Originally posted by dandelion: Fifty Shades of Grey is on and notFahrenheit 451...nor any titles by Ray? Totally NOT impressed!
Have we learned nothing from the 2016 election about letting idiots vote?
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24 May 2018, 09:35 PM
dandelion
25 May 2018, 12:15 AM
dandelion
My Own Personal Roundup of Titles Which Made the PBS Favorites List:
Have Read (Without Checking My List, In Pretty Much This Order) Counting Series as Single Titles = 27
Charlotte's Web -- E.B. White
Where the Red Fern Grows -- Wilson Rawls
The Count of Monte Cristo -- Alexandre Dumas
The Little Prince -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
To Kill a Mockingbird -- Harper Lee
1984 -- George Orwell
Jane Eyre -- Charlotte Brontë
The Chronicles of Narnia -- C.S. Lewis
The Great Gatsby -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Outsiders -- S. E. Hinton
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -- Lewis Carroll
Gone with the Wind -- Margaret Mitchell
Invisible Man -- Ralph Ellison
Frankenstein -- Mary Shelley
Beloved -- Toni Morrison
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -- Mark Twain
Anne of Green Gables -- L.M. Montgomery
Pride and Prejudice -- Jane Austen
Little Women -- Louisa May Alcott
The Catcher in the Rye -- J.D. Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath -- John Steinbeck
Gulliver's Travels -- Jonathan Swift
The Giver -- Lois Lowry
The Call of the Wild -- Jack London
Moby Dick -- Herman Melville
Wuthering Heights -- Emily Brontë
Harry Potter (Series) -- J.K. Rowling
Tried But Did Not Complete Counting Series as Single Titles = 2
Dune -- Frank Herbert
The Lord of the Rings (Series) -- J. R. R. Tolkien *
On Current TBR List to the Point of Having a Copy (In General Order of Likelihood to Read) Counting Series as Single Titles = 7
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn -- Betty Smith
Rebecca -- Daphne du Maurier
Hatchet (Series) -- Gary Paulsen
A Separate Peace -- John Knowles
The Picture of Dorian Gray -- Oscar Wilde *
Foundation (Series) -- Isaac Asimov
The Pilgrim's Progress -- John Bunyan
On or Near TBR List But Not Enough to Have a Copy Counting Series as Single Titles = 5
A Prayer for Owen Meany -- John Irving
Great Expectations -- Charles Dickens *
The Stand -- Stephen King *
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time -- Mark Haddon
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams
On Past TBR List But Unlikely to Read (In school, depressing and upsetting books are greatly emphasized and some made my list. The older I get, the more I don’t need help becoming depressed, upset, or confused, so some difficult books were removed. I might consider them, but I doubt it.) Counting Series as Single Titles = 2
Catch-22 -- Joseph Heller
The Color Purple -- Alice Walker
Heard of the Author But Not the Book, No Opinion Counting Series as Single Titles = 3
Alex Cross Mysteries (Series) -- James Patterson
The Sirens of Titan -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Tales of the City -- Armistead Maurine
Never Heard of the Author or the Book Till Seeing This List, No Opinion Counting Series as Single Titles = 21 (So "classic" books I've read just barely outnumber "classic" books I've never heard even of the author let alone the book!
