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Maybe a sheep instead of cow... 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Wooly sheep 
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modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Five 5-star ratings say that customers have enjoyed the ride, so they had to make some changes. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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10 on the first page...12 on page 2...5 on page 3.
So...27 in total.
Methinks the younger generation(s) will have a lower total, and the youngest generation will be going "wassa boook innit?" or running out of fingers if QA is any guide.
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25 I'm certain of, and a few more (not counted) that I may have read a long time ago (my memory no longer serves...  )
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Some missing ones:
Jules Verne - From the Earth to the Moon
H G Wells - The Time Machine
Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo
Edward Bulwer Lytton - The Last Days of Pompeii
Those are some I'd read more than thirty years ago.
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It is a fast-and-furious list by the editors, not complete by any means (I'm not sure it meant to be such)...Maybe those 100, the BBC staff read (including kids)...
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Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Yes - its difficult to pick the top 100; from the beginning-of-time till this moment. New ones tend to nudge out some great oldies.
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In the S.F. category, I would add:
Arthur C. Clarke - Childhood's End
Isaac Asimov - The Foundation Trilogy (without the later additions)
Robert A. Heinlein - "The Number of the Beast..."
Larry Niven - Ringworld
I feel that Science Fiction tends to be shortchanged in lists of the "100 best books", presumably because the so-called literati consider it beneath them.
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And no Pterry Pratchett?
No Orson Scott Card?
Harry Potter gets in, but Belgarion doesn't?
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I didn't like the Diskworld novels when I originally read them (many years ago). Perhaps I should try them again, now that I am (slightly) more mature. Orson Scott Card's books are a good read, but with the possible exception of Ender's Game, I don't feel that they are in the running for a "100 best books" list.
As for Belgarion, I'll leave the task of compiling the fantasy list to someone who is better-versed in the field.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: I didn't like the Diskworld novels
Burn the heretic!
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Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Well, I'm a Terry Prachett fan (I have read all his fiction books, including the non-Discworld ones).
But, like Orson Scott Card's SF, Pratchett's books are not to include in a Top 100 list.
After reading a Disc-world novel, particularly one of the later ones where flashes of absolute genius are popping up here and there, one gets a kind of "chinese meal" syndrome - delicious at the time, but you are hungry again an hour later.
So much more could have done Terry! To bring to life characters and relationships like The Patrician and Drumknott, and just leave them hanging as cardboard cut-outs is some kind of literary sin of omission.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Orson Scott Card's books are a good read, but with the possible exception of Ender's Game
I think I might help stoking the fire.
While I believe Ender's Shadow is his best book, it wouldn't have been anything without the predecessor.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: I think I might help stoking the fire.
De libris non est disputandum 
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Good point! I must have read more than ten of the Discworld books in the space of a year or two as a teen in the mid 1990s. Each one struck me as more enjoyable and more interesting than the first Harry Potter book (admittedly, the only one of the series I've read... aloud, to my daughter, so a very different reading experience).
Speaking of HP... no H.P. Lovecraft?
No Journey to the Centre of the Earth? No Around the World in 80 Days? No Chronicles of Thomas Covenant?
Well fine... I'm a bit embarrassed to say "23" 
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I don't read a lot, so I got 4,5 (LOTR is the 0,5).
I did see 20 of the movie adaptions though
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I hope you didn't wasted your time to watch the other half of LOTR...
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Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I've seen all LOTR movies four or five times I think.
I love them
And The Hobbit movies too, of course.
Although I like LOTR better.
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Hobbit was a disgrace even to the LOTR movies - Peter Jackson re-wrote the storyline... 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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He added and removed some stuff.
I've read the book (one of few) and I recognized the story, so it can't be that bad.
Still pretty good movies.
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