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The list definitely has the must reads!!
its like a list of all the books Ive tried and given up on! But yes, these definately are books that I'd love to read ....maybe not before I'm 30 :)
and u r telling now??? what about the ones above 30 :P :P
5/30 that i read. And i have a couple of years to hit 30. I didn't have much of a list - but i agree that all 5 that i read definitely deserve a place in the top 30 list.Btw, Just noticed this is put up for a debate.
But this isn't a hard-core debate right (like the other debate topics), can we move it to some other folder?
Mods, forgive me, just got some itching fingers today :)
I have read 4/30. There's time though :DBut I don't think 'Lolita' deserves to be there.
The Walden looks the most impressive of all those i haven't read...
I have read 6/30 but I have passed my 30 years long time ago (and that list makes me now feel old)!There should be a list with the top 30 to read before we are 50 years old.
@Pari: Lolita is for me a masterpiece, I am glad it is in the list.
4/30.. I have 4 more years.. But not sure whether I will take up all these in the list.. But some are definitely in my To-read list..
6/30 for me.. I have time but not sure if I would read all those. Will try to make it 20 atleast :)
weak and arbitrary list. carnegie? and you still expect me not to roll my eyes?
http://www.teega.com/2011/12/legacies...The perfect list of authors and books to grow up with. I am sure it holds good even in the 20s as in your teens.
I have 'read' 8. And I am not even 20. I think it is the way you read a book that matters. Our grand grand mothers probably read ramayana and mahabharatha only. But they really read them and applied the principles in their life. So, reading classics for the sake of reading them is not profitable.
1...Oh well, I have 14 more years X)
Only 11/30 - but I got sick of Four Quartets though I otherwise love Eliot so much - Catch-22 was equally head-ache inducing.
There are a lot of great books missing from this list.
Yeah, none of 'new' ones...
I haven't read many new ones - most in my list pre-date the 21st century.
Just asking, have you read any books by Patrick Ness?
I've heard a lot of extreme reactions about the latter book - some loved it and some absolutely hated it. Will try to get it... thanks :) do you read recent releases more? Say, like, those released in the last decade?
Well, The Knife keeps you on your toes, it's dystopian thriller. And.. I LOVED it. A lot! Have you heard of The Hunger Games? It has a status like that, I mean, a world you love, yet dread to be in!Well, I speak a teen, yes, most the books I've read are from the last decade.
I am a fan of classics though, mostly poetry and fantasy =)
2/30 :(Even though some others are on my To-Read list :)
Haven't read, but am aware of The Hunger Games. I do understand dystopian - am doing Ph.D. in feminist cyberpunk (sci-fi technological dystopia - like that in the movies 'I, Robot' or 'In Time')What poetry do you read?
In any case, though this list isn't bad, it is too random.
Cool, so The Chaos Walking trilogy suites it, not to spoil your read, but in The Knife, all women had supposedly been killed(by creatures known as Spackle, as it says) but read more to know the truth.Frost, Shakespeare, Keats(though not a big fan of him), Sylvia Plath, Coleridge... many more, I just stumble upon poetry, poet instincts, ya know XD
So you mean classic poetry :)
Yups, the contemporary ones aren't as...poetic :/
There's a different kind of beauty to contemporary poetry - the two are very different, but I love them equally. Alexander Pope is my favorite classic poet, but I love contemporary poets too - less beating about the bush. In fact, despite your liking for classic poetry, your own poetry is surprisingly modern.
Oh I forgot, Edgar Allan Poe too :) Yes, it is :/
my list would beMistborn Trilogy and The Stormlight Archiveby Brandon Sanderson
The king-killer chronicles PAtrick rothfuss
The Gentlemen Bastard Scott lynch
A song of fire and ice Geroge R R Martin
Wheel of time Robert Jordan
It'd be really great if everyone posted links to the books - it'd be far easier to add them instead of typin out names :)
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