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Time books meme
Books I've actually read:
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
Possession
A.S. Byatt
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Read Works By Same Author:
The Catcher in the Rye Franny and Zooey, Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenters
J.D. Salinger
Death Comes for the Archbishop O, Pioneers!
Willa Cather
A Handful of Dust The Loved One, effin' hilarious!
Evelyn Waugh
Mrs. Dalloway some collection of short stories, can't remember the title, as well as some essays like the classic A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
Books Started and Never Finished:
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather
A Passage to India
E.M. Forster
And, of course, Seen the Film/TV -adaptation:
Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
Possession
A.S. Byatt
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys
And, finally, my list of five that should've been on the list but weren't (and to hell with the English language criterium!):
Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton
The Egyptian
Mika Waltari
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco (or anything by him)
View complete list here.
November 24 2005, 11:36:25 UTC 6 years ago
But hey, there it is.
Neat.
Also glad to see Naked Lunch and 1984 on the list as well.
But no Heart of Darkness? Nothing by Coupland or Murakami?
I'd also second your nomination of Cry, The Beloved Country.
Tastes and all that.
(should get to reading more of these, really)
November 24 2005, 11:41:17 UTC 6 years ago
Watchmen. One of the greatest stories I have ever read.
November 24 2005, 15:15:05 UTC 6 years ago
It seems to me like the list didn't include a lot of recent stuff. I think they should retitle the list "Time List of 100 Books written in English in the last 82 years that are either unanimously considered modern classics or that the compilers of the list were forced to read in school and stuck with them."