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I was very intrigued by the review of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (Univere, $34.95) in The New York Times Friday. The reviewer,William Grimes, went on about how inadequate such a list makes even the most literate among us feel. He has ONLY read 303 of them himself (and admits to what he feels is his biggest sin of omission: Moby Dick). All of which makes me wonder, do all of us have a list of books we feel we must read before I die? I, personally, keenly feel the omission of some from the Dickens canon (I never did get through Bleak House) and I never have read Thackery's Vanity Fair. E-mail entry: |
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I liked this story too, Nancy.
The list of great books I haven't read could fill a book ... but I think the great Russian doorstops of "War and Peace," "Crime and Punishment" and "Anna Karenina" are the most shameful omissions.
I know someone who is tackling "War and Peace" as poolside reading this summer. I am tempted to join him.
1. Pride and Prejudice (but I have listened to it on CD)
2. Jane Eyre
3. War and Peace
4. Anna Karenina
5. Moby-Dick (I hated it the first time)
6. The Sound and the Fury (may have to admit defeat on this one)
7. Other Faulkner novels
8. Ulysses
9. Walden (the one book I didn't read in high school)
10. The Red and the Black