All you book readers!

DebbieH

DebbieH

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Your-Friend-In-Fitness, DebbieH (AKA "Den Mother Debbie") http://www.clicksmilies.com/s0105/aktion/action-smiley-066.gif[/img] If You Get The Choice To Sit It Out Or Dance, I Hope You DANCE!
 
Thanks for the list! The Stand is the reason I started reading for a hobby. Up until that book, reading for me was as painful as the dentist. This list make me want to reread Gone With the Wind, one of my all time favorites. Scarlett is the ultimate bad girl, love her!
 
Oooh I'm only missing 3!! :) (If you count not reading the entire Bible as not reading it...)
 
I'm only missing 3 too. And I have no intention of reading the 3 I'm missing. If I wanted to read them I would have already. ;-)

What are the second 10? :p
 
>I can't believe there are two Dan Brown books on there.
>Wow.

Yeah...those threw me. I enjoyed the Da Vinci Code, but would never put it on a "Must Read Before You Die" list.
 
Debbie, thanks for the list, and this rant I'm about to go on has NOTHING to do with you!

I can think of a lot more and better novels than Dan Brown's, J.W. Rowling's, Stephen King's, and Ayn Rand's to put on a "must read before you die" list. No Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Joyce, duBois, James, Faulkner, Hemingway, Baldwin, Twain, Forrester, etc. No "Confederacy of Dunces?" No "Love in the Time of Cholera" or "One Hundred Years of Solitude?" How about Hurston, Glasgow, Sands, Austen, Murdoch, Bronte? Maybe some Homer?

Dan Brown indeed! How did such a horrible writer get so much esteem? Read by many, yes, but well-written? HAH! Why didn't they just put Danielle Steele (sp) on this list.

Okay, done.
 
I too find it entirely odd that there are two of Dan Brown's books on there. Huh. Anyway, I've read all but Angels and Demons. Gone With the Wind and To Kill a Mockingbird are two of my favorite books. I disliked Catcher in the Rye tremendously.

Sparrow
 
>Dan Brown likes Nickelback. True story ;)
>

Okay...I take back what I said about liking Da Vinci Code.
 
Wow!! I've read them all but the bible!!
I was surprised Angels and Demons made the list:eek:
I can think of many books that are better written and/or are classics that didn't make the list. I wonder what the criteria for the list is?

Deanie
 
>Wow!! I've read them all but the bible!!
>I was surprised Angels and Demons made the list:eek:
>I can think of many books that are better written and/or are
>classics that didn't make the list. I wonder what the criteria
>for the list is?
>
>Deanie

I'm guessing "Favorite Reads of the Summer Interns." :p

Sparrow

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WOW! Imagine how PLEASED I was when I checked out the link and saw Gone With The Wind! I just finished this book for the very first time on Sunday!!! I LOVED IT and it is now on the top of my all time FAVORITE list!!!

I can't say that I'll read the Harry Potter set! I read the first 2 book snad just can't read that style of her writing.

I've passed the link onto my book club!!! We've read a few of those, but I've added the others onto my TO-READ list at www.goodreads.com.

THANKS FOR SHARING THIS, girl!

Gayle
 
Another great resource for book lovers is http://dearreader.com/

You can sign up for a genre-specific book club (it's free), and each day for a week, you'll be emailed an excerpt. By the end of the week, you'll have had a taste of a few chapters and will know whether or not the book's for you. Good way to find new material.

Happy reading :),

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I have to agree with TeTe. While I've read most of the books (including the Bible, several times), I can't see most of them on a top ten list. What about Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Huck Finn, The Maltese Falcon, The Shipping News, Mary Poppins, Winnie the Pooh? etc, etc.
 
And don't forget peeps...ASK AT YOUR LIBRARY...they have real trained librarians with master degrees who do readers advisory and lead book discussion groups for a living!! (well, they also often work with shoestring budgets, deal with pain in the butt vendors, deal with library boards, fund raising, deal with chronic technology issues, work long hours in underpaid and often thankless jobs etc etc but that's another rant for another day ;-) )
 
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