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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Isn't this list a bit 'local'?
It's aimed at the paper's readership. I expect the Jerusalem Times would print quite a different list.
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13.02 (Where .02 is Crime and Punishment) but at least I can brag with having read 8 (or so) in my third language which happens to be English.
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I have read 11 of those, but if you include film versions then it goes up to 36.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Hmm, have seen the movie, does that count? 
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Damn, now I have to go through it again and count them.
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23 - but I used to be quite a voracious reader...
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14 for me, and I have 2 more on there that I need to get round to reading. One is Crime & Punishment, which from reading others' comments in this thread, I suspect means that Raskolnikov will remain forever a stranger.
(The Unbearable Lightness of Being has taken me 20 years to get round to, so far)
Regards, Stewart
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I've read 8 for definite, a few more I think I may have read but cannot remember them at all.
Another I am half way through (Tristam Shandy), another I gave up on (Lord of the Rings), three I have seen the film but not read, and my grandmother has always lived in Eliot Drive named after George Eliot.
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#28: Does it count if you've heard Tom Jones in concert? (Terrific experience BTW - that old geezer can certainly keep up the pace)
Seriously: I consider myself an educated person and have read MANY classics - but not very many on this list. I guess the fight for what books come into top 100 is quite hard.
I'm somewhat surprised that there is no Jules Verne and no Shakespeare on the list... 
One book on the list that I HAVE read, though, is "Don Quixote" by Cervantes (all 900 pages), and I can safely say that - although an interesting experience - the reputation of that book is WAY overrated. It's definitely not good enough to put it in the top 10! 
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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Does it count if you've once heard about a singer called Tom Jones?
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megaadam wrote: heard about a singer called Tom Jones?
It's not unusual! 
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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I guess...
...I can leave my coat on
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28 I have not heard of.
19 I have read (actually still reading War of the Worlds - really interesting descriptions of the area where we live).
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I've read around 10, give or take a couple. Just can't remember. I've seen a few more as movies.
If I read them on Wikipedia, does that count?
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I've read 17 of those.
I think the list is ridiculous.
First, Don Quixote is an enormous bore and terribly overrated.
Secondly, and I find it difficult to respect any list that doesn't have Dracula on it.
Thirdly, where is Kurt Vonnegut?
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Only read one (39. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe)
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Good for you, that's probably the most important must-read book on that list.
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..merely a place-holder to justify the ads.
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I've read 8, seen few more as movies, if you count watching the movie.
I think there are a number of books that should have been mentioned over what was presented. Other than HG Wells, Mary Shelly or Douglas Adams where were the some of the other notable Sci Fi writers? Phillip K Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury.
Too many books, too many books...
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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I'd be hard pressed to keep my list down to only 100 if we were listing the 'must read' science fiction novels.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: 100 novels everyone should read normal people only read under duress
FTFY
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21. I'm appalled that the Foundation Trilogy by Asimov (or Asimov's I Robot series) is not on that list!
Marc
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Come now, Marc. This list was for serious literature, not that populist tripe.
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Gary Wheeler wrote: This list was for serious literature, not that populist tripe.
And that's why Lord of the Rings was on the list? Serious literature? Well, maybe the elven poems could be considered such. 
Marc
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You'll note that Lord of the Rings was entry #100, the bottom of the list. I have a feeling the only reason it was included was that Tolkien was English, and his trilogy has earned more money been read more times than the rest of the entries on the list combined.
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