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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3      Non-Film Score Discussion: Have YOU read 100 great books?     1 2 3    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Sep 13, 2010 - 2:14 PM     By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member) This is a list from 1946, compiling 100 great books (of western culture, pretty much) from lists generated by great minds of the time. (Not every book you think is great will be here, especially since it was generated over 60 years ago.) How many can you say you’ve read? (And not the Cliff Notes or Reader’s Digest versions, fellas.) I can count five (#44, 45,65, 72, and I’m pretty sure I read #14. I’m working on 50 and 66. I’m having trouble getting started with 92)    Posted:   Sep 13, 2010 - 2:43 PM     By:   Thor   (Member) He, he...gotta love to see the friggin' Bible on 11th place! (which, incidentally, I've read some of, but not all). I've read 6, 8, 14, 20, 21 (some of it), 24, 25, 32 (some of it), 39 (some of it), 43, 44, 48, 50, 54 (some of them), 64 (some of it), 67, 76, 77, 87 (some of them), 89 (some of it), 92, 94 (some of it) and 97. So that makes 23 if you count those which I have only read partially. The reason I've read so many only partially is that segments of them have been part of the curriculum in my study years.    Posted:   Sep 13, 2010 - 2:46 PM     By:   Sarge   (Member) Less than half. I need to do some more reading! 1. Meditations 2. Pride and Prejudice 3. The Bible 4. Wuthering Heights 5. Way Of All Flesh 6. My Antonia 7. Don Quixote 8. Canterbury Tales 9. Origin Of Species 10. Robinson Crusoe 11. Pickwick Papers 12. Brothers Karamazov 13. Complete Sherlock Holmes 14. Discourses 15. Madame Bovary 16. Tess 17. Scarlet Letter 18. History of the Persian Wars 19. The Odyssey 20. Les Miserables 21. Turn Of The Screw 22. The Prince 23. Morte d'Arthur 24. Of Human Bondage (my favorite book ever) 25. Moby Dick 26. Dialogues 27. Collected works of Poe 28. All Quiet On The Western Front 29. Ivanhoe 30. Shakespeare 31. Grapes of Wrath 32. Gulliver's Travels 33. Walden 34. War and Peace 35. Huckleberry Finn 36. Candide    Posted:   Sep 13, 2010 - 3:26 PM     By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member) I forgot Madame Bovary! Now I'm 6!    Posted:   Sep 13, 2010 - 3:31 PM     By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member) He, he...gotta love to see the friggin' Bible on 11th place! (which, incidentally, I've read some of, but not all). I've read.... 87 (some of them), . But not in the original Klingon, I'm guessing.....    Posted:   Sep 14, 2010 - 2:09 AM     By:   Jehannum   (Member) 2/100 Wuthering Heights, Gulliver's Travels    Posted:   Sep 14, 2010 - 5:44 AM     By:   Tall Guy   (Member) Some Shakespeare, some Poe, some bible. Not 100% of anything on the list. Yet I consider myself more widely read than most - certainly of my acquaintance. It'd be interesting to see a modern list.    Posted:   Sep 14, 2010 - 6:25 AM     By:   That Neil Guy   (Member) Ouch. I've only read maybe 5 of them. But I own many of them and one of these days...    Posted:   Sep 14, 2010 - 6:43 AM     By:   Timmer   (Member) Some Shakespeare, some Poe, some bible. Not 100% of anything on the list. Yet I consider myself more widely read than most - certainly of my acquaintance. It'd be interesting to see a modern list. Exactly the same here except that I have read Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Defoe's Robinson Crusoe so technically I have read only 2 books on that list And yes, I'd like to see a modern list too.    Posted:   Sep 14, 2010 - 9:57 AM     By:   John McMasters   (Member) All the way through: 1 2 5 14 18 21 22 24 28 29 36 37 44 45 48 51 54 59 61 67 68 69 77 86 87 (all the plays and most of the poetry) 88 92 95 97 98 99 100 And large chunks of 13    Posted:   Sep 14, 2010 - 10:29 AM     By:   Tall Guy   (Member) All the way through: 1 2 5 14 18 21 22 24 28 29 36 37 44 45 48 51 54 59 61 67 68 69 77 86 87 (all the plays and most of the poetry) 88 92 95 97 98 99 100 And large chunks of 13 Spoff! Or maybe it's Keeno - I lose track of the kids' slang expressions.    Posted:   Sep 14, 2010 - 12:20 PM     By:   Ebab   (Member) As far as the German language literature is concerned, I’d strongly recommend replacing Marx and Nietzsche with Kafka and Thomas Mann – if one cares for canons at all (which I don’t; I believe books come to a person in their own time and place).    Posted:   Sep 14, 2010 - 12:29 PM     By:   Michael24   (Member) Boy, am I behind if those are the books I'm supposed to be reading. LOL! I've only read #29 on my own, and #48 and some of #87 in high school (which I'm guessing is where most people first read them).    Posted:   Sep 14, 2010 - 1:56 PM     By:   PhiladelphiaSon   (Member) I've read 47 of the books listed. Although I like most of them, none of the 47 are among my favorites, and one of them is my least favorite book of all-time. It would have been nice if someone included why they thought they were great.    Posted:   Nov 13, 2011 - 5:52 PM     By:   Richard-W   (Member) Have YOU read 100 great books? Yes. But not those, necessarily. Richard    Posted:   Nov 13, 2011 - 11:38 PM     By:   Essankay   (Member) Looks like I've only gotten to 24: Wuthering Heights Don Quixote Canterbury Tales Brothers Karamazov Complete Sherlock Holmes Madame Bovary The Golden Bough The Scarlet Letter Les Miserables The Turn of the Screw Babbitt The Prince Morte d'Arthur Short Stories of De Maupassant (I know I've read many of them) McTeague Tales of E. A. Poe Flowering Judas & Other Stories All Quiet on the Western Front The Jungle The Grapes of Wrath War & Peace Huckleberry Finn Candide Leaves of Grass    Posted:   Nov 14, 2011 - 1:32 AM     By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member) How great can these books be? Only about a third of them have been made into movies.    Posted:   Nov 14, 2011 - 2:02 AM     By:   Greg Phillips   (Member) 1 of 100!! They're not my kind of books!    Posted:   Nov 14, 2011 - 2:04 AM     By:   Jehannum   (Member) Why should we be concerned with someone else's idea of 'greatness'?    Posted:   Jul 13, 2015 - 10:08 AM     By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member) I finished #36, and am slooooooowly making my way through #66.     Non-Film Score Discussion: Have YOU read 100 great books?    < 1 2 3  > >>  Go to page:  1 2 3   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3

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