11 Books You Should Read Before You Die Of Boredom
Submitted by OGRastamon on Sat, 08/25/2007 - 12:02
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- The World According to Garp-John Irving
- The Stand (original printing)-Stephen King
- Dune-Frank Herbert
- The Hobbit-J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Last Temptation of Christ-Nikos Kazantzakis
- Ghost Story-Peter Straub
- A Time To Kill-John Grisham
- Silverlock-John Myers Myers
- The Princess Bride-William Goldman
- The Further Adventures of Huckleberry Finn-Greg Matthews
- The Seven-Percent Solution-Nicholas Meyer
Author Comments:
It seems every time I hit the RANDOM button I see another clone of that long pretentious list (I have my own in the works). Here's a short list of books I've actually read (multiple times in some cases) that no teacher is likely to assign. They are pure pleasure.
I know what you mean, I've made my own list of favorites too: My favorite books, Top 200.
Dune and The Hobbit are two of them, I didn't read your other ones yet.
I have read ~40 from the infamous "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" and I have to admit that I enjoyed most of them.
No doubt they are all great books. The boredom stems from such an exhaustive and (likely) impersonal list. I was going to post a commented clone of the list but the task became too overwhelming. Only 25 on the list that I've read (not counting those I've bought, borrowed, skimmed, left unfinished, or seen on screen).
I like the list for the ideas, but I have to say that I sort of hate the title.