can i watch 100 movies based on books?

i predict that in 2012 you won't remember what threadless is anymore

can i watch 100 tv movies based on books?

p.s wit fail caused by being tired

I'm so excited!

i've started the new york trilogy tonight (wanted to read it for ages, hence deterring from doing this listwise).

but i was wondering if anyone would like me to post it to them once i've finished it? just a thought, since we'll be reading some/perhaps all the same books anyways.

wow. this is awesome.

I have read maybe 20 of those. I tend to avoid most "classics". I can't believe they put Pullman on that list, even at 99. What crap those books are

i've read 17.

catch-22 should be way higher. moby dick is the most overrated book in history. wise blood, from what i remember, was dumb.

can we pick a different list? I can't get past Don Quixote being number 1

I have read 4 of those.

I've read about 20 of those, and then other stuff by other author's that are there, just not the book listed. Actually, that pretty much seemed to be the case for a good portion of the authors.

I agree with Snake, both about Catch 22 and Moby Dick. Could'nt stand that book, though I remember liking Don Quixote, and the premise has been hugely influential.

Oh man, I've read 30 of them.
Most of them for school and stuff, but I'd love to read them again without a time limit and a paper looming overhead.

And I agree, Catch-22 should be way higher. And how come there is nothing by Ayn Rand on the list?

I've read 12.
Totally agree though Paul. I actually breezed right over it at first.

I have 28 already read but oof, just having Proust on the list lengthens the time it will take to complete by years.

Ugggggh, I hate Things Fall Apart. Does that make me an awful person?

Also, I think I'm going to start with Lolita. I've always wanted to read that. Or maybe The Woman in White.

I can't get over Don Quixote being #1 either. Even Call of the Wild was better. And 1984 as 59 ??????

Gulliver's Travels is excellent, but what's with all the girly books? Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed.. Emma, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Portrait of a Lady and Little Women for what they are but I've definitely read better.

Anna Karenina is AWESOME. Alice in Wonderland is a classic. Picture of Dorian Gray = ace.

I haven't read Diary of a Nobody but that sounds cool.

Once I get toward the bottom of the list I LOVE the stuff. Nabokov, Things Fall Apart, On the Road, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies, Catcher in the Rye, LOTR,

sorry I refuse to finish this post I'm irritated

I also read a lot

Wait, was there no vonnegut there? I think that just sunk in. How?

ARE YOU KIDDING?? One Hundred Years of Solitude is DEFINITELY worthy of being higher on this list wtf.

aw @ BFG

it's an arbitrary list people

and furthermore it's british.

so it's bound to be flawed.

shirtflirt on Nov 17 '08 at 6:42pm
it's an arbitrary list people

and furthermore it's british.

so it's bound to be flawed.


ahhhh. good call. i didn't notice that. it all makes sense now.

Also, I think I'm going to start with Lolita. I've always wanted to read that. Or maybe The Woman in White

oh man i've always wanted to read lolita too. i need to go to the library!

ok, I've read 17 already...but I'm a poor reader.

I hated Catch-22.
I tried to start a lot of the books on that list, and couldn't finish them.
I've read 4 of the books on that list.
My favourite was The BFG.
I don't reckon I will be tackling this list any time soon or ever.

Lolita is good but Nabokov has many better stories. He is absolutely my favorite author.

I've read not nearly enough, but the one book I'm going to comment on is The Executioner's Song I own it and it's awesome. It helps if you like true crime books, but it reads like a story and is also great from a sociological stand point, in my opinion.

Just started Lolita today.

I've read 27 of the books on the list.

But I hate stupid canonical lists by smug newspapers.

I've got my own list of at least 100 books that I want to read, so I'll be sticking with that at the moment.

Right now, almost finished Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" (AWESOME) and I'm still jumping in and out of Alan Moore's "FROM HELL".

After that... quite fancy reading "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", which is this old, weird Chinese faux-anthropology books full of weirdness.

