Thread: 1001 Books to Read Before You Die
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Old 12-18-2008, 05:37 AM   #39
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Originally Posted by wayspooled View Post
The Mobileread 1001 books! Everybody to suggest 100 books hehe... Tallied and list published after 6 months of input. Don't want to tally before then because there will be list editing.
By month two you'll be running away from one group trying to lynch you, another with buckets of tar and feathers and others inventing new ways of torturing you... Others will be arguing semantics of the rules for what constitutes a 'book'. Some will be arguing that since the focus of this forum is eBooks then anything not available as an eBook shouldn't count. Which will then turn into a further debate over formats. You'll have someone else stating that while Don Quixote is being listed, he wants a seperate entry for the original El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha. When explained that it is including all the various translations another argument will start off as to whether or not the translations constitute new derivative works because no translation can capture the beauty of the original language. Now onto everyone elses pet authors in Italian, Russian, Swahili, et al. chiming in that they want seperate entries for both the 'popular' translation and the original. Another log on the fire from those citing anything from Shakespeare should be removed or have a disclaimer about the authorship controversy......

In the end, it is easier to just burn all the books then to get 5 people to agree on 10 to read...

And that is -BEFORE- the list is completed...

-MJ
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