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Epignosis wrote:

Neverwhere wrote:

"The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
I'm not gonna lie. This one sounds fucking interesting.

It is. In my altime favourite list.

"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
Stupid lady wrote one novel and quit and then never ever ever followed up. I hate her.

Actually, To Kill a Mockingbird is a prequel. I don't know if you heard but she had actually written another book about Scout as an adult and publishers told her that they wanted more backstory first. So, she went away and wrote To Kill a Mockingbird. There was only one typed copy of the other book and it got lost. It was recently found and published. So she has two books. Excited to read that one actually.

That's...the gag.

Note to self: no posting before coffee.

"The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
I'm not gonna lie. This one sounds fucking interesting.

It is. In my altime favourite list.

"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
Stupid lady wrote one novel and quit and then never ever ever followed up. I hate her.

Actually, To Kill a Mockingbird is a prequel. I don't know if you heard but she had actually written another book about Scout as an adult and publishers told her that they wanted more backstory first. So, she went away and wrote To Kill a Mockingbird. There was only one typed copy of the other book and it got lost. It was recently found and published. So she has two books. Excited to read that one actually.

thellama73 wrote:

S~V~S wrote:This is the Amazon 100 Books list: http://www.businessinsider.com/amazons- ... ead-2014-2

I have also done the Time list, which is not dissimilar. Of these 100, I have read 58. That surprised me, I would have thought it was more. I think when I did the Time list it was 60 or so.

How many of these have you read? Which ones have you not read that you might want to read? I think if we look at lists like these, we can come to a consensus on something we might all, as a group, enjoy.

No Herman Melville, no Nathaniel Hawthorne, no Edgar Allen Poe? No Tolstoy, Dostoevsky or James Joyce? No Chaucer or Milton or Shakespeare? No Graham Greene, no P.G Wodehouse, no Jules Verne or H.G. Wells? But Anthony Bourdain, Hunger Games, and Diary of a Wimpy Kid make the list?

I weep for the future.

These were my thoguhts exactly. Although, I admit to enjoying The Hunger Games >.>

Golden wrote:Jane Eyre is not what I describe as lovely either. Mad woman dies in fire. Hero goes blind.

If I want to read a lovely book, I'll take To Say Nothing of the Dog, by Connie Willis.

That is also a fair point. I guess in Jane Eyre some things do work out in the end to some degree and Jane herself was lovely, she just had some awful circumstances. You also had to kind of feel for Rochester. He was rather tricked into marrying the mad woman and then stuck with her after.

Upon reviewing my book database I don't tend to go for lovely reads.... hmm....

The Secret Life of Bee's comes to mind, but there was a lot of unloveliness in that book also.

I think part of the problem with Wuthering Heights was that I didn't actually know anything about the plot line previous to picking it up. It had been recommended to me by so many people who said things like "Oooh! I adore that book! It's so lovely!"

What the fuck friends. This book is not what I would describe as a lovely book. Allow me to buy you a dictionary for Christmas. They had me expecting more of Jane Eyre vibe!

Epignosis wrote:

Neverwhere wrote:

Heiots wrote:Why is Wuthering Heights one of the top romance novels? It should be top revenge novel.

Totally agree. I also don't get why people love it s much. I hated it. I was 40 pages from the end and threw it across the room and said no more. I hated every single person in that novel.

Why do any of the characters have to be likeable? I don't think they're supposed to impress you.

Oh I completely agree. There was just something about this book. I just hated all of the characters and hoped they all got whatthey deserved, but at the same time didn't care two shits enough to actually read the final 40 pages to find out. I just really loathed the book. I usally don't detest books this much.

Heiots wrote:Why is Wuthering Heights one of the top romance novels? It should be top revenge novel.

Totally agree. I also don't get why people love it s much. I hated it. I was 40 pages from the end and threw it across the room and said no more. I hated every single person in that novel.

Sure, that could be fun! I'm workingmy way through The Two Towers at the moment.