Book Meme

Oct 02, 2007 00:34

**(Stolen from Jae)**

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read, italicise that you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Add an asterisk to those you've read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.

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elly_or_esther October 3 2007, 01:44:03 UTC
see, I don't think that every book written by a 'classics' author is worth reading. Case in point is Jane Austen. Yes, she wrote a lot of really good books, but she also wrote 'Northanger Abbey'. This book is the suck. No one should ever read this book.

My other complaint is 'The three musketeers.' This book is part of a massive series of many thousands of pages. Just reading the first book leaves out a lot of the plot line and story conclusions. just saying....

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captpir8 October 3 2007, 07:43:01 UTC
They're not all supposed to be 'classics' authors. Freakonomics (by Steven Levitt) isn't a "story" at all, its a breif summary of several of his papers and a few other studies written in the vernacular so non-Economists can get a fell for some of the more interesting topics in the last decade. (I still highly recommend it, but its about as much like David Copperfield as I am like Emma Watson)

Grouping all these books together is like saying The Andy Griffith Show, Sportscenter, and Guitar Hero are all the same thing, just because "we all see them on TV". You're doing fine as an English major Jackie, lists by non-professionals (as I imagine LibraryThing isn't the Harvard endorsed site) tend to contain some pretty odd things.

Remember: "Suck on my Chocolate Salty Balls" from the Southpark album was #1 in England for like 2 months. Charts just reflect the what real people are thinking. Take the average person, and realize that 50% of people are stupider than they are.

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elly_or_esther October 6 2007, 01:48:28 UTC
Yes, this is true. However, jane austen IS a classics author. And my point was that sometimes, important authors write crappy works, not that these were all classics. Hell, some of these books I wouldn't read if you offered my a thousand dollars (case in point: wicked)

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