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I read Atlas Shrugged 2 Summers ago and though it was a grind getting through it, it was definetly an intriguing read.

I read Les Miserables last year and enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to seeing the Production sometime on Broadway.

John Adams is probably my favorite book. McCullough's follow up "1776" was solid, but I didn't like it as much.

Ghost Soldiers is one of the more harrowing accounts of WWII I've ever read. Some of the images are burned in my memory.

This will no doubt get me in trouble, but the best book I have ever read is probably Gone With the Wind. If you have only seen the movie you won't understand what I'm saying. You may also have to be from the south.

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Originally Posted by UtahDan (Post 55573)

This will no doubt get me in trouble, but the best book I have ever read is probably Gone With the Wind.

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Originally Posted by SeattleUte (Post 55580)

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come on...I'll give 3/1 odds you have not even read it. right?

What?

No Hop on Pop?

Clearly, this list is biased.

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Originally Posted by 8ballrollin (Post 55583)

come on...I'll give 3/1 odds you have not even read it. right?

I can't claim to have read it. No.

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Originally Posted by UtahDan (Post 55573)

I actually liked it a lot too, so much so that I dared to buy Scarlett (only to vomit in my mouth after reading a few pages).

I thought A Tale of Two Cities was one of the best ever. I also liked Uncle Tom's Cabin a lot.

Moby Dick was one of the worst books ever written.

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Originally Posted by SeattleUte (Post 55586)

I can't claim to have read it. No.

Me neither, but I think it was one of the best selling novels of the last century <SU’s eyes roll> but IIRC, it also won the Pulitzer in the mid-30s?

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Originally Posted by surfah33 (Post 55539)

It's funny to me that Fitzgerald is getting a ton of praise again. It wasn't long ago that his wife's work was receiving more attention than his own and some were arguing that The Great Gatsby shouldn't be included in the canon.

Atlas Shrugged is certainly not the worst book ever written by any stretch. In fact in one recent reader's list it was voted most influential book ever or something like that. I like Rand's ideas and the novel is captivating but gets tedious and redundant long before you get to Galt's 50 page monologue.

I think To Kill a Mockingbird should be up there. It should replace The Great Gatsby. I find it interesting that these authors who created the list esteem that book so highly.

The Great Gatsby sucks big time. What that is considered great is beyond me.

I couldn't name ten but many of those named are fabulous.

Two novelas in German are at also at the top of my list,

Faust by Goethe
Nathan der Weise by Lessing

I also liked Draussen vor der Tuer about post war Germany.

Die Verwandlung by Kafka is worthwhile.

The Count of Monte Cristo is beloved by me.

Les Mis must be considered my favorite.

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Originally Posted by SeattleUte (Post 55586)

I can't claim to have read it. No.

I wouldn't admit to have read it if I did. I know I lack breeding coming from coalminer/rancher stock, but even I know to avoid chick books.