Comments on: How many have you read?

By: Do movies count? « Armaggedon’s coming

Do movies count? « Armaggedon’s coming — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:51:17 +0000

[...] 30, 2008 by gnomeaggedon Just One Anna has asked about books and how many we have [...]

By: Honest, I just borrowed this post. I’ll give it back…. « Be Nameless

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:54:50 +0000

[...] by benameless on August 26, 2008 JustOneAnna posted the National Education Association’s Top 100 books, part of NEA’s “The Big Read” [...]

By: 100 good books? I don’t think so. « TyphoonAndrew’s - Eye of the Storm

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:57:20 +0000

[...] to show the source, and a few blogs that also have this 100 [...]

By: Game Dame

Game Dame — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:39:46 +0000

Tarq, the Da Vinci Code is on there because it is one of the best selling books of all time (and on the best seller’s list for one of the longest periods of time). It is there not necessarily because of good writing (it’s very poorly written from a technical standpoint), but you cannot argue that it is a page-turner and definitely a book that people talk about. I could argue that pieces of schlock like “The Remains of the Day” don’t belong on this list either. But that is the point of these lists: to get people talking.

By: Follow the leaders « The Game Dame

Follow the leaders « The Game Dame — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:32:37 +0000

[...] by Game Dame on August 25, 2008 Following the leads of Kestrel, Two-and-a-half Orcs, and JustOneAnna, here is my progress on the National Education Association’s list of Top 100 books. (Why [...]

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:55:45 +0000

You can, if I can too! It’s much better in French anyway!

By: Adorable Girlfriend

Adorable Girlfriend — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:52:45 +0000

AG has A LOT of reading to do. Could I have two points for having read the Little Prince in French, not English!

By: Anna

Anna — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:52:34 +0000

Yeah – I have my own issues with several books (including that some of them are included in other collections, like the shakespeare thing) – and I definitely agree that the Victorians are rather overrepresented.

That said, finding Le Petit Prince on there made me VERY happy!

By: Tarq

Tarq — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:58:07 +0000

Why the FUCK is the Da Vinci Choad on there. This angers me more than I can say, and then makes me contemplate why I am so easily angered by petty nerd things.

Only 32, which is a little surprising until I remember I hate Victorian literature, which is truly over-represented. I’m really satisfied that Confederacy of Dunces is on there, and surprised but pleased at the presence of The Secret History and Dune.

By: Celera

Celera — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:23:45 +0000

Hmmm, only 34 I think. I love Jane Austen, but she seems overrepresented here, especially with nothing from the Nobel Prize winning Toni Morrison. And, Hamlet is surely one of the Complete works of Shakespeare? Still an interesting list with a few things that I would never have thought of including.