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Andy D
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« Reply #75 on: 23:30:06, 26-04-2008 »
One of my favourites is:
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« Reply #76 on: 23:38:47, 26-04-2008 »
Quote from: Don Basilio on 12:31:37, 26-04-2008
Mary Ann Evans aka George Eliot.  Last time I read Silas Marner I was in continuous tears, but I suppose it had better be Middlemarch.

I had to read Silas Marner when I was at school - and I hated it. I'm sure I'd feel differently about it now but it would be very difficult for me to try to read it again. School English Literature was a complete disaster as far as I was concerned - I loved reading, but the books I read for pleasure and the stuff we had to read at school seemed to be miles apart.
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« Reply #77 on: 23:42:56, 26-04-2008 »
Quote from: Andy D on 23:38:47, 26-04-2008
Quote from: Don Basilio on 12:31:37, 26-04-2008
Mary Ann Evans aka George Eliot.  Last time I read Silas Marner I was in continuous tears, but I suppose it had better be Middlemarch.

I had to read Silas Marner when I was at school
So did I - loved it!
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« Reply #78 on: 02:49:44, 27-04-2008 »
If we're onto irresponsible books, can I suggest (never having read them) ?
Gargling with Jelly
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Thawing Frozen Frogs
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« Reply #79 on: 08:55:59, 27-04-2008 »
Quote from: Andy D on 23:38:47, 26-04-2008
Quote from: Don Basilio on 12:31:37, 26-04-2008
Mary Ann Evans aka George Eliot.  Last time I read Silas Marner I was in continuous tears, but I suppose it had better be Middlemarch.

I had to read Silas Marner when I was at school - and I hated it. I'm sure I'd feel differently about it now but it would be very difficult for me to try to read it again. School English Literature was a complete disaster as far as I was concerned - I loved reading, but the books I read for pleasure and the stuff we had to read at school seemed to be miles apart.

I can see where you are coming from , we had Bowdlerised Shakespeare too!! but I loved 'Silas Marner' and reading 'Trumpet Major' for GCE gave me a love of Thomas Hardy, I read all of his books in my teens !

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« Reply #80 on: 09:13:43, 27-04-2008 »
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« Reply #81 on: 16:41:17, 21-08-2008 »
In no particular order, and a bit of a mix of 'best' and personally significant:

Melville, Moby Dick
Milton, Paradise Lost
Diderot, et al, Encyclopédie
Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Swift, Gulliver's Travels

As much as I think Darwin's Origin.. is of incalculable significance, I am more than tempted to cite Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology above it, for without which on the Beagle voyage....?

Marx, The German Ideology (rather than Das Kapital, since it sets out the critical philosophical bedrock upon which Marx's critique of capitalist political economy was built)

Elliot, Middlemarch
Pullman, His Dark Materials  (Time will tell!)
Eugenides, Middlesex
Engels, Condition of the Working Class in England
Thompson, Making of the English Working Class
Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic
Pepys, Diary
Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Kerouac, On the Road
Rousseau, The Social Contract
Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
Dante, Divine Comedy
Cervantes, Don Quixote
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« Reply #82 on: 21:21:20, 21-08-2008 »
Tks to Ash for reviving this thread - only just seen it
Afraid my list is my personal fav so maybe disobeying the thread title but i dont like the title Top 20 books of all time- who says -anyway find most in the top lists far too boring sorry- anyway my list in no particular order

1. Libra Don Delillo
2. Something Wicked This Way Comes  Ray Bradbury
3. Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe
4. Steppenwolf  Hermann Hesse
5. The Golf Omnibus P G Wodehouse
6. American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis
7. Wolf Solent John Cowper Powys
8. Tales of Mystery and Imagination Edgar Allan Poe
9. Horse Heaven Jane Smiley
10. Dracula Bram Stoker
11. Gormenghast Mervyn Peake
12. The Philosphers Stone Colin Wilson
13. Requiem for a Dream Hubert Selby Jnr

plenty more but cant think - too late  Shocked
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« Reply #83 on: 21:56:01, 21-08-2008 »
Personal favorites is as interesting a list as any. Certainly more interesting than a list of perceived 'important books.'
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« Reply #84 on: 15:42:08, 22-08-2008 »
Quote from: Ash on 16:41:17, 21-08-2008
Marx, The German Ideology (rather than Das Kapital, since it sets out the critical philosophical bedrock upon which Marx's critique of capitalist political economy was built)

I like Stirner! Grin
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