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Jörgen Andersson6-Sep-15 7:57

Jörgen Andersson

6-Sep-15 7:57

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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Daniel Pfeffer6-Sep-15 19:04

Daniel Pfeffer

6-Sep-15 19:04

Jörgen Andersson wrote:
I think I might help stoking the fire.

De libris non est disputandum Smile | :)

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destynova7-Sep-15 12:55

destynova

7-Sep-15 12:55

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" Sigh | :sigh:

Sander Rossel6-Sep-15 0:50

6-Sep-15 0:50

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 Smile | :)

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter6-Sep-15 0:57

6-Sep-15 0:57

I hope you didn't wasted your time to watch the other half of LOTR...

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Sander Rossel6-Sep-15 1:05

6-Sep-15 1:05

I've seen all LOTR movies four or five times I think.
I love them Big Grin | :-D

And The Hobbit movies too, of course.
Although I like LOTR better.

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter6-Sep-15 1:33

6-Sep-15 1:33

Hobbit was a disgrace even to the LOTR movies - Peter Jackson re-wrote the storyline... Dead | X|

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Sander Rossel6-Sep-15 1:40

6-Sep-15 1:40

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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Forogar 6-Sep-15 3:07

Forogar

6-Sep-15 3:07

I concur. He added a few bits a left out a few bits but the Hobbit was still basically the same. The original book would not have made a good movie without some changes and in these times to have a movie without a major female warrior character would have brought more criticism than leaving her out - plus she was cool! I enjoyed the book a lot and enjoyed the movie(s) a lot as well. Same with LOTR - my favourite book(s) of all time; some of my favourite movies as well.

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Sander Rossel6-Sep-15 3:49

6-Sep-15 3:49

Forogar wrote:
plus she was ~~cool~~ hot!

Otherwise agreed! Big Grin | :-D

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Jörgen Andersson6-Sep-15 7:53

Jörgen Andersson

6-Sep-15 7:53

Forogar wrote:
The original book would not have made a good movie without some changes

Yes it would, but it couldn't have been stretched into three movies.

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Re: I read only 25

Richard MacCutchan6-Sep-15 1:14

Richard MacCutchan

6-Sep-15 1:14

I may have claimed one that I have seen on TV/Film rather than read but cannot remember. There are a few on that list that are on my "to be read" list, but when I will actually read them ...

GuyThiebaut6-Sep-15 2:10

GuyThiebaut

6-Sep-15 2:10

32.
They missed out Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go although they did include The Remains Of The Day.
Glad to see Donna Tarte's Secret History there - probably one of the best novels I have read in the past 10 years.

+ how about the translations of Iliad, the Oddysey and the Aeneid?

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter6-Sep-15 2:18

6-Sep-15 2:18

GuyThiebaut wrote:
They missed out a lot ~~Kazuo Ishiguro...~~

FTFY

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Ferd Really10-Sep-15 7:22

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10-Sep-15 7:22

GuyThiebaut wrote:
how about the translations of... the Aeneid?

I translated six of the books myself. (BTW - Google translate just skips virumque)

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Marc Clifton6-Sep-15 2:20

Marc Clifton

6-Sep-15 2:20

A bit weird though that they list both Chronicles of Narnia (7 books) and The LW&W separately.

Marc

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter6-Sep-15 2:22

6-Sep-15 2:22

That maybe to check you Smile | :)

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Robert g Blair13-Sep-15 13:48

Robert g Blair

13-Sep-15 13:48

Not so weird, or at least not so inconsistent.

They listed "The Complete Works of Shakespeare" and "Hamlet" separately. "Hamlet" happens to be the one play most widely read.

And "The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe" is the first book in the Narnia series. And is the most widely read.

phil.o6-Sep-15 2:30

phil.o

6-Sep-15 2:30

19, one of them being on my top list, Irving's one.

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter6-Sep-15 2:35

6-Sep-15 2:35

I'm actually reading an other Irving novel these days - a fat one...
The Cider House Rules

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phil.o6-Sep-15 2:41

phil.o

6-Sep-15 2:41

Yes, The Cider House Rules is a very good one. I could also recommend you The World According to Garp and The Water Method Man.

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter6-Sep-15 2:52

6-Sep-15 2:52

I had Garp, and now listed The Water Method Man... Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

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Forogar 6-Sep-15 3:11

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6-Sep-15 3:11

Quote:
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Just a few more, although I read a lot and a lot of books were left out of the list. I won't start listing them here as it would go on for pages. I noticed they had the Bible but not the Koran (both of which I have read). They also left out the greatest book of all time, "Do androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick - which is a lot deeper than it seems and was made into one of my favourite movies of all time, "Bladerunner".

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Amarnath S6-Sep-15 6:31

Amarnath S

6-Sep-15 6:31

Forogar wrote:
noticed they had the Bible but not the Koran

Also missed out Bhagavad Gita, my favorite English translation of which is this[^]; though I prefer to read those with Sanskrit and Kannada commentaries.