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Re: The greatest book ever
Reply #30 - Dec 8^th, 2016 at 1:36pm

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The Top 10: The Greatest Books of All Time by The Top 10 (Book)

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. ...
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. ...
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. ...
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. ...
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. ...
Middlemarch by George Eliot. ...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.

According to the Net.

OR ... the greatest 50 books. http://thegreatestbooks.org/

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Re: The greatest book ever
Reply #31 - Dec 9^th, 2016 at 6:01am

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 8^th, 2016 at 11:19am:

bogarde73 wrote on Dec 8^th, 2016 at 11:08am:

Redmond Neck wrote on Dec 8^th, 2016 at 8:17am:

Not a regular reader however did like

"To Kill A Mockingbird"

At least one American campus, Virginia I think, has now banned it as "racist"

One silly parent complained.

The school hasn't banned it.

They are discussing it.

You're right. It & Huckleberry Finn were taken off the shelves for about a week but are now back in the library.

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The Heartless Felon Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 2869 Gender:	Re: The greatest book ever Reply #32 - Dec 9^th, 2016 at 7:41am "The Book of Heroic Failures" by Stephen Pile . It has a certain relevance to Ozpolitics...
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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: The greatest book ever Reply #33 - Dec 9^th, 2016 at 9:38am Will 1984, Catcher in the Rye, Mockingbird & Neferti's list be talked about in a thousand years? Even known about except by some obscure scholar?
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Redmond Neck Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 22547 ACT Gender:	Re: The greatest book ever Reply #34 - Dec 9^th, 2016 at 9:43am So the Koran is the one eh?
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greggerypeccary Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 147345 Gender:	Re: The greatest book ever Reply #35 - Dec 9^th, 2016 at 9:47am bogarde73 wrote on Dec 9^th, 2016 at 9:38am: Will 1984, Catcher in the Rye, Mockingbird & Neferti's list be talked about in a thousand years? Even known about except by some obscure scholar? A favourite scene, from one of my favourite movies. The 'books' bit starts at 2:30
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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: The greatest book ever Reply #36 - Dec 9^th, 2016 at 9:54am Does anybody have H G Wells' books now?
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greggerypeccary Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 147345 Gender:	Re: The greatest book ever Reply #37 - Dec 9^th, 2016 at 10:01am bogarde73 wrote on Dec 9^th, 2016 at 9:54am: Does anybody have H G Wells' books now? I haven't read many of his books, but The Time Machine is an absolute classic. As a kid, I read that book about 6 or 7 times.
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Re: The greatest book ever
Reply #38 - Dec 9^th, 2016 at 11:41am

NorthOfNorth wrote on Dec 7^th, 2016 at 10:31pm:

From the west candidates would have to be

Plato's Dialogues (chiefly The Republic)
The Iliad
The Odyssey

From India

The Mahabharata

From China

The Analects
The Tao Te Ching

To name a few greats (great in that their popularity at least within their respective cultural milieu has survived thousands of years)...

Plato's The Republic has to be up there. As one philosopher said (Whitehead), Western philosophy is a "series of footnotes to Plato", which is generally true. Most philosophers since Plato have wrestled with the topics he covers. Homer's books are still popular, but it's debatable how much influence they've had.

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Postmodern Trendoid III Gold Member Offline Posts: 10290 Gender:	Re: The greatest book ever Reply #39 - Dec 9^th, 2016 at 11:46am bogarde73 wrote on Dec 9^th, 2016 at 9:38am: Will 1984, Catcher in the Rye, Mockingbird & Neferti's list be talked about in a thousand years? Even known about except by some obscure scholar? Fair point.
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Re: The greatest book ever
Reply #40 - Dec 9^th, 2016 at 3:08pm

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 9^th, 2016 at 9:47am:

bogarde73 wrote on Dec 9^th, 2016 at 9:38am:

Will 1984, Catcher in the Rye, Mockingbird & Neferti's list be talked about in a thousand years?
Even known about except by some obscure scholar?

A favourite scene, from one of my favourite movies.

The 'books' bit starts at 2:30

Which one of the Eloi are you, Pecks?

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RussiAnVetEraN Gold Member Offline Stunned Posts: 565 Zelenograd Gender:	Re: The greatest book ever Reply #41 - Aug 3^rd, 2024 at 6:37am Fifty spiritual homilies of St. Macarius the Egyptian
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tallowood Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6048	Re: The greatest book ever Reply #42 - Aug 3^rd, 2024 at 9:30am It is strange that nobody mentioned the great Indian epic "Kamasutra" or arabs "1000+1 nights".
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Frank Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 54047 Gender:	Re: The greatest book ever Reply #43 - Aug 3^rd, 2024 at 10:39am Bible. Certainly the most influential collection of books.
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Sir Spot of Borg Moderator Offline WE ARE BORG Posts: 26575 Australia	Re: The greatest book ever Reply #44 - Aug 3^rd, 2024 at 11:24am i disagree. greatest collection of books ever were larry nivens ringworld series Spot
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