Saturday Night Chill

[malaise]

How Many of these have you read?
http://www.pbs.org/the-great-american-read/books/#/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=pbsofficial&utm_campaign=americanread_2018

http://bento.cdn.pbs.org/hostedbento-prod/filer_public/gar-phase-2/assets/tgar-book-checklist.pdf

[northoftheborder]

1. I've read 32 of that list. Love to look at lists like this for books I've forgotten about or missed

[malaise]

3. What I realize is that I rarely read fiction anymore

but I've read at least 40 of them. It helps that Lit was one of my undergraduate Majors

I haven't read some of the newer ones

[Squinch]

2. 41. But there were more that I tried to read and couldn't get through.

And there's some crap on that there list.

[malaise]

4. Agree

but there are some great ones as well

[Squinch]

5. True confession: I didn't have any trouble getting through the crap ones, but

couldn't finish some of the classics. Don Quixote, man. And Moby Dick. Cures for insomnia!

[malaise]

9. Loved both

[Squinch]

6. But also, now I have my summer reading list, so thank you!

[murielm99]

7. I have read 62 of them. n/t

[malaise]

8. Wow

[murielm99]

19. You have to remember that I am a retired librarian. n/t

[malaise]

20. That makes sense

Still that's a lot of books. I rarely read fiction these days.

[llmart]

10. 43

Could never get through "The Curious Incident". I just wasn't "getting it" so I quit. Never, ever desired to read anything by Ayn Rand. Took an entire course in college on Don Quixote (ugh - nothing like picking a novel apart to pieces because you've got 15 weeks to do it in).

[nolabear]

11. 57. I'm embarrassed I haven't read more.

[lunatica]

12. I've read 37 of them

They didn’t have much science fiction or I would have read a lot more.

Now that I’ve started thinking about it there are a lot of Classics missing too.

[LAS14]

13. 47 But what an odd mixture!!

What philosophy guided this choice?

[malaise]

15. This is what they said

Below is the list of America’s 100 most-loved books brought to you by The Great American Read. Explore the book list and visit the book pages to learn more. You can also print a checklist of the books

[LAS14]

16. Which books do you think should be removed? I'll start.

The Da Vinci Code, Fifty Shades of Grey, Game of Thrones, Gone Girl, The Hunger Games, The Hunt for Red October, Jurassic Park, The Notebook. There were a number I hadn't heard of, so probably I wouldn't want some of them on the list.

[malaise]

17. For starters

Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand

[Adsos Letter]

18. 26

26. I actually don't consider that too bad, since my reading taste leans heavily toward non-fiction.

[The_jackalope]

21. 18

But i haven't read any fiction at all in the last 25 years. And there are hundreds of equally (or more) wothy titles on my bookshelves.

[malaise]

22. These days when I read fiction i want to laugh

The last three I read are Jamaican novels written by the sister of a good friend - freaking hilarious.