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Ninja_Pancakes		2003-10-13 01:45:55 PM

I've read 5 of them.

Last week I started Lord of the Flies and Cien Anos de Soledad (again) and I've tried reading The Trial and Lolita but have failed to make it passed the first page.

dmeat		2003-10-13 01:52:36 PM

i have read 11 of them, but dont agree with the rankning. go fig.

Eat More Possum		2003-10-13 01:52:51 PM

I've read 32 of them and of those some should not be included in a top 100 list.

The_Central_Scrutinizer		2003-10-13 02:16:28 PM

What was so great about Frankenstein?

Even my english teacher hated that book, and that is farking saying something...

TxAg2005		2003-10-13 02:25:24 PM

I'm suprised that T.H. White's The Once and Future King isn't on this list...

dmeat		2003-10-13 02:28:04 PM

"hop on pop" really ought to be at least in the top 10...

rtreynor		2003-10-13 02:28:42 PM

This is plain awful! Where are the greats? Where's Jude the Obscure? Where's Moby Dick? Where's The Big Sleep?
<reads article>
nevermind.

beeferoni		2003-10-13 02:29:06 PM

Robert Guillaume rejoices...

/dreaming the impossible dream...

PeterNorth		2003-10-13 02:29:44 PM

where is American Psycho?

reggie jefferson		2003-10-13 02:30:50 PM

My Dad was an literature teacher and when I was required to read Jane Eyre in high school, he told me to read the Cliff's Notes and not waste my time with 'that piece of sh*t'. Thanks, Dad!

Cygnis-x		2003-10-13 02:31:35 PM

I got halfway into 'Don Quixote' before i lost intrest.

My fav line in in tho was when he said something like 'surely this story could only have been told by an Arab, for that race is prone to lies'

BackwardsHatClub		2003-10-13 02:32:34 PM

seems like the first 50 novels were all written more than 100 years ago....

No 1984 or Animal Farm? I'll even take Watership Down. Where are the animal allergories?

Madmartigan16		2003-10-13 02:32:47 PM

the great gatsby? I hate F. Scott Fitzgerald. stupid whiner.

DirkValentine		2003-10-13 02:33:04 PM

so...where in the hell is the BIBLE?

reggie jefferson		2003-10-13 02:33:11 PM

17. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff have passed into the language. Impossible to ignore.

I am turning the impossible into possible.

ff_woodycook		2003-10-13 02:33:22 PM

I'm glad to see that If On A Winter's Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino was on there. A most surreal read.

lordargent		2003-10-13 02:33:26 PM

What, no narnia?

numbah5sistah		2003-10-13 02:33:51 PM

Where's Atlas Shrugged?

/I've read 11 of them, that's enough.

manderx		2003-10-13 02:34:23 PM

looks like it's just an excuse to make $$$ off an affiliates account...

Madmartigan16		2003-10-13 02:34:35 PM

I take it back, The BFG on the list, even though far down, makes up for all.

BrokeCollegeChick		2003-10-13 02:35:14 PM

Why is "The Scarlett Letter" on there? I read a lot, and that was the worst.book.ever.

On The Road? I'm reading that now for class and it's taking me FOREVER to get through

To Kill A Mockingbird should not be number 73

Where the heck is "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"???

nytmare		2003-10-13 02:35:42 PM

Al Bundy's top 100 great works of literature:

1. TV Guide

America is the country of LOVE		2003-10-13 02:36:08 PM

Don Quixote is an obvious #1, even if it's outdate and almost unreadable today (at least in olde Castillian)

Lord of the Flies and Catcher in the Rye should be (way) above the awesome, yet not as good Brave New World.

Sudie		2003-10-13 02:36:12 PM

This isn't a list of the greatest novels of all time, but a list of the few classics that Amazon.uk has in stock.

It's Pronounced Moran		2003-10-13 02:36:33 PM

Why isn't "catcher in the Rye" higher on the list? Plus, they completely left out "Baron in the Trees," a Calvino book that was one hundred times more intersting than "Sacrltet Letter" or "Wuthering Heights."
Aye me....

wwwade		2003-10-13 02:36:54 PM

I think I read two of these in high school, otherwise, nada. Reading novels should not be an exercise, literary or otherwise.

