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And then there's those of us who don't give an elephant about any "classic books" list and just read whatever catches our attention. Because life's too short to care about what other people think you should read.
What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.
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Right on.
I've read one book from that list, The Lord of the Rings. Which is actually 3 books, but apparently that doesn't matter.
I've read plenty of programming books from cover to cover at 1200-1500 pages each. But novels? I simply don't have enough time to sit down and read them. What does he do for a living?
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No Lord Of The Rings is one book. That's how it was written and how it was intended to be read. Tolkien was forced into the rather artificial dividing of the work by his publisher and he was never happy with it. Most modern editions reunite the three parts in a single volume in any event.
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Member 9082365 wrote: No Lord Of The Rings is one book.
I had to purchase 3 books to get the whole story.
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25,2.
I only managed 0,2 from Crime and Punishment. And to be completely honest, about half of these I had to read, and did not choose to read.
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OMG the Trial.... Franz Kafka... horrific book, reason why i wrote my final secondary-school examination in english and not german.
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I see Moby Dick is on the list (as if it's ever not on a list). For anyone who hasn't read it, here's the short version:
Rope is awesome. Knots knots, rope, knots, oh yea baby. Also a white whale because reasons.
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Not to mention the importance of a water-tight coffin.
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Not only on the list but at No 2! I hope nobody sees this list and starts there because it will put them off 'classics' for life. It is the very definition of turgid prose!
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I have more than half, but others I never heard of...Isn't this list a bit 'local'?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Isn't this list a bit 'local'?
It's aimed at the paper's readership. I expect the Jerusalem Times would print quite a different list.
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13.02 (Where .02 is Crime and Punishment) but at least I can brag with having read 8 (or so) in my third language which happens to be English.
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I have read 11 of those, but if you include film versions then it goes up to 36.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Hmm, have seen the movie, does that count? 
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Damn, now I have to go through it again and count them.
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23 - but I used to be quite a voracious reader...
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14 for me, and I have 2 more on there that I need to get round to reading. One is Crime & Punishment, which from reading others' comments in this thread, I suspect means that Raskolnikov will remain forever a stranger.
(The Unbearable Lightness of Being has taken me 20 years to get round to, so far)
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I've read 8 for definite, a few more I think I may have read but cannot remember them at all.
Another I am half way through (Tristam Shandy), another I gave up on (Lord of the Rings), three I have seen the film but not read, and my grandmother has always lived in Eliot Drive named after George Eliot.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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#28: Does it count if you've heard Tom Jones in concert? (Terrific experience BTW - that old geezer can certainly keep up the pace)
Seriously: I consider myself an educated person and have read MANY classics - but not very many on this list. I guess the fight for what books come into top 100 is quite hard.
I'm somewhat surprised that there is no Jules Verne and no Shakespeare on the list... 
One book on the list that I HAVE read, though, is "Don Quixote" by Cervantes (all 900 pages), and I can safely say that - although an interesting experience - the reputation of that book is WAY overrated. It's definitely not good enough to put it in the top 10! 
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Does it count if you've once heard about a singer called Tom Jones?
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megaadam wrote: heard about a singer called Tom Jones?
It's not unusual! 
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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I guess...
...I can leave my coat on
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28 I have not heard of.
19 I have read (actually still reading War of the Worlds - really interesting descriptions of the area where we live).
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I've read around 10, give or take a couple. Just can't remember. I've seen a few more as movies.
If I read them on Wikipedia, does that count?
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I've read 17 of those.
I think the list is ridiculous.
First, Don Quixote is an enormous bore and terribly overrated.
Secondly, and I find it difficult to respect any list that doesn't have Dracula on it.
Thirdly, where is Kurt Vonnegut?
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