Top 10 Books

[SDML]

AOL released their list of "10 Book to Read Before You Die".

1) Gone With the Wind
2) Lord of the Rings
3) Harry Potter
4) The Stand
5) DaVinci Code
6) To Kill a Mockingbird
7) Angels & Demons
Atlas Shrugged
9) Catcher in the Rye
10) Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I disagree whole-heartedly with this list, of course. But it's nice to have a book list anyway.

What would be on YOUR list?

[conley]

audacity of hope? 

that actually looks like a pretty craptacular list to me

i'd put the bible on there

[Mr. Dirlewanger]

Are they kidding? Was this from AOL or Mad Magazine? Harry Potter!? Does someone actually think that is literature?  They have a selection of fiction and one philosophical work.

I shall prepare my list this evening.

Harry Potter? Really?  

[Mr. Dirlewanger]

audacity of hope? 

that actually looks like a pretty craptacular list to me

i'd put the bible on there

Well if it is the doltish popularity contest it appears to be then the Bible should certainly be first.

[OswaldTheOsprey]

Here are my picks:

Babbitt-Lewis
The Great Gatsby-Fitzgerald
Riders of the Purple Sage-Grey
The Sea Wolf-London
Manhattan Transfer-Dos Passos
The Maltese Falcon-Hammett
Berlin Stories-Isherwood
The Hound of the Baskervilles-Conan Doyle
Starship Troopers-Heinlein
The Grapes of Wrath-Steinbeck

OswaldTheOsprey

[conley]

i haven't read crap like harry potter, but i guess it's obviously very popular. even more insulting to me though is the da vinci code. really? i mean this was just a book that was briefly popular and they crapped out a movie about it. top 10? i can't judge since i haven't read it, but that particular choice just seemed random as all get out.

[Mr. Dirlewanger]

The Price Of Glory
The Storm Of Steel
Crime and Punishment
The Crusades (J Riley Smith)
The Fate Of Africa
Heart Of Darkness
The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward
Carnage And Culture
Masters Of Death
Dracula

I have a predilection for great history, obviously. 

[Mr. Dirlewanger]

i haven't read crap like harry potter, but i guess it's obviously very popular. even more insulting to me though is the da vinci code. really? i mean this was just a book that was briefly popular and they crapped out a movie about it. top 10? i can't judge since i haven't read it, but that particular choice just seemed random as all get out.

The Da Vinci Code is also complete nonsense.

[Peter1469]

Starship Troopers was a great book. 

[SDML]

The only Heinlein I've read is "Stranger in a Strange Land". Loved it. "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" is on my list.

I don't mind a couple from the original list ("Catcher in the Rye" wasn't bad and "Hitchhiker's Guide" was hilarious), but I have zero interest in Brown's work or "Harry Potter".

I'd have to give serious thought to a list of only 10, but "The Epic of Gilgamesh" would be first.

[OswaldTheOsprey]

Starship Troopers was a great book. 

Passable film also, IMHO.

OswaldTheOsprey

[OswaldTheOsprey]

Speaking of Heinlein, here is a photo of, from left,
Heinlein, L. Sprague de Camp and Isaac Asinov
when all three worked at the Philadelphia Naval
Yard during World War II.

OswaldTheOsprey

[Mr. Dirlewanger]

I'd have to give serious thought to a list of only 10, but "The Epic of Gilgamesh" would be first.

 

[Peter1469]

Starship Troopers was a great book. 

Passable film also, IMHO.

OswaldTheOsprey

It was totally different as a film.  The movie was a stereotype of the infantry soldier of the late 1980s- it was a comedy/action flick.   

[pittypat65]

I don't care for fiction. I really loved Frank McCort's books. reminded me alot of my Irish side of the family. I also loved, bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Lots of History books. Also, I real all the Anne books as a girl, Anne of Green Gables etc.