Then I want to read Dash Shaw's "Bottomless Belly Button".

Why don't we do our own top 100 list? We could ask people to put forward their top 10 books, in order of bestness.

Then we could rank 'em til we have 100.

so many of those books are plain ol' awful. where is the 100 science fiction book list?

I've tried to read Don Quixote (and Moby Dick) like half a dozen times, and I always give up. I just get bored. And I have an English degree (SHAME).

Maybe when I'm old and think more slowly I'll be able to see 'em through.

dang, i've only read 26 of these (plus 5 maybe's).

my english degree is rollin over in its grave

i'm giving myself a little credit though, a lot of these i've read something by the author even if it isn't the chosen book

i've fake read jane eyre twice.

haha it is definately a skim-reader

13 teh road WAS awesome .. this list has some that I love (lord of teh rings, catch 22, wind in teh willows) and some that I hate (most notably madame bovary and as i lay dying for the hate)

Right now Im reading "The Places In Between", which reads like a fiction but its not...

and a little bit of Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It

I'm taking the challenge because as shirt said, it's an arbitrary list. After I've finished this list (good luck to me), I'll look at another top 100 and pick out the ones which haven't been repeated.

yeah, anyone can pick 100 books that sound fun to read, i like the inherent challenge in reading someone else's picks.

to each their own...as always.

"Anyone can pick 100 books that sound fun to read"

Exactly! haha

That's what I like about it, as opposed to being told by some Guardian journalists what I should have read. I'm not having a go or anything, and I won't go on about it. Just prefer to pick my own lists, or at least get them from a more interesting source than a bunch of (probably mostly white, male) middle-class university educated British journalists.

Still, it is quite a cool challenge, esp. if you wouldn't be likely to pick up many of these otherwise.

There's often an inherent elitism to these lists. Reminds me of the time I was told (by someone on the Guardian messageboards, actually), that my English degree wasn't worth anything because I'd never read any Charles Dickens. Which is one of the more absurd things I've ever heard.

There's often an inherent elitism to these lists.
oh absolutely. it'd be hard for one of these lists to be decided on without a slight air of pretentiousness from the creators.

what i kind of like from this list is the surprise choices of a few author's works - not necessarily listing the obvious ones. no idea if they read both and truely believed that the second to be a better book, or if they are just trying to trump the literary establishment with the disagreement: "of course everyone has read camus' outsider, but the plague is in my opinion a much more accomplished book don't-you-know."

i mean, when a book list neglects to include Elvis and Me by Priscilla Presley, you know it's screwed from the get go...

Lists of top books are great for giving you ideas on what to read if you're stuck for something, but readling all 100 would be a chore. There will always be loads that are not great, but somehow always manage to get in the top. It's amatter of personal taste. I loved the pullman books, and I hated the New york trillogy.

I must list that on bookmooch. If anyone is looking for it.

marblecargirl on Nov 17 '08 at 6:12pm
Ugggggh, I hate Things Fall Apart. Does that make me an awful person?

Somebody told me that this planet was small
We used to live in the same building, on the same floor
And never met before, until I'm overseas on tour
And peep this Ethiopian queen from Philly
Taking classes abroad.

Why do you hate it marblecargirl? Did you have to study it at school? In lots of ways the teaching of literature is one of the most effective ways to deaden any joy that might be found in reading it.

My girlfriend is prejudice against Raymond Carver's work, just because an English teacher she loathed was a fan. I've tried to get across how great Carver's work is, forcing Cathedral on her, but I doubt she'll ever read it...

I liked Things Fall Apart - it's upsetting, but fucking brilliant.

I've read 4 of these but i own 36 of them lol...

I have so many to get through.

I will say though,

Bulgakov - Master and the margarita

and

Burgess - A Clockwork orange

should def be on there...

those linebreaks shouldn't be there :s

I liked cathedral. But there's the whole debate about his minimil style really being his editors style.

i forgot that i had to read things fall apart.