The rampant book list

[celticwannabe]

 I don't know the story behind this one, but several of my friends have posted this list of 100 books, of which the average american adult has supposedly read SIX. SIX.  These are classic works of literature folks.  I mean, sure, I hated catcher in the rye, but I still READ the damn thing for American Lit as a junior in high school.  Anyhow... I've

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[richtermom]

I wanted to go to prom with Holden Caulfield. So it's no big wonder that I ended up with a really old juvenile delinquent. Hah.

We're letting K watch the movies for Potter instead of "letting her wait to read the books" There are too many cool things out there to read.

I read a bunch of Austen on the train ride home back in '97. I remember laughing out loud at some of it because I was just really getting into a lot of the arcane weird etiquette stuff that's still technically "on the books"... I never really understood social interaction in high school, but give me glimpses of turn-of-the-19th-century gentry and I'm all over it.

[celticwannabe]

Haha. Yeah, maybe I should reread Catcher sometime... I think it may have more appeal for me now that I'm a bit older and wiser. As for the Austen, I've totally Lol-ed as well to some of that stuff, the veiled suggestive comments that were so risque at the time and the suspense that she manages to build with all the inane detail. I wish i had more time for "fun" reading again. I just requested "On the Road" from the college library, maybe I'll squeeze that in somewhere.

[burnfromwithin]

I've got 12.. not too bad I guess.

but.. whose list is this? No Hemingway but 4 Austen books? Where's Kafka or Camus? How about Oscar Wilde (altho, admittedly, he only wrote one novel, the rest were plays..)? I want to know how the Da Vinci Code made it on there - thats more like supermarket pulp, not literature.

Sorry, lists like this are one of my peeves b/c they never seem to be able that 'good'.

I'm with you on Catcher tho, I only read it a couple years ago but I hated it.

[celticwannabe]

Yeah, I have no idea where this list came from, i think it was a study of novels or books that were popular or "bestsellers" or something. I *love* the picture of dorian gray. And frankly, I was horrified that Harry Potter made it on any sort of best books list at all.