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I've read 41 of them, that's a pretty random list, it seems to be a list of 100 books the author has read that seem impressive enough to include in a list. I was not surprised to see Moby Dick on that list, it's so overrated, what a miserable piece of turgid prose and over-wrought symbolism. It's a book that people only pretend to like because they're supposed to.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance should be on that list, that's most certainly a book everyone should read. Also, if sci-fi is going to be included then something by Philip K. Dick, William Gibson, Arthur C. Clarke, and Ursula Le Guin should be on that list somewhere.
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Ursula LeGuin is on the list.
Gibson and Clarke should make way for Heinlein and Asimov, IMHO.
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Crap list. No Dune, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Martian Chronicles, Foundation and Empire, Dhalgren, etc.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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I managed to score 8 plus starts on another 3. It should be noted that number 100 on the list is actually 3 books.
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From darkest Africa - 30!!
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Well, of that list I've read 46.
At least half of those 46 books I didn't think were that great.
I am a lot older now, and some of them I find quite unreadable, like Nausea, Der Glasperlenspeil, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Ulysses.
Others in the list are still awesome, and I have re-read recently, like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Code of the Woosters, Pride & Prejudice.
Any list of just 100 books is going to be flawed, and this list is just as flawed as any other. Moby Dick at second, and Anna Karenina at third place show that the list-maker is bound by convention.
If Moby Dick wasn't a "great" novel, no-one would read it. And I doubt that any modern reader would put up with the spineless, inanimate jelly that Tolstoy uses as the sock-puppet for all his delusions of womanhood in Anna Karenina.
OK, Middlemarch at number one. Personally I would have had a Jane Austen, or perhaps a P.G. Wodehouse.
But if I had chosen a George Eliot, I would have picked Silas Marner, the only really happy Eliot novel.
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23 or there about. Going back 45 years ain't easy.
add .5 for a botched attempt (reaching page 111) to read Ulysses when I visited Dublin which I thought would motivate me further  .
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...when you have 1 hour left on the clock, two thirds of your collegues might be able to watch what you are doing on Screen and your Motivation to work goes minus 10?
Work? 
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I have some snakes you can borrow... might cause a diversion!!
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Can you Transfer them via E-Mail ? 
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That works for worms, but sadly, not snakes.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I know. Visit this very cool site and post something random asking what to do. Like this brilliant person here 
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Sh** you got me ... 
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Do what I do: Go to the toilet, lock the door, sit on the toilet stool, bury your head in your hands and cry... 
Either that or start working on some personal project which is much more exiting than work - one Visual Studio instance looks pretty much like the other when you see it from a distance... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Johnny J. wrote: Go to the toilet, lock the door, sit on the toilet stool, bury your head in your hands and cry...
...and some b*st*rd will turn out the damn lights!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote:
Johnny J. wrote: Go to the toilet, lock the door, sit on
the toilet stool, bury your head in your hands and cry...
...and some b*st*rd will turn out the damn lights!
I waited for that sh*t 
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I was reading and wondering.... how come that no one said that yet?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Does it matter if someone turns the lights off when your face is buried in your hands ? 
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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It does when you:
a) start looking for the paper.
and
b) wish to leave.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: a) start looking for the paper.
I can think of one newspaper activity which doesn't require lights
b) wish to leave.
Flashlight ? Or maybe you remember your path back ?
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Which kind of toilets do you have?
Usually the ones I go are small enough to find easily the exit without lights...
Of course it helps that I glow a Little after too much display emissions exposition but again...
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Johnny J. wrote: Go to the toilet, lock the door, sit on the toilet stool ,bury your head in your hands and cry... and read a newspaper
FIFY 
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Argonia wrote: and read a newspaper
Not with the lights out!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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