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Re: BBC Believes You Only Read 6 of These Books
Reply #16 - Jul 20^th, 2017 at 2:37am

mothra wrote on Jul 20^th, 2017 at 2:05am:

Have always meant to read Sherlock Holmes. I'm told it's very good.

I'll get round to it one day.

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I read it last year while on leave. It is a short book but the first one was excellent read and tells you all you need to know about Holmes and Watson putting everything into perspective.

A must read.

I agree with you. I read to my daughter every time I take her to bed. Wife is a bookworm.

it is actually a good success indictor apparently... so it is important.

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Marla Gold Member Offline A joint a day keeps the MAGA away Posts: 14722 Colorado Gender:	Re: BBC Believes You Only Read 6 of These Books Reply #17 - Jul 20^th, 2017 at 6:25am Re-read Mockingbird just last month. Actually, I need to buy an updated reprint of that book.
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Reply #18 - Jul 20^th, 2017 at 6:27am

mothra wrote on Jul 20^th, 2017 at 1:33am:

I was surprised that only one book of John Irving's made the list ... but it's my favourite .. A Prayer for Owen Meany ... so i'll forgive them.

But damn, he's good. One of my favourite authors.

Predictable list. Mainly classics most of which were required reading in high school. No Kurt Vonnegut, no Kafka, no Karl Marx....

bugger that list.

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Marla Gold Member Offline A joint a day keeps the MAGA away Posts: 14722 Colorado Gender:	Re: BBC Believes You Only Read 6 of These Books Reply #19 - Jul 20^th, 2017 at 6:30am Oh, and no god damn Nelson Algren. Yeah, bugger that list.
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mothra Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 36389 Gender:	Re: BBC Believes You Only Read 6 of These Books Reply #20 - Jul 20^th, 2017 at 6:41am Kurt Vonnegut! Stopped me from going stark raving mad in my teen years. Cat's Cradle and The Sirens of Titan being standouts. In fact, the fact that they had Hitchhike's Guide to the Galaxy on there without it's obvious influence in Sirens of Titan is a bit of a jip.
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Marla Gold Member Offline A joint a day keeps the MAGA away Posts: 14722 Colorado Gender:	Re: BBC Believes You Only Read 6 of These Books Reply #21 - Jul 20^th, 2017 at 6:45am There's no Jules Verne, no Edgar Alan Poe, no H.P. Lovecraft, no Dante Alighieri. Totally bugger that list.
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Marla Gold Member Offline A joint a day keeps the MAGA away Posts: 14722 Colorado Gender:	Re: BBC Believes You Only Read 6 of These Books Reply #22 - Jul 20^th, 2017 at 6:47am Charlotte's Web, what an utterly depressing piece of crap that book was.
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Reply #23 - Jul 20^th, 2017 at 6:49am

Marla wrote on Jul 20^th, 2017 at 6:30am:

Oh, and no god damn Nelson Algren.

Yeah, bugger that list.

A very UK-centric list, all in all.

But you're right. Mostly classics.

I wouldn't put Tess of the D'Urbervilles on there. I yawned through that book. Forced to read it in year 9. Far From the Maddening crowd i have not read.

But Thomas Hardy was a bore ... like his great influence William Wordsworth.

But then again, i'm not a fan of Romanticism.

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mothra Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 36389 Gender:	Re: BBC Believes You Only Read 6 of These Books Reply #24 - Jul 20^th, 2017 at 6:51am Marla wrote on Jul 20^th, 2017 at 6:47am: Charlotte's Web, what an utterly depressing piece of crap that book was. I loved Charlotte's Web ... as a kid. Read it to my kids.
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Reply #25 - Jul 20^th, 2017 at 6:55am

Have you read any Thomas Keneally , Marla?

Great Australian author. Probably best know for Schindler's Ark ... from which Schindler's List was made.

He's worth a read. Good writer.

And Tim Winton. If you can get your hands on Cloud Street, do it ... and do it hard.

OOOh.. and David Malouf. Exceptional author.

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Reply #26 - Jul 20^th, 2017 at 7:03am

Easy to list books that were written in the Romantic to Victorian Age. No James Fenimore Cooper? The Spy was one of my all-time fav reads.

Cooper was the god damn appellation of American novelist. America could use a Harvey Birch right now.

Oh, and no Thoreau? No god damn Makepeace Thackeray?

Hands up. Who here didn't think Laura Bell was one of the best characters ever to be written?

No Charles Kingsley?

That book was required reading in high school. Love as motive influencing character and determining what action that it exhibited. Ah, Amyas Leigh.

I could on and on.

Yeah, bugger that list.

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mothra Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 36389 Gender:	Re: BBC Believes You Only Read 6 of These Books Reply #27 - Jul 20^th, 2017 at 7:06am Thoreau was a dude. Civil Disobedience is a must read.
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Reply #28 - Jul 20^th, 2017 at 7:08am

mothra wrote on Jul 20^th, 2017 at 6:55am:

Have you read any Thomas Keneally , Marla?

Great Australian author. Probably best know for Schindler's Ark ... from which Schindler's List was made.

He's worth a read. Good writer.

And Tim Winton. If you can get your hands on Cloud Street, do it ... and do it hard.

OOOh.. and David Malouf. Exceptional author.

I tried to read Markus Zusak's Book Thief but could not get into it.

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Reply #29 - Jul 20^th, 2017 at 7:09am

Marla wrote on Jul 20^th, 2017 at 7:08am:

mothra wrote on Jul 20^th, 2017 at 6:55am:

Have you read any Thomas Keneally , Marla?

Great Australian author. Probably best know for Schindler's Ark ... from which Schindler's List was made.

He's worth a read. Good writer.

And Tim Winton. If you can get your hands on Cloud Street, do it ... and do it hard.

OOOh.. and David Malouf. Exceptional author.

I tried to read Markus Zusak's Book Thief but could not get into it.

Oh i loved it. But i read it to my kid.

Maybe it helps if you can see it through that lens.

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