Books you should read before you die


	Books you should read before you die

Brimstone

2-11-2008 6:28 AM

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Brimstone says:

Most of the books on the list I have not heard of.
Like most lists, and most people, they have different perspectives. I'm glad to see that Haruki Murakami has several books on the list. Though i do believe that his new novel After Dark and his short stories are better that his popular Kafka

Currently I'm reading a Robert Ludlum (The Matarese Countdown), cant say that I'm that impressed.

What are you reading? And is it worth reading.

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2-11-2008 6:31 AM

Brimstone

Don Quixote is still a book I plan to read, and Homer's Iliad.

2-11-2008 7:17 AM

Deepti

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was a good book, I read it a few years back. I haven't read any of the others on that list

I just started reading a Kafka collection yesterday...haven't even finished one story yet....but so far so ok i guess....

2-11-2008 7:28 AM

Deepti

I went through the entire list...it appears I've read about 40 of them...still a lot of reading to do to catch up with that list

2-11-2008 9:47 AM

bignosemousie

What are you reading? And is it worth reading.

I just started reading A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. I can't recommend it yet, because I just started, but I like it so far. His style is good.

I can recommend The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst. It isn't on this list, but it really made me think.

About the book:

after his wife Lexy dies after falling from a tree, linguistics
professor Paul Iverson becomes obsessed with teaching their dog, a
Rhodesian Ridgeback named Lorelei (the sole witness to the tragedy)...
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2-11-2008 11:40 AM

tidbit2

I'm readin about a dozen at the same time
I'm a dipper into books and I like buying secondhand bargain books
heres an awesome site I've been using
we could sort out a clipmarks book group on it
as abailart,me and I think carrinyes are on it
http://www.goodreads.com

2-11-2008 1:33 PM

abailart

I am indeed on the site thanks to tidbits. So too are carrinyes and aribeth of the wine dark seas. Recommended highly, but I am slow getting stuff loaded onto it cos I am so busy reading!

2-11-2008 5:45 PM

tidbit2

should be called the bucket booklist
considering the new film

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