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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967
Just out of interest, can you remember any of the other six?
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Originally Posted by kennyc
Yep I was wondering too.
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I remember that Barack Obama's
Dreams From My Father was one of them, but I can't remember any others. A search of the
Virginian-Pilot website didn't turn up any kind of list of 7 books. The closest thing I could find was
this list of 10 from BBC News, but I've only read half of those. Maybe this
was the list in question, and my memory is a tad faulty, or perhaps the list I read was abbreviated. It has been a while since I saw the article.
1.
1984 - George Orwell (42%)
READ
2.
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (31%)
READ
3.
Ulysses - James Joyce (25%)
4.
The Bible (24%)
READ
5.
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (16%)
6.
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking (15%)
READ
7.
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie (14%)
8.
In Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust (9%)
9.
Dreams from My Father - Barack Obama (6%)
READ
10.
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins (6%)
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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967
That seems unfair on yourself and many of your fellow countrymen. The U.S. certainly has no monopoly on stupidity...
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I don't know; for a first world country, we're pretty dumb. According to Gallup:
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Nearly half of us believe the world is less than 10,000 years old.
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24 percent of us can't say from which country we gained our independence.
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18% of us believe the sun orbits the earth.
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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967
I'm pretty sure it's rife everywhere. Example; my mother still tells the story of how she overheard two people talking on a bus. One of them said, and my mother swears that this is true;
"I read a book once...it was green"
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I read a two-volume set once -- and it was green (
The Annotated Sherlock Holmes)