All Hail Cussler, Crichton, and King!

Lenny_da_Hog		2003-10-13 02:37:06 PM

Where's The Illuminatus Trilogy!?

Hmm. Unless....

Jack9		2003-10-13 02:37:10 PM

Catcher in the Rye is not in the top 10? The whole list is obviously America's top 100 and it's woefully inaccurate with such hits as Frankenstein and USA??? When did Fark get into posting stuff worthy of randomdrivel.com

Savian		2003-10-13 02:37:16 PM

Where's Atlas Shrugged?

I wondered how many posts it would be before someone brought that one up. It would be a much better book if Ayn Rand weren't such a megalomaniacal pretentious biatch.

Cheesus		2003-10-13 02:37:31 PM

I read 6. Not many, but surprising to me considering how much I read.

BackwardsHatClub: Check #59.

Hawat		2003-10-13 02:37:47 PM

If your wordering where Narnia was, read the defense, they wanted to limit the quantity of children's lit, but they said it was close to making the list.

I read.. 16 of the 100. A few of those, I disagree with.

America is the country of LOVE		2003-10-13 02:38:50 PM

The Bible is not a "novel".

If this was for best literary works, the Bible could be #1, and William Shakesphere and Edgar Alan Poe would be there too. Angloparlants masturbate to Shakesphere so much that I wouldn't be surprised if an entire list of best literary works included only Shakesphere.

I'm stupid, educate me.

Just_Another_Girl		2003-10-13 02:38:50 PM

Emma over Pride and Prejudice? WTF? Feh....

picodenico		2003-10-13 02:39:23 PM

9 of them

rhiannon		2003-10-13 02:39:38 PM

"so...where in the hell is the BIBLE?"

Under "F" for fiction

cokemonkey		2003-10-13 02:39:46 PM

Ive only read 9.
Wonderful book I'm recommending to anyone who'll listen:
Skinny Legs and All, Tom Robbins

tal8472		2003-10-13 02:40:31 PM

Where's "Gone With The Wind"??

And what about "The Old Man And The Sea" or "The Grapes Of Wrath"?

TheSingingDepressive		2003-10-13 02:40:46 PM

Hawk24		2003-10-13 02:40:47 PM

Not included:

The Grapes of Wrath
Dracula
War and Peace
Anything by Hemingway

Horrible list!

Kyosuke		2003-10-13 02:40:53 PM

My, isn't that a wonderful list of Anglo-Saxon literature.

So it's the top 100 that happen to be in English. Woohoo.

patricula		2003-10-13 02:40:58 PM

No Vonnegut?
No Slaughterhouse Five or Cat's Cradle?

So it goes.

rhiannon		2003-10-13 02:40:59 PM

"so...where in the hell is the BIBLE?"

Under "F" for fiction

Nightsweat		2003-10-13 02:41:49 PM

The Hemmingway is a book of short stories not a novel. This list, like most, is a joke.

As to "where's Atlas Shrugged?" the answer is on the dustbin of history.

rhiannon		2003-10-13 02:41:52 PM

Dammit I have to learn to stop hitting refresh.

effex100		2003-10-13 02:42:02 PM

Where's the Lord of the Rings Trilogy?

Bridey		2003-10-13 02:42:28 PM

Where's the entire Babysitter's Club series? I figured that would take up at least fifty spots on the list.

leitmotive		2003-10-13 02:42:42 PM

Ok, I realize a lot of contemporary writing is pure crap, but The Prince of Tides really should've made the list. I agree with a lot of the choices, though. I was surprised to see Mrs. Dalloway on there. Awesome read.

son of secret police		2003-10-13 02:42:44 PM

"So it's the top 100 that happen to be in English. Woohoo."

did you read the list?

ImShocked		2003-10-13 02:43:00 PM

Is this the Rolling Stone top 100 books? It should be, then they could have the writers for AskMen.com ranked higher than George Orwell.

Madmartigan16		2003-10-13 02:43:13 PM

15.

/am I winning?

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