I found this headline on a homepage of sorts somewhere, I don't even recall, and I got excited because usually lists like these are insightful and give me a ideas of what I'd like to read.
This one though... Not so much.
I've listed the books in the order that the list gave them, top to bottom, one through ten respectively.
I have not read Gone With the Wind, all of the Lord of the Rings books, The Stand, Angels and Demons, Atlas Shrugged nor the Bible.
I have read some of the Lord of the Rings, all Harry Potters (multiple times!), The Da Vinci Code, To Kill a Mockingbird and The Catcher in the Rye.
I agree with some of the books that are on that list. The ones that I do not, however, are the two Dan Brown novels, Demons... and Da Vinci.... While they are very good reads (from what I have read), I just feel that there are more important books out there to read. Hullo! My favorites, Swiss Family Robinson, Gullivers Travels, Silus Marner!!! The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables, Chronicles of Narnia!!! There are soooo many better books to put on this list!
There is one other thing that I would like to address: the Bible.
While I hate religion and think it is silly and trivial and nothing good actually comes from it (other than a false sense of comfort), the fact that the Bible has been around for centuries and read by millions of millions of people means that there are going to be hundreds of thousands of references made to it through all other literature. The Bible as literature, I'm more eager to accept; the Bible as a life-guide, I find absurd.
I doubt I'll keep that list up long. It kinda pisses me off.
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Emily, I hope this doesn't ruin our friendship, but I have a Bible
haha now that that's out of the way I agree with the whole list thing, these things are absurd, there are more than 10 books that one should read throughout their life time
plus reading is subjective, someone might benefit more from reading a Dan Brown novel while someone else might benefit more from Hemingway
as for me I just like whatever I can get through and still rememeber what happened in the beginning, but as we all know I was dropped on my head as a baby
I agree about the Bible. Too many people take it literally, and there are way too many contradictions. It's good for stories and fables, but not to take word-for-word.
I can't believe Dan Brown is on that list! Aren't there lots of other books that should be on there besides him?
hahaha I don't doubt that there are more than ten books that everyone should read before they die but when I began reading the list, I had high hopes of being worth-while... I was severely dissapointed :( I do agree that books are like wine: no matter what the 'experts' say, if you enjoyed it and it was profound in some way to you, then why not add it to your personal list of favorites?
And you're still my friend Jeff!
I doubt there is anything that you could do that would 'ruin' you in my eyes!
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