02-08-2014, 11:03 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Kalispell, Montana
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Amazon's 100 books to read in a lifetime
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/06/living...html?hpt=hp_c3
How many have you read? I will embarrass myself as I haven't read much the last 20 years or so.
8 for me. 
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02-08-2014, 11:10 AM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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I've read tons in the last 20 years and still only get 15 
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02-08-2014, 11:17 AM
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I was up to 40 something in their list and had only read one so I bailed on even going further.
I never read fiction.
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02-08-2014, 11:25 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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About 13
The Hunger Games? Really?
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02-08-2014, 11:26 AM
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Nostradamus
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: London Ont.
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5 for me
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02-08-2014, 11:27 AM
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I've read quite a number of those - more than 20. The last one on their list, Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, is awful and shouldn't have been included. It's been made into a movie, coming out in September this year (Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, etc).
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02-08-2014, 11:40 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: The Sc'ank
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I'm an avid reader, but have only read 16 of those. Some very weird selections though. Very subjective list.
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02-08-2014, 11:43 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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I've read 42 of them, most of the children/young adult books, and a bunch of the classics, but not many of the contemporary fiction ones there.
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02-08-2014, 11:44 AM
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i'm at a dozen. I think there are some pretty questionable ones that made the cut or were missed.
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02-08-2014, 11:48 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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12. Mostly the children's books.
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02-08-2014, 11:49 AM
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Crushed
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: The Sc'ank
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Yeah, I think I could go my lifetime without reading some of those books.
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02-08-2014, 11:50 AM
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Truculent!
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13. And there are a tonne on that list that reminded me I need to read them.
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02-08-2014, 11:57 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Calgary
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There's a serious lack of Dr. Seuss on that list.
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02-08-2014, 11:58 AM
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17.
I feel really, really bad that I couldn't strike off most of that list, but actually did read Lolita.
Interpret that as you will
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02-08-2014, 01:47 PM
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The fact that the Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy never made this list makes it incomplete.
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02-08-2014, 05:10 PM
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I think I've seen more of the film versions of those than actually read.
I never read...
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02-08-2014, 05:16 PM
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Only 5. Wow I thought I'd have had more than that. A few I've bought but haven't gotten around too, or have been meaning to buy.
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02-08-2014, 05:18 PM
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39. I read way too much maybe.
If you have read Harry Potter, LOTR and Hobbit, Narnia, and the Hunger Games you are well on your way to 15.
I thought I saw Hitchhiker on that list.
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02-08-2014, 05:22 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dissentowner
The fact that the Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy never made this list makes it incomplete.
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Apparently I clicked on a different link, that did include this book.
Last edited by Aeneas; 02-08-2014 at 05:43 PM.
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02-08-2014, 05:31 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Aeneas
This was #18.
Is it irony that you did not read clearly, yet criticized, a list about reading?
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It's not on the list I see: http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=8192263011
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