100 books everybody should read before they die

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  • aka123
    Confirmed User
    • Jul 2014
    • 4450

    #31
    Originally posted by rogueteens
    disappointing lists, the amazon one has too many "in vogue" books (diary of a wimpy kid and the hunger games! FFS) and the other is too American-centric.
    All quiet on the western front is not America sentric. It is one of the 3 books I have read from that list.

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    • dyna mo
      just a fucking jerk
      • Dec 2008
      • 68184

      #32
      Originally posted by aka123
      All quiet on the western front is not America sentric. It is one of the 3 books I have read from that list.
      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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      • Jel
        Confirmed User
        • Feb 2007
        • 6904

        #33
        Originally posted by PR_Glen
        i would normally agree in most instances but not with reading. adults shouldn't require a list for reading... Part of the magic of reading is discovery, if you go off someone elses list you are just cheating yourself of that.
        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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        • newB
          Confirmed User
          • Jul 2006
          • 2870

          #34
          Originally posted by $5 submissions
          100 years of solitude....... Amazing book
          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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          • jimmycooper
            Confirmed User
            • May 2010
            • 4016

            #35
            Those lists are actually pretty decent. I've read 28 books on the first list and 40 on the second.

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            • rogueteens
              So fucking bland
              • Jul 2006
              • 8005

              #36
              Originally posted by aka123
              All quiet on the western front is not America sentric. It is one of the 3 books I have read from that list.
              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.
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              • jimmycooper
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                • May 2010
                • 4016

                #37
                Originally posted by rogueteens
                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.
                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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                • rogueteens
                  So fucking bland
                  • Jul 2006
                  • 8005

                  #38
                  Originally posted by jimmycooper
                  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
                  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.
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                  • Sly
                    Let's do some business!
                    • Sep 2004
                    • 31375

                    #39
                    I'm at 12 on the second list.
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                    • Mutt
                      Too lazy to set a custom title
                      • Sep 2002
                      • 34431

                      #40
                      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.
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                      • dyna mo
                        just a fucking jerk
                        • Dec 2008
                        • 68184

                        #41
                        Originally posted by Mutt
                        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.
                        exfuckingactly.

                        not to mention, most people's bucket lists are nothing more than a travel/destination wish list.

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                        • Jel
                          Confirmed User
                          • Feb 2007
                          • 6904

                          #42
                          Originally posted by rogueteens
                          How To Win Friends And Influence People
                          great book actually

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                          • Jel
                            Confirmed User
                            • Feb 2007
                            • 6904

                            #43
                            Originally posted by Mutt
                            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.
                            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?

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                            • Mutt
                              Too lazy to set a custom title
                              • Sep 2002
                              • 34431

                              #44
                              Originally posted by Jel
                              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?


                              My post was an observation and opinion of the times we live in, which is exactly what literature does. Nothing more.

                              Are you really this simple?
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                              • Jel
                                Confirmed User
                                • Feb 2007
                                • 6904

                                #45
                                Originally posted by Mutt
                                My post was an observation and opinion of the times we live in, which is exactly what literature does. Nothing more.

                                Are you really this simple?
                                I must be

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