100 books everybody should read before they die
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I remember when I read that, I got about ~10 pages from the end and knew what was coming and couldn't bear to read that so I tucked that book away in the back of the freezer and it stayed there for a couple months before I could drag it out and read the ending.
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I *love* reading, and respectfully disagree - a book isn't better or worse depending on if I discovered it or not. I'd have missed out on some fucking good books if I had to discover each book I read by myself. If someone prefers to pick some from someone else's list, good luck to them, who am I to tell someone which route they should take
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First one I thought of as well; should be required reading for the human race.
Another very good book that somehow never garnered much attention is Antarctic Navigation.
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Those lists are actually pretty decent. I've read 28 books on the first list and 40 on the second.

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I was talking about that list as a whole, there are quite a lot (but obviously not all) of books there that would be unknown or of no interest outside the US. that was my point.Free traffic and backlinks from one of the fastest growing adult pinsites on the net - SAUCY PICTURES!
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Not necessarily. Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Camus, Kafka, Nietzche, Bulgakov, Joyce, Machiavelli, Huxley, Wilde, all the Greeks and a few others on the list were all from various European countries

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I'm can understand American classics like The Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye being on the list but books like How To Win Friends And Influence People, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt? Walden would mean nothing to anyone outside the US I'd guess. and there are quite a few more examples too, The Federalist Papers and The Boys of Summer, ect .... I could go on but you get the idea by now.
Out of that list of 100 there are about 20 (not including the true American classics) that would never appear on anyone from outside the USA's top 100.Free traffic and backlinks from one of the fastest growing adult pinsites on the net - SAUCY PICTURES!
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I've read many of those classic books and while not a waste of time they are far from being essential - I get as much or more out of reading other types of writing as I do from novels/books. There's some intellectual snobbery involved. You can be brilliant and filled with insight without reading any of them.
People are becoming obsessed, it's the social Internet doing it, the bucket list mentality measuring a fulfilling life, keeping a scorecard of what you'd done, what you've eaten, where you've visited, what you own, how many followers on Instagram - all just a competition.I moved my sites to Vacares Hosting. I've saved money, my hair is thicker, lost some weight too! Thanks Sly!Comment
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exfuckingactly.I've read many of those classic books and while not a waste of time they are far from being essential - I get as much or more out of reading other types of writing as I do from novels/books. There's some intellectual snobbery involved. You can be brilliant and filled with insight without reading any of them.
People are becoming obsessed, it's the social Internet doing it, the bucket list mentality measuring a fulfilling life, keeping a scorecard of what you'd done, what you've eaten, where you've visited, what you own, how many followers on Instagram - all just a competition.
not to mention, most people's bucket lists are nothing more than a travel/destination wish list.Comment
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who cares if that's what someone else wants to do? I mean really, do you give the slightest fuck if some other person wants to get x followers on instagram, or makes a list of places they've visited, or does anything they want to do that doesn't directly impact your life?Comment
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My post was an observation and opinion of the times we live in, which is exactly what literature does. Nothing more.
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