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the autist formerly known as flinch Started conversation Apr 7, 2005
Well i was a bit disappointed with the top 200, and inevitably so with the top 21 and final winner. That said...
My Top 5 from the top 21 would have been
The Catcher in the Rye: J D Salinger 1984: George Orwell The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austin Rebecca: Daphnie Du Maurier
And my Top 25 from the complete Top 200...
The Master and Margarita: Mikhail Bulgakov Heart of Darkness: Joseph Conrad The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Milan Kundera Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Ulysses: James Joyce On the Road: Jack Kerouac The Picture of Dorian Gray: Oscar Wilde The World According to Garp: John Irving Moby Dick: Herman Melville The Day of the Triffids: John Wyndham The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists: Robert Tressel The Mayor of Casterbridge: Thomas Hardy High Fidelity: Nick Hornby To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole: Sue Townsend Memoirs of a Geisha: Arthur Golden Katherine: Anya Seyton The Wasp Factory: Iain Banks Animal Farm: George Orwell
So how many have i read? 15 of the top 21 - but not Winnie the Pooh!
65 of the top 100 - plus 4 started but not finished (or at the least largly unremembered)
118 of the top 200. More than i'd have guessed!
But what would i have voted for?
Last Chance to See: Douglas Adams Malone Dies: Samuel BeckettDeath is a Lonely Business: Ray Bradbury Willard and His Bowling Trophies: Richard BrautiganSombrero Fallout: Richard BrautiganQueer: William S. Burroughs Ghost of Chance: William S. Burroughs Flow My Tears the Policeman Said: Philip K. Dick The Honeyed Peace: Martha Gelhorn THe Complete Franz KafkaImmortality: Milan KunderaThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting: Milan Kundera The Intelligent Observation of Naked Women: Frank KuppnerUnder the Volcano: Malcolm Lowry Dark is the Grave Wherin My Friend is Laid: Malcolm Lowry The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagan Cannery Row: John Stienbeck Tortilla Flat: John Steinbeck Mother Night : Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse 5: Kurt Vonnegut Bluebeard: Kurt Vonnegut Hocus Pocus : Kurt Vonnegut
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DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me! Posted Apr 8, 2005
This is interesting, autist!
I never read Winnie the Pooh either, and knew nothing of it until I heard my sister reading it to her son who was three at the time.
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