Meme

[noveldevice]

The Toast gives a list of 79 books which, allegedly, all white men own. Bold those you own. Italicize those you have read. Strikeout those you've never heard of would have to be paid to read. Bonus points if you're not a white male.

1. Shogun, James Clavell
2. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
3. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
4.

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[polyfrog]

1. Shogun, James Clavell
2. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
3. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
4. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
5. A collection of John Lennon’s drawings.
6. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
7. The first two volumes of A Song of Ice and Fire, George R.R. Martin
8. God Is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens
9. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
10. I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell, Tucker Max
11. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
12. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, Oliver Sacks
13. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
14. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
15. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
16. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov17. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk

[noveldevice]

Diamond is actually terrible at everything. Read GG&S either uncritically or not at all; it's really bad.

[aelf]

This is a weird list. I own many of them and have read most of them. Maybe 5 I haven't read?

And some I consider really thought provoking (I love Hofstadter). But many I swear I read because they were in my parents home as popular literature at the time, like Gore Vidal. Is this list based on 70 yr old people? :)

[hammercock]

There are a few on this list where I've read other books by the author, just not that one (Anthony Burgess, John Updike, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway) and some where I've watched the movie or miniseries based on it (I, Claudius, Marley & Me, A Clockwork Orange, Fight Club). I've read a lot of Jack London -- loved his stuff when I was a kid.

But I will never, ever read or watch American Psycho.

[noveldevice]

I was hoping I'd read none of them, but alas. :)

[pixel39]

What's wrong with Beowulf? ;-)

[pixel39]

Does it count if you read them because you were in high school and you were forced to? Because no real human reads The Great Gatsby because they WANT to...