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Jabba:
*Bump*
Another good book I just finished reading is "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck. Depressing as hell, but very well written. It's hard to believe the Depression in the 30's was that bad. No sense of Government Help for those poor Oklahoma and mid-western farmers displaced from their farms because the "Bank" needed to make some coin!
I'm off the to the library now to pick another book. I've heard "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair is pretty good. I tried reading David Copperfield as a previous person in this thread suggested, but couldn't get into it. Perhaps I'll try it again later on...
shmokes:
I just finished Fierce Invalids, Home From Hot Climates by Tom Robbins. It was fantastic -- a total ball to read.
Also Catch-22 shouldn't be missed.
GGKoul:
Let me update my reading list...
Finished:
- Five people in Heaven
- Time Travellers Wife
- Deception Point - Dan Brown
- Facing Ali
Presently reading: The Kennedy Curse
Buddabing:
I just finished Don Quixote - the Grossman translation. It was wonderful, the translation was so good you couldn't tell it was written four hundred years ago.
Many scholars claim that Don Quixote is the best novel ever written.
Link to a top 100 list
shmokes:
I think lists like that are funny. They're useful in their way, I guess. But how can a definitive list really be made? It's impossible. The best you can do is get a bunch of people who supposedly have good taste and have them vote. Obviously democracy doesn't always produce a high-quality result. I've read only nine of the books on that list and of those there is at least one that I thought basically sucked. I don't know how anyone would put The Count of Monte Cristo on the list but leave The Three Musketeers off it (both Alexandre Dumas). Hell, the recent Hollywood Monte Cristo film was better than the book.
/rant