ernest Hemingway, United States, (1899-1961), The Old Man and the Sea
Homer, Greece, (c 700 BC), The Iliad
Franz Kafka, Bohemia, (1883-1924), The Complete Stories; The Trial; The Castle Bohemia
Nikos Kazantzakis, Greece, (1883-1957), Zorba the Greek
Michel de Montaigne, France, (1533-1592), Essays
Vladimir Nabokov, Russia/United States, (1899-1977), Lolita
George Orwell, England, (1903-1950), 1984
William Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616), Hamlet; King Lear; Othello
Sophocles, Greece, (496-406 BC), Oedipus the King
Francois Rabelais, France, (1495-1553), Gargantua and Pantagruel
Leo Tolstoy, Russia, (1828-1910), War and Peace;
Jonathan Swift, Ireland, (1667-1745), Gulliver's Travels
Thousand and One Nights, India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt, (700-1500).
Mark Twain, United States, (1835-1910), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn


Most of those are in high-school compulsory literature, others, well, I'm just a literature fan

[karajorma]

Lord of the Rings isn't in it. Not interested in the list in the slightest. There's an obvious bias.

[kode]

Originally posted by karajorma
Lord of the Rings isn't in it. Not interested in the list in the slightest. There's an obvious bias.

no ****? writers are biased? omfg!!!

[karajorma]

Yep. Therefore this list is better

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml

[kode]

Originally posted by karajorma
Yep. Therefore this list is better

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml

no, it isn't really better. 9 out of teh top 10 in the list are brits. therefore, it's just as biased.

[delta_7890]

6, and that's stretching it.

[Rictor]

well, brits do have of good literature. And in other news, the Guardian has apparently never heard of our good friends the

tags, cause they have the worst list system evar.

yeah, LOTR should be on there, and some other ones.

[Ghostavo]

Harry Potter is in that list 4 times... it is totally biased... those have got to be the worst books EVER!

[karajorma]

Originally posted by kode


no, it isn't really better. 9 out of teh top 10 in the list are brits. therefore, it's just as biased.

It was a poll of the british public so of course british literature did well. If there was an international poll I knew about I'd have linked to that instead.

[IceFire]

I can't even remember how many books I've read.  I remember reading about 20 of the smaller length novels in grade 2.  I don't get as much time now as I used to so I've obviously slowed down but I read tons of books when I get the chance.  Easily over 30 and more like 60 or 70 novels, books, etc.

Currently reading Winged Combat by Arthur Bishop (son of WWI ace Billy Bishop).  EXCELLENT novel...gives a very solid description of what RCAF 401 squadron went through in WWII as well as training and the whole bit.  Very impressive!

[KS_Al]

Well why Lord of the rings didn't make it?

[Corsair]

Because it's...only one list out of many?

[TopAce]

Originally posted by jdjtcagle
Charles Dickens, England, (1812-1870), Great Expectations

The first book I read in original English. No stupid translation mistakes.

[Black Wolf]

Originally posted by karajorma
Yep. Therefore this list is better

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml

I stopped reading after position 5...

OK, not true. I stopped taking it seriously after position 5, but I did skim it. Fairly random IMO, but that's the expected result of a public survey I guess.

[EDIT] Just realized - this isn;t a list of the 100 greatest books of all time - it's Britains hundred most popular novel. The first is based on literary significance/merit, the second's a popularity contest. In that light, it makes sense.