Top 10 Books

[Gunit Hussein Sangh]

The dune stuff was the only I read from Herbert. I did a few googles on the titles and they looking interesting. I'll try to remember them the next time I order some books.

Thanks

[bored]

Nightfall is a must read for sci-fi fans. Great book. I haven't read any other sci-fi though.

[MeatMop]

I'm not a big reader, but two books I haven't seen mentioned yet (pardon me if I missed them while scanning the thread) that would probably be in my top 10 are:
1- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumbass
2- Lord of the Flies by William Golding...well, maaaaaaybe not, but its a classic

MeatMop.

[Peter1469]

Nightfall is a must read for sci-fi fans. Great book. I haven't read any other sci-fi though.

Starship Troopers, the book was excellent Sci-Fi. 

[Pukka Sahib]

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[Pukka Sahib]

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[Vermouth]

I have decided to revisit my previous post to add my “top-ten list.”  This thread is reminiscent of a parlor game that supposed that if you were stranded alone on an island with but one book in the world, that book would be . . . .  The prospect of having ten books, however, poses a more discriminating choice that is the more revealing.  These are mine in the order of their publication and influence; not only on myself, but on the authors whose works that came afterward.

1.  Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Arthur Golding Translation (1567)
2.  The Essays, Francis Bacon (1597-1625)
3.  The Holy Bible King James Version (1611)
4.  A Dictionary of the English Language, Samuel Johnson (1755)
5.  The Works of William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1755)
6.  The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., James Boswell (1791)
7.   On the Origin of Species, etc., Charles Darwin (1859)
8.  Middlemarch, George Eliot (1871-72)
9.  The Oxford Book of English Verse, Arthur Quiller-Couch Ed. (1919)
10.  The Outermost House, Henry Beston (1928)

Interesting list. Why a dictionary?

[Pukka Sahib]

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[SDML]

Silly list of boring shit.

1 - "Green Eggs and Ham" - Dr. Seuss
2 - "The Cat in the Hat" - Dr. Seuss
3 - "Horton Hears a Who" - Dr. Seuss

These are more entertaining read aloud.

4 - "The Odyssey" - Homer

This is to help you sleep (he goes on longer than Stephen Fucking King)

5 - "Lord of the Flies" - Golding

Well, if you're alone on a desert island, this let's you know how lucky you are to be alone......

[bored]

I loved The Odyssey. Though it would be cool read aloud.

[Pukka Sahib]

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[SDML]

Dude, I'm tellin' ya: Dr. Seuss.

[bored]

Many years ago, I began, desultorily, to read. It is probably ironic that the first book that I read was Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, which is reputed to be the first novel in the English language. Since then, I have read a great number of books, and more than a few of them several times. It is not uncommon that I read an entire book within the space of a single day. I am not a particularly rapid reader, but I suffer from insomnia, and for these many years, books have been the companions of my sleepless hours. Even so, there are many, many books that I have not read, great rivers of literature and learning that I have yet to course. More recently, my reading has become more select, and my studies more focused. Some of the books that I read now have been out of print for several centuries and only available in the great libraries or in private collections. Still, whenever I start a another book, it is with that same spirit of Robinson Crusoe when he takes up his salvaged copy of the Bible, and begins, for the first time, to read it in earnest.

Your posts read like a novel!

[Vermouth]

The Outermost House sounds good. I'm going to add that to my list.

What are Francis Bacon's Essays about? I only know him as the guy who came up with the scientific method.

[Pukka Sahib]

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