Amazon's 100 books to read in a lifetime

[Aeneas]

I went to the linked list at the top of that link. Maybe that was a different list, now I have to count again.

Much harder, 23.

[dissentowner]

Originally Posted by Aeneas

This was #18.

Is it irony that you did not read clearly, yet criticized, a list about reading?

Not as ironic as telling somebody they misread something on reading they misread themselves. Did that make any sense? I have no clue at this point. Regardless, the book is not in that list.

[dissentowner]

Originally Posted by Aeneas

I went to the linked list at the top of that link. Maybe that was a different list, now I have to count again.

Much harder, 23.

I said HGTTG, not Goodnight Moon.

[Luder]

8...7 of them because of High school/College

[Aeneas]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

Not as ironic as telling somebody they misread something on reading they misread themselves. Did that make any sense? I have no clue at this point. Regardless, the book is not in that list.

Go to this one, it was better for me...

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/69635

It was at the top of the page, was the list I first looked at, apologies.

[Devils'Advocate]

I started into "A Brief History of Time" and realized it was so completely over my head that I tossed it.... and I have been on page 67 of "Catch-22" for going on 4 years now, so I'll only count ones that I have finished.

Nine.

And I read Angela's Ashes in both English and French. At the same time. I'd read it in French and then in English to make sure that I understood everything.

[WhiteTiger]

6. I am also almost never without a book. I just prefer a different type of book than the list-makers, it seems. I've read a LOT of the current and older sci-fi/fantasy stuff.

[Resolute 14]

Same. I think I counted three off that list that I have read, and all three were because I had to in school. Though there are several authors on that list from whom I've read other books.

[Puppet Guy]

I've read 20 books on that list. Some are on my "I'll get to them eventually" list.

[GGG]

19 for me although I seemed to have read a lot of other books by the same authors.

[vanisleflamesfan]

*Edit* 42 (I missed The Agatha Christie because I read it under its older, less PC title). I read a lot.

[malcolmk14]

16 for me.

[octothorp]

There were a lot of authors that I thought belonged on the list, but where I far prefer a different book by the same author (ie. 100 years of Solitude over Love in the Time of Cholera; Ada, or Ardor over Lolita; Oryx and Crake over Handmade's Tale; Beet Queen over Love Medicine; Satanic Verses over Midnight's Children; Farewell to Arms over the Sun Also Rises. etc.)

[Ashartus]

19 - there were also a few where I had read other books by the author but not the specific one on the list.

[Goodlad]

I got 43 of them. There's some pretty good books on there that I had completely forgotten about. "The World According to Garp", "The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay", "Middlesex"....Might have to re-read these.

Oh, and Devil's Advocate: "Catch-22" is one of my all time favorite books. I've actually been contemplating getting a tattoo of the guy on the cover for a long time now. I really hope you finish it at some point.

[Coach]

I really need to finish "The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay".

[sun]

28 for me which isn't bad. Though, I often choose what book I read next based on lists like this, so I don't consider myself particularly well-read.

For a while I was reading a book every 10 days. But I like to alternate between new fiction, classic fiction, and non-fiction. Been reading mostly business-type stuff lately.

[sun]

Originally Posted by MattyC

I really need to finish "The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay".

Great book.

[Nammer403]

I'm surprised I've read 13 on that list

[East Coast Flame]

18 for me. Really happy to see one of my favorite books on there, "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius".