30 books to read before you're 30

2010-07-07 13:14:54

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Cash 'N Prizes: we get in what we fit in 'round here; +18|5775|Toledo, Ohio

Siddhartha / Hermann Hesse
1984 / George Orwell
To Kill a Mockingbird / Harper Lee
A Clockwork Orange / Anthony Burgess
For Whom the Bell Tolls / Ernest Hemingway
War and Peace / Leo Tolstoy
The Rights of Man / Thomas Paine
One Hundred Years of Solitude / Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Origins of Species / Charles Darwin
The Wisdom of the Desert / Thomas Merton
The Tipping Point / Malcolm Gladwell
The Wind in the Willows / Kenneth Graham
The Art of War / Sun Tzu
The Lord of the Rings / J.R.R. Tolkien
David Copperfield / Charles Dickens
Four Quarters / T.S. Eliot
Catch-22 / Joseph Heller
The Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye / J.D. Salinger
Crime and Punishment / Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Prince / Niccolo Machiavelli
Walden / Henry David Thoreau
The Republic / Plato
Lolita / Vladimir Nabokov
Getting Things Done / David Allen
How to Win Friends and Influence People / Dale Carnegie
Lord of the Flies / William Golding
The Grapes of Wrath / John Steinbeck
The Master and Margarita / Mikhail Bulgakov

i love reading, although i havent read all of these ive read most of them. anybody want to add any titles?

2010-07-07 13:16:05

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cba

2010-07-07 13:22:26

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2010-07-07 13:22:32

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Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6867

read all of them except 2-3... pretty arbitrary list, don't really understand why some of them are on there.

also 2-3 of them aren't 'books' so much as poetry collections.

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2010-07-07 13:25:01

#5

Metal-Eater-GR: I can haz titanium paancakez?; +490|6669

Ah, currently reading Crime and Punishment. Big ass book.

2010-07-07 13:30:40

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SenorToenails: Veritas et Scientia; +444|6526|North Tonawanda, NY

Uzique wrote:
read all of them except 2-3... pretty arbitrary list, don't really understand why some of them are on there.

also 2-3 of them aren't 'books' so much as poetry collections.

Lists like that are always completely arbitrary. I'm convinced people pick 'big' books and add on a few classics that they had to read in highschool or whatever and end up with a list. Then it becomes the 'must read before you're 30/dead/somearbitrarytime' list.

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2010-07-07 13:33:10

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FatherTed: xD; +3,936|6896|so randum

Uzique wrote:
read all of them except 2-3... pretty arbitrary list, don't really understand why some of them are on there.

also 2-3 of them aren't 'books' so much as poetry collections.

you've never read to kill a mockingbird?

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2010-07-07 13:33:13

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13urnzz: Banned; +5,830|6893

no fucking way i'm reading war and peace . . .

2010-07-07 13:34:45

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SEREMAKER: BABYMAKIN EXPERT √; +2,187|6964|Mountains of NC

what to read after 30 ???

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2010-07-07 13:35:43

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13urnzz: Banned; +5,830|6893

SEREMAKER wrote:
what to read after 30 ???

Hustler, Penthouse . . .

2010-07-07 13:35:57

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SEREMAKER wrote:
what to read after 30 ???

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2010-07-07 13:36:39

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SEREMAKER wrote:
what to read after 30 ???

Twilight?

2010-07-07 13:36:59

#13

RDMC: Enemy Wheelbarrow Spotted..!!; +736|6961|Area 51

Read two of those..both boring as fuck.

2010-07-07 13:48:19

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DrunkFace: Germans did 911; +427|7077|Disaster Free Zone

Started about 4 of those, finished one...

Doubt that's going to change in this life time.

Add - The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

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2010-07-07 13:49:24

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Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6867

FatherTed wrote:
Uzique wrote:
read all of them except 2-3... pretty arbitrary list, don't really understand why some of them are on there.

also 2-3 of them aren't 'books' so much as poetry collections.
you've never read to kill a mockingbird?

yeah ive read that. i havent read the merton, the carnegie or the bulgakov...

nor do i want to read them. the carnegie: WHAT THE FUCK. putting self-help books up there with classic canonical pieces of literature? im sorry but self-help 'sort your miserable fucking life out and aspire to be a millionaire by using a fucking book' do not belong on the same list as acclaimed pieces of art. no elitism or snobbery about it. the list loses all credibility with bullshit like that. may as well put jade goody's autobiography on there if it's open to all forms of tree-waste.

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2010-07-07 13:54:08

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2010-07-07 13:54:13

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RTHKI: mmmf mmmf mmmf; +1,745|7133|Cinncinatti

read 6 of them. but ive read the hobbit more times than the lord of the rings. lord of the flies was meh.

those ive read on the list.
LOTR
Great Gatsby
Catch-22
Lord of the Flies - when teh fat kid dies in the movie lolz were had
The Republic
To Kill a Mockingbird

2010-07-07 13:58:22

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13urnzz: Banned; +5,830|6893

RTHKI wrote:
lord of the flies was meh.

lord of the flies is pretty much the story of this forum . . .

2010-07-07 14:00:36

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Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6867

lord of the flies is pretty much a shit book you should have read by the time you're age 13.

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2010-07-07 14:02:42

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CammRobb: Banned; +1,510|6526|Carnoustie MASSIF

Uzique wrote:
lord of the flies is pretty much a shit book you should have read by the time you're age 13.

hah, yeah, that's pretty accurate

2010-07-07 14:03:49

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RTHKI: mmmf mmmf mmmf; +1,745|7133|Cinncinatti

Uzique wrote:
lord of the flies is pretty much a shit book you should have read by the time you're age 13.

probably, but i had to read it in 11th grade, when i was 16. . schools i went to were pretty lacking in the reading area

2010-07-07 14:04:47

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i was tripping face and had to discuss lotf in front of the class. funny shit

2010-07-07 14:05:42

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Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6867

CammRobb wrote:
Uzique wrote:
lord of the flies is pretty much a shit book you should have read by the time you're age 13.
hah, yeah, that's pretty accurate

bloody hell you can talk.

'im well read'.

do they still teach you to read in scotland? or is the youth pretty much resigned to plumbing diplomas and phone-centres

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2010-07-07 14:06:33

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m3thod: All kiiiiiiiiinds of gainz; +2,197|7067|UK

I'm 32....this is gonna be good.

Cash 'N Prizes wrote:
Siddhartha / Hermann Hesse - nope
1984 / George Orwell - nope
To Kill a Mockingbird / Harper Lee - nope
A Clockwork Orange / Anthony Burgess - nope
For Whom the Bell Tolls / Ernest Hemingway - nope
War and Peace / Leo Tolstoy - fuck no
The Rights of Man / Thomas Paine - nope
One Hundred Years of Solitude / Gabriel Garcia Marquez - nope
The Origins of Species / Charles Darwin - are you kidding me?
The Wisdom of the Desert / Thomas Merton - nope
The Tipping Point / Malcolm Gladwell - nope
The Wind in the Willows / Kenneth Graham - nope
The Art of War / Sun Tzu - nope
The Lord of the Rings / J.R.R. Tolkien - nope
David Copperfield / Charles Dickens - nope
Four Quarters / T.S. Eliot - nope
Catch-22 / Joseph Heller - nope
The Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald - nope
The Catcher in the Rye / J.D. Salinger - nope
Crime and Punishment / Fyodor Dostoyevsky - nope
The Prince / Niccolo Machiavelli - nope
Walden / Henry David Thoreau - nope
The Republic / Plato - nope
Lolita / Vladimir Nabokov - nope
Getting Things Done / David Allen - nope
How to Win Friends and Influence People / Dale Carnegie - nope
Lord of the Flies / William Golding - nope
The Grapes of Wrath / John Steinbeck - nope
The Master and Margarita / Mikhail Bulgakov- nope

i love reading, although i havent read all of these ive read most of them. anybody want to add any titles?

I heard of most of them though.

So what do i win?

Last edited by m3thod (2010-07-07 14:07:00)

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2010-07-07 14:07:11

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Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6867

'office drone' prize - take a pretention of 'education' and 'academia' and keep yer fuckin' head down.

he-ey why is 'on the origin of species' a different response? you do realize it's pretty short and in ordinary-prose, right? very unscientific.

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