The Alchemist -- Paulo Coelho
Americanah -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Bless Me, Ultima -- Rudolfo Anaya
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao -- Junot Díaz
The Coldest Winter Ever -- Sister Souljah
Doña Bárbára -- Rómulo Gallegos
Ghost -- Jason Reynolds
Gilead -- Marilynne Robinson
Gone Girl -- Gillian Flynn
The Intuitionist -- Colson Whitehead
Looking for Alaska -- John Green
Mind Invaders -- Dave Hunt
The Notebook -- Nicholas Sparks
Ready Player One -- Ernest Cline
The Shack -- William Paul Young
Swan Song -- Robert McCammon
Their Eyes Were Watching God -- Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart -- Chinua Achebe
This Present Darkness -- Frank E. Peretti
The Wheel of Time (Series) -- Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson
White Teeth -- Zadie Smith
Not on TBR List. Would Consider Under Right Circumstances, But Unlikely Counting Series as Single Titles = 24
A Confederacy of Dunces -- John Kennedy Toole
And Then There Were None -- Agatha Christie
Another Country -- James Baldwin *
The Book Thief -- Markus Zusak
Clan of the Cave Bear -- Jean M. Auel
Don Quixote -- Miguel de Cervantes
Game of Thrones (Series) -- George R.R. Martin
The Godfather -- Mario Puzo
The Handmaid's Tale -- Margaret Atwood
Heart of Darkness -- Joseph Conrad
The Help -- Kathryn Stockett
The Hunt for Red October -- Tom Clancy
The Joy Luck Club -- Amy Tan
Jurassic Park -- Michael Crichton
Lonesome Dove -- Larry McMurtry
The Martian -- Andy Weir
Memoirs of a Geisha -- Arthur Golden
One Hundred Years of Solitude -- Gabriel García Márquez
Outlander (Series) -- Diana Gabaldon
The Pillars of the Earth -- Ken Follett
Siddhartha -- Hermann Hesse
The Sun Also Rises -- Ernest Hemingway *
War and Peace -- Leo Tolstoy
Watchers -- Dean Koontz *
SERIOUSLY ABSOLUTELY NOT EVEN! (Would consider reading only if well paid or doing a study on why awful books and horrible authors are so popular.) Counting Series as Single Titles = 9
Atlas Shrugged -- Ayn Rand
Crime and Punishment -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Da Vinci Code -- Dan Brown
Fifty Shades of Grey -- E. L. James
Flowers in the Attic -- V. C. Andrews
The Hunger Games (Series) -- Suzanne Collins
Left Behind (Series) -- Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
The Lovely Bones -- Alice Sebold
The Twilight Saga (Series) -- Stephenie Meyer
* Have Read the Author, But Not This Particular Book.This message has been edited. Last edited by: dandelion,
25 May 2018, 07:11 AM
Doug Spaulding
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Robert McCammon
For a truly Bradbury-esque story, check out his novel Boy's Life. It's just excellent!
By the way, Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code was one I could hardly put down. Exciting story!
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25 May 2018, 04:54 PM
C. M. Christopher
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Originally posted by Doug Spaulding:
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Originally posted by dandelion: Fifty Shades of Grey is on and notFahrenheit 451...nor any titles by Ray? Totally NOT impressed!
Have we learned nothing from the 2016 election about letting idiots vote?
The idiots voted for Hillary Clinton, and she lost ... get over it and stop making political posts in here, please!
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25 May 2018, 11:05 PM
dandelion
Since voting is disabled outside of America, and 30% - 40% of the American population which bothered to vote have demonstrated and continue to prove themselves as idiots, results are skewed considerably. In fact it comes as a huge surprise the list is this literate!
25 May 2018, 11:48 PM
Doug Spaulding
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Originally posted by C. M. Christopher The idiots voted for Hillary Clinton, and she lost ... get over it and stop making political posts in here, please!
That's funny. You said Hillary but you meant Donald. This isn't the political thread, tho.
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26 May 2018, 08:27 AM
C. M. Christopher
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Originally posted by Doug Spaulding:
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Originally posted by C. M. Christopher The idiots voted for Hillary Clinton, and she lost ... get over it and stop making political posts in here, please!
That's funny. You said Hillary but you meant Donald. This isn't the political thread, tho.
I said exactly what I meant to say, and for God's sake please quit making everything about politics ... you can't even let a thread about a book list be apolitical?
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26 May 2018, 08:52 AM
Doug Spaulding
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I said exactly what I meant to say, and for God's sake please quit making everything about politics ... you can't even let a thread about a book list be apolitical?
dandelion, CM here keeps bringing up politics in the book thread. Not sure why these folks cannot be happy declaring their Trumpism over in the political thread.This message has been edited. Last edited by: Doug Spaulding,
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27 May 2018, 12:19 AM
dandelion
As I said in the political thread, books can and often should be political, but it does seem a bit extreme here.
28 May 2018, 06:30 PM
C. M. Christopher
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Originally posted by Doug Spaulding: Have we learned nothing from the 2016 election about letting idiots vote?
Here ya' go, dandelion, I'll help you out. I have re-quoted the post from "Doug Spaulding" where HE got political in the book thread ... I was merely responding.
And, you're right ... there is no place for that crap in the books thread. Take it to the politics thread, Dougie.
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28 May 2018, 07:25 PM
Doug Spaulding
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Originally posted by C. M. Christopher: I have re-quoted the post from "Doug Spaulding" where HE got political in the book thread ... I was merely responding.
And, you're right ... there is no place for that crap in the books thread. Take it to the politics thread, Dougie.
I didn't say which election. You're assuming. Or perhaps a shoe is fitting your foot.
Dougie - that reminds me of Twin Peaks, season 3. Kyle MacLachlan's character's name. Did you enjoy it? It was so different from the first two seasons, but it had touches of brilliance, especially episode 8.
But I'm getting off the subject of books. I should be in the TV program thread for this!