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Author: Gene Ward SmithGene Ward Smith Date: Jan 29, 2008 03:13
Having complained so bitterly about the British librarians
list, I suppose I should give my own version, and invite
anyone else to join in the Tp 30 fun.
First theirs:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Bible
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien
1984 by George Orwell
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Pride and Prejudice by...
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Author: SheerluckSheerluck Date: Jan 29, 2008 04:43
"Gene Ward Smith" chewbacca.org> wrote in message
news:Xns9A34208E16020genewardsmithsbcglob@207.115.33.102...> Having complained so bitterly about the British librarians
> list, I suppose I should give my own version, and invite
> anyone else to join in the Tp 30 fun.
>
> First theirs:
>
> To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
> The Bible
> The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien
> 1984 by George Orwell
> A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
> Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
> Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
> All Quite on the Western Front by E M Remarque
> His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman
> Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
> The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
> The Lord of the Flies by William Golding ...
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Author: tphiletphile Date: Jan 29, 2008 06:28
A Books To Read Before You Die list?
most of which say there is not afterlife, or a
really unpleasant afterlife or that there is one but
the reader is not invited
That would be rather depressingly twisted.
A hell of a devilish thing to read
tphile
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Author: Will in New HavenWill in New Haven Date: Jan 29, 2008 07:50
On Jan 29, 6:13Â am, Gene Ward Smith chewbacca.org> wrote:> Having complained so bitterly about the British librarians
> list, I suppose I should give my own version, and invite
> anyone else to join in the Tp 30 fun.
>
> First theirs:
> The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien
> A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
> A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzenhitsyn
>
These are the three that would make my list. I have read or know, or
think I know, enough about all the others to reject them.
> Then mine:
> The Three Musketeers
> Huckleberry Finn
> The Lord of the Rings
> The Last of the Wine
Four from your list, one overlapping. So that's six of my thirty. My
other twenty-four
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Author: Dorothy J HeydtDorothy J Heydt Date: Jan 29, 2008 08:23
In article ,
Gene Ward Smith chewbacca.org> wrote:>Having complained so bitterly about the British librarians
>list, I suppose I should give my own version, and invite
>anyone else to join in the Tp 30 fun.
>
>First theirs:
>
>To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Read.
>The Bible
Read, most of it anyway.
>The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien
Ohhhhh yes.
>1984 by George Orwell
Read.
>A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Read.
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Author: Dorothy J HeydtDorothy J Heydt Date: Jan 29, 2008 08:28
>A Books To Read Before You Die list?
>most of which say there is not afterlife, or a
>really unpleasant afterlife or that there is one but
>the reader is not invited
Oh, I wouldn't say that. Other than the seriously antireligious
P. Pullman, most of the books on the list are either neutral on
the topic or take the tenets of the Christian faith as a given
(Jane Austen, e.g.).
Dorothy J. Heydt
Albany, California
djheydt@ kithrup.com
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Date: Jan 29, 2008 09:07
>Oh, I wouldn't say that. Other than the seriously antireligious
>P. Pullman,
"His dark materials" is not antireligious. Pullman himself is. *
--
* PV something like badgers--something like lizards--and something
like corkscrews.
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Author: Dorothy J HeydtDorothy J Heydt Date: Jan 29, 2008 09:19
>>Oh, I wouldn't say that. Other than the seriously antireligious
>>P. Pullman,
>
>"His dark materials" is not antireligious. Pullman himself is. *
Based on reviews and interviews I've read, I would say they both
are.
Dorothy J. Heydt
Albany, California
djheydt@ kithrup.com
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Author: GSV Three Minds in a CanGSV Three Minds in a Can Date: Jan 29, 2008 09:39
Bitstring kithrup.com>, from the wonderful person Dorothy J
Heydt kithrup.com> said>>>Oh, I wouldn't say that. Other than the seriously antireligious
>>>P. Pullman,
>>
>>"His dark materials" is not antireligious. Pullman himself is. *
>
>Based on reviews and interviews I've read, I would say they both
>are.
Based on reading the book, I'd say that the book(s) could be
interpreted that way for some value of 'religion', where the value lies
in the range of 'organised, prescriptive, fundamentalist'.
There are Angels on both sides of the conflict after all, and Tbq (jub
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nffbpvngrq jvgu gur anfgl fghss orvat qbar va uvf anzr.
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Author: William HydeWilliam Hyde Date: Jan 29, 2008 09:53
On Jan 29, 11:23 am, djhe...@ kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote: >
>>All Quite on the Western Front by E M Remarque
>
> Not read, and I think I can die peacefully without doing so.
I expect so. I couldn't put it down, though.
>
>>His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman
>
> Heard about it. Wouldn't read if you paid me.
Have do admit I faded out before finishing, but many of
the reviews seem to be describing a different book
entirely.
>>Tess of the D'urbevilles by Thomas Hardy
>
> Read, out of pity for a friend who had to give a book report on
> it and was not very verbal. Horrid book. The Prince of the
> Immortals who tormented Tess was not God but Hardy.
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