Bookologist Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 Is there not an edit option here??? I posted the above as a list and it came up as all together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucybird Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 yes there is, at the bottom of your post is a button for editting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted April 3, 2009 Author Share Posted April 3, 2009 Can't edit until you have 10 posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Mines Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 Most official best lists make me cringe and really are not to be taken too seriously.Fyodor Dostoyevski- The Brothers Karamazov (imo any official list without this on it is embarassing) one of the best books ever, possibly thee best.Victor Hugo- The laughing man.Franz Kafka- The trial.Alain Fournier- Le Grand Meaulnes.Moliere- Tartuffe.Impossible really to conduct a top 5, you could go on and on.Ben Mines- Good list! just bought Hypnerotomachia Poliphili & Don Quixote. Monuments of literature. Thanks Bookologist. I posted a review of the English translation of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili here. It didn't attract much attention, but then again (at least, so I tell myself) it's not a book that many people read. (Warning: plot spoilers a gogo). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bookologist Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 Will have a look Ben Mines, thanks for link. Thanks for editing info folks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bookologist Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 Ben- replied to the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili thread, couldn't find a way to PM you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 Again, you need 10 posts to be able to PM. You might find this thread helpful (although you're nearly there!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Mines Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 Ben- replied to the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili thread, couldn't find a way to PM you? Just one thing, Bookologist. When you order this book, be sure to order the hardback edition! The cover of the paperback edition is a gaudy commercial farce, with a loud plug for The Rule of Four, which horribly mars the value of the book as an aesthetic object, which is something it was emphatically intended to be. See for yourself. (I couldn't find a bigger image of the softcover edition, but you can probably see from this thumbnail that it's hardly what the creator of this supremely elegant book had in mind). The softcover cover: The hardcover cover: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stillgood Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 Thanks for the information!Wow!So many books that i never read Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leah86 Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 okay here goes.. 1. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 2.Harry Potter Series - J.K Rowling 3.The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards 4. My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult 5.Let The Circle be Unbroken - Mildred. D Taylor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobgoblin Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 My top five. Well at this moment in time anyway. 1. Necroscope by Brian Lumley 2. Magician by Raymond Feist 3. Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett 4. Redemption Ark by Alastair Reynolds 5. Brave New World by Adolus Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexiepiper Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 I was curious to see how the top books had changed, so I thought I'd help Roxi out and tally up the new top books To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee (10) Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling (8) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (7) My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult (6) Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (5) The Stand - Stephen King (5) His Dark Materials trilogy - Phillip Pullman (5) Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier (4) Twilight saga - Stephenie Meyer (4) 1984 - George Orwell (4) Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger (3) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (3) Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (3) Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card (3) A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini (3) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (3) The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (3) Watership Down - Richard Adams (3) Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman (2) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Hadden (2) Crimson Petal and the White - Michael Faber (2) Discworld series - Terry Pratchett (2) Catch-22 - Joseph Heller (2) 5 People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom (2) The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne (2) The Book Thief - Markus Zusak (2) The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (2) The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (2) Animal Farm - George Orwell (2) Isles/Rizzoli series - Tess Gerritsen (2) The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards (2) The Colour Purple - Alice Walker (2) The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly (2) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (2) The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett (2) The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck (2) The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2) The Odyssey - Homer (2) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (2) The Giver - Lois Lowry (2) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexiepiper Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 And all the rest of the books that were voted for are: Hamlet - Shakespeare Earth's Children - Jean Auel Angels Watching Over Me - Jacky Newcomb Slash - Slash Die For Me - Karen Rose Deja Dead - Kathy Reichs Dead Man's Footsteps - Peter James The Sleeping Doll - Jeffery Deaver The Plucker: An Illustrated Novel - Brom Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton In Cold Blood - Truman Capote The Hacienda - Lisa St Aubin de Teran Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides Karl Marx - Francis Wheen The Collector - John Fowles The Missionary Position - Christopher Hitchens The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros Chronicles