Happy World Book Day!

[Germanicus]

Read all underlined, several more than once:

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling (all)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Travellers Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby -- F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Willaim Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - dan brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabrial Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far from the Madding Crowd -- Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaids Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martell
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love in the time of Cholera - Gabriel garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On the Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson
74 Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylivia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - Charles Mitchell
83 The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree collection - Enid blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie & the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

In my opinion you are reading way too much trash.

[Germanicus]

48. Not all by choice. I would have for instance burned the Catcher in the Rye if I wasn't being graded for reading it.

I do not understand why people have such a problem with Catcher in the Rye. People either love it or hate it.

I love it. It must be your personality. I do wish that it was not so negative though. Franny and Zooey is like a positive Catcher in the Rye to me.

I can relate to the way JD Salinger thinks. I think that he is hilarious. Maybe you just dont get him. Like its like the short story Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Meliville. To me that is hilarious but I am guessing most do not really get it. There is a difference between understanding something and feeling something. Know what I mean? How the hell can someone hate Catcher in the Rye?



Maybe it has to do with reading it in school? I read it as an adult. I dont see why someone would hate Catcher in the Rye. Are you some kind of phony?

edit- You know. Before JD Salinger died it was easy to find all of his short stories online. Try finding them now. Now that all of the tryhards have come out they have been removed. And I didnt save them. It really annoys me. $#@!ing tryhards.

I wonder when they will release some of the books that he had in that cabinet. Soon I hope. They say he has written a heap more Glass family stories.

edit- Like I didnt even read all of the short stories. I read most but was in no hurry. It really $#@!s me off.

edit- Did you like Nine Stories? read that. You will like it.

edit- And no Im not going to shoot John Lennon. (:

edit- Do you guys remember the John Lennon Nike ad? I didnt understand how funny that was at the time.



So Nike is merging with Apple? hmm. Of course. Googles talking shoes are about to get some competition methinks. ((: Oh I want talking shoes so $#@!ing bad. And a glove phone. And internet sunglasses. (:



edit- when I wanted to buy Nine Stories and Raise the Roof Beam High Carpenters and Seymour they were out of print. I had to order them from America. There were none in a bookstore in Australia. This was only a couple years before he died. I bet you can buy them now. Actually probably not. (: Lucky to find a bookstore.

See I read Slight Rebellion on Madison. And that story about DB going to that dance thing while in the army. Like he is in the vehicle with other soldiers and they are going to some dance. I cant remember what it was called. I read a heap of them but I cant remember them so well. Anyway, I want to read those again. I dont want to pay for them though. (: If anyone has a link to all of the Salinger short stories from magazines and stuff then post it.

edit- And I also do not want to subscribe to the phony New Yorker. They have some of his short stories. And they are actually cool because they have scanned the stories from the magazine. It looks awesome. I havent subscribed to that trash but I know because they allowed you to access them a while ago but now they do not.



HA!

[Common Sense]

I love Catcher in the Rye...one of my all time favs. I read it every 5 or 6 years....and it hasn't made me want to kill anyone.

[Peter1469]

I have read 18 of these. But many many more not on this list.

So its World Book and Copyright Day today. Buy some ebooks wont you? Please?

So the BBC thinks that you retards have only read 6 of these books.

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling (all)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Travellers Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby -- F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Willaim Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - dan brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabrial Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far from the Madding Crowd -- Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaids Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martell
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love in the time of Cholera - Gabriel garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On the Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson
74 Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylivia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - Charles Mitchell
83 The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree collection - Enid blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie & the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

How many have you read? This list must have been around for a few years. I was dating a girl that posted this list to her fb page. She had read like over 70 of the books on the list. I met her in a bookstore that she was managing actually.

In my opinion most of the books on the list suck and I would not even consider reading them. If you have not read a decent amount of these books I dont think you should feel bad. In my opinion the list is very bourgeoisie anyway.

So how many have you read? More than 6?

edit- I have only read 18. Not bad for a Pleb. (: I have seen the movies of some of the other titles as well. And I know what most of them are about.

[Peter1469]

My first e-book reader is an open source product from Europe. I used to get lots of books from Geutenburg. I even found a really neat book from the 1500s about witch trials in Europe. Parts were even written in Old English (stuff that was cited from older works).

I posted this comment under the list on another forum today-


In my opinion Franny and Zooey is a better book than Catcher in the Rye. JD Salinger is one of my favourite authors.

