11-08-2012, 09:43 AM | #16 | |
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Thanks for this thread; I'm always interested in lists of greatest books.
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I'm sure she's read more than me, and if there were an Essential Woman's Library, I probably would've read more (possibly many more) on that list than this list. I counted and I've read 16 of these, a few others I've read partially (like I've read Dante's Inferno but not the other parts) and some others are on my TBR list. But all in all the list was interesting and as I read it I started feeling that familiar twinge of yearning, becoming interested in many of the ones I haven't read and just wanting to immediately read them all. I tend to do that with any halfway decent lists. ETA - My main criticism with this list would be that it's very U.S.-centric, which is fine except that it's not noted as such. It should be the Essential U.S. Man's Library or some such. Last edited by sun surfer; 11-08-2012 at 09:48 AM. |
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11-08-2012, 01:52 PM | #17 | |
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Kurt Vonnegut, 2x Ernest Hemingway, etc. |
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11-08-2012, 04:32 PM | #18 |
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Just for the hell of it. I thought I'd give my "scorecard".
The Great Gatsby ** Slaughter-house Five 1984 The Brothers Karamazov ** The Picture of Dorian Gray ** How to Win Friends and Influence People Call of the Wild Lord of the Flies The Master and Margarita The Metamorphosis Crime and Punishment The Hobbit Animal Farm A Separate Peace The Stranger The Island of Doctor Moreau To Kill a Mockingbird The ones with ** are on my agenda in the next year. Hmmm - looks like I'm not quite manly enough. There were quite a few books on that list that I do intend to read some day though. I'm interested in reading more Steinback and Hemmingway for example. |
11-12-2012, 10:20 AM | #19 |
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Okay, where's the essential Woman's library of must reads, although I have read some of these listed. I am curious what would constitute the essential Woman's 100 must read library.
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11-12-2012, 11:28 AM | #20 | |
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http://www.more.com/entertainment/bo...art-i-classics I would just make sure that The Handmaid's Tale is on there! (I don't know if it is or not.) The other lists I saw were the top 100 books BY women. Out of curiosity, did the manly list have any books by women on it? eP |
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11-12-2012, 11:33 AM | #21 | |
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My sons read most on the list also... guess this makes him a man or at leats Male |
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11-12-2012, 11:51 AM | #22 | |
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I've read a few on the list, but not enough to qualify as a man. Which is probably a good thing, as I'm fairly okay with having born into a female body. |
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11-13-2012, 04:38 AM | #23 |
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No books on how to grill, smoke and BBQ various meats?
No books on how to mix a proper martini? No books on survival and foraging techiques? No books on proper massage techniques? Kama Sutra? That list is a sham ... only reinforced doubly when they listed The Bible. I know a lot of people dislike Adam Carolla but he wrote a pretty funny book a while back that I think a lot of 'men' nowadays should read. He might have an annoying way of making a point but the points usually hold true. |
11-15-2012, 09:50 AM | #24 |
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I've read a depressingly low number of those books. A lot of them are on my TBR though .
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11-15-2012, 12:29 PM | #25 |
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I promised myself I wouldn't get drawn into this, but...I've read the following:
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 1984 by George Orwell The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Call of the Wild by Jack London Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Lord of the Flies by William Golding Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller The Naked and The Dead by Norman Mailer Animal Farm by George Orwell Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly Hamlet by Shakespeare Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe On the Road by Jack Kerouac Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas All Quiet on The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarq The Bible (parts of) The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig A third of the list, which is probably not too bad for a non-American. Can I claim honourary Manliness status? |
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11-21-2012, 03:03 AM | #27 |
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You are not a real man unless you read THE BIBLE Lot giving away his daughters is a great example of how every real man in the 21st century should act
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