of a Death Foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy If This is a Man - Primo Levi War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy The Bridge Over the Drina - Ivo Andric Buddenbrooks: Decline of a Family - Thomas Mann Ten Little Niggers - Agatha Christie The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Betty Blue - Philippe Dijan American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson Xenogenesis/Lillith's Brood - Octavia Butler An Absolute Scandal - Penny Vincenzi P.S. I Love You - Cecelia Ahern The Pre-Nup - Beth Kendrick Bartemeus Trilogy - Jonathan Stroud Eragon - Christopher Paolini Shardlake series - CJ Sansom The Borgia Bride - Jeanne Kalogridis The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood The State of the Union - Douglas Kennedy The Far Pavilions - M M Kaye Fortune's Rocks - Anita Shreve Midwives - Chris Bohjalian The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown The Power of Five series - Anthony Horowitz The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides The Reader - Bernhard Schlink The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas The Art Spirit - Robert Henri Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand Ordinary People - Judith Guest For One More Day - Mitch Albom Ulysses - James Joyce Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil Collected Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges An Instance of the Fingerpost - Iain Pears The Eyre Affair - Jasper FForde Consider Phlebus - Iain M. Banks When the Lion Feeds - Wilbur Smith The Damage Done - Warren Fellows 19 Minutes - Jodi Picoult The Gilgamesh Epic - Andrew George Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell Light Years - James Salter Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf Keeping Faith - Jodi Picoult The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth Outlander/Crosstitch - Diana Gabladon Touching the Void - Joe Simpson Black Beauty - Anna Sewell The Enchanted Wood series - Enid Blyton Black Like Me - John Howard Griffin Mister God This Is Anna - Fynn One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest - Ken Kesey A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights) - Various Authors Inferno - Dante Alighieri Dracula - by Bram Stoker The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis The Lord of the flies - William Golding Captain Correli's Mandolin - Louis de Burnieres Chocolat - Joanne Harris The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift Middlemarch - George Eliot Narcissus and Goldmund - Hermann Hesse The P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bethany725 Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Whoa! Nice job, Kelly! Impressive work.. I have no idea how you kept all that straight to come up with the tally. Thanks for doing it; very cool to see how it's all shaped up so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexiepiper Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Yeah The top 20 books have changed a lot from the original list, although To Kill A Mockingbird is still the top book, I'm going to have to read some of these now though to see how good I think they are Good job I already have To Kill A Mockingbird on my TBR pile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted April 16, 2009 Author Share Posted April 16, 2009 Oh now I really feel like ****! I'll put the new list into the first post today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexiepiper Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Coolio and don't feel like that, I was just trying to help ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 We certainly have a wide taste in books! Thanks for updating the list, Lexie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freewheeling Andy Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Not wanting to be rude, but "Everybody should read" Harry Potter, Twilight and Jodi Picoult? Really? They might be peoples' favourite books, but I'm hard pressed to believe everybody should read them, that there's any merit beyond entertainment... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucybird Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Actually there us plenty of merit to Harry Potter beyond entertainment (but trust me you don't want to get my started, I'd never stop) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leah86 Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Not wanting to be rude, but "Everybody should read" Harry Potter, Twilight and Jodi Picoult? Really? They might be peoples' favourite books, but I'm hard pressed to believe everybody should read them, that there's any merit beyond entertainment... Why not? People judge and have different opinions on books,its all about preception and obviously a lot of people have come to the same conclusion about a lot of these books..anyway whats wrong with just reading these books for entertainment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ii Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Not wanting to be rude, but "Everybody should read" Harry Potter, Twilight and Jodi Picoult? Really? They might be peoples' favourite books, but I'm hard pressed to believe everybody should read them, that there's any merit beyond entertainment... I'd like to add King, Pullman and Gerritsen to the list of "what on Earth for??" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted April 17, 2009 Author Share Posted April 17, 2009 I agree with ii and Andy, but not about Pullman. His Dark Materials is pretty cool. Well, okay, maybe not *everybody* *should* read... but still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seiichi Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Not wanting to be rude, but "Everybody should read" Harry Potter, Twilight and Jodi Picoult? Really? They might be peoples' favourite books, but I'm hard pressed to believe everybody should read them, that there's any merit beyond entertainment...I agree with your sentiments. Under normal circumstances, I'd be appalled if people were told they should read Stephanie Meyer or Dan Brown, but there aren't any rules set down here. I'd struggle in good conscience to list five books/series that people should read. I can only think of two books: 1. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust and, despite the errors, the Katherine Woods translation of 2. The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted April 17, 2009 Author Share Posted April 17, 2009 First post has been edited to add updated 2009 list. At last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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