Thread: Seriousness Have you read 6 of those 100?
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Old 09-25-2009, 11:40 AM   #22
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Fifty-seven for me. But I found two things fascinating about that list: the duplications and overlap (noted up-thread), and the... strangeness... of what's included and left out. Earlier posters put it well: there are many books that seem more classic, more important (historically and culturally speaking) that just aren't on the list at all.

For example (just from SF/Fantasy genre): Dune and Hitchhiker's Guide, but nothing by Heinlein (who wrote at least three or four books that surpass Dune both as literature and also in cultural importance) and nothing by Terry Pratchett (who seems to have at least equalled Douglas Adams).

Multiple entries for Shakespeare, but no mention of Kit Marlowe's Dr. Faustus?

On the whole, it seems like an odd basket of choices.

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