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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe | 5 | 7.46% | |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams | 16 | 23.88% | |
Emma by Jane Austen | 4 | 5.97% | |
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs | 3 | 4.48% | |
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte | 5 | 7.46% | |
The Awakening by Kate Chopin | 1 | 1.49% | |
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe | 2 | 2.99% | |
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier | 6 | 8.96% | |
Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas | 12 | 17.91% | |
Silas Marner by George Eliot | 0 | 0% | |
Room with a View by E M Forster | 1 | 1.49% | |
1984 by George Orwell | 17 | 25.37% | |
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair | 3 | 4.48% | |
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson | 5 | 7.46% | |
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathon Swift | 4 | 5.97% | |
The Secret History by Donna Tartt | 1 | 1.49% | |
Walden by Henry David Thoreau | 4 | 5.97% | |
Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope | 2 | 2.99% | |
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain | 8 | 11.94% | |
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne | 5 | 7.46% | |
Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde | 6 | 8.96% | |
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03-28-2009, 07:32 PM | #61 |
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You should demand 1001 cute bartenders and a pole.
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Don't worry, I was checking out all the cute college boys.
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03-29-2009, 09:39 PM | #63 |
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I already devoured 1984. It was awesome! My brain hurts a little. I kept thinking about how a lot of the topics in it have been handled in recent times. It was like a reverse Allegory of the Cave, almost.
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A link for those, like me, who have not heard of the "Allegory of the Cave":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave and a clapping of hands for what I can now see is an interesting way of looking at 1984, and makes me want to read it again: (Well, okay, these folk are way too excited. They're probably on drugs.) Cheers, Marc |
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Just started Dirk Gently! Very excited, I think I'll finish this in a day or two (wish I had it as an ebook, sigh).
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