The list seems very western. the west seems to pretend that Jack London was a "nature writer" or "adventure writer" but this is misleading. Jack London wrote about more than dogs but many from the west do not know this. The people that review Jack London books are also from the bourgeoisie class and do not understand Jack London. The people reviewing the work of Jack London are the very people that he pokes fun at in his books. Jack London did not write his books for the bourgeoisie that were reviewing him but for the working class. Jack London did not seek validation from the bourgeoisie class. I have read reviews of Londons books where the bourgeoisie reviewer claims Londons style is "quaint". This person has failed to consider the taget audience of the book.

Jack London was a socialist and his books are about a great deal more than nature or adventure. Even a book like Call of the Wild deals with the class struggle yet this is largely ignored by the west

The books Martin Eden, People of the Abyss, The Sea Wolf and The Iron Heel are all great Jack London books that would be in my top 100 books.I am also a big fan of Australian born writer James Clavell. I enjoy his booksnd my favourite is King Rat.

Another book I would include is Ruth Parks book - The Harp in the South.

I am also a fan of Anthony Burgess and I think that the book A Clockwork Orange is very good.

thanks for posting the list. I enjoyed looking through it. It does seem very western though.

One of my favoutite books is The Art of War by Sun Tszu.

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The list is very bourgeoisie.

edit- Modern times are like the book Fahrenheit 451 hey? Thats a good book.



I remember watching the movie in English after we read the book.



edit- I remember World Book Day as a kid. I remember my Mother buying the book Space Demons for me at the Book Fair. Pretty sure that was about drugs you know. Not a video game.


Pretty good book. Reminds me of that Edward Furlong movie. Brainscan. (: That was pretty awesome.


Anyway, happy Copyright Day! Most books worth reading are free because they are not under copyright. You can read them on the internet. But for how long? I would hurry.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1164/1164-h/1164-h.htm

[Ravi]

I do not understand why people have such a problem with Catcher in the Rye. People either love it or hate it.

I love it. It must be your personality. I do wish that it was not so negative though. Franny and Zooey is like a positive Catcher in the Rye to me.

I can relate to the way JD Salinger thinks. I think that he is hilarious. Maybe you just dont get him. Like its like the short story Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Meliville. To me that is hilarious but I am guessing most do not really get it. There is a difference between understanding something and feeling something. Know what I mean? How the hell can someone hate Catcher in the Rye?



Maybe it has to do with reading it in school? I read it as an adult. I dont see why someone would hate Catcher in the Rye. Are you some kind of phony?

edit- You know. Before JD Salinger died it was easy to find all of his short stories online. Try finding them now. Now that all of the tryhards have come out they have been removed. And I didnt save them. It really annoys me. $#@!ing tryhards.

I wonder when they will release some of the books that he had in that cabinet. Soon I hope. They say he has written a heap more Glass family stories.

edit- Like I didnt even read all of the short stories. I read most but was in no hurry. It really $#@!s me off.

edit- Did you like Nine Stories? read that. You will like it.

edit- And no Im not going to shoot John Lennon. (:

edit- Do you guys remember the John Lennon Nike ad? I didnt understand how funny that was at the time.



So Nike is merging with Apple? hmm. Of course. Googles talking shoes are about to get some competition methinks. ((: Oh I want talking shoes so $#@!ing bad. And a glove phone. And internet sunglasses. (:



edit- when I wanted to buy Nine Stories and Raise the Roof Beam High Carpenters and Seymour they were out of print. I had to order them from America. There were none in a bookstore in Australia. This was only a couple years before he died. I bet you can buy them now. Actually probably not. (: Lucky to find a bookstore.

See I read Slight Rebellion on Madison. And that story about DB going to that dance thing while in the army. Like he is in the vehicle with other soldiers and they are going to some dance. I cant remember what it was called. I read a heap of them but I cant remember them so well. Anyway, I want to read those again. I dont want to pay for them though. (: If anyone has a link to all of the Salinger short stories from magazines and stuff then post it.

edit- And I also do not want to subscribe to the phony New Yorker. They have some of his short stories. And they are actually cool because they have scanned the stories from the magazine. It looks awesome. I havent subscribed to that trash but I know because they allowed you to access them a while ago but now they do not.



HA!

I don't really remember. He seemed like a weak emo character and I wanted him to die already.

[Ravi]

I love Catcher in the Rye...one of my all time favs. I read it every 5 or 6 years....and it hasn't made me want to kill anyone.

Lol

[Mister D]

Dracula and Crime and Punishment are my two favorites as far as non-fiction goes.

[Spectre]

In my opinion you are reading way too much trash.

Well, unlike you, little of what I read has the word 'Marvel' or 'DC' in its title.

[Mister D]

Well, unlike you, little of what I read has the word 'Marvel' or 'DC' in its title.

Finally had to put this guy on ignore. Why must he embed multiple videos in every post? no one watches them.